He was a co-founder of the German People's Party, and an important executive in the munitions industry during World War II.

In 1918, with Gustav Stresemann, Vögler was involved in the founding of the German People's Party (DVP) in the Weimar Republic.

Hitler presented the Nazi Party's political plans, and received a total of three million marks in donations.

[1] During the latter part of the 1930s, Vögler was described by the Jewish businessman Max von der Porten as one of the industrialists who focused primarily on business, hardly spoke of politics and did not want to know anything about it.

On 14 April 1945, in order to avoid capture by the advancing US Army, Vögler committed suicide via a cyanide pill in Haus Ende, Herdecke.

[5] Despite his death, he was still identified as one of the defendants in the Nuremberg trials of prominent industrialists, which prosecuted the clique of businessmen who helped Hitler.