Reinhard Köstlin

Reinhard Köstlin (born April 11, 1875 in Langenbeutingen ; † January 31, 1957 in Schwarzenberg-Schönmünzach ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer and President of the Württemberg State Ministry.

Life and work

Reinhard Köstlin comes from the majority- Württemberg -based evangelical theologians and officials Family Köstlin . He was born as the son of Dean Friedrich Köstlin (1845-1932) and Emma Süskind (1849-1919) and attended elementary school in Langenau and the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart . From 1893 to 1897 he studied at the universities of Tübingen and Munich . From 1897 he was a trainee lawyer at the Oberamt Backnang and from 1899 he was a deputy bailiff at the Oberamt Geislingen . From 1900 on, he was initially deputy and from 1903 a regular bailiff at the Stuttgart city administration.

From 1905 he was given leave of absence for colonial service in German East Africa , where in 1909 he was appointed district administrator in the government . After returning from the colonies , he headed the Neckarsulm Upper Office from 1919 onwards . In 1920 he received the title of Privy Councilor from the Reich Ministry for Reconstruction . In 1923 he was appointed to the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, and in 1924 he moved to the Ministry of Labor and Nutrition as a senior councilor . In 1931 he was assigned to the Administrative Court as an assistant judge. After his promotion to Ministerialrat in 1933, he became President of the State Ministry of Württemberg from 1934 until he retired in 1944 .

Reinhard Köstlin's achievements were largely due to the new version, revision and publication of state-relevant laws and ordinances in accordance with the provisions of the German Empire and some important of the states such as Prussia , Bavaria , Saxony , Baden , Hesse and Thuringia , which he wrote mainly during his time in the Ministry of Food and published.

Reinhard Köstlin has been a member of the Igel Tübingen academic association as a federal brother since he was a student in Tübingen .

Fonts (selection)

• The right of German citizenship with special consideration of Württemberg presented using the files of the Kgl. Württemberg Ministry of the Interior . Wilhelm Bazille / Reinhard Köstlin, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1902
• The Württemberg Civil Service Act of January 21, 1929 with its introduction and enactment along with the executive ordinances and the most important other civil service regulations . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1929
• The Salary Act for the Württemberg State Officials of April 19, 1928, with introduction and explanations along with the implementing regulations and the most important other salary regulations , ed. by Reinhard Köstlin u. Oskar Schmid. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1930
• The Catering Act of April 28, 1930 . 5 volumes. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart
• The Milk Act of July 31, 1930 . 3 volumes. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1931
• The state fee regulations of December 22, 1930 including the implementation regulations . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1931

literature

• Literature by and about Reinhard Köstlin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Maria Köstlin: The book of the Köstlin family . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1931.
• Wolfram Angerbauer : The administrative boards of the Neckarsulm Upper Office from 1807 until the district reform in 1938 . In: From Southwest German History. Festschrift for Hans-Martin Maurer. To the archivist and historian on his 65th birthday . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-17-013158-3 , pp. 650-651.
• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 357 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Ruck : Corpsgeist and State Consciousness. Civil servants in the German southwest from 1828 to 1979 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56197-9 ( National Socialism and the Post-War Period in Southwest Germany . Volume 4), p. 48