Ludwig Kastl

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Ludwig Kastl

Ludwig Kastl (born September 17, 1878 on the Altenbaumburg near Altenbamberg , † May 19, 1969 on the Paulihof near Hausham ) was initially a German colonial official. Later he was a representative of the industry and a business expert.

family

He was the son of forest officials Liborius Kastl and Amalie Kastl (née Völcker). Kastl himself married Gertrud Kirchner in 1907. The later ambassador Jörg Kastl emerged from the marriage.

Life

Kastl first studied law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1899 he was in the Corps Suevia Munich and in the Corps Franconia Tübingen recipiert . In both corps he distinguished himself as consenior . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg .

He began his professional career with the government of Upper Bavaria in Munich. In 1906 he joined the colonial department of the Foreign Office . This was preceded by a long stay in England . Since then he has worked in German South West Africa . Kastl was first district judge, then justiciar to the governor. Between 1910 and 1912 he was a consultant for the internal administration of the colony. After that he was head of the finance department until 1915. After the occupation of the colony, he was from 1915 to 1920, as commissioner of the mandate power of South Africa, and head of the still existing German administration. After returning to Germany, Kastl initially worked in the Reich Ministry of Finance with the rank of Ministerialrat . He was head of the reparations department there. He took part in the negotiations on the Dawes Plan and in this context wrote the text "Germany's Economy, Currency and Finance."

In 1925 Kastl left the civil service. He became an executive member of the executive committee of the Reich Association of German Industry . His appointment to the post was a sign of a relatively moderate course of the association in these years. It was controversial in parts of the organization. A number of politically far-right heavy industrialists viewed him critically. The fact that Kastl was critical of the confrontational approach of the heavy industrialists in the Ruhreisenstreit of 1928 and emphasized that this had happened without consultation with the RDI certainly played a role .

He was also a member of the Mandate Commission of the League of Nations between 1929 and 1932 . He also belonged to the chief envoy Hjalmar Schacht and Albert Vögler together with Carl Melchior as deputy delegate in 1929 to the negotiating delegation on the Young Plan . The content-related differences of opinion between the main delegates and the deputy delegates proved to be a burden for the German conduct of negotiations. After Vögler resigned, Kastl became a full delegate. In 1931/32 he was involved in the negotiations on an international standstill agreement for German foreign loans.

Kastl was one of the founders of the Bund for the Renewal of the Reich in 1927/28 . He was also a member of the Pro Palestine Committee . In 1931 he joined the Society of Friends .

After the RDI was brought into line as a result of the beginning of National Socialist rule , Kastl was forced to resign because of his Jewish descent, especially by Otto Wagener , long-time head of the NSDAP's economic policy department.

Kastl then worked as a lawyer with his partner Hans Heinz Steffani . He was evidently regarded as an economist critical of the regime. With a view to the post-war period, he became a member of the MAN Executive Board in 1944 . Immediately after the war, as a politically unaffected person, he took on a leading role at MAN in Nuremberg. Although he had not yet managed a company directly, he made a decisive contribution to rebuilding the company.

Kastl was President of the Bavarian Economic Council from 1946 to 1947. He was a member of numerous supervisory boards. He appeared on various occasions as an expert witness at the Nuremberg trials . He appeared in 1948 as a witness in the IG Farben trial . In 1952 he was a member of the negotiating delegation at the Foreign Debt Conference in London. He held numerous honorary posts, mostly in business-related areas, well into old age.

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Kastl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 115/1144; 128/582.
  2. ↑ Werner Plümpe: The Reich Association of German Industry and the Crisis of the Weimar Economy , in: Challenges of parliamentary democracy: The Weimar Republic in European comparison . Munich, 2007 p. 144.
  3. ↑ Kim Christian Priemel Flick: a corporate history from the German Empire to the Federal Republic. Göttingen, 2007 p. 279.
  4. ↑ Petra Weber: Failed Social Partnership - Endangered Republic? Munich, 2010 p. 800.
  5. ↑ Ralph Blessing: The possible peace: the modernization of foreign policy and the Franco-German relations 1923-1929. Munich, 2008 p. 379.
  6. ↑ Kim Christian Priemel: Flick: a corporate history from the German Empire to the Federal Republic. Göttingen, 2007 p. 289.
  7. ^ Daniela Kahn: The control of the economy by law in National Socialist Germany. The example of the Reichsgruppe Industrie. Frankfurt am Main, 2006 p. 155.
  8. ^ Klaus-Dietmar Henke: The American occupation of Germany. Munich, 1996 p. 517.
  9. ↑ Johannes Bähr, Ralf Banks, Thomas Flemming: The MAN. A German industrial history. Munich, 2008 p. 358.
personal data
SURNAME Kastl, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colonial official and association representative
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenbamberg
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1969
Place of death Hausham