Ottmar Rutz

Ottmar Rutz (born July 15, 1881 in Fürth ; † September 8, 1952 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German lawyer, publicist and politician. Rutz published numerous writings on human appearance and expression types. As a politician, he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1924 to 1928 .

Life and activity

Rutz was a son of the customs officer and singing teacher Joseph Rutz and the singer Klara Rutz. Before his death in 1895, his father developed a comprehensive musical type theory without leaving any written theory behind. Instead, creating this became the life's work of the son. After attending elementary school and high school, Rutz was a one-year-old with the 1st (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment "König", and studied law and political science at the University of Munich . In 1905 he was at the University of Würzburg with a thesis on The legal limit for Dr. jur. et. rer. pol is doing his PhD . He performed his legal preparatory service at the district and regional court in Munich and at the Berchtesgaden district office and the government for Upper Bavaria. In 1908 he settled in Munich as a lawyer.

In 1908 Rutz made his father's teachings on the physiological determination of the sound character of the human voice public for the first time with the work New Discoveries of the Human Voice published by Beck Verlag . In the forty years that followed, Rutz submitted numerous other monographs and essays in which he further differentiated the "Rutz typology" and developed theories of expression and physiognomy that went beyond music . Rutz's theory was based on the discovery that when singing and speaking, not only the organs of speech come into action, but that other parts of the body, such as the core muscles, also work together. As a tenor, Rutz senior noticed that he could sing certain works better in certain postures than in other postures.

From 1914 to 1918, Rutz took part in the First World War as a first lieutenant in the reserve (platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander) . In 1918 he belonged to the Möhl division. In 1919 he took part in the smashing of the Munich Soviet Republic . He then worked as a political advisor at the Munich General Command.

In 1920 Rutz resumed his legal practice. At the same time he resumed his private studies and his publication activities on subjects such as the theory of expression, type psychology and physiology, and physiognomics.

Politically, Rutz emerged as a fanatical anti-Semite in the early 1920s . He was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund , for which he took over the management of the district association of southern Bavaria on December 6, 1919. He probably also belonged to the early NSDAP . In the early 1920s, for example, Rutz held numerous public lectures at NSDAP meetings in Munich. For example, in May 1920 at a rally in the Hofbräukeller led by the then NSDAP chairman Anton Drexler , in which he spoke about the subject of "usury and slavery". According to the report of the Munich Latest News , Rutz was a "hour-long anti-Semitic inflammatory speech" at this meeting. So he explained u. a. that "Judaism", by which it also included the "Christian Jews", "poisoned" the whole people. At another meeting in the Hofbräukeller he dealt with the Jewish Talmud . This meeting ended with some members of the Jewish Front Fighters' Union protested against Rutz's statements after they had denied the question of whether the Talmud ordered the desecration of non-Jewish women, and were beaten by the National Socialists present. After the Hitler putsch , Rutz distanced himself from the NSDAP as a supporter of Ernst Pöhner , who turned away from the party in 1924.

In the state election of ... 1924, Rutz was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for the constituencies of Mindelheim, Augsburg I and II, to which he was a member from 1924 to 1928. After Rutz had initially belonged to the Völkisch Bloc in the state parliament , on whose list he had been elected to parliament, he moved in 1924 in the wake of Pöhner to the faction of the German National People's Party (DNVP) and since March 27, 1928 he was non-attached.

Fonts

• The Rutz'schen Tonstudien and the reform of the art song , 1904.
• The legal time limit. A bourgeois investigation , Munich 1905. (Dissertation)
• New discoveries of the human voice , 1908.
• Language, song and posture, handbook on the theory of types Rutz , CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1911.
• Music, word and body as an expression of the soul , Leipzig 1911.
• Bayern fights. Invasion of France. With the cavalry in Flanders. Trench warfare off Arras , 1917.
• Type voice formation: At the same time the new art of expression for stage and concert , Leipzig 1920.
• Types of humanity and art , Jena 1921.
• From the expression of man. Physiognomics textbook , Celle 1925.
• Basics of a psychological racial science , Tübingen 1934.
• New ways of knowing people , Kampen 1935.
• "The Rutz-Sievers sound analysis", in: Schweizerische Musikzeitung 88 (1948), pp. 422-425.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Bavarian State Parliament 1918/19 to 1933: nominations, composition, biographies , 2008, p. 475.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 8 (Poethe-Schlüter), p. 649.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vierhaus, p. 649; Lilla, p. 475 (see below) states that Rutz's entry in the registry of birth at the Fürth registry office does not contain any information about the year and place of his death.
2. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: the history of the Deutschvölkschen Schutz- und Trutz-Bund, 1919-1923 , 1970, p. 198.
3. ↑ Hans-Günter Richardi: Hitler and his backers: new facts on the early history of the NSDAP , 1991, p. 267.