Paul Pähler

August Wilhelm Paul Pähler (born July 30, 1882 in Wiesbaden ; † December 14, 1957 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer and police president in Recklinghausen as well as government vice-president in Königsberg .

Career

After graduating from high school, August Wilhelm Paul Pähler studied law and political science in Marburg , Geneva , Bonn and Berlin between 1901 and 1904 and began his professional career as a government trainee with the district government of Kassel . Before he was seconded to the Arnsberg district government as state commissioner in March 1921 , he was an assessor at the Stettin district office and councilor in the Kassel high presidium. His task in Arnsberg was to prepare the nationalization of the police in the Ruhr area. For this purpose, he was commissioned on May 8, 1921 "with the management of the police business destined for the final administration by state officials under the provisional responsibility of the Lord Mayor in Recklinghausen" and appointed state police administrator in August 1922. The official business of the police chief Recklinghausen was transferred to him on October 1, 1922. He remained in this office until he moved to the Trier district government in January 1923. Here he was imprisoned in May 1923 by the French until January 1924. He then took up his position in the Department for Police and Press at the Münster District Government . With a resolution of the Prussian State Ministry on March 29, 1928, Pähler became Vice President of the Government in Königsberg with effect from May 1, 1928. He was the first Catholic in this position. In 1933 he was put into temporary retirement by the National Socialists due to the law to restore the civil service . The sources do not provide any information about his activities until he took up employment as an administrative officer at the factory air raid protection in Gleiwitz in 1943. After the Second World War , he took up the service of the provincial administration in Halle / Saale as senior government councilor and stayed there until he moved to the Hessian Ministry of Finance at the end of 1946. Here he worked as a ministerial councilor and retired in 1950.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918-1945 / 46). Biographisches Handbuch, Münster, Aschendorff Verlag, 2004, p. 233 f., ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 .

Web links

• August Wilhelm Paul Pähler Short biography on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"