Gustav von Kahr (the elder)

Gustav Kahr , later Ritter von Kahr (born November 28, 1833 in Neustadt an der Aisch , † October 31, 1905 in Munich ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Career

Kahr was born as the son of pastor Georg Samuel Kahr and Johanna Elisabetha Charlotte Kahr, née Ötter, in Neustadt an der Aisch. From 1851 he studied law at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen and graduated in 1855 with state bankruptcy (grade 1).

He gained his first professional practice at the Weißenburg regional court . Further stations in his professional career were the regional council of Middle Franconia (1859), the Weißenburg district office (1862) and the Gunzenhausen district office (1864). From 1874 he worked as a government assessor in the government of Lower Bavaria before he was appointed to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior in 1877 . There he was appointed senior government councilor in 1879 and ministerial councilor in 1884.

In 1890 he became director extra statum at the Bavarian Administrative Court and on July 1, 1896 its president. In 1905 he died the day before he planned to retire.

After him and his son, the former Müllerstrasse in Munich- Untermenzing was renamed Von-Kahr-Strasse in 1947 . In 1964 the street was rededicated to him alone.

family

He was married to Emilie Rüttel from Weißenburg, daughter of the court doctor Johann Georg Rüttel. His son Gustav (1862–1934) was Bavarian State Commissioner General from September 1923 to February 1924.

literature

• Walter Schärl: Composition of the Bavarian civil service from 1806 to 1918. - M. Lassleben, 1955.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martin Bernstein: Von-Kahr-Strasse in Munich: Controversial street name - Munich - Süddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 8, 2019, accessed on March 16, 2020 .