Erich Kloss (lawyer)
Erich Kurt Kloss (* 1879 in Bernburg , † 1964 in Weimar ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer.
Life
Kloss came from a Prussian civil servant family. His father, Ernst Kloss, was a teacher at the grammar school in Bernburg and his mother was the daughter of a lawyer from Breslau. After finishing school, Erich Kloss dealt with economic history and law as well as with European and Oriental languages. In 1901 a Japanese diploma examination took place at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He passed a legal traineeship in 1900 and his assessor examination as a lawyer in 1906 and went on study visits to England and France for some time before joining the Prussian judicial service as a non-party official. In 1912 he became a city councilor in Köthen . He had now married and had a daughter.
He participated in the First World War, first as an officer and later as a captain. From October 1918 to September 1934 he was the deputy mayor of Weimar, but was then forced to retire at the age of 56 because he was probably unable to provide evidence of Aryan status and, as a non-party official, was not loyal to the line.
From April 15 to May 1, 1945, Kloss was appointed acting Lord Mayor of Weimar for 14 days by the American military government, who was given the responsibility to accompany the Weimar citizens to the Buchenwald concentration camp and to work with the Americans.
Erich Kloss deposited his memoirs about this historically very difficult to analyze time with the city archive of Weimar.
After the death of his wife and daughter (1953), Erich Kloss lived as a pensioner and remained a critical observer of social conditions.
Works
- The labor cooperative as a free form of socialization Heymanns Verlag, Berlin 1920.
- Erich Kloss - Memoirs 1945 at the Weimar City Archives
literature
- Quarterly issues for contemporary history, volume 37 (1989) issue 3, Munich-Berlin
- Manfred Overesch : Buchenwald and the GDR or The Search for Self-Legitimation Vandenhoeck Collection, Göttingen, 1995, ISBN 3-525-01356-6 .
- Wendelin Koehler: From Weimar to the West via Stasi prison - encounters with Weimar personalities Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-5565-3 .
Web links
- http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1989_3.pdf page 99 and 464
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kloss, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kloss, Erich Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lawyer and local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1964 |
| Place of death | Weimar |