Wilhelm Kahl

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Wilhelm Kahl, 1928

Ernst Petrus Wilhelm Kahl (born June 17, 1849 in Kleinheubach , † May 14, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German legal scholar and politician ( DVP ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Schweinfurt in 1867, Kahl, who was a Protestant , studied law in Erlangen and Munich . In 1874 he became a doctor of law doctorate , later was followed by a theological and a medical doctorate. In 1879 he was appointed to Rostock as a law professor . The focus of his academic work was criminal law and canon law .

Via Erlangen (1883) and Bonn (1888) he came in 1895 as a professor at the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-University (today's Humboldt University) in Berlin , where he taught until his retirement in 1921. In the academic year 1908/09 he was rector of the university. From 1891 to 1915 he was a member of the Old Prussian General Synod, where he headed the Evangelical Association . In an alternative draft to the penal code with other criminal law professors, he called for the impunity of "simple homosexuality ", that is, consensual homosexual acts among adult men. During the First World War he was a delegate for voluntary nursing.

Kahl was President of the 33rd (1924 in Heidelberg ), 34th (1926 in Cologne ) and 35th (1928 in Salzburg ) German Jurists' Conference . He was also a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Volksgesundung , in which he (in contrast to many medical professionals) spoke out against the forced sterilization of “hereditary criminals”. But he was also skeptical (though not entirely negative) about human trials. He argued in the Criminal Law Committee on Section 263 of the Criminal Code, which excluded the criminality of medical interventions under certain conditions: "The patient must not become a test object for indifferent, inconsequential and thoughtless attempts."

Kahlstrasse in Berlin-Wilmersdorf has been named after him since 1929 . In the same year, on his 80th birthday, he was awarded the eagle shield of the German Empire , the highest honor in the Weimar Republic .

The grave of Wilhelm Kahl in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Wilhelm Kahl died in Berlin in 1932 at the age of 82. His grave is located in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Church congregation in Berlin-Kreuzberg . He rests there by the side of his wife Bertha, nee. Laiblin (1852-1941). The grave of Wilhelm Kahl was dedicated as a Berlin honorary grave from 1956 to 2014 .

Political party

Wilhelm Kahl had been a member of the National Liberal Party since 1874 . In 1918 he took part in the founding of the German People's Party , of which he was honorary chairman.

MP

Wilhelm Kahl was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/20 . He was there u. a. Chairman of the Criminal Law Committee. He was then a member of the Reichstag until his death . When the National Assembly met for the first time in Berlin on May 12, 1919 , in the new auditorium of the university , Kahl gave the welcoming address in his dual capacity as a member of parliament and as a professor at Berlin University.

Publications

  • The independence of the Protestant Church in Bavaria from the state. Deichert, Erlangen 1874.
  • The doctrine of the primacy of the will in Augustine, Duns Scotus and Descartes. phil. Diss., Strasbourg 1886.
  • (with Richard Wilhelm Dove ) Textbook of Catholic and Protestant canon law. Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1886.
  • Church ordinance for the Protestant communities of the Province of Westphalia and the Rhine Province of March 5, 1835. Marcus, Bonn 1891.
  • Teaching system of church law and church politics. Mohr, Tuebingen 1894.
  • The denomination of children from mixed marriages. Regarding the proposals on the codification of German civil law. Mohr, Freiburg im Breisgau 1895.
  • Aphorisms on the separation of state and church Speech on the assumption of the rectorate of the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin given in the auditorium on October 15, 1908. Gustav-Schade-Verlag, Berlin 1908.
  • On the legal content of the Concord Book. In: Announcement of the Berlin law faculty for Otto Gierke on the anniversary of his doctorate on August 21, 1910. Marcus, Breslau 1910.
  • On the history of the school inspectorate. Teubner, Leipzig 1913.
  • From the right to war and the price of victory. Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1914.
  • To the Germans in the Reich! Pass & Garleb, Berlin 1915.
  • Triple Alliance - Treubund. German response to Italy's betrayal. Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1915.
  • Pessimism and optimism in war. Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1915.
  • The German Church in the German State. Weidmann, Berlin 1919.
  • Against shame and servitude! Speech by MP Kahl in the German National Assembly on June 22, 1919. Berlin 1919.
  • with Friedrich Meinecke and Gustav Radbruch : The German Universities and the State of Today. Mohr, Tübingen 1926.
  • with Reinhold Seeberg and Martin Faßbender : The way to popular health. Reichstag rally of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Volksgesundung on May 2, 1926 , Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Volksgesundung, Berlin 1926.
  • About the relationship between state and church in the past and present. In: Bernhard Harms (Hrsg.): Law and State in Newer Germany. Volume I, Hobbing, Berlin 1929, pp. 353-389.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Kahl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rehabilitation and compensation of those persecuted for consensual homosexual acts in the GDR or FRG until 1968 and 1969 - Expert opinion - On the procedure according to Bundestag Drs. 14/2620 ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 214.
personal data
SURNAME Kahl, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinheubach
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1932
Place of death Berlin