Jakob Otto Kehrli

Jakob Otto Kehrli (born February 9, 1892 in Bern ; † June 28, 1962 there ), entitled to live in Utzenstorf , was a Swiss lawyer and writer.

Life

Kehrli studied at the University of Bern. He was a member of the Bern section of the Swiss Zofinger Association . The advocate and doctor of law, Otto Kehrli, was elected chief judge in 1940. When he retired in 1958, he was President of the Bernese Higher Court . In 1942 he was President of the Bern City Council. He was also the editor of the Swiss Gutenberg Museum in Bern. From 1943 to 1951 he was President of the Kunstmuseum Bern . From 1919 until his death he published on legal problems in the field of art and on artist personalities, including the Bern artist Ernst Kreidolf .

Kehrli's estate is in the Burger Library in Bern .

Fonts

• About glass painting , Bern 1919.
• The costs in criminal proceedings in the canton of Bern. Taking into account the preliminary draft of a code of criminal procedure for the canton of Bern from 1911 (diss.) Bern 1925.
• Legal questions from the printing profession , Bern 1932.
• The advocacy studies in the canton of Bern based on the regulations of July 21, 1936 , Bern University 1937.
• Typography and Art , Bern 1945.
• Ernst Kreidolf. The painter and poet , Bern 1949.
• The lithographs for Goethe's "Faust" by Eugène Delacroix , Bern 1949.
• Why Paul Klee's wish to die as a Swiss citizen could not be fulfilled , Bern 1962.

Archives

• Jakob Otto Kehrli's estate in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library
• Document collection in the economic archive in Basel

literature

• In memory of our esteemed editor Dr. Jakob Otto Kehrli died on June 28, 1962 in Bern Gutenbergmuseum Bern, Bern 1962.

Individual evidence

1. ^ State Archives of the Canton of Bern , V Zofingia 169 online .