Viktor Rintelen

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Viktor Rintelen

Viktor Rintelen (born August 17, 1826 in Wesel , † September 20, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and politician of the Center Party .

Family and education

He came from a family of councilors and lawyers who had lived in Herford since the 14th century. His father Wilhelm Rintelen (1797–1869) was the Prussian Minister of Justice in 1848/49. He himself married Mathilde (née Westphal) in 1853. With her he had four sons and a daughter. One of the sons was Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Rintelen .

Rintelen attended high schools in Halberstadt and Berlin. He studied law and political science in Berlin and Heidelberg . In 1845 he became a member of the old fraternity Germania Berlin and in 1846 he was a co-founder of the old Heidelberg fraternity Franconia .

job

In 1852 he entered the Prussian judicial service. In 1855 he worked at the Dortmund district court, first as an assistant and then as a district judge. He was given leave of absence in 1858 and 1859. During this time, Rintelen was head of the Bochum-Herner railway. Since 1865 he worked at a court in Schwelm and was transferred to Rügen in 1867 and to the appellate court in Hamm in 1871 .

In addition, Rintelen was chairman of the entire committee for the Rhine-Weser Canal for the Dortmund area between 1863 and 1865. He also made a name for himself as a legal writer.

In 1877 he was called to the Berlin Higher Tribunal . When the judicial organization was reformed, he was transferred to the Supreme Court in 1879 . A short time later he was appointed to the auxiliary senate at the Imperial Court in Leipzig .

When he, as a Catholic, refused to take part in the court established in the course of the Kulturkampf to try clergymen, he was reassigned to the chamber court. Since 1881, Rintelen worked there as a higher regional judge with the rank of a secret higher judiciary. In addition, he was a member of the Prussian court to clarify conflicts of jurisdiction between the state organs. He was also a member of the Criminal Procedure Reform Commission.

politics

Initially, despite his Catholic denomination, he was politically inclined to liberalism and opposed the Catholic faction in the Prussian House of Representatives in the 1850s. This changed under the influence of the Kulturkampf and Rintelen became an important figure within the Center Party.

Rintelen had already run for a seat in the Prussian House of Representatives in vain in 1862. In a by-election on June 12, 1883, he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he represented the constituency of Koblenz 2 ( Altenkirchen - Neuwied) until the loss of his mandate on March 29, 1887. He was elected in a by-election in the autumn of the same year Re-elected to the Prussian House of Representatives, this time for the constituency of Aachen 2 (Eupen and the city and district of Aachen ) Rintelen was a member of parliament until April 1908. In 1884 he became a member of the Reichstag , to which he was a member until 1907.

In both parliaments he played an important role in the parliamentary groups as a legal expert. Rintelen excelled particularly in the school question. He was one of the defenders of the denominational elementary school and its close ties to the church.

From 1900 to 1908 he was a member of the parliamentary committee of his party in the House of Representatives. In the Reichstag he was on the parliamentary group committee from 1893 to 1907.

Fonts (selection)

Legal writings

  • About the Influence of New Laws on the Legal Relationships Existing at the Time of Their Emanation (1877) Digitized
  • Systematic presentation of the entire new procedural law in its design for the ordinary courts of the Prussian state (4 vols., 1881–83),
  • Foreclosure auction and administration (1888)
  • Judicial constitution and administration of justice. Systematically processed for the ordinary courts of the Prussian state (1889)
  • Bankruptcy Law (1890)
  • The civil trial. Systematically processed. for the ordinary courts of the Prussian state and the Supreme Court due to the imperial legislation and the Prussian state legislation, and the rules of the Prussian Land Administration of Justice (1891) Digitalisat
  • The Criminal Trial (1891)

Church and school policy

  • The Church Political Laws of Prussia and the German Empire (1886),
  • The ecclesiastical political laws of Prussia and the German Empire in their form after the amendment law of April 29, 1887 (1887)
  • The Relationship of the Prussian Elementary School to State and Church (1888),
  • The elementary school law draft of the Minister Count von Zedlitz-Trützschler (1893)
  • The Prussian elementary school in its relationship to the state and church according to the enactment of the Elementary School Maintenance Act v. July 28, 1906 (1908)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 5: R – S. Heidelberg 2002, pp. 80-81.
  2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 323 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 757–761 (= constituency Koblenz 2) and p. 789–792 (= constituency Aachen 2).
personal data
SURNAME Rintelen, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1908
Place of death Berlin