Rudolph von Richter

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Rudolph Richter , since 1905 Ritter von Richter (born September 11, 1835 in Schney , Upper Franconia; † August 6, 1919 in Munich ) was a German military attorney (auditor) and most recently President of the Bavarian Senate at the Reich Military Court (1905-1908).

origin

Rudolph Wilhelm Christoph Richter was the third child of Therese Frauenholz († October 29, 1859) and Marian Johann Philipp Richter, pastor, († March 1, 1866), the nephew of the poet Jean Paul .

Career

During his studies in Erlangen, Richter became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in 1859 . After studying law, he began his civil service career on October 31, 1859 as a legal intern at the Kronach District Court.

His entry into the Bavarian Army took place on May 18, 1863 with the mounted division of the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment "Queen Mother" . From June 18, 1864 he was a sub-auditor at the Würzburg General Command . On March 31, 1866, he became a battalion auditor with the 7th Jäger Battalion in Speyer. On April 12, 1871, he moved to the Zweibrücken city command as a regimental auditor.

Richter participated with the 4th Army Division in the war against Prussia in 1866 and, during the war against France, also in the siege of Paris from September 19, 1870 to January 28, 1871. He was commended for his outstanding performance.

On November 5, 1871, Richter was transferred to the occupation brigade in Metz . In 1886 Richter was transferred to the Munich commandant's office as a staff auditor, and the following year he moved to the Munich District Military Court. From October 29, 1893, he worked both as a senior auditor and as a senior public prosecutor, and on May 3, 1898, he was appointed judge at the general auditorium.

On June 27, 1900, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria appointed him, with effect from October 1, 1900, to the judicial council at the Reich Military Court in Berlin, which was founded on that date , where he was President of Bavaria from January 1, 1905 until his retirement on September 1, 1908 The responsible Senate was, as the successor to the late Clemens Ritter von Koppmann, the author of a commentary on the Bavarian Military Criminal Code, Munich, 1870.

In recognition of his services, Prince Regent Luitpold awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1905 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility status and after being entered in the nobility register, from February 27, 1906, he was allowed to call himself “Ritter von Richter”. He was also holder of the Military Merit Order II. Class as well as the Order of the Red Eagle and the Crown Order II. Class.

On October 22, 1900, Richter also became a member of the Disciplinary Court for Judicial Military Justice Officials.

A brief appraisal of his professional life took place in the Augsburger Abendzeitung on the occasion of his retirement.

family

On December 29, 1866, Rudolf Richter married Luise Josephina Jaeger (1846–1926), the daughter of the doctor, publisher and politician Lukas Jaeger . King Ludwig II had given his marriage consent on October 6, 1866.

The couple had three daughters: Emma (1868-1936), nun in the monastery of Saint-Joseph de la Providence in Limoges (France) as "Soeur Marie-Raphael", Auguste Maria Helena (1869-1924), married to the later Major General Georg Steinbauer (1864–1949) and Hedwig Pauline Julia Lina (1872–1960).

The announcement of the birth of Auguste at the city of Speyer was signed by two of the mother's brothers, Dr. Franz Jaeger and Richard Jaeger .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.literaturportal-bayern.de/blog?task=lpbblog.default&id=669
  2. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 164.
  3. ↑ a b c d BayHStA / Abt.IV, archive number OP 58352
  4. ↑ a b Augsburger Abendzeitung. No. 147, Monday May 25, 1908.
  5. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1914, p. 27.
  6. ^ Military manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria. 44th edition, Munich 1909, p. 551.
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Rudolph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Judge, Rudolph Wilhelm Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Schney
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1919
Place of death Munich