Theodor Klaehn

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Theodor Karl Wilhelm Martin Klaehn (born June 22, 1883 in Plate , † January 2, 1963 in Bad Doberan ) was a German educator and National Socialist functionary.

Life

Theodor Klaehn was a son of pastor Hermann Klaehn († July 12, 1904) and his wife Maria Albertine, b. Crab. He attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin until he graduated from high school in Easter 1904 and initially studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Erlangen and the University of Rostock until Easter 1907. From Michaelis 1908 he studied theology and philology in Rostock. In 1909 he passed the teaching examination in Rostock. He passed his seminar and probationary year in 1910/1911 while working as a scientific assistant teacher at his old school, Gymnasium Fridericianum in Schwerin. Since January 1, 1912 he was temporarily employed at the municipal high school in Steele ; Easter 1912 he was appointed senior teacher.

In 1914 he was in Rostock with one of John Herrmann supervised and his grandfather Otto Carsten Krabbe dedicated dissertation in Old Testament for Lic. Theol. PhD. He did military service in the First World War and was slightly wounded as a lieutenant in 1918 .

From July 1, 1919, he worked as a senior teacher and later a teacher at the Friderico-Francisceum in Bad Doberan. A conflict between him and the director Carl Reuter (1885–1956) ended in 1932 with Reuter's transfer to Güstrow .

Klaehn, then fanatical about National Socialists , became the local group leader of the NSDAP in Doberan and in 1933 was a leading representative of the German Christians in Mecklenburg. At the first synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mecklenburg after the National Socialist takeover in autumn 1933 he was elected as the successor to Adolf Langfeld as synod president. In 1934 he appeared with Reich Governor Friedrich Hildebrandt as a witness for the indictment in the Schwerin pastor's trial against Gottfried Holtz and six other pastors of the Confessing Church .

After the end of National Socialism and World War II, he was suspended from work on May 27, 1945. As Synod President, he was replaced by Friedrich Stratmann .

Since 1911 he was married to Anna, geb. Rugenstein. The couple's son, Karsten Klaehn (born May 25, 1913), received his doctorate in Rostock in 1940 and worked at the German Institute in Paris , headed by Karl Epting . He fell in Russia in 1943. Another son was the forester and associate professor at the forestry faculty in Syracuse (New York) Friedrich Ulrich Klaehn (1915–1962).

Works

  • The linguistic relationship of the source K of the Samuelis books with the source J the Heptateuch. A contribution to solving the question of the identity of both sources. Noske, Borna 1914. Zugl. Diss. Rostock ( digital copies , HathiTrust )

literature

  • Niklot Beste: The church struggle in Mecklenburg from 1933 to 1945: history, documents, memories. Berlin (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt) / Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, licensed edition; works on the history of the church struggle, supplementary series; 9) 1975 ISBN 3-525-55533-4
  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-55761-2 , p. 135

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German loss list No. 1144 of May 23, 1918, accessed via ancestry.com
  2. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8104 .
  3. ^ Hermann Langer: Life under the swastika: Everyday life in Mecklenburg 1932-1945. Bremen: Temmen 1996 ISBN 978-3-86108-291-0 , pp. 75f
  4. ^ Niklot Beste : The Schwerin Trial in June 1934. In: Heinrich Holze (Ed.): The Theological Faculty Rostock under two dictatorships. Festschrift for Gert Haendler. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6887-7 , p. 22
  5. ^ Hermann Langer: Life under the swastika: Everyday life in Mecklenburg 1932-1945. Bremen: Temmen 1996 ISBN 978-3-86108-291-0 , p. 31
  6. ↑ Beste (Lit.), p. 56
  7. ↑ Ulrike Mietzner: Expropriation of the Subjects - Teachers and Schools in the GDR: A School in Mecklenburg from 1945 until the Wall was built. Opladen: Leske and Budrich 1998 ISBN 978-3-8100-1463-4 , p. 121
  8. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  9. ↑ Peter Schöttler : The “Annales” historians and German history . Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153338-9 , p. 348f
  10. ↑ Forester Dr. Klaehn †. In: Deutsche Forstzeitung 18 (19623), p. 178
personal data
SURNAME Klaehn, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klaehn, Theodor Karl Wilhelm Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Plate
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1963
Place of death Bad Doberan