Rudolf Gabriel von Gross

Rudolf Gabriel Freiherr von Gross (born October 28, 1822 in Weimar ; † September 15, 1907 there ) was a German lawyer , politician and publicist . He was Minister of State for the Grand Ducal Saxon.

Life

Rudolf Gabriel Gross studied since 1842 in Heidelberg , Jena and Leipzig the law . In 1845 and 1850 he was the legation secretary of the joint Thuringian plenipotentiaries at the German Union in Berlin and at the free conferences in Dresden . In 1851 Gross was appointed public prosecutor and in 1856 senior public prosecutor in Eisenach . In 1867 he was appointed to the council at the Higher Appeal Court in Jena and in 1869 in Eisenach. In 1871 he was appointed to the Weimar Ministry of State as a Privy Councilor and took over the internal and external department. In 1890 he was appointed minister of state and chairman of the ministry of state, as well as the first representative of the Grand Duchy in the Federal Council. He also took over the Ministry of Justice and, in 1891, the Ministry of the Grand Ducal House. In 1899 he retired and died in Weimar in 1907 at the age of 84.

Gross earned merits in particular by promoting the railways, building sanatoriums and setting up medium-sized trade schools . From 1858 to 1862 he published the magazine Die Strafrechtspflege in Deutschland . His own writings mostly deal with criminal law .

literature

• Groß, Rudolf Gabriel , in: Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon , 14th edition, 1892–96, Vol. 8, p. 397.