Rudolf Weeber
Rudolf Weeber (born February 25, 1906 in Esslingen am Neckar , † November 28, 1988 in Aich ) was a German lawyer.
Career
During his studies in 1925 he became a member of the Tübingen royal society Roigel . Weeber came in 1935 as a legal advisor to the Oberkirchenrat of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . He was appointed Oberkirchenrat in 1944 and was rector of the body from 1955 to 1973.
Weeber played his most important role politically and historically in the Heidelberg legal circle as a representative of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. The lobby of defenders of the Nazi elite in the Nuremberg trials, senior judges, officials of the Federal Ministry of Justice and leading administrative experts of the Protestant and Catholic Church, also known as the Heidelberger Kreis, advocated the post-judicial neutralization of the judgments of the Nuremberg trials and the rehabilitation of German convicts from the War crimes trials.
From 1967 to 1972 he was a member of the council of the EKD and from 1974 to 1977 chairman of the community organization of Protestant journalism .
Honors
- 1973: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1986: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934, p. 529.
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 111, June 16, 1973.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weeber, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Esslingen am Neckar |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1988 |
| Place of death | Aich |