Rudolf Hertel

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Rudolf Ernst August Hertel (born August 27, 1826 in Schalkau ; † August 22, 1885 in Salzungen ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Born as the son of a ducal-Meiningen official secretary, Hertel studied law in Jena and Göttingen after attending grammar school in Meiningen . During his studies in 1849 he became a member of the fraternity on the Burgkeller and in 1857 a member of the Progress fraternity of Hercynia Göttingen . He advocated the revolution of 1848 . After completing his studies, he became the clerk of the appeal court in 1850 and then worked at the Salzungen district court. He later worked as a lawyer . From 1861 to 1885 he was mayor and from 1882 lord mayor of Salzungen, from 1876 also registrar . From 1866 he was a member of the Saxony-Meiningen state parliament . In addition, he was also active as a writer.

Honors

Hertelstrasse in Bad Salzungen is named after him.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 312-313.

Individual evidence

  1. see paragraph 88

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