Otto Petras

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Otto Petras (born August 30, 1886 Burgsteinfurt , † November 20, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant pastor , national Bolshevik , supporter of Erich Ludendorff and head of youth correctional institutions.

Career

In 1912 he completed his studies in theology in Breslau , and in 1913 he was ordained a Protestant pastor. In 1914 he became pastor in Konotop (Kolsko) . On August 7, 1914, he married Margarete Adelheid Anna Emma Wanda Scheibert in Biesnitz , with whom he had three sons and two daughters.

He was deployed in World War I and released as a captain in the reserve . He was a regular writer for the magazine Resistance. Journal for National Revolutionary Politics ”.

From 1923 to 1933 he headed the Provincial Educational Institution in Wohlau, today's Wołów . In the context of the law for the restoration of the civil service , he pleaded with Johann von Leers for “legal respect and protection for German non-Christians”.

During the time of National Socialism in Germany he was the director of the institution in Rohrlach (Trzcińsko) near Jannowitz from 1933 to 1945 in the district of Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains .

Publications

  • The concept of evil in Kant's criticism and its meaning for theology.
  • German Protestantism on the way to Rome: 1530–1930 [1]
  • "The Hour of the Stoa" "The Resistance" October 1934. [2]

Individual evidence

  1. Richard Faber, Deutschbewusstes Judentum and Jewish-conscious Germanness: the historical, p. 103
  2. ^ Walter Greiff, Rudolf Jentsch, Hans Richter, conversation and action in group and society 1919-1969:, 1970 p. 58 FN 6
  3. Uwe Puschner, Clemens Vollnhals - 2012 The völkisch-religious movement under National Socialism: Eine S. 395