Schott, Lorenz
Retail salesman, administrative employee
Born: June 5, 1915 in Mainz-Kastel
Died: August 1, 1970 in Mainz-Kastel

From 1921 to 1928, Lorenz Schott attended Kastel elementary school and then grammar school in Mainz. He then completed an apprenticeship at the Gluckert retail store in Mainz from 1929 to 1932.

Lorenz Schott was heavily involved in the Catholic Church. Before 1933, he was a youth leader in the Catholic German Youth Organization and a member of the Kastel Catholic Men's Association. Schott was unemployed between 1933 and 1936.
In 1933, he volunteered for the voluntary labor service of the Catholic youth organization in Mainz. In 1933, he also joined the "Stahlhelm - Bund der Frontsoldaten" and was transferred from this association to the SA in 1934. In October 1937, Schott resigned from the SA after being asked to leave the Catholic Church.

Schott apparently continued to maintain close contacts with the Catholic Church, was monitored and briefly arrested. His statements in this regard from the post-war period were documented by witnesses and a certified copy of his application to leave the SA. Schott did not pay his membership fees to the SA regularly and was admonished several times for not starting his service.

From 1937 to 1938, he was a court clerk at the Mainz district court. Due to his brief arrest, he was dismissed from his position in 1938. Schott found employment at the Mainz car dealership "Auto Müller" in 1939, until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in the same year. However, due to his poor health, Schott was not deployed to the front, but instead worked at the military registration office in Mainz.

In the post-war period, Schott stated that he had prevented several people from being drafted into the Wehrmacht during his time at the Wehrmeldeamt Mainz, particularly Catholic priests. The close relationship with the Catholic Church described by Schott is also confirmed by the copy of a letter of recommendation from the Bishop of Mainz, Albert Stohr, from the immediate post-war period.

After his release from military service following the capitulation in 1945, Schott was employed for a short time by the city of Mainz ( Mainz-Kostheim (opens in a new tab) administrative office). Due to health problems, he gave up this position at Christmas 1945 and opened a hardware store in Mainz-Kastel (opens in a new tab) in November 1946. Lorenz Schott was chairman of the Kasteler Vereinsring between 1951 and 1970.

A street in the Mainz-Kastel district was named after him by resolution of the city council on November 19, 1981.