# Karl Geiler

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**Karl Hermann Friedrich Geiler** (10 August 1878 – 14 September 1953) was a German lawyer and politician. He was born in Schönau (Baden) and died in [Heidelberg](/source/Heidelberg).

Geiler, a university professor of economic law in [Heidelberg](/source/Heidelberg) and without affiliation to a political party at the time (during the [Weimar Republic](/source/Weimar_Republic), he was a member of the [German Democratic Party](/source/German_Democratic_Party)), was installed prime minister of the newly created territory [Greater Hesse](/source/Greater_Hesse) by the US military administration. He replaced the social democrate [Ludwig Bergsträsser](/source/Ludwig_Bergstr%C3%A4sser), who served as acting minister-president for only one month, and would remain in office until a successor could be democratically elected. His term, from 12 October 1945 to 20 December 1946, saw the first local elections after [World War II](/source/World_War_II) in January 1946, the vote on the [constitution of Hesse](/source/Constitution_of_Hesse) and the first election of the [Landtag of Hesse](/source/Landtag_of_Hesse) in December 1946.

Geiler was fiercely opposed to [denazification](/source/Denazification).

## References

- [Karl Geiler becomes first prime minister of Greater Hesse (in German)](https://web.archive.org/web/20110719040952/http://dms.bildung.hessen.de/ereignisse/gedenktage/oktober/hist_10-16-1945_2555.html)

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