Möser Lodge number 4 in Hanover

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The Moser-box no. 4 of Hannover in Osnabrück was founded in the 19th century lodges association that does not meet Freemasons belonged, but an independent and in the UK created the Order , the Independent Order of Odd Fellows . The group, also known for short as Möserloge or Möser-Lodge after the Osnabrück lawyer, statesman, writer and historian Justus Möser, was almost completely wiped out and forgotten into the 21st century due to the persecution and liquidation by the National Socialists . For example, a medal that was auctioned in Düsseldorf in 2007 and dedicated to the Grand Master of the Lodge, Adolf Edel , was temporarily considered to be "[...] the only known testimony of the Möser Lodge in Osnabrück."

history

The Möser Lodge No. 4 in Hanover was founded in Osnabrück in 1889 as an association, particularly of merchants . At the turn of the 20th century at the latest, they made Haus Lange their meeting house, which had been inhabited by the Hilger family from Osnabrück until 1892 . Above the entrance of this building, the lodge then put the letters IOOF , the English-language abbreviation for “Independent Order of Odd Fellows”.

The early members of the lodge included the businessman Bernhard ten Breuel , the authorized signatory Julius Thöle , Friedrich Rosebrock , the auctioneer Rudolf Meinberg , August Balcke and Otto Ostendorf .

However, Adolf Edel played a prominent role. The undated silver medal dedicated to him by the Möser Lodge was decorated with Art Nouveau elements and therefore dated by experts to the period around 1900. With the inscription, the lodge dedicated the memorial to “Your District Grand Master Dr. A. Noble for a silver wedding ”.

Outside Osnabrück, there was also a typewritten lecture from the time of the First World War that was given by her brother and district grandmaster Edel in Hanover on November 13, 1915 , on "War work in the lodges". In addition, Doctor Adolf Edel was the name of a bookstore also operated in Hanover at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Möser Lodge expressed its reference to Justus Möser in 1921 by laying a wreath on the monument to the statesman and poet. From the time of the Weimar Republic there is another reference to the Möser Lodge in the address book of the city of Osnabrück from 1926, according to which the Möser Lodge still met in Haus Lange.

After the seizure of power in 1933, the Möser Lodge , which was persecuted at the beginning of the National Socialist era due to an alleged “[…] Jewish-Masonic world conspiracy”, dissolved on May 5, 1933. In the register of associations on May 20, 1935, it was noted: "The liquidation has ended, the dissolution has been carried out".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: The Nazis brought the premature end , article in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of April 10, 2007, updated on July 7, 2010, last accessed on January 6, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Compare Hans Eisele (Red.): Allgemeine Rundschau . Wochenschrift für Politik und Kultur , Vol. 18, Munich 1921, p. 22; limited preview of google books
  3. ^ Edgar Schroeder: Osnabrück in the 19th century (= photographed contemporary history ), Düsseldorf: Verlag Droste, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7700-1039-4 and ISBN 3-7700-1039-6 , p. 36; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library (DNB)
  5. ↑ Compare the information provided by the DNB on the corporation and the cross-references there

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 36 ″  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 23 ″  E