Wilhelm Kutscher was born the son of an estate owner in Wobesde (today, Objazda) in the Prussian Province of Pomerania.

From 1898 to 1899 he fulfilled his military service requirement in the Royal Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer with the 5th (Pomeranian) Hussars Regiment "Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt", headquartered in Stolp.

During the First World War, he worked closely with East Prussian Oberpräsident Adolf Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe in the reconstruction of towns and communities that had been damaged or destroyed by the Russian military invasion of August 1914.

He was promoted and transferred to the Regierungsbezirk Hildesheim [de] in April 1919 as the Regierungspräsident (District President) where he remained until July 1922.

[6] On 11 July 1933, Göring appointed Kutscher to the recently reconstituted Prussian State Council, where he would serve in a purely advisory capacity until the fall of the Nazi regime in May 1945.