Rudolf Weber (lawyer)

Rudolf Heinrich Christian Weber (born June 14, 1872 in Oldenburg ; † February 6, 1945 there ) was a German administrative lawyer and Minister of the Interior of the Free State of Oldenburg .

Life

Rudolf Weber was born as the son of the Oldenburg Sparkasse director Karl Friedrich Anton Weber (1825–1896) and his wife Sophie Henriette Helene. Westerholt (1837–1923) born. He attended the Oldenburg high school and then studied law at the universities of Marburg and Berlin from 1890 to 1893 . During his studies in 1890 he became a member of the Landsmannschaft Spandovia Berlin . After completing his legal preparatory service in 1898, he entered the Oldenburg state service and was initially an assessor at the offices of Brake and later in Oldenburg . Then he came to the Oldenburg Ministry of Finance as a secretary . In December 1906 he was temporarily with the management of the Office Cloppenburg commissioned and in May 1907 Amtshauptmann appointed. In autumn 1908 he also came to Brake as governor, where he also took over the chairmanship of the Oldenburg maritime office . In October 1919 he was appointed government councilor and lecturer council in the Ministry of the Interior of the Free State of Oldenburg. Just two months later, he was promoted to the Upper Government Council.

When the formation of a new parliamentary government failed in April 1923 after the resignation of the Tantzen I government, a government of civil servants was set up as an interim solution , chaired by Eugen von Finckh . Weber took over the Ministry of the Interior, Trade and Transport as an independent specialist. During the government reshuffle in June 1925, he was replaced by the candidate for the center, Franz Driver , and received the position of President of the Oldenburg Higher Administrative Court as compensation .

Weber carried out this activity in the period following the Weimar Republic until after 1932, as an advocate of the rule of law, he came into conflict with the new National Socialist government under Carl Röver , which took him on leave in May 1933 and retired in October 1933.

family

Weber had been married to Elsa Auguste born from Löbau on August 28, 1909 . Schneider (* 1887), the daughter of the school supervisor Ernst Emil Schneider and Auguste Henriette born. Domsch. The couple had a daughter and a son in World War I fell.

See also

• Cabinet Finckh I

literature

• Hans Friedl: Weber, Rudolf Heinrich Christian. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 780-781 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 465.