Carl Theodor Clorius

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Carl Theodor Clorius , in the USA also Charles T. Clorius (born March 23, 1900 in Diller , Jefferson County , Nebraska , † April 1987 in Gowanda , Erie County , New York ), was a German-American lawyer.

Life

Carl Theodor Clorius was the son of Pastor Otto Clorius (* 1869 in Parchim , † 1943 in Neubrandenburg ). He grew up in Neubrandenburg from 1908, attended grammar school here and trained as a banker in Berlin in 1920 . Until 1922 he worked as a bank clerk in Berlin and Neubrandenburg. He then studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin and from May 1928 at the University of Rostock . In 1930 he passed his first legal exam and became a trainee lawyer at courts in Neubrandenburg, Burg Stargard, Neustrelitz and Rostock. He joined the NSDAP as early as 1931 . In 1932 he was in Rostock with a dissertation on expenses for the fulfillment of Dr. jur. PhD. After his second exam in 1934, he worked as an assessor at the local courts of Wittenburg and Neubrandenburg and as legal advisor to the German Labor Front for entrepreneurs in Neustettin .

On July 1, 1935, he switched to the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg and, as the successor to Christian von Hammerstein, he became legal consistorial councilor in the upper church council in Schwerin, which had been dominated by the German Christians since 1933 . In 1936 he was promoted to senior consistorial councilor and in 1940 as senior church councilor member of the college. He was a member of the board of the state association for Inner Mission Mecklenburg.

After the end of the Second World War , he initially remained in office and on June 27, 1945, together with Karl Kleinschmidt, persuaded Regional Bishop Walther Schultz, who had been imprisoned by the British occupation forces, to resign; after that he was retired on June 29th at his own request. Born a US citizen, he emigrated to the USA in 1948, like his sister Gertrude Clorius Schwebell (1901–1979) the year before . In 1949 he was the decision of a church Spruchkammer released from ecclesiastical ministry.

He was married to the doctor Charlotte, b. Tessenow (1905–1978), the older daughter of Heinrich Tessenow . She worked at Gowanda State Hospital from 1953 .

His official files are kept in the regional church archive in Schwerin.

literature

  • Rainer Bookhagen: Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism. Volume 2: Retreat into the area of ​​the church 1937 to 1945 ; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002; ISBN 3-525-55730-2 , p. 970

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1817 . ; Entry by Otto Clorius in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ is the Oberkirchenrat Dr. Clorius charged with the temporary further processing of his previous tasks , Church Official Gazette for Mecklenburg 1945, p. 18 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Kurt Meier : The evangelical church fight. Volume 3: Under the Sign of the Second World War, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1984, p. 386
  5. ↑ Church Official Gazette for Mecklenburg 1945, p. 25 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Civil Service Leader, April 9, 1953, p. 9
  7. ↑ Inventory overview , accessed on March 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Clorius, Carl Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clorius, Charles T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Diller , Jefferson County , Nebraska
DATE OF DEATH April 1987
Place of death Gowanda , New York