Jean-François Rewbell

Jean François Reubell ( Rewbell ) ( born October 6, 1747 in Colmar, † November 23, 1807 in Colmar) was a French revolutionary, 1795-1799 Member of the Executive Board.

Life

Jean François Reubell was born the son of a lawyer. He took his father's profession and served before the revolution at the Supreme Court of Colmar.

The Third Estate of the constituency elected in 1789 Colmar the excellent lawyers Reubell the deputies of the Estates-General ( Etats généraux ). On May 8, 1789 Reubell demanded the first to raise the Third Estate to the nation, and consequently welcomed on June 17, 1789 Emmanuel -Joseph Sieyès ' proposal to declare the Third Estate to the National Assembly. Reubell participated in the August 1789 actively participated in the drafting of the " Declaration of Human and Civil Rights ," but he was one of the fiercest opponents of Jewish emancipation.

Reubell sentenced in June 1791, the flight of the king. After the massacre on the Champ de Mars and the cleavage of the club of the Jacobins in July 1791 monarchist Reubell joined the club of Feuillants. He served as Attorney General, and later as General Secretary of the department of Haut-Rhin, which elected him in September 1792 Deputies of the National Convention. There Reubell voted for the execution of Louis XVI.

In January 1793, Reubell went in Mission to the Rhine Army and after Mayence. During the Jacobin reign (1793 /94) to Reubell kept in the background and instead bought in Alsace national property at a great price. Reubell initiated after the fall of Robespierre on July 27, 1794 ( 9 Thermidor ) cleaning up the government of Jacobins and the closure of the club.

On November 1, 1795 Reubell was elected to the Board and responsible for the ministries foreign policy, finance and justice. He proved himself as a resolute enemy of the royalists fought vigorously the Catholic Church and asserted itself as an able defender of the Republic. For reasons of military security, he renewed the policy of France " natural limits " push forward and make their defense to sister republics. The conquered by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Italian campaign 1796/97 areas should be swapped for left-bank areas. Reubell hoped this would provide better protection of Alsace, but Bonaparte arbitrary preliminary peace of Leoben destroyed his foreign policy plans. Then Reubell wrote a large part of the basic laws of Rome and of the Helvetic Republic.

The three directors Paul Barras, La Revellière - Lépaux and Jean François Reubell conducted with the help of the generals Lazare Hoche and Napoleon Bonaparte from the successful coup d'etat of the 18th Fructidor V (4 September 1797). Reubell was voted on May 9, 1799 from the Board of Directors and replaced by Sieyès. The coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799) ended Reubells political career. He returned to Colmar, where he died on November 23, 1807.