Rudolf Troeltsch

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Rudolf Josef Wilhelm Troeltsch (born March 13, 1870 in Augsburg ; † July 2, 1950 in Staudach-Egerndach ) was a German attorney general and author.

Life

Troeltsch studied law in Erlangen and received his doctorate. In 1897 he first became a lawyer in Augsburg. In 1899 he became III. Public prosecutor in Amberg . His further career led to Munich , Augsburg and Kempten (Allgäu) , where he became a district judge in 1910. In 1918 he was promoted in the title and rank to higher regional judge.

After Coburg came to the Free State of Bavaria in 1920 , he worked there for six months in 1921 before becoming the first public prosecutor at the Augsburg Regional Court in October 1921 . In 1925 he was district court director, 1927 district court president and 1928 senior public prosecutor at the Augsburg Higher Regional Court .

On March 1, 1930, he became attorney general there and, after the court was dissolved, transferred as such to the Zweibrücken Higher Regional Court in 1932 . In 1935 he was given retirement, which he spent in Staudach in Chiemgau .

A private interest of Troeltsch was the Wilhelmine armor before the First World War . After the outbreak of war, his book Germany's Fleet in decisive battle was published , with which he wanted to introduce laypeople into “modern” naval warfare .

family

Troeltsch comes from a family of doctors in Haunstetten . His older brother was the Protestant theologian and cultural philosopher Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923). He also had three sisters. Of the letters he received from his famous brother, only one postcard from 1914 remains.

Works

  • Germany's fleet in the decisive battle. A lay introduction to the nature of modern naval warfare. With numerous pictures and Sketches. Berlin, Mittler 1914. 151 pages.

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Individual evidence

  1. Excerpts quoted in: Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (ed.): Briefe III (1905–1915)