Wilhelm Kaersten

Wilhelm August Kaersten (born April 2, 1871 in Kremmen ; † September 8, 1954 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was the syndic of the Oldenburg Chamber of Crafts .

Life

Kaersten was the son of the mill master Johann Kaersten studied law and political science in Berlin and Heidelberg . He then worked for the city council in Spremberg and the Frankfurt ad Oder Chamber of Commerce . On December 11, 1902, he was elected syndic of the Oldenburg Chamber of Crafts. When Kaersten took office, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg did not yet have a comprehensive organization of handicrafts. Thanks to Kaersten's efforts, the chamber finally comprised 59 craft cooperatives with a total of 2,640 members in 1919.

Kaersten paid particular attention to the development of the vocational school system and the related cooperation between the government and the trades as well as the advanced training opportunities for guild members established in the vocational schools were exemplary. During the First World War , Kaersten succeeded in reorganizing the Chamber's activities in good time for the benefit of the craft businesses threatened by the forced economy. At the end of 1918 he was elected to the Citizens' Council of the City of Oldenburg, the Advisory Board of the Demobilization Commission and the Board of Directors of the State Farmers Council for the Free State of Oldenburg . As one of the first in Germany, the Oldenburg Chamber of Handicrafts set up a trade promotion office at Kaersten's instigation in 1927, which supported the handicrafts in their adaptation to the respective economic development.

Until his retirement on October 1, 1933, Kaersten was a member of the full committee of the German cooperative association , the supervisory board of the Oldenburg commercial and commercial bank and the administrative advisory board of the Lower Saxony cooperative association. Grand Duke Friedrich August awarded him the title of Professor on December 3, 1913 .

He was married to Johanne geb. Dählmann (1882-1951).

literature

• Kaersten, Wilhelm August. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 365 ( online ).