Marion von Klot

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Marion von Klot
Marion von Klot.jpg
Born March 30, 1897 (pubs)
Deceased May 22, 1919 (Riga)
Holiday May 22nd ( Protestant name calendar )

Anna Margreth Cecil Erika Marion von Klot (born March 30, 1897 on the manor Puikel (Latvian: Puikule) near Wolmar , today in the Aloja district in Latvia ; † May 22, 1919 in Riga ), Latvian Anna Margrēta Cecīlija Erika Mariona fon Klota , was a German-Baltic noblewoman and singer. She is considered a Protestant martyr .

The dates in this article are based on the Julian calendar for the period up to 1918 unless otherwise noted.

Life

Marion von Klot was born as the daughter of the squire Reinhold von Klot (1849–1903) and his wife Albertine Wilhelmine Edith, nee Freiin von Wolff (* 1860). Her brothers were Friedrich Arnold Reinhold von Klot (1888–1920), Ernst Magnus von Klot (1899–1972) and Wilhelm Reinhold von Klot (1887–1960). She grew up on the Puikel estate.

In 1903 Edith von Klot moved to Riga with her children after the death of her husband. Marion was trained there in a private German school group.

The song "I don't know the way either, you know it well"

The outbreak of the First World War prevented Marion's planned vocal training in Germany . Instead she received singing lessons in Riga from Lilly Schroeders (according to the old Italian method of Francesco Lamperti ) and joined the church choir of the Jakobi congregation. Pastor Erhard Doebler , who had confirmed Marion von Klot, arranged for the poem "I don't know the way either, you know it", written by Hedwig von Redern in 1901 , with a melody by the English composer John Bacchus Dykes (1823–1876) from 1868 was set to music. It was sung at the confirmation of Marion von Klot's brother.

In the New Year's service in 1916, Marion von Klot sang it in public for the first time. She made the song, which became her favorite song, known to the community with her singing; it was often sung by Marion von Klot on appropriate occasions, as a song of consolation for the Baltic Germans , whose situation deteriorated during the First World War.

Today the song can be found in various regional parts of the Evangelical Hymnal , e.g. B. for Rhineland, Westphalia and Lippe under number 650 and for Lower Saxony and Bremen under number 591; in the Mennonite hymn book it is number 362.

During the war, Marion von Klot did auxiliary services in hospitals.

From 1918 Marion von Klot gave her own recitals. Her voice was described as soft and clear.

On January 3, 1919, the German troops evacuated the right bank of the Daugava , whereupon the Bolsheviks invaded Riga and took power. Many senior officials, preachers, landowners, and nobles, including Marion von Klot's mother and the returned Doebler, were imprisoned as the main enemies of communism . Marion von Klot herself stayed with her grandmother (on her mother's side, the other grandmother had died in 1903), who could no longer escape, and tried to get her mother released.

This led to her being admitted to the Riga Central Prison on April 7, 1919. There she tried to encourage her more than 30 cellmates, with whom she was imprisoned in a much too narrow cell under harsh conditions, with encouragement, New Testament readings and singing, every evening with the song "I don't know the way either, you know it well" comforting what she managed to do among the prisoners despite a typhus epidemic . Doebler could hear it from his neighboring cell.

The prisoners expected an amnesty on May 1st, but this did not materialize. They were torn between hope and fatefulness. Marion von Klot also sang her song on the eve of her execution.

On Thursday, May 22nd, 1919, Riga was about to be retaken by the Baltic Army , which the prisoners knew nothing about. Shortly before the Bolsheviks withdrew, 22-year-old Marion von Klot and 32 fellow prisoners were led out of their cells that afternoon. They were led in an orderly manner through the long corridors under heavy guard to the prison yard. There soldiers of the Red Army took up positions, which now shot all those who were deported. Marion von Klot's last words are said to have been:

"Just don't get weak now."

Immediately afterwards the soldiers and commissioners fled. A little later, an armored car from the Landeswehr made its way to the prison, and the prisoners' relatives followed him into the courtyard. They were shocked by the sight they saw.

Afterlife and reception

After her death, a piece of paper was found in Marion von Klot's New Testament, on which she had noted the melody and text of the song from memory, "I don't know the way either, you know it well". Marion von Klot was buried on May 27, 1919, next to her grandmother, who had died just a few days earlier.

Marion von Klot is mentioned in the novel A man named Prack by Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen , which was published in 1936 by Schützen-Verlag in Berlin. (Reck-Malleczewen died in 1945 in Dachau concentration camp as a Christian opponent of National Socialism .)

Remembrance day

May 22nd in the Evangelical Name Calendar .

Before the introduction of the official name calendar, the day of remembrance was already listed in:

A proposal for the liturgical celebration of the day of remembrance can be found on evangelische-liturgie.de.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Marion von Klot in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Marion von Klot. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Adelheid von Hauff: Hedwig von Redern (1866-1935) in Peter Zimmerling (ed.): Evangelische Seelsorgerinnen. Biographical sketches, texts and programs , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-62380-1 , p. 212
  4. ↑ "I don't know the way either": Song of the Month February 2013 of Ev. Christ Church in Hangelar
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Marion von Klot in a row after me , issue 4/2011
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Winrich Scheffbuch: What can you still rely on? - Sermon about Heb 10,35-39  LUT , held on September 22nd, 1996 in the Ludwig-Hofacker-Gemeinde Stuttgart, available at www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=anna%20margreth%20cecil%20erika% 20marion% 20of% & 20klot source = web & cd = 16 & ved = 0CIEBEBYwDw & url = ftp% 3A% 2F% 2Fbitflow.dyndns.org% 2Fgerman% 2FWinrichScheffbuch05% 2FHebraeer_10_35_39_19960922.doc & ei = c7WcUef2CdDzsgb-sYGwBw & usg = AFQjCNG9j1QHs6fO7zLc1bsZ3KJERPQ1FQ & cad = rja
  7. ↑ a b c d Marion von Klot ( Memento from July 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in Die gute Saat 2011
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Marion von Klot in the ecumenical calendar of names
  9. ^ Evangelical hymn book, edition for the regional churches of Rhineland, Westphalia and Lippe , Neukirchener Theologie 2006, ISBN 3788710268 and ISBN 978-3788710262
  10. ^ Evangelical hymn book, edition for the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Lower Saxony and for the Evangelical Church in Bremen , Schlütersche 2014, ISBN 3899939271 and ISBN 978-3899939279
  11. ↑ Mennonite hymnal , ISBN 3245795416 and ISBN 978-3245795412
  12. ↑ a b c d e f Oskar Schabert : Baltic Martyrs Book . Furche-Verlag, Berlin 1926, p. 147f ( digitized version )
  13. ↑ a b c Klot, Marion von . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  14. ↑ Hans Greiff: Consolation and strength in Die Christus-Post , January-February, No. 1/13
  15. ^ The new book in the Rigaschen Rundschau , No. 70, March 25, 1936 ( from Klot | issueType: P Periodika.lv )
  16. ^ Marion von Klot on evangelische-liturgie.de
personal data
SURNAME Klot, Marion von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klot, Anna Margreth Cecil Erika Marion von (full name); Klota, Marionaphon; Klota, Anna Margrēta Cecīlija Erika Mariona fon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic evangelical martyr
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Manor Puicles, Volmar County, Latvia
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1919
Place of death Riga