Wilhelm Rintelen

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Heinrich Wilhelm Rintelen (born April 13, 1797 at Gut Borgholz near Warburg , † October 28, 1869 in Münster ) was a Prussian lawyer and politician.

Live and act

Rintelen was the son of the bailiff and landowner Franz Andreas Rintelen. He studied with Jodocus Temme law in Göttingen . In 1816 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Göttingen . Rintelen had been married to Auguste Karoline Louise (née Schulze) since 1825, and he had four children with her. One of the sons was the lawyer and MP Viktor Rintelen .

He completed his legal clerkship in Paderborn . He spent his assessor time in Hamm . Subsequently, from 1828, Rintelen was a judicial officer in Meschede . Then he was from 1832 to 1837 senior judge in Halberstadt . In 1838 he moved to the Secret High Tribunal in Berlin as a research assistant and was appointed High Tribunal Councilor in 1843. Since 1847 he was a member of the Judicial Examination Commission. In the pre- March period , Rintelen was a member of the Odeumsgesellschaft , a discussion group mainly made up of lawyers and civil servants.

From September 1848 he was a member of the Prussian National Assembly for the Meschede district as the successor to Pastor Bigge, who left because of illness . He was one of the staunch Catholic MPs on the political right. Rintelen was one of the MPs who, in the course of the constitutional debate, advocated retaining the designation “by the grace of God” for the king. When he approved the postponement of the National Assembly after the beginning of the counter-revolution, he tried to justify himself to his voters in the Meschede district. This was ultimately unsuccessful, as voters migrated to the democratic left in large numbers in the next election.

Between November 11, 1848 and April 10, 1849, Rintelen was Minister of Justice in the Brandenburg Reaction Cabinet . His close friend Temme was very disappointed by this and described Rintelen as an “unwilling tool of reaction.” However, Rintelen incurred the displeasure of Friedrich Wilhelm IV because he would not act vigorously against the supporters of the revolution. He resigned from his office because he did not want to support the enforcement of a new court order.

From his ministerial time until 1851 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian state parliament . After leaving the government, Rintelen was President of the Court of Appeal in Münster until 1867. In addition, he was in 1862/63 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Tecklenburg. He joined the Left Centrum parliamentary group in the House of Representatives.

literature

  • Wilhelm von Rintelen : Dr. jur. hc Wilhelm Rintelen 1797-1869. His life and work . Self-published, Potsdam 1924.
  • Michael Hettinger (ed.): Eyewitness reports of the German revolution 1848/49. A Prussian judge as a champion of democracy . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12756-0 , p. 62, p. 346.
  • Klaus Herdepe : The Prussian Constitutional Question 1848 . ars et unitas, Neuried 2003, ISBN 3-936117-22-5 ( German University Edition 22), (also: Dortmund, Univ., Diss., 1998).
  • Peter Wiese: year of the revolution . In: Magdalena Padberg : When we became Prussian. The Sauerland from 1816 to 1849 . Grobbel, Fredeburg, 1982, ISBN 3-922659-51-9 , pp. 343-351.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 69 , 101
  2. ↑ Herdepe, p. 168
  3. ^ Wilfried Reininghaus / Axel Eilts: Fifteen months of the revolution. The province of Westphalia from March 1848 to May 1849. In: Wilfried Reinighaus / Horst Conrad (Hrsg.): For freedom and law. Westphalia and Lippe in the revolution of 1848/49. Münster, 1999. ISBN 3-402-05382-9 , p. 56
  4. ↑ Temme, p. 62
  5. ↑ Collin: Guardian of the Laws
  6. ↑ Short biography and picture in: Conrad, Horst / Haunfelder, Bernd  : Preussische Parlamentarians. A photo album 1859-1867 . Preface by Lothar Gall. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1986, p. 116 (photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties)
personal data
SURNAME Rintelen, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rintelen, Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH at Warburg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1869
Place of death Muenster