Philippe Rühl

Jacob Philippe Rühl ( May 3, 1737 Strasbourg, † May 29, 1795 ) was a deputy for the Bas- Rhin in the French National Convention during the French Revolution and a member of the Safety Committee.

He studied theology in Strasbourg, Hofmeister was the Count von Grumbach and has a Reichskammergericht process led " by mancherley great painting, the Rectorate get to Durkheim at the Hart", where he ordered the Count of Leiningen the archive and as a Privy Council for all affairs of state was responsible.

In his office under Count Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Leiningen- Dabo ( 1724-1807, 1779 Imperial Prince ) he fell into hard clashes with Carl Friedrich Bahrdt ( 1741-1792 ), which the Count had launched in 1776 as superintendent after Durkheim and in Heidenheim philanthropist operation according to the pattern of Dessau. The school failed, condemned by Reichhofsrat for heresy, had to flee the controversial representative of the Enlightenment, Bahrdt.

When he was a supporter of the French Revolution, was the "man of excellent talents and merits to the Leinigische house " on his service for the Leininger counts and was the representative of Alsace in the National Convention. He gave Friedrich Schiller, the French civil rights and 1793-95 belonged to the twelve-member security committee to which was originally intended to monitor police and the judiciary, but developed into an instrument Jacobin terror. Every evening met its members and discussed weekly with the members of the Committee of the political situation. With hardness they went against all enemies of the revolution before.

Because he " Jacobin violence to debts" had come to himself, he was arrested in 1795 after the end of the French Revolution and stabbed himself