Theodor August Lutz

Theodor August Lutz (born April 16, 1847 in Neuenbürg , † April 25, 1913 in Baden-Baden ) was a German pharmacist , socialist and politician of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP) , later the SPD . He lived in Stuttgart and Baden-Baden. Lutz, known as the “red pharmacist”, was one of the first socialist MPs in southern Germany. He was the cousin of Hermann Planck .

Political life

In 1878, Lutz , who had come from bourgeois democracy , joined the socialist workers' movement . During the time of the Socialist Law , Lutz worked for the so-called Rote Feldpost , the illegal social democratic distribution network.

On July 30, 1886, Lutz stood for the first time as a candidate for the SAP, the predecessor party of the SPD, in the by-election in the Wuerttemberg Reichstag constituency 5 (Esslingen, Nürtingen, Kirchheim, Urach) , where he received 1,344 votes, 144 of them in the Oberamt Nürtingen . In doing so, he achieved a better result for the party than it was supposed to achieve in the Reichstag elections in 1878 and 1881 . The decline to the Reichstag elections in 1884 can also be explained by the fact that no candidate from the left-wing liberal German People's Party (DtVP) ran that year , while in 1886 the postman Friedrich Retter competed with Lutz for the votes on the “left”.

Lutz ran again in the Reichstag elections in 1887 in the 5th constituency for the SAP. Central election events of the Nürtingen Workers' Party with Lutz took place in this context in Schwanen in Unterboihingen and on February 6, 1887 in the Erker brewery in Nürtingen . During the extremely vigorous election campaign, the local newspaper, the Nürtinger Wochenblatt , openly sided with the candidate of the national liberal German party Dr. Johann Adae . An election campaign meeting with Lutz on February 14, 1887 in Esslingen am Neckar was dissolved by the police after barely a quarter of an hour after Lutz had described the Prussian Reich government as the purest Prussian absolutism and, in response to the warning issued by the police, announced that he did not care whether the event would be dissolved, which caused unrest among the participating workers and "cheers" on Lutz. According to a report in the Nürtinger Wochenblatt, the numerous workers present then left the room singing the German workers' Marseillaise . As a result, “Nürtinger Arbeiter” reported for the first time in the newspaper by criticizing the tendentious reporting of the Nürtinger Wochenblatt against the Labor Party. In these elections in 1934, Lutz achieved votes in the 5th constituency, 218 of them in the Nürtingen District Office. In October 1887, Lutz was a delegate at the SAP party congress in St. Gallen .

Lutz ran again in the 5th Wuerttemberg Reichstag constituency in the Reichstag elections in 1890 , which resulted in 2011 votes in the constituency, 230 of them in the Nürtingen Oberamt.

Other unsuccessful Reichstag candidacies were Lutz 'in 1890 in the Wuerttemberg constituencies 7 and 9, 1893 in the Baden constituency 8, 1898 in the Alsace-Lorraine constituency 3 and 1903, 1907 and 1912 in the Baden constituency 8. From 1903 to 1904 Lutz belonged to the SPD to the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly .

Quotes

"First of all I give you the assurance that I will destroy your letter after you have answered; [...] From the time of the Socialist Law, I kept up the habit of either destroying all letters into which a third party should not have access, or of storing them in such a way that indescretion is impossible. "(Theodor August Lutz in a letter from 1 January 1891 to his cousin Hermann Planck.)

literature

Herbert Herold, Helmut Nauendorf: From Revolution to Powerlessness (1918–1933). In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working group on the history of the Nürtingen workers' movement, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 79–134.
Gerhard Maag: From the Socialist Law to the First World War. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working group on the history of the Nürtingen workers' movement, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 23–62.
Results of the Reichstag elections 1877–1887. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working Group History of the Nürtingen Labor Movement, Nürtingen 1989, p. 198/199.

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Gerhard Maag: From the Socialist Law to the First World War. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working group on the history of the Nürtingen workers' movement, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 23–62, pp. 32, 36–37.
see. Herbert Herold, Helmut Nauendorf: From Revolution to Powerlessness (1918–1933). In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working group history of the Nürtingen labor movement, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 79-134, p. 97.
cf. Results of the Reichstag elections 1877–1887. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working Group History of the Nürtingen Labor Movement, Nürtingen 1989, p. 198.
cf. Results of the Reichstag elections 1890–1899. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen, Working Group History of the Nürtingen Labor Movement, Nürtingen 1989, p. 199.
^ Theodor August Lutz, quoted from Gerhard Maag: From the Socialist Law to the First World War. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working group on the history of the Nürtingen workers' movement, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 23–62, p. 32.

Web links

Biography of Theodor August Lutz . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
Biography of Theodor August Lutz . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)

personal data
SURNAME	Lutz, Theodor August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pharmacist, socialist and politician (SAP)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuenbürg
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1913
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[1] Cf. Gerhard Maag: From the Socialist Law to the First World War. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working group on the history of the Nürtingen workers' movement, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 23–62, pp. 32, 36–37.
see. Herbert Herold, Helmut Nauendorf: From Revolution to Powerlessness (1918–1933). In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working group history of the Nürtingen labor movement, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 79-134, p. 97.
cf. Results of the Reichstag elections 1877–1887. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working Group History of the Nürtingen Labor Movement, Nürtingen 1989, p. 198.
cf. Results of the Reichstag elections 1890–1899. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen, Working Group History of the Nürtingen Labor Movement, Nürtingen 1989, p. 199.

[2] Theodor August Lutz, quoted from Gerhard Maag: From the Socialist Law to the First World War. In: The other Nürtingen. A contribution to the local history of the 100th birthday of the Nürtingen SPD. ed. v. SPD local association Nürtingen. Working group on the history of the Nürtingen workers' movement, Nürtingen 1989, pp. 23–62, p. 32.