Ralph Lutz

Ralph Lutz (* 1915 in Meiningen ; † 1993 in Bremen ) was a German civil engineer as well as port and senate construction director in Bremen.

biography

Lutz was the son of the architect Jacob Lutz and a Jewish mother. After graduating from high school, he was an intern, then in the Reich Labor Service and then studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Technical University of Munich . In 1940 he served briefly as a soldier, but was released as a half-Jew and worked as an engineer in Frankfurt am Main and Bremen. Soon after, he was sent to the Farge labor camp and then to the Duingen camp. He escaped in April 1945. After the Second World War he got a job at the Bremen Port Authority, where he became department head, then port construction director and finally senate construction director at the Senator for Ports, Shipping and Transport. He played a key role in the conception and planning of the Bremerhaven container terminal , although construction difficulties had to be overcome in 1969/1970. In 1973 he retired for health reasons.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .