Alfred Loritz

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Alfred Loritz (born April 24, 1902 in Munich , † April 14, 1979 in Vienna ) was a German post-war politician of the Economic Development Association (WAV), which he himself founded .

Weimar Republic

Loritz's father was the district president of Upper Bavaria . After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1921 , Alfred Loritz studied law and settled in Munich as a lawyer . From 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the Reichspartei des Deutschen Mittelstandes (Economic Party ) and chairman of the constituency association of Upper Bavaria- Swabia . At times he was a member of the state parliament in Bavaria for the economic party . The economic party expelled him on May 27, 1932 for "querulous behavior".

time of the nationalsocialism

After 1933 Loritz had contact with several resistance groups. In 1939 he was expelled from the bar and fled to Switzerland - wanted by the National Socialists as a " high traitor in the most dangerous format" (according to the Würzburg Gestapo in the search notice) .

After 1945

In 1945 he founded the WAV and became its first chairman. In 1946 Loritz was elected to the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly, until 1950 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament . From December 1946 to June 1947 he was Bavarian State Minister for Denazification .

Conflicts soon arose. Loritz fired several employees for alleged corruption and curtailed the powers of a few others, who then declared their resignation, including General Plaintiff Thomas Dehler . The functionality of the ministry suffered increasingly. Members of the WAV increasingly exerted influence in official business. Since Loritz was not assigned any additional police forces to guard the internment camps, he had a private guard set up, which was under him personally and consisted mainly of members of the WAV. After it became known, this provoked the displeasure of the military government, which demanded an immediate dissolution of this "control service" and which saw in it "many characteristics of a secret political police".

Immediately after his release he was appointed for allegedly inciting perjury and black market transactions arrested, but could, in September 1947 from the detention to flee and stayed on the ground. After being arrested again in October 1948, he was acquitted and again WAV chairman. From 1949 to 1953 he was a member of the Bundestag and initially chairman of the parliamentary group.

In 1949 Loritz claimed to have been responsible for the Bürgerbräu assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler ; Georg Elser was just a courier.

On June 21, 1951, the WAV faction excluded him because he planned to merge the WAV with the later banned SRP . After he was re-elected as WAV party chairman on September 9, 1951, the faction dissolved by converting to the DP . On March 25, 1953, Loritz and the MPs Günter Goetzendorff , Wolfgang Hedler , Erich Langer and Otto Reindl again founded a parliamentary group of the WAV for the remainder of the electoral term .

In 1955, Loritz was charged with inciting perjury and false certification due to inaccuracies in the submission of a nomination for the Bremen citizenship . In 1959 he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and five years of loss of civil rights , but was able to flee to Austria before entering prison , where he received political asylum in 1962 .

Richard Stöss characterized Loritz in the party handbook as follows: “ In the Bavarian post-war period, which was not exactly poor in picturesque personalities, Loritz stood out for his often contradictory behavior and his colorful character traits. His profound humanistic education and deep religiosity did not deter him from unscrupulous demagogy and denunciatory machinations, nor from political charlatanry riddled with fixed ideas. Excessive ambition, exaggerated sense of honor, psychopathic and hypochondriac tendencies, an almost foolish love of infantile antics and his ability to inspire confidence and to be humble and incorruptible gave many of his actions an amazing unpredictability even for close confidants. One is almost inclined to see Loritz's personality as a personification of the confusion of the immediate post-war period. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Hoser: State Ministry for Special Tasks , in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns
  2. ↑ Pigs, bastards, bandits - Let the little children come to me , in: Der Spiegel 23/1947
  3. ↑ Peter Koblank : Georg Elser was just our courier , online edition Myth Elser 2010
  4. ↑ Peter Koblank : The concentration camp commandant and the Bürgerbräu attack , online edition Mythos Elser 2011
  5. ↑ Richard Stöss (Ed.): Party Handbook, The parties of the FRG 1945-1980, special edition Volume 4 NDP - WAV, writings of the Central Institute for Social Science Research of the Free University of Berlin, Westdeutscher Verlag Opladen 1984, p. 2459 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Loritz, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Economic Development Association), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1979
Place of death Vienna