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Erwin Julius Schloss (born April 22, 1894 in Emmendingen im Breisgau ; † January 7, 1944 in Vicosoprano ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Erwin Schloss was the son of the Jewish tobacco manufacturer Adolf Schloss (1863-1907) and his wife, the politician and writer Marie (née Haas), who converted to Protestantism in 1905 . His uncle was the Baden Minister Ludwig Haas . After the early death of his father, he lived in Karlsruhe from 1907 to 1912 with his mother and brother Martin Friedrich Schloss, later a chemist at Malzfabrik Rheinpfalz AG in Bruchsal . When his brother emigrated to the USA in 1938 , his mother moved to Bern in September 1938 .

After attending school in Emmendingen and graduating with the Abitur on July 12, 1912 in Karlsruhe, he studied law and political science for two semesters at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and one semester at the University of Berlin to take the Hebraicum . On March 29, 1913, he joined the Herrnhut Brothers Congregation in Königsfeld and from Easter 1914 to 1916 he was a student of theology at the Theological Seminary of the Brothers Unity in Gnadenfeld and in 1916 for a semester at the University of Tübingen . In the period from January 1917 to December 1918 he was sent to Russia by the directorate for the soldiers' work of the Christian Student Union . After a year of study at Heidelberg University , he passed the theological exam on March 17, 1920 .

In 1921 he became a deacon ordained and entered on April 1, 1921 a position as secretary of the Youth League of the Moravian Church in Berlin at, was there brothers keepers and was from the fall of 1922 youth secretary in Lodz had, in 1925 but to resign for health reasons again. From May 1926 to September he was first a deacon in the Brethren Church in Gnadau until he became a preacher there in 1926 . In 1927 he was ordained a presbyter .

After he went into exile in Switzerland because of the Nazis' takeover in 1935 , he became head of the Moravian Society in Bern in October 1935 and worked as the secretary of the regional church refugee aid in Bern. At the invitation of Adolf Keller on September 20, 1938, he participated in the constituent meeting of the Swiss Church Aid Committee. From 1939 he campaigned for the aid committee for Protestant refugees at the federal authorities and organized aid measures for the victims of National Socialism .

1940 was based on the Nazi racial laws his expatriation from Germany, so he subsequently stateless was.

Erwin Schloss married Emilie (1895–1978), a daughter of Georg Ruppert, in 1923. They had three children together:

  • Erdmuth Schloss (1924–2006), married to Walter Achtnich (1913–2004);
  • Markus Ekkart Castle (1926–1992);
  • Brigitte Schloss (1927–2013), pastor in Labrador .

Erwin Schloss died in a bus accident when he wanted to visit the emigrant camp in Vicosoprano.

Fonts (selection)

  • 200 years of brothers' association in Bern . Bern 1939.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Parliament of Baden Württemberg - Castle, Marie. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Karlsruhe: Marie Schloß: writer and women's rights activist. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  3. ^ Daniel Heinz: Free Churches and Jews in the "Third Reich": instrumentalized history of salvation, anti-Semitic prejudices and suppressed guilt . V&R unipress GmbH, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-690-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Heinrich Rusterholz: “… as if our neighbour's house wasn't on fire”: long subtitle . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17712-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2020]).
  5. ^ Hohenems Genealogy - Jewish Family History in Vorarlberg and Tyrol. Jewish Museum Hohenems, January 16, 2017, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Moravian Magazine, December 2013. Accessed May 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Switzerland and the refugees at the time of National Socialism. Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War. P. 170, 1999, accessed May 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Castle, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castle, Erwin; Castle, Erwin Julius; Castle, Erwin Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmendingen , Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1944
Place of death Vicosoprano