Wilhelm August Rudloff

Anton Zeller : Wilhelm August Rudloff (1795)

Wilhelm August Rudloff (born February 11, 1747 in Rostock , † June 21, 1823 in Hanover ) was a German legal scholar and Hanoverian administrative officer.

Life

Wilhelm August Rudloff was a son of the Mecklenburg government councilor Ernst August Rudloff . The historian Friedrich August von Rudloff was his brother. He studied from 1762 jurisprudence at the University of Bützow and at the University of Göttingen , where he in 1767 when Johann Stephan Putter Dr. of both rights. In 1768 he received a full professorship at the law faculty in Bützow.

Also in 1768 Rudloff married the later song poet Friederike Sophie Unger (born September 27, 1750 in Gotha; † November 11, 1789 in Hanover). The couple became parents of the ennobled Hanoverian general post director Wilhelm August von Rudloff .

In 1772 he was appointed court and chancellery advisor to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in Hanover . He moved to the State Archives in 1775 and became its director in 1777. Later he was promoted to the Secret Justice and Cabinet Council and was involved in the written communication with the German Chancellery in London . Rudloff represented the electorate at the Hildesheim Congress . Jokingly, but not without reason because of his appearance, he was called "Roi d'Hanovre" in Hanover. Shortly before the Prussian occupation of Hanover in 1806, he was dismissed from civil service.

Fonts

De literis convocatoriis ad comitia , 1767
Commentatio de iure Germanico iusta methodo tractando , 1767
Preparation for a Collegium on German Law and the Imperial Trial , 1768
Attempt at a pragmatic introduction to the history of the constitution of the electoral houses , 1768
Treatise on the Similarity of the German Court Courts to the Imperial and Reich Chamber Courts , 1769
Trial by the Senates in the Imperial and Reich Chamber Court , 1769
De consensu in alienationem feudi interposito retractum non excludente , 1770
Treatises on the similarity of the German court courts with the imperial and Reichskammergericht , 1770
De iure senii in familiis illustribus , 1770
De pactis successoriis , 1771
Impartial report from the 1771 cycle
De reversionis effectu suspensivo , 1772
About the so-called decisive vote of the judge in the event of a tie , 1773

literature

Otto Mejer : Rudloff, Wilhelm August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 473-477.
Wilhelm Rothert : In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814-1866 , Vol. 2 of the series General Hannoversche Biografie , Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, p. 574
Klaus Mlynek : Rudloff, Wilhelm August. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 301.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Entry 1762 in the Rostock matriculation portal
^ Elisabeth Friedrichs: Rudloff, b. Unger, Friederike Sophie v. , in this: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries , p. 258; Preview over google books

personal data
SURNAME	Rudloff, Wilhelm August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar and Hanoverian administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1823
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Entry 1762 in the Rostock matriculation portal

[2] Elisabeth Friedrichs: Rudloff, b. Unger, Friederike Sophie v. , in this: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries , p. 258; Preview over google books