Erich Kotte
Erich Kotte (born November 16, 1886 in Buchenau near Eisenach , † October 24, 1961 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Office of Saxony .
Life
Kotte attended the Princely School St. Afra in Meissen until 1907 . He then studied law at the University of Leipzig . From 1915 to 1919 he was a soldier in the First World War. In 1920 he began his professional activity in the state consistory of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony , where he rose to the state consistorial council in 1923 and to the secret consistorial council in 1927. Dismissed at short notice in 1933 by the German Christian regional bishop Friedrich Coch and forced out of office after being reinstated by harassment, Kotte joined the Confessing Church in Saxony in 1934 as a legal adviser and member of the regional brotherhood council . His reinstatement as presidential head of the regional church office in 1936/37 remained an intermezzo.
After the end of National Socialist rule , Kotte took over the management of the Saxon regional church office in May 1945, from 1950 with the official title of President . He also held various other functions, e.g. B. as a member of the church leadership of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) and the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany . When he retired in 1957, he became canon of the Wurzen collegiate monastery and, in 1958, was also vice-president of the VELKD's constitutional and administrative court.
In 1949 Kotte was awarded an honorary theological doctorate by the University of Leipzig .
literature
- Carlies Maria Raddatz: Kotte, Johannes Kurt Erich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 966-968.
- Andreas Seidel: Erich Kotte (1886–1961). Church and state church law developments from the Weimar Republic to the end of the 1950s in the GDR . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154442-2 .
Web links
- Carlies Maria Raddatz: Kotte, Johannes Kurt Erich . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Photos by Kotte
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kotte, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kotte, Johannes Kurt Erich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Office of Saxony |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buchenau |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1961 |
| Place of death | Dresden |