Rudolf Ruth

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Rudolf Ruth (born November 11, 1888 in Büdingen , † August 16, 1942 in the Soviet Union ) was a German lawyer , legal historian and university professor .

biography

Ruth was the son of a teacher. He completed his school career in 1906 at high school in his hometown. He then completed a law degree at the universities of Freiburg , Berlin and Gießen , which he completed in 1909 with the first state examination in law. In 1910 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . This was followed by his legal clerkship and in 1913 the second state examination in law. He then joined the Hessian judicial service as a court assessor in 1913 and in the same year he worked as an assistant at the law faculty of the University of Giessen. As a war volunteer he took part in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. After the war he was discharged from the army with the rank of lieutenant . Later, during the Weimar Republic , Ruth belonged to the paramilitary organization Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten, until 1934.

From 1920 he was a public prosecutor in Gießen and the following year he moved to the Offenbach District Court as a judge . In November 1921 he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt am Main for German legal history, commercial and civil law, where he was appointed associate professor in 1924. In the summer semester of 1925 he took over a professorship at the University of Göttingen . From the winter semester, he taught German legal history and civil law at the University of Halle as a full professor . From there, in the summer semester of 1935, he switched to the chair at the University of Frankfurt am Main as the successor to Franz Beyerle , where his research focus was commercial law and he published on the subject of "Usury and Usury of the Jews in the Middle Ages".

He joined the NSDAP (membership no. 1,881,189) at the beginning of May 1933 and was also a member of the NS Legal Guardian Association . He is rated as a staunch National Socialist. In 1939 he was drafted into the army of the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War he took part in the war against the Soviet Union and fell as a major in the USSR.

His academic student was Adalbert Erler , whose habilitation thesis on civil rights and tax liability in medieval urbanism was submitted to him in 1939.

Fonts (selection)

  • Witnesses and Eideshelfer in the German legal sources of the Middle Ages , M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1922 (habilitation thesis)
  • The tenancy law of the residential and business premises: A teaching u. Manual d. Tenancy law us redesign by d. Tenant protection u. Raumnotrecht , J. Bensheimer Verlbh., Mannheim 1926
  • Own shares and administrative shares , Carl Heymann, Berlin 1928
  • The depot law and its reform , NG Elwert'sche Verlh., Marburg 1930. In: Work on commercial, industrial and agricultural law; No. 55
  • The new balance sheet of the stock corporation in legal and economic lighting: Explanations to the balance sheet, profit and loss Loss statement u. Annual report (§§ 260, 260a, 260b, 261, 261a-e) , Vahlen, Berlin 1932 (together with Kurt Schmaltz)
  • Usury and usury of the Jews in the Middle Ages , In: Deutsche Rechtswwissenschaft , Volume 2, 1937, p. 121ff.
  • The cooperative in the market regulation , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart; Berlin 1938. In: Publications by the Institute for Cooperatives at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main; H. 16

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt 2007, p. 516
personal data
SURNAME Ruth, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Büdingen
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1942
Place of death Soviet Union