Otto Bordes

Otto Bordes (* in the 19th century; † 1943 [?]) Was a German Freemason . Bordes was, among other things, Grand Master of the Great National Mother Lodge "To the Three World Balls" .

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After attending school, Bordes studied dentistry . He then set up as a general dentist in Berlin .

Bordes has belonged to the Freemasons since around 1920. Politically, he was close to the extreme political right - in the literature it is variously claimed that he belonged to Adolf Hitler's circle of personal acquaintances . In the mid-1920s, Bordes became the master of the chair of the 1923 reactivated and regularized Brussels field box "Stern von Brabant" in Berlin. This was also the first German Masonic lodge to introduce the Aryan paragraph in 1930 by stipulating that only those persons were admitted "against whose Germanic descent there were no reasonable doubts". In 1929 Bordes was finally appointed the assigned first overseer of the old Prussian grand lodge "To the Three Worlds".

On April 9, 1933, Bordes was elected as the successor to Karl Habicht as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Three Worlds, as the German National Mother Lodge. Under pressure from the National Socialists, Bordes changed the name of the grand lodge to "National Christian Order of Frederick the Great". Nevertheless, he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1934 and held in the Columbiahaus concentration camp for a few months .

Bordes probably died in 1943, according to other reports not until after 1945.

literature

• Ralf Melzer: Conflict and Adaptation. Freemasonry in the Weimar Republic and National Socialism , 1999.
• Helmut Neuberger: Freemasonry and National Socialism , 1980.