Adalbert Oehler

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Adalbert Oehler (born April 13, 1860 in Schildau ; † July 9, 1943 in Berlin ) was a Düsseldorf mayor, professor of administrative law and a member of the Prussian mansion.

Life

Oehler was born in Schildau in the Torgau district of the former Prussian government district of Merseburg and was a cousin of Friedrich Nietzsche . He was the eldest son of his father (* May 26, 1830, † February 4, 1902), who was also called Adalbert and was a chancellery in Halle. He began studying law in Halle and joined the Palaeomarchia country team . In 1881 Oehler received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and entered the administrative service. During his legal clerkship in 1885, he lived in the house of Nietzsche's mother and met with him himself. Since 1888, Adalbert Oehler was married to Agnes Hilmer (born June 1, 1861 - March 21, 1934), daughter of a mining entrepreneur from Halle, who had moved with her husband from Krefeld to Düsseldorf in February 1911 and the Richard branch there a month later -Wagner Association of German Women founded.

Career

Oehler was first mayor of Halberstadt for five years in 1900 , before going to the Lower Rhine to become mayor of Krefeld (1905–1911) and then of Düsseldorf (1911–1919). He also represented these cities in the Prussian manor house . During his term of office in Krefeld, the expansion of the port in Linn and the resulting settlement of important industrial companies in the city fell. In Düsseldorf his term of office fell during the First World War , so that he was denied major urban development measures here.

His behavior during the revolution of 1918/19 ended his career, which had been steep up until then. While he worked together with the USPD- led Workers 'and Soldiers' Council after November 8, he was unpopular with large parts of the Düsseldorf working population. The city administration he led had primarily acted as an aid agency for the Düsseldorf arms industry during the war. At the same time, the administration's failure to supply food and coal was blamed.

When the KPD and left-wing extremist sections of the USPD took power in the city in January , Oehler fled to Oberkassel, occupied by Belgians, on the left bank of the Rhine, together with police chief Robert Lehr and district president Francis Kruse , in order to avoid arrest. The Düsseldorf workers' council then declared Oehler deposed and made Karl Schmidtchen Lord Mayor.

His escape was never forgiven by the non-socialist Düsseldorf press, city councilors and the elite. When Düsseldorf was occupied by Freikorp troops on February 28, 1919, the city administration told the Prussian authorities that Oehler's return was not desired. In 1919, as part of the allegations by the administration and the press, his justification, My Relations with the Revolution, was published . From 1927 there was a publication on "Düsseldorf, a city in the world war", in which he presented extensive material on the location of the city from 1914 to 1918. After his formal resignation from office in July 1919, he took on various teaching activities at administrative colleges, including the Fürst Leopold Academy in Detmold .

Relationship with the Nietzsche family

Due to the relationship with the Nietzsches, Oehler has also become a minor figure in the German Nietzsche reception . His father, Adalbert senior, was one of ten siblings of Franziska Nietzsche , the mother of Friedrich and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche . Max Oehler and Richard Oehler , who also play a role in the history of Nietzsche's reception, were cousins ​​of Adalbert Oehler (sons of Oscar Ulrich Oehler).

From 1893 until his death in 1900, Adalbert Oehler was one of two legal guardians of the mentally ill philosopher. In 1898 he bought the Villa Silberblick in Weimar from Meta von Salis , where Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche set up the Nietzsche archive . Förster-Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche's sister and estate administrator, who was initially unable to afford the purchase price, bought the house from Oehler a few years later. From its establishment in 1908, Oehler was also chairman of the board of the Nietzsche Archive Foundation . He resigned from this office in 1923 after a dispute with Förster-Nietzsche, the de facto mistress of the archive. Not until 1930 did he rejoin the foundation's board of directors. In 1940 he was the first to publish a biography of Franziska Nietzsche ( Nietzsche's mother , Beck, Munich 1940), with which he wanted to correct the bad picture that Elisabeth Förster had drawn of her mother in her writings.

credentials

  1. ↑ Max Mechow: Renowned CCER , Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, S. 180th
  2. ↑ Chronicle Richard Wagner Verband Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rwvduesseldorf.de
  3. ↑ A copy of his reasons for fleeing can be found in the files of the Main State Archives Düsseldorf, Reg. Düsseldorf, 15297
  4. ^ Carsten Doerfert: The Prince Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences. Attempt and failure of a university in Detmold (1916–1924) . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2016, p. 120 .

Literature by Adalbert Oehler

  • My relationship to the revolution, Magdeburg 1919
  • Düsseldorf in the World War: Fate and Work of a German City. Edition Lintz, Düsseldorf 1927 (= Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 33)

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About his behavior in war and revolution:

  • Elisabeth H. Tobin: The revolution in Düsseldorf, Ann Arbor 1985
  • HStAD 15297: Bl.? - Lord Mayor Oehler to city councilors, January 12, 1919.

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predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm Hammerschmidt Mayor of Krefeld
1905 - 1911 		Johannes Johansen
personal data
SURNAME Oehler, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mayor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Schildau
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1943
Place of death Berlin