Robert Hue de Grais

Count Hue de Grais

Robert Achill Friedrich Hermann Graf Hue de Grais (born August 25, 1835 in Wolkramshausen ; † February 25, 1922 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer and member of the Kingdom of Prussia . In the 19th century he was the protagonist of administrative law .

origin

His parents were the imperial French captain Count Wilhelm Hue de Grais (* March 5, 1784 - June 26, 1856) and his wife Friederike von Byla (* May 10, 1805 - January 2, 1890) from the Wolkramshausen house.

Life

Hue de Grais attended the Ilfeld convent school and studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1854 he became active in the Corps Borussia Bonn . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . After studying and doing preparatory work for the administration of justice and internal administration, he became a government assessor in Minden (1860) and Koblenz (1861). From 1864 to 1866 he took part as an officer in the German-Danish War and the German War . In 1867 he became a clerk of the Hildesheim office and district chief of the ("tax") district made up of the offices of Hildesheim and Peine and the independent cities of Hildesheim and Peine. In 1879 he moved to Stettin as police chief . In 1887 he became a lecturer in the Ministry of the Interior. From 1889 to 1900 he was regional president in the Potsdam administrative region .

Hue de Grais was a member of the Free Conservative Party . 1885-1889 he represented the constituency Merseburg 6 ( Sangerhausen / Eckartsberga ) in the Prussian House of Representatives . In retirement from 1901 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony .

Free Conservative Fraction 1907 (No. 17 Count Hue de Grais)

From 1865 until his death he was the sole owner of Hue de Grais Castle in Wolkramshausen , which is now owned by his great-grandson Manfred Werthern . On December 30, 1873, he married the general daughter Wilhelmine Freiin von Hanstein . In 1875, 1876 and 1882 the daughters Melanie, Elsa and Irmgard were born. Elsa was the last resident of the castle, where she died on November 5, 1956. Robert von Lucius is a great-grandson of Robert Hue de Grais .

“The Hue de Grais” - the manual of the constitution and administration in Prussia and the German Empire , published in 26 editions - was a household name for generations of students of law and political science and was a daily tool for countless Prussian administrative officials.

Honors

Order of the Griffin (1884)
Landwehr service award , 1st class
Order of the Red Eagle 4th class with swords
Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class "with bow and swords"
Order of Orange-Nassau , Grand Officer (1892)
Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class "with oak leaves and swords on the ring"
Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order , Commander 1st class
Order of the Rising Sun , Commander
Red Cross Medal (Prussia) 1st Class (1899)
Honorary Citizen of Zehdenick (April 1, 1900)
Really Go Upper Government Council

Works

Reorganization of the internal administration of Prussia on the basis of self-administration , Berlin 1871.
The continuation of the preuss. Administrative organization , Berlin 1878.
Handbook of the Constitution and Administration in Prussia and the German Empire , 7th edition Berlin 1890.
Outline of the constitution and administration in Prussia and the German Empire , 2nd edition Berlin 1886.

For Michael Stolleis , Hue de Grai's works are less scientific than practical "handouts for everyday administration".

literature

Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives: 1867–1918 . Edit v. Bernhard Mann with the assistance of v. Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh u. Thomas Kühne , Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 192.
Gerhard Lingelbach: Robert Count Hue de Grais (1835-1922). Life and work . Jena no year (approx. 1994) (private print)
Michael Stolleis: Administrative practice between camera science and administrative law: Robert Graf Hue de Grais (1835–1922) . Verwaltungsrundschau 41 (1995), pp. 472-475.
Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses for the year 1876, p.394

Web links

Literature by and about Robert Hue de Grais in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography of Robert Hue de Grais

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 11/440
↑ ^a ^b ^c Lingelbach
^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry, Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 192 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 437-439.

personal data
SURNAME	Hue de Grais, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hue de Grais, Robert Achill Friedrich Hermann Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German administrative lawyer and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolkramshausen , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1922
Place of death	Wolkramshausen

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 11/440

[Lingelbach-2] Lingelbach

[3] Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry, Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 192 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 437-439.