Karl von Stieler

Karl von Stieler (born March 12, 1864 in Heilbronn , † February 16, 1960 in Bebenhausen ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official .

Life

After completing his law studies , he became a judge at the Stuttgart District Court in 1894 . After working there for two years, he moved to the domain management of the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1896 and then in 1899 as a finance advisor to the general management of the Royal Württemberg State Railways . Between 1904 and 1907 he was delegated to the Reich Railway Office as a secret councilor . Subsequently, he was State Councilor of the Grand Duchy of Baden and President of the General Management of the Württemberg State Railways.

After the founding of the Weimar Republic , he was first in 1919 for Under Secretary of State and shortly afterwards next to Max Peters for Secretary of State in the Ministry of Transport and held this position until November 1923 the Reich Transport Ministers John Bell , Gustav Bauer , Wilhelm Groener and Rudolf Oeser . At the same time he was head of the railway department and head of the Reich Railroad Council and can be considered the real father of the Deutsche Reichsbahn during the Weimar Republic.

Afterwards he was Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft until 1934 .

Honorary doctorate from the law faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1954: honorary citizen of Bebenhausen , since its incorporation in 1974 honorary citizen of Tübingen

The German railways under the old and the new imperial constitution . Stuttgart 1924.
Basic questions from the area of the German railway system. Stuttgart 1925.
The Dawes Plan and the State Railroad. Stuttgart 1926.
The International Union of Railways and the development of older international railway organizations since the end of the war. Berlin 1926.
Striving for autonomy in state railways. Stuttgart 1927.

^ Lothar Gall, Manfred Pohl: The railroad in Germany. From the beginning to the present. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45334-1 , p. 120. ( limited preview on Google books )
^ Lothar Gall, Manfred Pohl: The railroad in Germany. From the beginning to the present. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45334-1 , p. 79. ( limited preview on Google books )
^ Lothar Gall, Manfred Pohl: The railroad in Germany. From the beginning to the present. CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45334-1 , p. 127. ( limited preview on Google books )

personal data
SURNAME	Stieler, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ministerial official and state secretary
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1960
Place of death	Berlin