Walter Luetgebrune

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Walter Luetgebrune (born February 18, 1879 in Ehrentrup near Lage (Lippe) , † August 21, 1949 in Mittenwald ) was a German lawyer and SA leader.

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Luetgebrune was born the son of a builder and landowner. After attending school, he studied law from 1900 to 1902. In 1902 he came to the Higher Regional Court of Celle as a trainee lawyer . He passed the trainee examination in 1903. In the same year his doctorate he in Freiburg to Dr. jur. After he had passed the assessor exam in 1909, Luetgebrune settled as a lawyer in Göttingenlow. In the same year he married Agnes Marie ("Milli") Luise Emilie von Hinüber (born August 26, 1884 in Lüneburg, † April 4, 1958 in Göttingen). The marriage resulted in the son Götz Luetgebrune (* 1911). After the marriage ended in divorce in 1934, he married his secretary Edith Gehse that same year. In 1930 Luetgebrune moved to Hanover and in 1933 he moved to Berlin . Luetgebrune was the "old man" of the Zollern singers in Tübingen .

Luetgebrune acquired the foundations for his legal career from his mentor at the time, Max Alsberg , with whom he was also friends. When Luetgebrune turned to the anti-Semitic political right after the war defeat in 1918, the good relationship broke up. In the 1920s, Luetgebrune became known as a defense lawyer in numerous trials against accused of the extreme political right. He took over the defense of Erich Ludendorff in the so-called Hitler trial before the Munich Regional Court in 1924 and the defense of Hermann Ehrhardt after the Kapp Putsch . He was also the lawyer for the defendants Techow Brothers in the Rathenau trial with Willy Hahn and Alfons Sack and acted as defense counsel in the Holstein bombing trial of 1930. Before that, he had already worked as a lawyer and as a political advisor for the Schleswig-Holstein rural people 's movement. In the summer of 1931 he was accused from circles of the peasantry of having earned more than 100,000 marks in fees from the farmers in need, which embarrassed the country leaders Wilhelm Hamkens and Claus Heim .

Politically, Luetgebrune initially belonged to the DNVP . After becoming legal advisor to the SA and SS in 1931, he joined the NSDAP . In 1932/1933 he was the chief legal advisor to the SA and SS . In particular , Luetgebrune defended the SA Chief of Staff, Ernst Röhm , in various proceedings for violating Section 175 of the Criminal Code (homosexual paragraph) and in connection with the so-called Heimsoth letters .

In 1933 Luetgebrune became Ministerialdirigent in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. He also became a member of the leadership council of the National Socialist Academy for German Law Hans Frank . He was also deputy chairman of the Criminal Law Committee of the Academy for German Law, chaired by Roland Freisler .

After 1933 Lütgebrune was involved in the robbery of companies owned by Jews, the Aryanization . In the early summer of 1933, he became chairman of the board of directors of the large shoe retailer Conrad Tack & Cie AG with over 4,000 employees, and ousted the owner Hermann Krojanker from this post. The shares passed into the hands of the Richard Freudenberg leather factory in Weinheim in October. During this time, party comrade Luetgebrune's business went so well within the framework of his legal obligations that he was able to buy a brand new sports car, an 80-horsepower Mercedes coupé.

Because Luetgebrune accepted so many mandates that gave him a high income, he came into the focus of jealous NSDAP comrades. Although Luetgebrune had given up his full-time job with the SA at the end of 1933, he was arrested in the course of the Röhm affair and only released after several months. Rudolf Hess made sure that he was expelled from the NSDAP and the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association (NSRB) , which amounted to a professional ban.

In 1938 Luetgebrune's resumption of membership in the NSRB followed, giving him the opportunity to work as a lawyer again. He now earned his living as a legal advisor to a number of companies.

After the Second World War , Luetgebrune worked as a lawyer at the Bavarian Supreme Court .

Luetgebrune's estate is kept in the Federal Archives in Koblenz .

Fonts

  • Transfer by way of security , 1906. (Dissertation)
  • Marburg State Trial , s. a.
  • The Boar Trial , 1924.
  • Truth and Justice for Feme, Black Reichswehr and First Lieutenant Schulz . JF Lehmanns, Munich 1928.
  • New Prussian Peasants' War. Origin and struggle of the rural people movement , Hamburg 1931.
  • A fight for Röhm , 1933.
  • The position of the lawyer in the new state. Lecture to the German Lawyers' Conference in Leipzig on October 1, 1933. Schweitzer Verlag, Munich 1933.
  • Nulla poena sine lege, in: Roland Freisler [Hrsg.]: Memorandum of the Central Committee of ADR on the basics of a general German criminal law , 1934, p. 42ff.

literature

  • Literature by and about Walter Luetgebrune in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Rudolf Heydeloff: “Star lawyer for right-wing extremists. Walter Luetgebrune in the Weimar Republic ”, in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 32, No. 4 (1984) ( PDF ), pp. 373–421.
  • Ders .: The Political-Judical Career of Dr. jur. Walter Luetgebrune and the Crisis of Weimar and Early National Socialist Germany. 1918 to 1934 , Waterloo 1976.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Gerhard Stoltenberg : Political currents in the Schleswig-Holstein rural people 1918–1933. A contribution to the formation of political opinion in the Weimar Republic , Düsseldorf: Droste-Verlag, 1962, p. 173.
  2. ^ German justice . Administration of justice and legal policy. Official organ of the Reich Minister of Justice, the Prussian Minister of Justice and the Bavarian Minister of Justice , 96th year, issue 9 of March 2, 1934, p. 297
  3. ↑ Johannes Ludwig : Boycott, expropriation, murder. The "de-Jewification" of the German economy . Facta Oblita Hamburg 1988, extended new edition Piper, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11580-2 . P. 142ff. + 148.
  4. ↑ Rudolf Heydeloff: Star advocate of right-wing extremists. Walter Luetgebrune in the Weimar Republic , in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 32, No. 4 (1984) ( PDF ), p. 418ff.
personal data
SURNAME Luetgebrune, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehrentrup near Lage (Lippe)
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1949
Place of death Mittenwald