Hans Luthardt

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Hans Luthardt (born October 26, 1918 in Nauborn , Wetzlar district , † November 19, 1982 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen ) was a long-time party functionary of the GDR block party, the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD). For his party he was a member of the People's Chamber , the Land Chamber of the GDR and a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg and Thuringia .

Life

Youth and World War II

Luthardt was born the son of a locksmith in Nauborn in the Wetzlar district. After attending elementary school from 1925 to 1929, he attended the Goethe Gymnasium in Wetzlar until 1935 , which he left with secondary school leaving certificate. He then completed an apprenticeship as a construction and machine fitter at the Wieser company in Wetzlar until 1938. During this time Luthardt was a member of the Hitler Youth and in 1937 also joined the NSDAP , where he was listed with membership number 5855290. After completing his apprenticeship, Luthardt went to the Reich Labor Service for a few months until he volunteered for the Wehrmacht in 1938 .

After the start of the war he was deployed in Poland, later in France and finally on the Eastern Front. On February 1, 1942, Luthardt was wounded and spent three months in the hospital. Between November 1, 1942 and March 31, 1943 he was posted to the Friedberg Polytechnic . After the subsequent home leave, Luthardt, whose last rank was Sergeant, went back to the Eastern Front in May 1943. There he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on August 21, 1943 in the Akhtyrka area between Sumy and Poltava as part of the final reconquest of Kharkov by the Red Army.

After spending more than a year in a prisoner of war camp, Luthardt was transferred to an Antifa school in October 1944 , where he attended a course until April 1945. He was then transferred to the Central Antifa School in Krasnogorsk , where he was initially employed as an assistant. He later worked there as a teacher, at the end of his captivity even as a senior teacher.

Political career in the GDR

In January 1949, Luthardt was released into the Soviet occupation zone after more than five years of captivity . His further professional activity had already been meticulously planned in the Soviet Union. From February 1949 he was initially employed as an employee of the main board of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD), which was only founded in May 1948. This party was primarily intended to politically support former NSDAP members and members of the Wehrmacht. A large majority of its senior cadres were recruited from members of the Wehrmacht who were in Soviet captivity. At the same time, Luthardt began working as a lecturer at the School for National Politics, which was initially in Buckow .

In June 1949 he moved to Potsdam, where he worked until March 31, 1951 as political manager of the NDPD state committee in Brandenburg. In parliamentary terms, Luthardt represented the party as an advisory member of the NDPD in the state parliament of Brandenburg from February to October 15, 1950. In the second state election period he was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament until August 27, 1951. At the same time he represented the Brandenburg Landtag from November 11, 1950 until he left the GDR Land Chamber , where he held the office of Vice President from the first to the third electoral term. At the same time, Luthardt began distance learning from 1950 at the German Administrative Academy in Forst Zinna , which later became the German Academy for Political Science and Law , which he graduated in 1954 with a degree in political science .

From April 1951 he took over a new party office, Luthardt was appointed as deputy state chairman of the NDPD regional association Thuringia. He filled this office as a full-time party employee. At the same time he headed the court of honor of the Thuringian regional association until its dissolution. Since the Thuringian NDPD state chairman Walter König was also Thuringian finance minister, it can be assumed that Luthardt was also doing the main work in Thuringia at this time. In addition, he was elected as a member of the state parliament in Thuringia with effect from September 14, 1951, and at the same time as one of the vice-presidents of the state parliament. At the same time he was now the representative of the state of Thuringia in the regional chamber of the GDR, in which he was also the NDPD parliamentary group chairman from 1950 to 1958. After the dissolution of the states in the GDR in July 1952, Luthardt initially took over the chairmanship of the NDPD district association in Erfurt as a full-time functionary and was a member of the Erfurt district assembly until 1954.

In February 1953 he was appointed to a new position; he was now the full-time secretary of the main committee of the NDPD. At the same time he was co-opted into the party executive of the NDPD. However, he initially stayed in Erfurt until 1954 before moving to Berlin-Friedrichshagen. Luthardt remained active in these functions until 1964, where he was responsible for personnel policy from 1958 and also for organization from 1961, making him one of the most influential functionaries within the NDPD at this time. In addition, from 1954 to 1963 he represented the NDPD in the Potsdam district assembly.

In 1963 the NDPD put Luthardt up as a candidate for the Volkskammer elections . As a result, he was a member of the People's Chamber for the NDPD for two terms until 1971. In 1964 Luthardt resigned as a party employee, he became a member of the presidium of the NDPD, in which he remained until 1969. Professionally, he switched to the National Council of the National Front , where he was the NDPD representative until 1969 in its secretariat. He then began to work as head of the chair at the University of National Politics, which, as the central party school of the NDPD, was now in Waldsieversdorf . Until 1972 he was a member of the main committee of the NDPD.

After a serious illness, Luthardt died on November 19, 1982 at the age of 64.

Contact the MfS

Since Luthardt was deployed very purposefully as a functionary in the NDPD, he soon began working with the Ministry for State Security. On September 1, 1950, he started working for the MfS, and from January 8, 1951, he was listed as a secret informator (GI) with the code name Gerda . After moving to Thuringia, Luthardt reported intensively to the Thuringian State Administration for State Security from mid-1951 on internals from the NDPD state executive and also assessed the management staff of the state association, above all Walter König, whom he strongly criticized. In September 1953, Luthardt's leadership as GI was ended for the time being, as he now had to work ex officio with the MfS in his full-time position at the NDPD main committee. From 1954 to 1962, however, it was again listed as a GI, this time under the code name Gerold. Luthardt then officially worked again with the ministry.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from November 25, 1982 p. 8
  2. ^ New Germany of October 7, 1957, p. 4
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 4, 1957 p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Luthardt, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luthardt, Hans-Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NDPD functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Nauborn
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 1982
Place of death Berlin