Josef Kälin

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Josef Kälin (born December 21, 1887 in Hohenstadt ; † June 25, 1944 in Göttingen ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Kälin studied Catholic theology from 1906 to 1907 and then until 1911 law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . From 1907 he was a member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen .

He passed the first state examination in 1911 and the second state examination in 1915. Then he joined the internal administration of Württemberg. In 1921 he was promoted to government councilor and a year later to senior government councilor. From 1924 he was Ministerialrat and in 1927 he took over the management of the State Labor Office Southwest in Stuttgart as President.

In 1932 Franz von Papen offered him the takeover of the Reich Labor Ministry , which Kälin refused. From 1932 to 1933 he was executive president of the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlungs und unemployment insurance . As a result of the National Socialist seizure of power , however, he had to give up this office and was president of the Göttingen employment office from 1934 to 1944.