Rudolf Lotz

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Richard Hugo Rudolf Lotz (born August 16, 1901 in Meiningen ; † October 28, 1973 in Eisenach ) was a German lawyer and briefly Lord Mayor of Eisenach in Thuringia from April to May 1945 .

Life

Lotz studied law in Tübingen, Berlin and Jena and received his doctorate in 1926. jur. Since the summer semester of 1920 he was a member of the student association AV Igel Tübingen . In 1926 Lotz settled as a lawyer in Eisenach and from 1932 also worked as a notary. In 1935 he was appointed councilor. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP .

On April 4, 1945, he was appointed Lord Mayor in place of the resigned Herbert Müller-Bowe . Lotz negotiated with the German military services still on site to surrender Eisenach without a fight. After the retreat of the German commanders and the arrival of the Americans, he handed them over to the Wartburg city on April 6, 1945 .

Lotz then committed himself to the rapid normalization of life in Eisenach under the American occupation forces. He resigned his office on May 7, 1945 and after the end of the Second World War he worked again as a lawyer and notary in Eisenach. His successor as Lord Mayor was Ernst Fresdorf .

From 1954 to 1972 Lotz was President of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia and also worked in other church functions, including Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Diakonissenhausstiftung Eisenach. He died on October 28, 1973 at the age of 72 in Eisenach.

Lotz had been married since 1927 and had three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 205.
  2. Reinhold Brunner: The end of the war. Eisenach in April 1945 . Wartburgland history, volume 5, Eisenacher Geschichtsverein 2004
  3. Herbert Eilers: Eisenach and the end of the Second World War . Heimatblätter, Eisenach. March 1995