Horst Freiherr von Luttitz

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Ernst Alexander Horst Freiherr von Luttitz , pseudonym Walter Klenck (born June 17, 1917 in Oschatz ; † after 2010) was a German naval officer in the Navy , most recently a lieutenant captain at sea, torpedo boat commander and novelist . He administered Oskar Kusch's estate .

Life

Von Luttitz was born in Oschatz, Saxony, in 1917. His mother came from the Wilding von Koenigsbrück family , his grandfather was Major General Horst von Luttitz . His sister was the writer Marie-Luise von Luttitz and his brother-in-law the politician Otto Bernhard . Later he became master of the Niederaltenburg estate .

Second World War

Horst Freiherr von Luttitz belonged to Crew 37a (also referred to as Crew IV / 37) who were recruited on April 1, 1937. As usual during this period, some of the crew members were assigned to the Air Force after their training . Therefore, from mid-1939 he served in the Air Force as a pilot and bomber commander. I.a. he took Pervitin in the Blitz air raid . He reported on his experiences with the drug as part of the television documentary, Schlaflos im Krieg, which was broadcast on Arte in 2010 and broadcast again in 2014 on MDR as Die Wunderpille der Wehrmacht .

From July 1942 until January 1943 he served as the first officer on watch on the torpedo boat Jaguar and was then, with interruptions, its commander until September 1943. From September 1943 to February 1944 he operated the torpedo boat T5 . From March 1944 until the sinking by a torpedo hit on May 23, 1944, he was in command of the Greif , which had operated, among other things, in the English Channel . In this position he was promoted from first lieutenant to sea captainleutnant on April 1, 1944 . From August 1944 he took over the command of the newly commissioned torpedo boat T 34, which was sunk by a mine laid by the Soviet submarine L-3 off Cape Arkona on November 20, 1944 . Afterwards he was in command of the torpedo boat T 19 until the end of the war, with which he took part in an evacuation mission for refugees from the Hela peninsula to Copenhagen shortly before the end of the war .

post war period

Horst von Luttitz was a close friend of Oskar Kusch . There is a record of von Luttitz zu Kusch's behavior:

"He wasn't ready to trade truth for lies!"

After the shooting of Kusch, von Luttitz kept parts of the estate and later also the estate of Kusch's father Oskarheinz Kusch. From this, drawings from Kusch's prison time were later publicly exhibited. Further drawings were published in a novel by von Luttitz in 1987 under the pseudonym Walter Klenck . In it he describes his own war experiences during his time in the air force and the navy (in the novel as Count Torra ) and those of his friend and crewmate Kusch (in the novel as Oskar Burk ), including the events that resulted from the judgment of the dismantling of military strength . From a historical perspective, this novel is centrally connected to the Kush case as a resistance against the Nazi regime and internationally recognized. Out of five drawings from the estate managed by von Luttitz, documented through publications, is " shooting" (a firing squad hits a person in the foreground of the picture, May 1944) as a motif e.g. B. known as a book cover by Heinrich Walle or in the exhibition below. The drawing "The Chess Players" , also from the estate, was published in 1949 in the Aachener Nachrichten and in 1957 in a book.

Also in the estate that Horst von Luttitz owned were the father's documents about his attempts to bring his son's judges to court and to obtain rehabilitation . The estate was later made available to the public, e.g. B. for the creation of the touring exhibition “ 'What Was Right Back then ...' Soldiers and Civilians Before Courts of the Wehrmacht ” of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, whereby most of the exhibits on Oskar Kusch come from the estate administered by von Luttitz.

