Rudolf von Ziller

Rudolf von Ziller (born September 13, 1832 in Frauenbreitungen ; † October 5, 1912 in Meiningen ) was an economist , Minister of State and Lord Mayor of the city of Meiningen.

Life

Rudolf von Ziller was born as the son of a Protestant pastor in Frauenbreitungen, today a district of Breitungen / Werra. After visiting the school Bernhardinum in Meiningen he studied at the University in Jena economics. In 1855 von Ziller entered the civil service in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . He was employed as a clerk in Hildburghausen in 1859 and from 1862 in Sonneberg . In Sonneberg, the ducal government promoted him to senior bailiff in 1863, and in 1873 he took over the post of district administrator for the district of Sonneberg .

In 1874 Rudolf von Ziller became mayor of the residential town of Meiningen. After the great fire of September 5, 1874, he led the reconstruction of the destroyed city district, which in 1877 earned him an appointment as lord mayor for life. In 1879 he took over a mandate in the Meiningen state parliament and the function of the state parliament president . Because of his services to the reconstruction, the city of Meiningen granted him honorary citizenship in 1882 . He gave up the office of mayor and became district administrator of the district of Meiningen .

In 1889, Duke Georg II appointed Rudolf von Ziller to the Council of State and head of the finance department. Thereupon he resigned from the state parliament and also from the administrative board of the Werra-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , where he was chairman. In 1902 he was promoted to the real secret council and state minister and head of the 1st department of the state ministry. He remained head of government until 1912. The Duke raised Rudolf von Ziller to the nobility in 1902 and baron in 1905 . In 1906 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Jena . The Zillerstraße in Meiningen is named after Rudolf von Ziller.

Honors

• 1882: Honorary citizenship of the city of Meiningen
• 1902: Elevation to the nobility
• 1905: Appointment as a baron
• 1906: Honorary doctorate from the University of Jena
• "Zillerstraße" in the east part of Meiningen

literature

• Kuratorium Meiningen (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
• Friedrich Facius : The conducting ministers of the Thuringian states 1815-1918. In: Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The governments of the German medium and small states. 1815–1933 (= German leadership classes in modern times. Volume 14 = Büdinger research on social history. Volume 18). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1983, ISBN 3-7646-1830-2 , p. 284.