Julius Kähler

Julius Kähler (born February 4, 1873 in Kirchbarkau , † March 30, 1952 in Aabenraa ) was a German journalist and politician .

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Julius Kähler was the son of pastor Johann Diedrich Otto Kähler (1831–1909) and his wife Amalie Wilhelmine Bertha, née Göttsch (1834–1922). He attended high school in Plön and then studied theology in Kiel , Halle , Rostock and Berlin and passed both theological exams.

Kähler married Emma Elisabeth (1879–1965), whose father owned the Itzehoer Nachrichten. This brought him into contact with the newspaper industry and from 1900 worked for two years in the editorial department of his father-in-law's newspaper. He then studied for two semesters of folk sciences and history at the University of Leipzig and from 1903 worked as an editor for the free-conservative Berlin Post. In his doctoral thesis at Leipzig University in 1904 he dealt with "The guilds in the Holstein Elbmarschen".

In 1906, Kähler moved to Aabenraa as chief editor of the local daily newspaper. During the First World War he did military service and achieved the rank of major. In 1918 he took over the management of the so-called "German Committee" to prepare the referendum in Schleswig . After the merger of the four newspapers in Nordschleswig to form Nordschleswigschen Zeitung , he took over their chief editor.

Since he was considered conservative, Kähler received his notice at the end of 1933, but continued to write for the newspaper as a freelancer. After the end of the Second World War , Danish resistance fighters arrested him and imprisoned him in Copenhagen . A physical breakdown while in detention left him permanently paralyzed and unable to work. A criminal case against him has been dropped.

Julius Kähler died at the end of March 1952. His wife, who at the time helped organize the referendum, then worked for the Verein für das Deutschtum abroad until it was banned .

literature

• Harboe Kardel: Kähler, Julius . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 173-174