Victor Mohr

Victor Mohr in 2013
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Victor Mohr (born November 5, 1925 in Pforzheim ; † August 4, 2016 in Kirchzarten ) was a German lawyer and general secretary of the Raphaelswerk (1976 to 1990).

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Mohr attended the Reuchlin-Gymnasium in Pforzheim. During this time he was actively involved in the Catholics, who were suspiciously persecuted by the Nazis. Youth groups. The chaplain at the time, Habich, secretly organized school groups based on the forbidden ND (New Germany) and enlightened them in the anti-Nazi sense. Kaplan Habich was then arrested and survived in the concentration camp. These experiences had a major impact on the young Victor Mohr for the years that followed. Fred Joseph, who was involved in this youth work as a half-Jew and then died in the concentration camp, was one of his friends. With this basic character, Mohr gathered his remaining friends around him after the war and looked for a new beginning. A group was formed that intensively searched for new foundations in political, social, religious, social and humanistic areas. The first federal election in 1949 was the beginning of a loose association that was later called the “Montagskreis” and was led and inspired by Mohr until he left Pforzheim.

After graduating from high school, he had to do military service from April 1943 and was taken prisoner of war. From 1947 to 1952 he studied at the University of Freiburg i.Br. Jurisprudence. In 1954 he received his doctorate with a thesis on juvenile delinquency in the post-war period at the University of Mainz . From 1955 to 1972 he worked as a human resource manager in industrial companies. In September 1956 he married his wife Barbara. The marriage resulted in 5 children. From 1973 he worked in the general secretariat of the Raphaelswerk and became general secretary in 1976 as the successor to the Pallottine Father Friedrich Fröhling . He carried out this task until 1990.

During these decades, Mohr campaigned intensively for emigrants and those willing to emigrate. In order to advise them, he had campaigned for the establishment of the numerous advice centers of the Raphaelswerk in the Caritas associations and organized training seminars for advisors. The reflexive counseling practice with professional information was a concern for Victor Mohr, and he gave it a diaconal and pastoral dimension. He placed migration work in the context of a mobile, open society. In the name of the Raphaelswerk, he had published the yearbook of the Raphaelswerk during his activity as general secretary, which was in the service of “people on the move” and provided information and contact with emigrants and resettlers, refugees and persecuted people, foreign workers and development workers.

Due to his church and charitable commitment, Mohr was a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics for several years . He worked in a pioneering role in Commission 7 “social charity service” (social work). Even after his official retirement from the charitable service, he remained socially engaged in society and the church. From 1996 to 1998 he was active as a regional leader in the South Baden region of the community of Catholic men and women.

Publications (selection)

• The great hike . In: St. Raphaelskalender 1975 , pp. 10-12.
• Marriage to a foreigner . In: St. Raphaelskalender 1975 , pp. 18–32.
• People on the move. International law and politics . In: Questions of being on the move. Raphaels-Werk yearbook 1980 . Hamburg 1980, pp. 42-46.
• Returned to God . In: Raphaels-Werk yearbook 1985 . Hamburg 1985. pp. 46-49.
• Strangers can become friends . In: Meeting and helping . 71. Jg. (1988), H. 2, pp. 5-7.
• The history of the Raphaels factory. An example of caring for people on the go . In: magazine for cultural exchange . Vol. 39 (1989), pp. 354-362.
• together with Heinrich Schenk: The legacy of Cahensly. Lecture on the 150th birthday of Peter Paul Cahensly. Hildesheim: Bernward Verlag 1989. ISBN 3-87065-532-1
• Compassion. Misericordia perficit societatem. In: Living Pastoral Care. 53rd year (1998). Pp. 66-74.

literature

• Manfred Hermanns: Worldwide service to people on the move. Advice and welfare for emigrants from the Raphaels factory 1871 - 2011 . Friedberg (Bay) 2011. ISBN 978-3-87614-079-7 , in particular pp. 164-173, 178, 205.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Victor Mohr: Organization and conception of the Raphaels work - considerations in the context of various negotiations - in 1977 (typescript in the archive of the Raphaels work), p. 3.