KASTL, LUDWIG
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KASTL, LUDWIG (1878–1969), economics expert; participated in negotiations
for both the Dawes and Young plans.* Born near the Rhineland village of
Altenbamberg, he was raised in Bad Mu¨nster am Stein. He studied law and
political science before taking state exams and accepting appointment with the
provincial government of Upper Bavaria. In 1906, recently assigned to the colonial
section of the Foreign Office, he went to German Southwest Africa (now
Namibia). Thereafter, he served successively as a judge in Windhuk (1906–
1910), a reporter for internal administration (1910–1912), leader of the finance
department (1912–1915), and Commissioner for Civil Administration (1915–
1920).
With the Versailles Treaty* stipulating loss of Germany's colonies, Kastl
returned to Berlin* and joined the Finance Ministry. Leading the reparations*
department, he assisted with the 1924 Dawes negotiations. In 1925 he resigned
from the civil service* to become executive director of the RdI; however, he
preserved his autonomy when, during 1929–1932, he served with the League of
Nations' Mandate Commission. In 1929 he belatedly assumed an assignment
with the Conference of Experts; the resulting report was the Young Plan.
In contrast to many of his colleagues, Kastl supported the cabinet of Heinrich
Bru¨ning.* Worried lest either Alfred Hugenberg* or Hitler* form a government,
he worked in late 1932 to sustain Franz von Papen* and was also belatedly
supportive of Kurt von Schleicher.* On orders from Otto Wagener, head of the
NSDAP's economic policies section, he was dismissed from his office in April
1933; the RdI disbanded in May. Kastl thereafter practiced law within the Berlin
court system. He resumed his activity as an economics expert after World War
II.
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