Herbert Kessler (lawyer)

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Herbert Kessler (born December 8, 1918 in Mannheim ; † November 8, 2002 ) was a German lawyer, philosopher and writer.

Life

Born as the son of a Mannheim print shop owner, Herbert Kessler graduated from the Humanistic Gymnasium in Mannheim and then did his imperial labor service in Königsberg / Neumarkt . In 1937 he did his military service with the Artillery Regiment 33 / II in Landau in the Palatinate . After he was seriously wounded and incapacitated as an officer in the French campaign in the Second World War , he studied law at the universities of Munich , Rostock and Heidelberg from 1941 . In Munich he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia . In 1944 he passed the first state examination in law. In 1945 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . After passing the second state examination in 1950, he settled in Mannheim as a lawyer . He worked as a lawyer until 1983.

Kessler was the author of numerous philosophical books and writings. He also wrote novels and lyrical works. In 1962 he was the initiator and co-founder of the Humboldt Society , of which he was a permanent adviser and representative. He was editor of the communications of the Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education e. V. (episode 1–32, 69–94) and co-editor of the articles of the Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education e. V. (I and II, 1965) and the treatises of the Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education e. V. (I 6, XI 64–93) 1972 he was one of the founders of the Socratic Society. V.

From 1949 to 1989 Kessler was editor of the association organ Der Convent des Convents Deutscher Akademikerverbände (CDA), whose working group of student historians he also belonged to. From 1966 to 1969 he was also chairman of the CDA. For more than 15 years he was editor of the magazine Die Wachenburg , the association organ of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention . Kessler was an active Freemason, president of the Academy of Ancient and Adopted Scottish Rite from 1976 to 1983, and editor of the Eleusis.

Awards

  • Schiller badge of the city of Mannheim, 1962
  • Fabricius Medal of the CDA, 1969
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon , 1983
  • Letter of honor from the non-profit citizens' association Sandhofen e. V., 1983
  • Appointment as professor by the Baden-Württemberg Minister for Science and Art, 1987
  • Wachenburg Medal of the Weinheim Association of Old Corps Students (WVAC)
  • WVAC honor plate
  • Festschrift Socratic search for traces in the 21st century by the Humboldt Society for Science, Art and Education on the occasion of his 80th birthday, 1988

Fonts

  • Student constitutional law , 1945
  • The Humboldt Society as a servant of the free spirit , 1962
  • To live in nothing (poetry), 1963
  • The true in diversity , 1963
  • Gogarten or In den Vorhöfen (novel), 1966
  • Permeable Walls, Views-Insights , 1972
  • The will to value, value order and value accent in shaping life , 1975
  • The beautiful risk, memorandum for self-thinkers , 1975
  • Why Socrates is Modern, Tract , 1975
  • Socrates as an esotericist, treatise , 1976
  • Knowing ignorance, Guide to Telos Studies I , 1977
  • Guide to Freedom, Guide to Telos Studies II , 1977
  • Dag Hammerskjöld, An Exemplary Life and Death , 1977
  • The revealed secret, the symbol as a guide to the unsearchable and as an applied elemental force for shaping life , 1977
  • The symbols of light , 1977
  • What is and what does the Scottish Rite , 1979
  • Types of esotericism , 1983
  • Deadly Nudges (novel), 1983
  • The world of man , 1992
  • Philosophy as the art of living, 1998

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1996, 17th edition, Humanities and Social Sciences, Berlin 1996, p. 692.
  • Professor title for Dr. Herbert Kessler Suevo-Guestphaliae . In: Die Wachenburg - News of the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention , 35th year, July / August / September 1987, issue 3, p. 53.
  • Kessler, Herbert , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 172-173.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foundation of the Socratic Society on www.sokratische-gesellschaft.de