Leonhard Lutz

Leonhard "Leo" Lutz (born November 24, 1913 in Nuremberg ; † December 5, 1975 in Munich ) was a German industrial manager and from 1964 to 1967 State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Economics.

politics

Lutz, son of a chemical manufacturer, studied economics and business administration. It was in 1938 at the then-Hindenburg University Nuremberg with a thesis entitled "Fascist and National Socialist economy - Trying a critical comparison" Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

Lutz then switched to business and worked as a corporate auditor at Gutehoffnungshütte from 1938 to 1941 , then as an assistant manager at IG Farben until the end of the war . In 1949 he became Finance Director at Th. Goldschmidt , then CFO of the Düsseldorf Schneider Group and finally Deputy General Director of Henschel in Kassel. In 1964 he moved to the Hessian Ministry of Economics and Transport as State Secretary.

On January 1, 1969, he returned to business as CEO of Gebrüder Stumm GmbH . After the group went bankrupt due to bad speculation during the first oil crisis in 1974, Lutz was imprisoned on December 4, 1975 on suspicion of infidelity and other offenses, and the day after he committed suicide in the Munich-Stadelheim correctional facility .

Web links

• Lutz. Leo didn't yell . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1963, pp. 33 f . ( online ).
• Manager / mute group. Inheritance from the patriarch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1968, p. 52 ( online ).
• Heinz Blüthmann: When the makers fail. In: The time . May 19, 1978. Retrieved April 12, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Max Kruk: The short-circuit act of Dr. Leonhard Lutz. After the suicide of the former boss of the Stumm group, many questions will remain unanswered . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 9, 1975.
2. ↑ Personnel Notes . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 30, 1967.
3. ↑ Ex-Stumm boss eludes his judges . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 6./7. December 1975, p. 23.