Rudolph Quidde

Rudolph Quidde (r.) With his brothers Georg (l.) And Ludwig Quidde , 1867

Rudolph Emil Quidde (also Rudolf Quidde ; born December 30, 1861 in Bremen ; † November 20, 1942 in Bremen) was a German lawyer , politician and president of the Bremen citizenship .

biography

Rudolph Quidde was the son of the wealthy businessman Ludwig August Quidde and his wife Anna Adelheid Quidde, née Cassebohm. The historian, publicist, pacifist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941) was his brother.

He attended the commercial high school and the old high school in Bremen. From 1881 to 1885 he studied law at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Göttingen and obtained his doctorate in Göttingen. jur. From 1889 he ran a law practice in Bremen. He also worked for the Church of St. Ansgarii from 1890 to 1897 as a deacon and from 1901 to 1923 as a church builder. From 1896 to 1902 he was a judge at the district court in Bremen.

In 1902 Quidde became a member of the Bremen citizenship as a representative of the 1st class . He was secretary from 1904 to 1907, vice-president from 1908 to 1910 and president of the city council from 1911 to 1918.

During this time he was also an honorary member of the administrative board of Sparkasse Bremen , in 1903 a founding member of the Bremen Tourist Office and chairman of an association for the training of nurses.

At the end of the First World War , in the early days of the Bremen Soviet Republic , he led the camp of bourgeois and liberal opponents of a revolution in the so-called “Citizens Committee”. Adolf Vinnen took over this task from December 9, 1918 .

Quidde was again active as a judge from 1922 to 1933. He was increasingly active for the Bremen Evangelical Church (BEK). In 1920 he became vice-president and from 1932 to 1933 president of the church committee of the BEK. The National Socialists forced the dissolution of the church committee. In August 1933 he was elected chairman of the BEK's judicial system by the Kirchentag; an office that he had to give up again in January 1934 under pressure from those in power.

literature

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