Teacher
Born: September 27, 1893 in Mainz-Kastel
died: May 27, 1963

Dörr was the eldest son of train driver Johann Dörr and his wife Elisabeth. From 1898 to 1903, he attended the Catholic elementary school in Mainz-Kastel. After attending the Bischöfliche Marienschule in Mainz for three years, Dörr transferred to the state Realgymnasium in Mainz, where he passed his school-leaving examination in 1912. He then attended the teacher training course in Darmstadt and passed his first teacher's examination. Between 1913 and 1933, Dörr was a teacher at the Bischöfliche Marienschule in Mainz. He took part in the First and Second World Wars.

After the National Socialists "seized power" in 1933, the Catholic Marienschule had to close and Dörr was hired by the People's State of Hesse as a teacher for the elementary school in Mainz-Kastel. As a trainee civil servant, he received a significantly lower income and was regularly checked by the Nazi authorities for his integrity towards the Nazi state.

During the "Third Reich", Dörr was a member of various Nazi mass organizations such as the National Socialist People's Welfare Association, in which, according to his own statements, he held a low-level office for a short time.

After the end of the Second World War, Dörr was taken prisoner of war by the British, from which he was released on August 1, 1945. He then resumed his duties at the Mainz-Kastel elementary school, but was dismissed on December 1, 1945 by order of the American military government. In April 1947, Dörr was denazified as "exonerated" and reinstated on May 13, 1947. From September 1947, he was temporarily in charge of the school in Mainz-Kastel. On June 20, 1949, Gottfried Dörr was appointed principal of the school.

In addition to and after his work as a teacher, which he carried out until his retirement in April 1959, Dörr was active as a local historian in Mainz-Kastel. His most important publication, "Geschichte von Kastel" (History of Kastel), appeared in 1960. In the book, Dörr describes the immediate post-war period in Mainz-Kastel and his personal situation. In it, he follows the contemporary self-victimization of the German population as victims of the Nazi era and the war.

Gottfried Dörr was a co-founder of the Kasteler Vereinsring. He was also a member of the local rowing club and the Catholic men's club. In 1974, a street in the Mainz-Kastel district was named after him.

Due to his memberships in numerous Nazi organizations and low-ranking functionaries, the Historical Expert Commission appointed by resolution of the City Council in 2020 to review traffic areas, buildings and facilities named after people in the state capital of Wiesbaden recommended contextualizing the street named after Gottfried Dörr in Mainz-Kastel in 2023.