Early Life
Dehler was born in Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia, Bavaria. After graduating from grammar school in 1916, he fought in the World War I.
After the war, he studied medicine but soon switched to law and political science, which he studied in Munich, Freiburg and Würzburg. He passed his state examinations in 1920 and 1923, respectively. In 1920, he attained his doctorate with the dissertation "The statement of grounds in penal verdicts". In remembrance of his studies at Würzburg, he later, in 1948, joined the student corps "Humanitas" Würzburg as a Alter Herr.
After 1923, he worked as a solicitor in Munich and, after 1925, in Bamberg.
In 1925, Dehler had married Irma Frank, a woman of Jewish descent.
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