Adolf Köster

Adolf Köster ( born March 8, 1883 in Verden, † February 18, 1930 in Belgrade ) was a German politician ( SPD) and diplomat.

Adolf Köster grew up in Kappeln and was a member of the SPD since his youth. He taught until 1912 at the Technical University Munich, then he worked for the forward, first as a freelance journalist in the First World War as a rapporteur.

After the November Revolution of 1918, he took on the function in the Prussian State Chancellery, since the beginning of 1919 in the Reich Chancellery, from May 1919 as Head of State and later as the Prussian State Commissioner ( PrStKom ) the province of Schleswig- Holstein in Schleswig plebiscite area.

Koester was from April 10 to June 8, 1920 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the German Empire in the first cabinet of Chancellor Hermann Müller, who led a coalition government of the SPD, DDP and center. In the second cabinet Wirth ( center, SPD, DDP) on 26 October 1921 he held until 14 November 1922, the Office of the Minister of the Interior. In 1928, he worked as an envoy in Belgrade.

The German diplomat Kajus Köster was his son.

Works

• Away with the stab! Why we could not continue the fight in 1918. Berlin: Verlag für politics and science, 1922.
• With the Bulgarians. War reports from Serbia and Macedonia. [ Publisher ] Albert Langen, Munich, 1916. 148 S.
• Wandering the earth. War reports from the West. Publisher Albert Langen, Munich, 1917. 133 S.