Theodor von Saß (pastor)

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Theodor Freiherr von Saß (born August 18, 1881 in Komalmen, East Prussia , † August 9, 1958 in Wismar ) was a German pastor.

Life

As the son of District Administrator Theodor von Saß , v. Was in the humanistic high school in Allenstein . After graduating from high school in Easter 1900, he first studied law and economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . From July 1900 to July 1901 he was a chestnut in the Corps Palaio-Alsatia . He studied Protestant theology in Strasbourg and at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In Königsberg he passed the Hebraicum and the two theological exams. He was a clergyman there from 1914, but then devoted himself to the management of the family property in Komalmen (and Kattreinen). When the estate was leased, he went to Marienwerder ( Marienwerdersche Nachrichten ) as a writer and editor-in-chief .

He returned to his profession and was pastor in Memel at the English Church and at the town church of St. Johannis . He sat in the church college and in the synod of the Church of the Memelland . In Memel he founded the Christian Association of Young Men , the Jungschar and the German Young People . He was the leader of the Christian Socialist Working Group of the Memel area ( close to National Socialism ) with 2,258 members. As such, he was charged with treason. Arrested on March 17, 1934, he was sentenced on March 26, 1935 by the court martial in Kovno to 16 years in prison. The trial against 126 Germans was named after Ernst Neumann and him. After he became a corps bow bearer of the Palaio-Alsatia in July 1925 , he received the ribbon in June 1935 - three months after the verdict . He was pardoned and released on Easter 1937 (March 28th). He was temporarily deputy pastor in Nerkewitz and came on October 1, 1937 (at his own request) as pastor to the Georgenkirche (Wismar) with 10,000 souls. On the flight to the west, many Memel countries came to Wismar in the last days of the Second World War. Saß put the entire rectory at their disposal and limited themselves to one room with the family of six. After 18 years of service, he retired in 1955 at the age of 74. Three years later he died shortly before his 77th birthday.

The sons Günther (* 1922 in Königsberg), Ulrich (* 1923 in Memel) and Theodor (* 1926 in Memel) emerged from the marriage with Erna Damrau in 1920. The daughter Ilse, born in 1924, died at the age of 5 months.

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  1. ↑ a b c Matriculation of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia from 1880–2015, o. O., o. J., p. 118 f.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 31/95.
  3. ↑ Vasilijus Safronovas: Neumann-Sass Process as an Expression of Fundamental Change in Relations between Lithuania and Germany (2013)


personal data
SURNAME Sat, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saß, Theodor Eduard Valerian von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Komalmen, East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1958
Place of death Wismar