Rudolf Knauth
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Rudolf Georg Knauth (* 6 November 1879 in Esperstedt; † 24 March 1963 in Leverkusen-Schlebusch[1]) was a German jurist.
Biography
Knauth was born as the son of an overman (mining foreman). He went to secondary school in Bad Frankenhausen and Halle and subsequently studied jurisprudence in Halle and Jena. During his studies, he joined the student society "Burschenschaft Alemannia auf dem Pflug" in 1899.[2] Following his first state examination in 1902, he attended the mandatory legal preparatory service in the Principality Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt until 1907. This was interrupted from 1904 to 1905, however, as he had to do his military service for the Royal Bavarian 6th Field Artillery Regiment "Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon, Duke of Calabria" (de: Königlich Bayerisches 6. Feldartillerie-Regiment „Prinz Ferdinand von Bourbon, Herzog von Calabrien“). In 1912, he was discharged as a lieutenant of the reserve after being declared unfit for service. In 1906, he was awarded his doctorate as LL.D. in Jena, and in 1907, passed his second state examination. Shortly after, he became a judge on probation (Gerichtsassessor), and in 1908, he worked as a civil servant at the administrative district office of Königssee and as acting chief administrative officer until 1911, before being officially appointed as chief administrative officer in 1912. Following that, he became a senior civil servant (de: Regierungsrat) and head of the office for inheritance tax, income tax, and capital gains tax in Arnstadt. Shortly after he was appointed as permanent deputy of the president at the higher administrative court of Thuringia in Jena.
From 1919 to 1923, Knauth was a member of the German People's Party. From 1921 to 1924, he worked at the State Court for the German Reich. In 1923, he became the chairman of the Thuringian agency for family estates located in Jena. In 1926, he became the deputy chairman of the Thuringian disciplinary court for civil servants, and a year later, the chairman of the Thuringian court of appeal for doctors, pharmacists, and veterinarians, and deputy chairman of the association of commercial experts ("Gewerblicher Sachverständigenverein"). He became member of the supervisory board of the "Gothaer Feuerversicherungsbank" in 1932.
On 1 May 1933, he joined the Nazi Party (member number: 2,765,478).[3] The same year, he became a member and deputy chairman of the disciplinary court of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Thuringia. From 1934 onwards, he was commissioned to carry out the duties of the president of the Thuringian higher administrative court (de: Thüringer Oberverwaltungsgericht), which, in 1940, earned him the title of vice president. In 1934, he took a subsidiary office as member of the Dresden branch of the Reich judicial examination office (de: Reichsjustizprüfungsamt). In 1935, he became chairman of the disciplinary court for civil servants in Jena. In 1945, he was on secondment at the legislation branch of the Thuringian presidential office.
Following his denazification trial, he was discharged from his position as vice president of the higher administrative court in 1946, but he was allowed to continue working at the legislation branch until his retirement in 1950. In 1951, he lived in Weimar, but later moved to his son in Frankfurt am Main and ultimately settled in Leverkusen.
Honours
- 1918: Princely Schwarzburg Honor Cross 3rd class
- Prince Regent Luitpold Medal in bronze with the ribbon of the anniversary medal
- Civil Service Faithful Service Medal in silver and gold
Publications (Selection)
- Die Bedeutung des Eigenbesitzes nach dem Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuche. Dissertation University of Jena, Weimar 1906.
- Die Gesetzgebung über die Verwaltungsrechtspflege in Thüringen. Berlin 1914.
- Landesverwaltungsordnung für Thüringen. Hauptband. Weimar 1927.
Cited Works
- Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. Band I: Politiker. Teilband 3: I–L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0, S. 114–115.
Hyperlinks
- Knauth, Rudolf in the files of the Reich Chancellery (de: Akten der Reichskanzlei)
References
- ↑ Unsere Toten. In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter, 78. Jg. (1963), H. 7, S. 189.
- ↑ Willy Nolte (Hrsg.): Burschenschafter-Stammrolle. Verzeichnis der Mitglieder der Deutschen Burschenschaft nach dem Stande vom Sommer-Semester 1934. Berlin 1934, S. 251.
- ↑ Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX KARTEI/21191098
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