Rudolph Künkler

Rudolph Künkler (born July 31, 1873 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 13, 1961 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer and politician ( USPD , SPD ).

biography

Künkler was the son of a city ​​geodesist . He attended high school and then studied chemistry at the University of Freiburg and the University of Leipzig as well as law at the University of Marburg and the Humboldt University in Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1900 in Marburg Dr. jur.

From 1902 he worked in Bremen, initially in the police department . In 1906 he became a member of the government , 1908 Senate Secretary and 1909 Syndicus of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .

After the First World War , he joined the USPD in 1918 and kept his office in the Senate. In the constituent Bremen National Assembly he was parliamentary group leader of the USPD. He worked on the important constitutional committee. Künkler and the USPD criticized Senator Theodor Spitta's draft constitution. With an alternative draft, he called for a more far-reaching constitution with more rights for the representatives of the people, especially for the workers (large workers 'council with veto rights, election of judges by the citizens, more workers' rights, dependent Senate, socialist free state). His draft for a socialist constitution did not find a majority.

From 1920 to 1921 he was elected to the Bremen citizenship for the USPD and he represented the positions of the USPD with great determination. In 1920 he unsuccessfully founded an independent practice as a lawyer in the Bremen trade union building. In the 1920s he then held various offices in Thuringia and Saxony and was now a member of the SPD. He eventually became a senior administrative judge in Dresden . He was retired on January 12, 1934. From March 1934 he lived in Hanover and from 1953 back in Bremen.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .