Oskar Lutz

Oskar Lutz (born April 1, 1902 in Reval , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire , † August 5, 1975 in Hanover ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , later DRP ). From 1955 to 1959 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament.

Life

Lutz attended the Reval elementary school in 1911 and the Reval secondary school from 1912 to 1920 . After passing the Abitur examination in June 1920, he studied law in Dorpat until 1924, where he became a member of the Fraternitas Academica student association . After passing his diploma on December 17, 1924, he trained until 1930 and worked as a lawyer in Reval until 1939. From 1932 to 1939 he was active in the ethnic German work (from 1935 as head of the German movement in Estonia) and from 1936 in the renewal movement. In 1939 he was resettled in the Warthegau and retrained in Posen ; naturalization took place on November 1st of that year. The following year he moved to the Krotoschin district as a person entitled to compensation .

To the. On March 1, 1941, Lutz joined the NSDAP ( membership number 8.188.687), where he became cell leader of the Goldenau group in the Jarotschin district . He was also the deputy local farmer leader. On November 13, 1939, Lutz had already become a member of the SS (membership number 382.315), in which he achieved the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer . In the SS he was a member of SS-Tribe 109/42, 109 Stand (41/42), Staff Upper Section Warthe (1939/41). In addition, Lutz was a member of the NSV from 1940 to 1945 and of the NS-Altherrenbund from 1942 to 1945 .

In January 1945 he managed to escape to the southern Harz, where he was picked up by American troops and interned in an American camp until 1947 . His denazification process dragged on from 1947 to September 10, 1948. After that, however, he was again admitted to the bar in Hanover, where he was also admitted to the bar in 1954.

During his denazification process, Lutz initially incorrectly stated 1941 instead of 1939 as the year he joined the SS and concealed his position as Hauptsturmführer. This was uncovered by the main denazification committee for special professions in Hanover. Nevertheless, the committee in Lutz, which was finally denazified in category IV, did not recognize any significant supporter of National Socialism and took credit for the fact that it “had no knowledge of the behavior of the SS as a Balte during the war” (quoted in Gleinke, p. 106).

Lutz became a member of the BHE as early as 1949 and was its first district chairman in Burgdorf from 1950. Since 1955 Lutz was the regional association chairman of the GB / BHE. In the third electoral term from 1955 to 1959 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, where he belonged to the GB / BHE parliamentary group until September 1957. He was then a member of the FDP-GB / BHE parliamentary group for a few months before he was non-attached for two months and joined the DRP parliamentary group on October 29, 1958 (from 1959 he was also a member of the DRP party executive, 1960 deputy chairman the DRP). After the end of the electoral term, he left the state parliament. In 1961 he resigned from the DRP because of its abandonment of the neutrality course. He was a co-founder of the German Freedom Party in 1962 and became its acting chairman. When in 1965 the DFP took part in the national-neutralist alliance of the Action Group for Independent Germans , Lutz became deputy chairman. In 1967 he resigned from the AUD because of its left-wing course and later became a member of the CDU.

literature

• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, pp. 106, 178f ( online as PDF) .
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 244.
• Richard Stöss : From nationalism to environmental protection. The German Community / Action Group of Independent Germans in the Party System of the Federal Republic , Diss., Opladen 1980 (Biographical information from 1961 there on: p. 190, note 25)