Rupert Rohrhurst

Rupert Rohrhurst (born February 14, 1860 in Wittnau , † October 9, 1952 in Heidelberg ) was a German Protestant theologian, teacher and politician.

Life

Rohrhurst attended several elementary schools and the high school in Karlsruhe. He then studied Protestant theology at the universities in Heidelberg and Jena from 1880 to 1884 . In 1884 he passed the theological state examination in Karlsruhe and was first city vicar in Mannheim from 1884 to 1886 and then from 1887 to 1890 pastor in Schmieheim, Ettenheim district, today Kippenheim community, Ortenaukreis . From 1890 to 1893 Rohrhurst worked as a religion teacher at the Realgymnasium and the Realschule in Mannheim and from 1893 to 1909 he was professor of religion at the grammar school in Heidelberg and from 1894 until after his retirement in 1925 he was a part-time teacher at the theological seminar of Heidelberg University. In 1908 Rohrhurst was rector of the expanded elementary school in Heidelberg and from 1909 to 1925 he was the city school councilor and head of the Heidelberg elementary school system.

politics

From 1900 to 1918 Rohrhurst was a member of the National Liberal Party for the Heidelberg constituency of the Lower Chamber of the Baden state parliament . From 1909 to 1917 he was its president, 1917/18 its first vice-president.

Rohrhurst had been a city councilor in Heidelberg since 1897 and was a member of the city council for decades. He was also a member of the Heidelberg Masonic Lodge Ruprecht zu den five Rosen .

Act

Rohrhurst was a brilliant speaker and could convince people. As President of the Baden state parliament, this benefited him greatly. For him, who was a teacher with heart and soul, the main concern was to improve schools. In parliament, for example, he advocated reducing the class division from 130 to 70 pupils and increasing the income of elementary school teachers. He also supported the construction of the teacher training institute, which later became the college of education , and the new university library in Heidelberg. As a Protestant theologian, Rohrhurst increasingly took up the subject of religion. He was a member of the Evangelical League , an advocacy group for German Protestants against the advance of Catholicism.

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of Heidelberg University
• Commander's Cross 2nd class from the Zähringer Löwe, designation: Privy Councilor
• 1950 honorary citizen of the city of Heidelberg. "In recognition of his great services to the Heidelberg school system and his almost three decades of voluntary work in municipal self-government"

literature

• Adolf Roth, Paul Thorbecke: The Baden estates. Landtag manual. Publishing house of G. Braunschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1907, p. 119 f.
• Konrad Exner-Seemann : Parliamentary work in the age of the constitutional monarchy - Rupert Rohrhurst - honorary citizen of the city of Heidelberg and president of the Baden Chamber of Deputies. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1996, ISBN 3-929366-37-1
• Konrad Exner-Seemann: 50 years of the Basic Law - forerunner of the Basic Law - member of the Baden state parliament . Karlsruhe 1999, ISBN 3-7650-8229-5
• Wolf Uebel (Ed.): The "Golden Book" of the KFG. Autobiographies of Heidelberg Pedagogues (1812-1939). Series of publications by the Heidelberg City Archives, Volume 5, Heidelberg 1994, p. 106
• Bernd Ottnad, Fred L. Sepaintner (eds.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien, Volume 3 , on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-17-017332-3 , P. 314

Web links

• Brief summary of Rupert Rohrhurst's vita at the Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV
• Literature by and about Rupert Rohrhurst in the catalog of the German National Library
• Speeches by Rupert Rohrhurst in the Baden State Parliament in the digital collections of the Baden State Library