Rudolf von Freydorf

Rudolf Carl von Freydorf (born February 28, 1819 in Karlsruhe ; † November 15, 1882 there ) was Minister of Baden .

Life

Freydorf was the second son of the Baden general and war minister Karl Wilhelm Eugen von Freydorf (1781-1854) and his wife Clementine von Stöcklern zu Grünholzeck (1789-1832) . He studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and became active in the Corps Suevia Heidelberg in 1838 . In 1843 he entered the Baden judicial service as a legal trainee, in which he advanced to the council in the Ministry of Justice in 1860.

After the fall of the Stabel Ministry , Freydorf was appointed as the successor to Foreign Minister Ludwig von Edelsheim on July 27, 1866, President of the Ministry of the Grand Ducal House and Minister of Foreign Affairs. In August 1866 he negotiated the peace and alliance treaty with Prussia and since then has worked diligently and successfully to bring Baden's military organization and legislation as closely as possible to those of the North German Confederation . In the same year he married Albertine von Cornberg , who was active as a writer all her life. The sons Eugen von Freydorf (1867-1914) and Rudolf von Freydorf (1868-1940) emerged from the marriage.
He also took an excellent part in the negotiations on the establishment of the German Empire in 1870. He was a member of the Federal Council and since 1867 a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Assembly of Estates . On June 29, 1871 Freydorf took over the management of the Ministry of Justice. The previous Baden Foreign Ministry was abolished on July 1, 1871 , due to the transfer of responsibility from Karlsruhe to the corresponding Foreign Office in Berlin. At the same time as Julius Jolly , Freydorf left the ministry on September 24, 1876. Like his wife, he devoted himself to writing until his death on November 15, 1882 in Karlsruhe.

Honors

Incomplete list

• Really Go Advice, Excellency
• Honorary member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg

Works

He worked on part of the new church and judicial legislation.

• Baden process code with explanations (Heidelberg 1865–67)
• Trial of Baumbach (Karlsruhe 1864).

literature

• Friedrich von Weech :  Freydorf, Rudolf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 747 f.
• Friedrich von Weech: Rudolf von Freydorf. in: Friedrich von Weech (Ed.): Badische Biographien. Fourth part, Karlsruhe 1891, pp. 137-142 digitized version of the Badische Landesbibliothek
• Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 281
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1st year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1907, p. 189 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Genealogical family data on geneall.net, accessed on October 10, 2015
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 72 , 281