Correspondence from Frederic Mellinger to Gard Chisholm

1 Berlin 12

Giesebrechtstr. t.

Sept. 25, 1963

Mr. Gard Chisholm

Lawyer

16 Court Street

Jackson, Calif., U.S.A.

Re: Estate of Karl Germer, deceased

Dear Mr. Chisholm,

I received your letter of September 20, 1963, enclosing a copy of the Petition for Probate of Will in the above matter which Mrs. Germer [Sascha Germer] intends to sign and file. You are asking for my criticism of the petition. here it is:

For the following reasons, I must object to the statement in the petition: "The will was executed in all particulars. . ."

1) as you know, the Will states (regarding the property of the Order Ordo Templi Orientis) "that this is passed to the Heads of the Order" and that "Frederic Mellinger act as co-executioner of this part of the Will".

2) Mrs. Germer decided—without asking for my opinion in this important matter pertaining to "this part of the Will", nor contacting me at all—to accept Herr Metzger's [Hermann Metzger] strange "Manifesto" (printed this spring) as gospel truth and to recognise him as "Grand Master X° of the Order and Sovereign Grand Master General". Neither Mrs. Germer, nor Herr Metzger (who for the last six years had regularly treated me with mailing me his pamphlets, which shows that he well knew my address) notified me before March 28th 1963 of Karl Germer's death (on October 25th, 1963 [sic - 1962]), nor his sham "election" on Jan 6th 1963. My questions regarding Metzger's authority to assume the above titles and his right to call a "convocation of Prince Patriarchs" to the village of Stein, Switzerland, for his "election" were never answered by either Mrs. Germer nor Metzger. Nor could I obtain an explanation about negotiations carried on between the two during the five months before they contacted me. They have thereby decidedly violated (and not "executed" as the Petition states) the Will of the deceased.

Karl Germer had never in his life met at all Herr Metzger. On June 25, 1951, he wrote me about M.[etzger] having contacted him by letter, asked me "to advise that group", and left it entirely to my judgment to give Metzger some instruction possibly leading "that young man" to some advancement in the Order.

Herr Metzger revealed to my mind—unintentionally, of course—wherefrom he derived the courage to claim the high office in the Order by a childish "coup d'etat"; namely, by printing on the front page of his sham "Manifesto" the following motto's:

"To be or not to be, that is the question."

 

and "Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders," that brave word of Martin Luther.—Thereby he pointed unwittingly to the only authority he has to show for his dictatorial aspirations: his inflated Ego. But Mrs. Germer was duly impressed, and slyly nodded her assent, ignoring the "holy" (as she stated) but apparently uncomfortable Will of her late husband re my role as co- executioner.

Yours very truly

cc: Mr. Elwood Rickless

Attorney at law,

8, Avenue Bertie Albrecht

Registered

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