Rudolf Probst (politician)

Rudolf Probst (born March 9, 1817 in Ludwigsburg , † April 15, 1899 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer and politician.

job

Rudolf Probst studied law in Tübingen and Heidelberg from 1833 to 1838 . In 1838 he entered the state service in Württemberg . After various stations, he was a public prosecutor at the court in Esslingen in 1851 , before resigning from the civil service for political reasons (following repression by the government). Until 1865 he was legal counsel in Stuttgart and from 1865 to 1887 legally qualified director of the life insurance and savings bank.

politics

In 1848 Probst advocated the separation of church and state . He became a member of the Esslinger Volksverein, later the People's Party . In 1849 and 1850 Probst took part in all three state assemblies to discuss a new constitution for Biberach . From 1851 to 1894 he was a member of the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament . In 1868 he was narrowly defeated in the presidential election in the seventh ballot against Theodor von Gessler and became vice-president. When Theodor Gessler resigned from office in 1870 because of his appointment as Minister of State, Probst managed the President's affairs until the end of the legislative period.

From 1868 to 1870 Rudolf Probst was a non-attached member of the Customs Parliament , and from 1871 to 1873 he was a member of the first Reichstag . He won his Reichstag mandate in the constituency of Württemberg 17 ( Ravensburg , Tettnang , Saulgau , Riedlingen ). He was a co-founder and board member of the Center Group.

Although he was originally one of the opponents of the establishment of a center in Württemberg, he became honorary chairman of this party in 1895.

family

Probst was the son of the court actuary and later chief tribunal councilor Franz von Probst from Ehingen a. D. and Karoline Probst geb. Koch (1799-1830), a daughter of the Ravensburger Oberamtmann and later legal counsel at the Vicariate General Rottenburg, Ludwig Koch. The grandfather, Dr. Georg Probst, had been the syndic of the Swabian-Front Austrian estates. Since 1843 he was married to Wilhelmine Sontheimer (1821–1889). The marriage had two children. Probst's cousin Ferdinand Probst became a professor in Breslau, his brother Josef Probst, also a pastor, became known as a geologist and art historian. Another cousin was Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner of Mainz, a co-founder of the Görres Society .

Others

Probst had been an honorary member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen since 1873 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 247.

literature

• August Hagen: Figures from Swabian Catholicism . Schwabenverlag AG, Stuttgart 1948, p. 290-325 .
• Frank Raberg:  Probst, Johann Jakob Georg Franz Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 735 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 676 .

Web links

• Rudolf Probst in the database of members of the Reichstag