The extent to which he is also the author of the books Enten und Gänse hold (Ulmer, 1987) or Dear Mitmensch: Letters to All ( CA Starke , 1997) has not yet been established with certainty. However, it is known that von Luttitz converted the Niederaltenburg estate from keeping cows to breeding ducks. A descendant, Eckart Freiherr von Luttitz (husband of Uschi Dämmrich von Luttitz ), was called a duck baron .

plant

  • as Walter Klenck : Who Takes the Sword: Experience in Air and Sea War, 1940–1945 . Universitas , 1987 (another edition: 1993) and Ullstein 1989, 1991.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Walle: The tragedy of the first lieutenant to the sea Oskar Kusch . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-515-06841-3 , p. 16 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  2. ^ Jean-François Caron: A theory of the super soldier: The morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military . Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-5261-1778-6 , pp. 81 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2019]).
  3. ^ Clay Blair: Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted 1942-45 . Orion, 2012, ISBN 978-0-297-86622-0 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2019]).
  4. ↑ mdr.de: Pervitin, the drug with which Hitler's soldiers went to war | MDR.DE. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Harnack: The German Flottentorpedoboote from 1942 to 1945: development history, technical data, chronicle of the operations . ES Mittler & Sohn, October 31, 2004, p. 21 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  6. ^ Egbert Thomer: Torpedo boats and destroyers: a pictorial chronicle from two world wars . G. Stalling, 1964, p. 76 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Harnack: The German Flottentorpedoboote from 1942 to 1945: development history, technical data, chronicle of the operations . ES Mittler & Sohn, October 31, 2004, p. 42 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  8. ^ Egbert Thomer: Torpedo boats and destroyers: a pictorial chronicle from two world wars . G. Stalling, 1964, p. 78 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  9. ^ Heribert Ostendorf, Uwe Danker: The Nazi criminal justice and its aftermath . Nomos, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8329-0136-3 , pp. 63 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Heinrich Walle: The tragedy of the first lieutenant to the sea Oskar Kusch . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-515-06841-3 , p. 15 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  11. ^ Gerhard Paul: Landunter: Schleswig-Holstein and the swastika . Westphalian steam boat, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89691-507-8 , p. 269 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2019]).
  12. ^ Werner Rahn: German Marines in Transition: From the Symbol of National Unity to the Instrument of International Security . Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59464-5 , p. 500 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  13. ^ Werner Rahn: German Marines in Transition: From the Symbol of National Unity to the Instrument of International Security . Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59464-5 , p. 502 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  14. ^ Francis R. Nicosia, Lawrence D. Stokes †: Germans Against Nazism: Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich: Essays in Honor of Peter Hoffmann . Berghahn Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78238-816-6 , pp. 343 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2019]).
  15. ^ Clay Blair: Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted 1942-45 . Orion, 2012, ISBN 978-0-297-86622-0 ( google.de [accessed May 29, 2019]).
  16. ^ Maria Zenner: The resistance against National Socialism: an interdisciplinary didactic conception for its development . Brockmeyer, 1989, ISBN 978-3-88339-775-7 , pp. 298 ff . ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Germany Military History Research Office: Uprising of conscience: Military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi regime 1933 - 1945 . Mittler, 2000, ISBN 978-3-8132-0708-8 , pp. 509 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2019]).
  18. ↑ Jürgen Schlemm: The U-Boat War 1939-1945 in literature: a commented bibliography . Elbe-Spree-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-931129-24-8 , p. 92 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2019]).
  19. ^ Arno Klönne: Against the current: Report on youth resistance in the Third Reich . Vorkampf-Verlag, 1957, p. 142 ( google.de [accessed June 15, 2019]).
  20. ↑ Heinrich Walle: The tragedy of the first lieutenant to the sea Oskar Kusch . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-515-06841-3 , p. 224 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  21. ↑ Ulrich Baumann, Magnus Koch: "What was right back then ...": Soldiers and civilians before courts of the Wehrmacht . Bebra, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89809-079-7 , pp. 257 ( google.de [accessed on May 26, 2019]).
  22. ↑ Gut Niederaltenburg / Our story https://www.niederaltenburg.de/unsere-geschichte
  23. ↑ in: Stephanie von Luttitz is the new BDKJ chairperson https://www.merkur.de/lokales/region-holzkirchen/stephanie-luttitz-neue-bdkj-vorsitzende-6082778.html
personal data
SURNAME Luttitz, Horst Freiherr von Luttitz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luttitz, Ernst Alexander Horst Freiherr von Luttitz (full name); Klenck, Walter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer in the Kriegsmarine, torpedo boat commander and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschatz
DATE OF DEATH after 2010