Wilhelm Kähler (politician)

Wilhelm Kähler

Wilhelm Kähler , also Wilhelm Kaehler (born February 5, 1871 in Halle ; † February 14, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer , economist , university professor and politician ( DNVP ).

Life and work

Wilhelm Kähler was born on February 5, 1871 in Halle / Saale as the son of the theologian Martin Kähler . After attending school, he studied law and political science at the universities in Halle and Berlin from 1888 to 1892 . In Halle he became a member of the SBV Tuiskonia in the Schwarzburgbund in 1888 . He received his PhD in 1893 at the University of Halle for Dr. jur. , in 1896 as Dr. phil. and then worked as a trainee lawyer. After his habilitation in 1897 he was appointed full professor of economics at the Technical University of Aachen in 1900. At the same time he worked from 1908 as a teacher at the local commercial college. From 1914 he was professor of economics at the University of Greifswald , whose rector he later became.

MP

Kähler was a member of the Prussian constitutional assembly from 1919 to 1921 and was then elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1928.

Public offices

After the “ Prussian Strike ” in July 1932, Franz von Papen first appointed the center politician Aloys Lammers as Reich Commissioner . Kähler took over his function on October 29, 1932, which entrusted him with the management of the Prussian Ministry of Culture . On February 4, 1933, the National Socialist Bernhard Rust was appointed as his successor in office.

literature

Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 86.

Wilhelm Kähler. In: Lexicon Greifswalder Hochschullehrer 1775 to 2006. Vol. 3, Bad Honnef 2006, ISBN 3-87066-931-4 , p. 106 f.
Eckhard Oberdörfer (Ed.): A hundred days until Hitler. The memories of Reich Commissioner Wilhelm Kähler . Schernfeld 1993, ISBN 3-923621-95-7 .

Web links

Literature by and about Wilhelm Kähler in the catalog of the German National Library
Wilhelm Kähler in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Entry on Wilhelm Kähler in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Genealogy of the Kähler family

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 89 No. 1460.
↑ die schwarzburg 4/1993 p. 172; Student Courier 4/1997; Studentenkurier 1/2001, p. 5; Student courier "A hundred days until Hitler" - The memories of Reich Commissioner Wilhelm Kähler, in: Treatises on the student and university system of the GDS e. V., Volume 4.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Pels Leusden	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1920	Johannes Kunze

personal data
SURNAME	Kähler, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kaehler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, economist, university professor and politician (DNVP)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hall
DATE OF DEATH	February 14, 1934
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 89 No. 1460.

[2] schwarzburg 4/1993 p. 172; Student Courier 4/1997; Studentenkurier 1/2001, p. 5; Student courier "A hundred days until Hitler" - The memories of Reich Commissioner Wilhelm Kähler, in: Treatises on the student and university system of the GDS e. V., Volume 4.