August Hegler

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August Hegler in the professors' gallery in Tübingen

Carl August Hegler (born March 11, 1873 in Stuttgart , † November 4, 1937 in Tübingen ) was a lawyer, professor and chancellor at the University of Tübingen .

Life

August Hegler was the son of a district judge. Since 1913 he held the chair for criminal law, criminal and civil litigation including bankruptcy law at the law faculty in Tübingen. He was rector of the University of Tübingen in 1923/24 and 1927/28 . After the death of Max Rümelin († July 22, 1931) he was appointed Chancellor of the University of Tübingen. His portrait therefore hangs in the professors' gallery in Tübingen .

After the National Socialist seizure of power , August Hegler proudly proclaimed at a meeting of the Grand Senate on February 25, 1933 that “the Jewish question had been resolved here” without having “talked about it”, because at that time there was hardly anything left at the University of Tübingen Jewish professors and students.

Because of the impending changes to the university constitution, he resigned from his office in April 1933 before the University's Grand Senate. A successor was not appointed by the National Socialist Minister of Education. In the post-war period, the Chancellery was no longer introduced in its previous form, but instead, due to the University Act passed in 1968, the title was assigned to the university's highest administrative officer.

literature

  • Martin Otto: August Hegler. In: Maria Magdalena Rückert (Ed.): Württembergische biographies including Hohenzollern personalities. Volume II. On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021530-6 , pp. 112-114.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hegler, August on LEO-BW.
  2. ↑ Jan Friedmann: Universities in the Nazi era: In the anti-Semitic agitation at the front. Spiegel online from January 19, 2006.
  3. ^ Sylvia Paletschek: The permanent invention of a tradition: the University of Tübingen in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Hegler, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hegler, Carl August; Hegler, Karl August; Hegler, A .; Hegler, Paul August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, professor and chancellor at the University of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1937
Place of death Tübingen