Robert Kerber

Robert Kerber (born May 21, 1884 in Stettin , † May 11, 1977 in Vienna ) was an Austrian civil servant and politician of the First Republic .

Life

After completing his studies, the doctor of law and administrative specialist first worked in the Ministry of the Interior and then switched to the pension institution for employees . With the establishment of the Ministry for Social Welfare , he was called back to the civil service and was Ministerialrat in the Federal Ministry for Social Administration . Kerber was appointed to the Dollfuss I government on March 11, 1933 , and succeeded Josef Resch , who had resigned, as Federal Minister for Social Administration.

He became a member of the newly founded civil servants 'and salaried workers' union , which rallied with trade associations and the rural union in the national front . Kerber was appointed to the Dollfuss II cabinet on September 21, 1933 as their representative . From September 23, 1933 to July 10, 1934 he was Austrian Minister of the Interior. As such, he was entrusted with the technical management of internal administration matters and, from May 1, 1934, also the administrative affairs of the Federal Statistical Office. Federal Minister Richard Schmitz , on the other hand, was responsible for security matters during his tenure . During Kerber's tenure, the Austrian civil war broke out and the Austro-Fascist corporate state was established .

Kerber was a member of the German Club and as a member of the government he made contact with the now banned NSDAP and from then on provided them with information from government circles. According to his own statement, he joined the Fatherland Front in 1936 “under duress” in order to be able to hold his former civil servant position again. However, on a form there is also an entry date from 1935.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Kerber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Kerber on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Goldinger, Walter (ed.): Protocols of the club board of the Christian Socials. Party 1932-1934 . Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1980, p. 277.
2. ↑ Change in the Ministry of Social Affairs. In:  Reichspost , March 12, 1933, pp. 1–2 (online at ANNO ). .
3. ^ The program of the National Front. In:  Wiener Zeitung , August 6, 1933, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Irmgard Bärnthaler : The Fatherland Front. History and organization . Europa Verlag, Vienna / Frankfurt / Zurich 1971, ISBN 3-203-50379-7  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 38 (Erroneously listed here as Körber .).
5. ↑ Andreas Huber: Return desired: Lecturers from the University of Vienna who were expelled during National Socialism for “political” reasons (=  Friedrich Stadler [Ed.]: Emigration - Exile - Continuity. Writings on contemporary cultural and scientific research . Volume 14 ). Lit, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-50681-8 , pp. 95 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).