Otto Kähler (lawyer)

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Otto Kähler (born June 14, 1875 in Ottensen ; † January 26, 1955 in Itzehoe ) was a German lawyer , notary and legal historian .

Life

Otto Kähler was born as the son of Pastor Gregor Clemens Kähler in Ottensen . He attended the Christianeum in Altona and, after graduating from high school in 1893, studied law in Leipzig and Erlangen. In 1898 he received his doctorate, in 1903 he passed the assessor examination. He then took over the position of monastery syndic and clergyman of the Itzehoe monastery and at the same time became state syndic and secretary of the ongoing deputation of the Schleswig-Holstein prelates and knighthood , which had elected him to this position shortly before his exams.

From 1909 Kähler then practiced as a lawyer and notary in Kiel at the higher regional court there . He initially ran the law firm Abraham & Kähler together with Judicial Counsel Boye Johannes Abraham , which he then continued to operate under his own name after his death in 1922. On World War I after he participated as a reserve officer. Even as "a consistent opponent of the National Socialists", Kähler was able to continue his profession after 1933. After the house of his family and the office were completely destroyed in one of the air raids on Kiel in 1944, he moved to Itzehoe, where he continued to work as a lawyer at the local district and regional court into old age.

In addition to his professional work as a lawyer and notary in the narrower sense, his interest was, as it was said, "with the same intensity in life in its entirety, the economic, social, sociological and cultural processes." a. from 1920 member of the examination commission for the first, and from 1945 also for the second state legal examination. From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the board of the Kleinbahnen Kiel-Schönberg and Kiel-Segeberg and between 1949 and 1954 on the board of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. In addition, he published numerous articles on the history of Schleswig-Holstein in regional and legal history magazines. Two works written by him, a short outline of the history of the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood (up to 1867) and a more comprehensive history of the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood (for the period up to 1700), however, remained unpublished.

Otto Kähler is known to lawyers to this day as the author of Schleswig-Holstein state law , which appeared in two editions in 1908 and 1923. In it he documented and commented on the unmanageable number of regional and local legal provisions in Schleswig-Holstein that were still valid or continued to have an effect when the Civil Code came into force in 1900. His estate is in the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Reasons and extent of liability of the bad faith owner regarding the vindicated thing. P. Meyer, Altona 1898 (Erlangen, Jur. Diss. Of October 16, 1898). OCLC 252252644
  • Compensation for punishment and pre-trial detention. According to the imperial laws of May 20, 1898 and July 14, 1904, shown for practical use. Orphanage, Halle a. P. 1904. LCCN  10-005644 .
  • Schleswig-Holstein state law. A description of the domestic private law still applicable in Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg since the Civil Code came into force - taking into account some areas of public law as well as the questions of the transition period. Augustin, Glückstadt 1908 (2nd edition 1923, DNB 362502862 ).
  • 100 years of judicial unity in Schleswig-Holstein. Ceremonial address given at the centenary of the Higher Regional Court in Kiel on October 18, 1934. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1934, DNB 361018983 .
  • The diplomatic activity of the Chancellor Baron Andreas Pauli von Liliencron within the framework of the state as a whole. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Vol. 66, 1938, pp. 38-139 ( online )
  • History of the community fund of the Schleswig-Holstein noble monasteries and estates. On the occasion of the fund's centenary and on behalf of its management, edited by Otto Kähler. Howaldtsche Buchdruckerei, Kiel 1940, DNB 574193138 .

literature

  • [Friedrich] Lange: Lawyer Dr. Otto Kähler in memory . In: Schleswig-Holstein advertisements . Justice Ministerial Gazette for Schleswig-Holstein . Part A. Volume 202 , no. 2 , February 15, 1955, ISSN  1860-9643 , p. 42 .
  • Friedrich Lange: Dr. Otto Kähler: * June 14, 1875 † January 26, 1955 . In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . tape 80 , 1956, ISSN  0072-4254 , pp. 17–22 ( uni-hamburg.de [accessed March 4, 2017]).
  • Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : Withdrawal from the nation to the region. From the correspondence of three Schleswig-Holstein residents in 1946 . In: Grenzfriedenshefte . tape 43 , no. 3 , 1996, ISSN  1867-1853 , pp. 131-144 .
  • Markus-Benjamin Rusch: An edition of the postscript to Paul von Roth's lecture on Schleswig-Holstein private law from the winter semester 1860/61 (=  legal history studies . No. 73 ). Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8300-9037-3 , II. Boye Johannes Abraham, Otto Kähler and the Nachschreiber , p. XI-XIV .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Lange: Dr. Otto Kähler: * June 14, 1875 † January 26, 1955. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History . Vol. 80, 1956, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Markus-Benjamin Rusch: An edition of the postscript to Paul von Roth's lecture on Schleswig-Holstein private law from the winter semester 1860/61. Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, 2016, p. XII.
  3. ↑ Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg: “This people opposes us in everything”. Racist and xenophobic judgments about expellees and refugees in Schleswig-Holstein 1945–1946. In: ders: Viewpoints on the recent history of Schleswig-Holstein. Malente 1998, p. 155.
  4. ^ [Friedrich] Lange: Lawyer Dr. Otto Kähler in memory. In: Schleswig-Holstein advertisements . Justice Ministerial Gazette for Schleswig-Holstein, Part A. Volume 202, No. 2, February 15, 1955, p. 42.
  5. ^ Harald Elsner: 100 years of Kiel-Schönberger Railway. (= Historical series of publications of the VVM , vol. 14). Verlag Verein Verkehrsamateure und Museumbahn, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-923999-14-3 , p. 49 u. 75.
  6. ^ Journal for Schleswig-Holstein History 73 (1949) to 78 (1954), editorial pages.
  7. ↑ Henning von Rumohr : Foreword. In: Günter Heisch: Privilegien und Rechts from 1775 to the present. (= History of the Schleswig-Holstein Knighthood. On behalf of the Continuing Deputation of the Schleswig-Holstein Prelates and Knighthood Edited by Henning von Rumohr, Volume 4.) Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1966, p. 1.
  8. ^ Friedrich Lange: Dr. Otto Kähler: * June 14, 1875 † January 26, 1955. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. Vol. 80, 1956, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Kähler, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, notary and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona-Ottensen
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1955
Place of death Itzehoe