 The first French commissioner general, a man from Alsace named Rudler, took office on 4 September.In 1798, he promulgated a law abolishing feudalism, along with all the payments, compulsory labour and tithes that hitherto had been every subject's burden, owed to the lord and the church in the Palatinate.The first Adjunct responsible for Reipoltskirchen was Michael Konrad from Nußbach.