Erich Walter Lotz

Erich Walter Lotz (born February 11, 1895 in Aschersleben , † December 20, 1966 in Braunschweig ) was a German teacher and SPD local politician. From 1946 to 1960 he was senior city director of Braunschweig.

Life

Lotz completed two state exams and then worked in the public school service from 1919 to 1930. He joined the SPD in 1919 and became a city councilor and city councilor in Aschersleben. He became director of the Landerziehungsheim in Nordhausen . He was arrested during the Nazi era and placed temporarily under police supervision. Until the end of the Second World War , he worked in the private sector as managing director in the catering sector in Braunlage and Gdansk . In 1945 he fled to Schleswig-Holstein , where he was first district administrator in Eutin and shortly thereafter senior district director .

On September 12, 1946, Lotz took over the office of senior city director of Braunschweig, which he held until February 29, 1960. There he played a decisive role in the reconstruction of the heavily destroyed city. He was also a presidential member of the German Association of Cities in Cologne . He was Vice President of the Federation of German Transport Associations in Frankfurt am Main . He was also President of the Federal Association for Self-Protection and Vice President of the Braunschweig University of Applied Sciences and the Society for Aviation and Space Research.

He was the father-in-law of the Braunschweig conductor Heinz Zeebe . Lotz died at the age of 71 in Braunschweig, where he was given an honorary grave .

Honors

• Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Braunschweig (1950)
• Honorary doctorate from the TH Braunschweig (July 3, 1954)
• Federal Cross of Merit (February 5, 1960)
• Lower Saxony Order of Merit , Great Cross of Merit
• Honorary citizen of the city of Braunschweig on the occasion of his 65th birthday (February 11, 1960)
• Honorary citizen of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
• Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (September 30, 1963)

Fonts

• Richmond Castle. Magical island in the sea of ​​houses in the city of Braunschweig. Gersbach, Braunschweig 1957, DNB 453086691 .

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 390-91 .
• Hartmut Nickel: Lotz, Erich Walter. Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon supplementary volume. Braunschweig 1996, pp. 89-90.
• Henning Steinführer , Claudia Böhler (ed.): The Braunschweig mayors. From the establishment of the office in the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. oeding print GmbH, Braunschweig 2013, ISBN 978-3-941737-68-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Erich Walter Lotz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Federal President's Office
2. ↑ Honorary citizen of the city of Braunschweig  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on braunschweig.de, accessed on September 14, 2013.