Mixed marriage by special permit
Letter congratulating Hermann Hoerlin on his upcoming wedding with Käthe Schmid
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I wish the two of you every blessing. There certainly is no more magnificent, nobler character, no human being more joyously equipped by nature than Käthe Schmid, and therefore it says a lot that she is, as it were, being bestowed upon you, dear Mr. Hoerlin, and this wholeheartedly, with no ifs or buts, without any reservations.
Salzburg/Stuttgart
An unidentified author congratulates the German mountain climber and physicist Hermann Hoerlin, based in Stuttgart, on his upcoming wedding with Käthe Schmid, who was considered a “Half-Jew” in Nazi parlance. The “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor,” adopted in 1935, forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews. Despite the law, the couple Hoerlin-Schmid obtained a special permit and the wedding could go ahead.
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Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
Kate and Herman Hoerlin Collection, AR 25540
Original:
Box 2, folder 13
on the days before
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