Karl Arthur Lange

Karl Arthur Lange (born February 25, 1881 in Munich ; † 1947 ) was a German economist and politician. In the 1930s and 1940s he was director of the Munich Löwenbrau AG . After the end of the Second World War, he served briefly in the cabinet of Fritz Schäffer as Bavaria's acting minister of economics.

Life

After graduating from high school and completing his military service, Lange began studying law and economics . After the examination for the higher judicial and administrative service, he entered the service of the government of Upper Bavaria . 1909 he became a lawyer and general counsel for club Munich breweries . Finally, he received his doctorate in 1913 on "The effects of the Bavarian malt surcharge law of March 18, 1910 on the public budget and the individual layers of economic life" . His professional career was interrupted when he was drafted into the army . After the end of the war, he became a member of the board of the Munich brewery Löwenbräu in 1920 and, from 1935 until his death, its director.

After the end of the Second World War, he was entrusted by the Regional Military Government of the US Army from June 6 to September 12, 1945 in the provisional cabinet of Fritz Schäffer with the provisional management of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. He was deposed by the US military government during the Third Reich because of his position in the "Association of Germans Abroad".

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Arthur Lange in the catalog of the German National Library