Jakob Keßler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jakob Friedrich Keßler , also Kessler , (born October 15, 1872 in Siebeldingen ; † January 5, 1939 in Munich ) was a Reich lawyer , Reich judge and church president of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant Church) from 1930 to 1934.

Life

After graduating from high school in Landau, the son of the winemaker Johann Jakob Keßler studied law in Strasbourg, Berlin and Erlangen. Keßler entered the Bavarian civil service as a legal intern in 1896 and became a certified legal intern in 1899. In 1901 he became III. Public prosecutor in Zweibrücken. In 1904 he came to Munich as a district judge. In 1907 he was second public prosecutor in Würzburg and in 1910 transferred to Munich II. In 1914 he was promoted to the district judge. During the First World War he worked in the civil administration in Poland. In 1919 he was promoted to the higher regional judge and in 1920 he became regional court director in Neuburg an der Donau and in 1921 in Munich I. In 1921 he worked as a laborer for the Reich Attorney General and in the same year he became Reich Attorney. In 1927 he became a Reich judge and worked in the 1st Criminal Senate .

In 1930 he became president of the regional church in the Palatinate. In 1933, as church president, he was increasingly irritated by the influence of the NSDAP, but did not evade the process of harmonization . In 1933 he was a participant in the National Synod in Wittenberg. In 1934 he had to retire “for health reasons”. He had an honorary doctorate as Dr. theol.

The presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice Heinrich Keßler (1906-1994) was his son.

Works

  • Lower church service in Bavaria , Diss. Erlangen 1897, Munich 1897.
  • Record of my service in the Palatinate Church , Munich 1937.

Web links

  • Frank Burgdörfer: “ Self-alignment ” , weblog from January 25, 2012 on the conference “The Palatinate Church in National Socialism”.

literature

  • Adolf Lobe: Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929 , Berlin 1929, p. 403.
  • Wolfgang Eger: “Dr. jur. d. theol. Jakob Kessler: Palatine church president in the period from July 1, 1930 to July 31, 1934 “ , in: Blätter für Palatine Church History and Religious Folklore Volume 69 (2002), pp. 185ff.
  • Klaus Bümlein: Dr. jur. Jakob Friedrich Kessler (1872-1939): Church President 1930-1934 , in: Palatinate Church and Synod Presidents since 1920 (publications by the Association for Palatine Church History Volume 27) 2008, p. 33 ff.
  • Hannelore Braun / Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949 . Göttingen 2006, p. 132.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Association of Friends of the ESG, accessed on May 22, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freunde-des-esg.de
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kessler, Jakob Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reich lawyer, Reich judge and church president of the Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Siebeldingen
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1939
Place of death Munich