Wilhelm Seutter of Lötzen

Wilhelm Seutter von Lötzen (born December 31, 1901 in Lindau ; † 1982 ) was a Bavarian monarchist resistance fighter during National Socialism .

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Wilhelm Seutter von Lötzen came from a patrician family based in Lindau , which had belonged to the imperial knightly nobility in Württemberg since the Middle Ages . His parents were the privateer Emil Seutter von Lötzen and Hedwig von Grobois, noble von Brückenau. After primary and secondary school in his hometown, Seutter von Lötzen attended secondary school in Munich. 1919/1920 he participated in the Ruhr area enterprise of the Freikorps Epp . In 1921 he made up his Abitur and studied mechanical engineering at the Technical Universities of Munich and Stuttgart . Various internships took him to Austria and England. Finally, financial reasons forced him to drop out without a degree. He then worked as an authorized signatory, partly as a managing director in the automotive and motorcycle industry as well as in agencies. During this time she married Elisabeth Margarita Freiin Voith von Voithenberg (born January 14, 1900). In 1932 he decided to campaign politically for monarchist-separatist issues. In 1935 he and Josef Zott joined a Bavarian monarchist resistance group, later the Harnier district . On August 4, 1939, he was sentenced as the main suspect for his participation in the activities of the Harnier Circle to five years in prison.

After the Second World War in 1945 he was a member of the CSU , but switched to the Bavarian party . On May 30, 1949, together with Joseph Baumgartner and Leonhard Noll , he applied to the Bavarian Constitutional Court to approve the resolutions of the state parliament of May 20. J., in which the parliamentarians, after a 15-hour debate, rejected the draft of the Basic Law by 101 votes to 63 with 9 abstentions , but at the same time affirmed its legally binding effect.

Later, in addition to his work, he worked in a construction company for the Bavarian Royal Association and for the Bavarian Association.

literature

• Wilhelm Seutter von Lötzen: Bavaria's loyalty to the king in the resistance. Memories 1933–1964. Brehm, Feldafing around 1978, ISBN 3-921763-57-6 (with a list of officials on p. 112f. And a list of those arrested on p. 114ff.).