Georg Lotz

Lotz (left) with MPs Walter Biering (right) and Rudolf Lessig in the People's Chamber on October 10, 1951.

Georg Lotz (born September 9, 1899 in Völkershausen ; † July 2, 1957 Bad Salzungen ) was a German farmer and politician. In the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR he was a functionary of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) and represented them as a member of the German People's Council , the People's Chamber and the Thuringian Parliament .

Life

Georg Heinrich Lotz was born on September 9, 1899 in Völkershausen, Thuringia, the son of a carpenter. He attended elementary school. Between 1917 and 1919 Lotz served in the Imperial Army. In 1924 he became a member of the KPD . Between 1928 and 1946 Lotz worked as a freelance farmer and master shepherd in Sünna , during the Nazi era he was temporarily under police supervision due to his political views.

After the war ended in 1945, Lotz in Thuringia was one of the founders of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid. Whether this involvement in the agricultural sector, he was delegated to the unification party congress of the KPD and SED and elected to the first party executive committee of the SED, in which he remained until the second party congress in 1947. In June 1946 Lotz was elected first chairman of the Thuringian VdgB regional association. He held this position full-time until 1951. When the Consultative State Assembly of Thuringia was constituted, the VdgB received five parliamentary groups, of which Lotz received one and led the parliamentary group. In the first state elections in 1946, Lotz also ran for the VdgB in Thuringia, which was the only mass organization admitted to the elections. She won three seats, the importance of which was not insignificant in the distribution of seats. Since the SED did not have a numerical majority with exactly 50 out of 100 parliamentary seats, the votes of the VdgB were at least theoretically important. With Gerhard Lotz there was only one long-time communist in the three-member parliamentary group, who was meanwhile also a member of the SED. Paula Rabetge , the daughter of a manor owner, was nominally also a member of the SED, but obviously an insecure cantonist for the party leadership, as her later flight to the western zone on September 4, 1948 may seem justified. The third parliamentary group member, Karl Herzberg, was a member of the CDU.

Lotz thus played a special role in the Thuringian state parliament, which also gave him access to other offices. In November 1947, when the zone-wide central association of the VdgB was founded, he was elected third chairman. When the 2nd German People's Council was constituted, he was elected as its member of the VdgB. Lotz also represented the VdgB as a representative in the subsequent Provisional People's Chamber and in the first electoral period of the People's Chamber. In 1951 he moved from Erfurt from the VdgB state board to Berlin, where he headed the VdgB's Chamber of Cattle until 1954. Then he moved back to his home in Thuringia, where he headed the animal breeding inspection in Erfurt. Lotz remained a member of the VdgB's central board until his death.

Lotz died on July 2, 1957 in Bad Salzungen

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952: Biographisches Handbuch (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, large series . Volume 1 , no. 4 ). 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 . Pp. 450-451.

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