Johannes Klotsche

Johannes Karl Klotsche (born May 11, 1895 in Leipzig ; † February 24, 1965 in Wehlen ) was a German administrative officer and president of the Evangelical Lutheran State Consistory of Saxony during the Nazi era .

Life

After completing secondary school, Klotsche completed an apprenticeship as an administrative officer and from 1912 worked in the local government in Reichenberg near Dresden . After participating in World War I from 1914 to 1918 , he worked in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. In 1920 he became government secretary at the Saxon legation in Berlin, in 1923 he moved to the administrative authority of Meißen as senior government secretary and in 1925 as senior justice secretary to the Dresden district court . The Saxon Ministry of Justice appointed him assistant judge in 1926. He joined the NSDAP as early as 1925, where he worked as a district training speaker and employee in the racial office . Regional Bishop Friedrich Coch appointed Klotsche on August 1, 1933 to the senior consistorial councilor and shortly afterwards to the senior church councilor, thus becoming a regional church official. From December 1937 Klotsche was the sole head of the regional church office and was officially appointed President of the Evangelical Lutheran Consistory of Saxony on October 24, 1938 . Klotsche's instructions of May 12, 1938 led to the Gestapo expelling Hugo Hahn , the chairman of the Brother Council and superintendent of the Dresden Frauenkirche, from the Gau Sachsen . In April 1939, together with ten other regional church leaders , he signed the announcement on community work by regional church leaders , the first of which was the establishment of the institute to research and eliminate the Jewish influence on German church life . Until 1942 he was a member of the board of directors of the so-called 'Entjudungsinstitut'. After 1945 he completed training in popular missionary service at the Paulinum Preacher School in East Berlin.

literature

• Gerhard Lindemann : Johannes Klotsche. A confidante Mutschmann at the head of the regional church , in: Christine Piper, Mike Schmeitzner, Gerhard Naser (Ed.): Braune Karrieren. Dresden perpetrators and actors in National Socialism Sandstein, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942422-85-7 , pp. 208-213.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Arnhold: "Entjudung" - Kirche im Abgrund, Vol. 2. The "Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life" 1939–1945 (= Studies on Church and Israel 25/2). Berlin 2010, pp. 474, 809.