SA-Stabschef Viktor Lutze

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SA-Stabschef Viktor Lutze

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Post by Freiherr von Graff » 22 Dec 2005, 13:20

Could anybody help me to a DECENT biography on Viktor Lutze. All I seem to find are rather short and far from complete. I would be greatful for info on the man on this forum as well.

Officially Lutze was killed - along with his daughter - in a car accident, but some seem to be speculating whether he in fact was assasinated. Personally, I don't see any reason for anyone within the Party lines to have him assasinated - but perhaps someone knows more? Also, what was the name of this daughter who was killed in the car with him?

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Post by Freiherr von Graff » 23 Dec 2005, 11:57

Anyone ... at all!?! :o


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Post by Georges JEROME » 29 Dec 2005, 16:27

born 28 dezember 1890 at Bevergern (Westfalen)
gymnasium Rheine
postpraktikant
1.10.1912 b IR 55
14/18 : IR 369 then Res IR 15
1919 left army.
kaufmann
1922 NSDAP
1923 SA Führer involved in Ruhr fights
1925 F SA Gausturm im Gau Ruhr (Gau SA Führer Rhur)
F SA Rhur Gebiet (Oberführer Rhur) and stell gauleiter
1930 Obersten SA Führer Nord (Hannover) then Gruppenführer Nord
1930 MdR
1932 SA Obergruppenführer mdF Obergruppe VI West
1933 Oberprasident Provinz Hannover
Polizeiprasident Hannover
Prussian staatsrat
1934 Stabschef der SA
Reichsleiter der NSDAP


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Post by Georges JEROME » 29 Dec 2005, 16:31

Short time Pol pdt : 15.02.33 - 25.03.33

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Post by Potsdamerplatz » 30 Dec 2005, 00:13

I also have read in books about the persistent rumours that Viktor Lutze's death in an automobile crash was no accident. Do any forum members have more information on this as I would be very interested in finding out more.

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Post by Freiherr von Graff » 04 Jan 2006, 12:04

Isn't it incredible? This guy WAS afterall SA-Stabschef and still it's quite difficult to find a decent biography! Well, thanks anyway!

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Post by paratatruc » 04 Jan 2006, 18:07

I will ask it for the third time(I hope to receive a "decent" answer):
Was he killed in a car accident or by Ukrainiens nationalists?

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Post by Potsdamerplatz » 17 Jan 2006, 11:05

I have this from the website http://www.worldwar-2.net

2nd May 1943

SA Chief of Staff Viktor Lutze is killed. The actual cause of his death remains mysterious. Officially, he died in a automobile accident, although rumours persist that he was killed when German partisans ambushed his car.
and this excerpt from a webpage about the Ukranian Insurgent Army (UPA) - http://www.kolos.com/readroom/upa.html
Two men who were assassinated by the UPA were Chief of Staff of the Nazi SA Viktor Lutze, as well as Red Army Marshall Nikolai Vatutin.

Other information I have managed to find out about him include:

* After his death he was posthumously awarded the Highest Grade of the German Order by Adolf Hitler.

* Lutze was thought of so highly by Hitler that he was accorded the largest state funeral in the history of the Third Reich - including that of Todt and Heydrich.


Also some information on Lutze from one of our most valuable forum members, Mark Costa:

Mark Costa wrote:On the contrary Lutze was in fact a very brave and loyal SA man. He was one of the early members in the North of Germany and was a very dignfied and respected leader. An excellent choice for Hitler to make to bring the SA more "respectability" after the Rohm years of debauchery. He was an effective leader although by the war the role of the SA had diminished. He tried very hard to get the Army to counteract the rise of the SS. Lutze had realized that the real threat to the Party was the SS and went to great lengths to hinder Himmler at every turn. His brother in law was Field Marshall Von Brauchitsch, the brother of his wife Paula. In fact they were accused by Goebbles of being in league against the SS and trying to stop the war.

Although I do not know of any good bio -- there are plenty of references to him in the Goebbels diaries. Goebbels has conflicting views of Lutze depending on who's side Goebbels is on at the time of his writings. Lutze was an old friend of Goebbels going back to 1925.

Lutze was thought of so much by Hitler that he was accorded the largest state funeral in the history of the Third Reich -- including Todt's and Heydrichs.

Mark Costa

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Post by TePe » 23 Jan 2006, 17:01

Freiherr,

Here is a picture/painting of Lutze, source: ebay

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Post by paula » 23 Jan 2006, 19:50

SA-Obergruppenführer Viktor Lutze
28.12.1890 in Bevergern (Bez. Münster) geboren
21.02.1922 Eintritt in die NSDAP (Nr. 84)
1923 Eintritt in die SA
1925 Gauleiter der NSDAP des Gaues Rheinland-Nord
1925-28 Gau-SA-Führer des Gaues Ruhr
1926-28 stellvertretender Gauleiter des Gaues Ruhr
1929 in den Stab der Obersten SA-Führung berufen
1930-43 Mitglied des Reichstages (MdR)
1931-32 Führer der SA-Gruppe Nord (Hannover)
1932 Inspekteur Nord der Obersten SA-Führung
1932-33 Führer der SA-Obergruppe II (SA-Gruppen Niedersachsen, Westfalen, Niederrhein und Nordsee)
1932-33 zugleich Führer der SA-Gruppe Nordsee (Bremen)
1933 Polizeipräsident in Hannover
1933-41 Oberpräsident der Provinz Hannover
1933-34 Führer der SA-Obergruppe VI (SA-Gruppen Niedersachsen, Nordsee, Niederrhein und Westfalen)
1933 Preußischer Staatsrat
1934-41 Präsident des Provinzialrats der Provinz Hannover
1934-43 Chef des Stabs der SA
1934-43 Reichsleiter der NSDAP
1936-43 Reichskultursenator
1939-41 Mitglied des Verteidigungsausschusses des Wehrkreises XI
1941 auf eigenen Antrag als Oberpräsident der Provinz Hannover zurückgetreten
02.05.1943 bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen

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Post by Freiherr von Graff » 24 Jan 2006, 12:20

Thanks everyone! And thanks TePe; I had seen this painted illustration before but I didn't know it had been on the ebay ...

Could anyone perhaps inform me of the name of the daughter who was killed in the car with Lutze?

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Post by R.M. Schultz » 24 Jan 2006, 23:54

Potsdamer Platz wrote:I also have read in books about the persistent rumours that Viktor Lutze's death in an automobile crash was no accident.
Phil Nix wrote:On the 1 May 1943 he was being driven along an autobahn towards Berlin when several pedestrians attempted to cross the road.The car hit them and then rolled down the highway for about 50 metres and Lutze was thrown against the windshield. At first he was not thought to have been injured but a blood clot had formed in the lungs and he was operated on but died shortly after. No evidence of assassination. His daughter also died in the accident
Philmil

Lutze was out in the countryside looking for black market food when, due to the black-out conditions, he was involved in the accident. These circumstances hardly sound conspiratorial. Also, Röhm counted Lutze as a "non-entity," and it's hard to imagine someone going to the trouble of assassinating the colorless care-taker of an organization that had long since ceased to be a vital political force.


As for books on the subject, there are two items by Bruce Campell that have some biographical information on Lutze:

• The SA Generals and the Rise of Naziism
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1998.

•The SA After the Röhm Purge
Journal of Contemporary History 28, 1993, p. 659-74.

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Post by Freiherr von Graff » 25 Jan 2006, 11:24

Personally, I don't believe in the "assasination theory" BUT ... IF I was into something like that, I might speculate in something internal within the SA. Maybe someone who had a problem with Lutze turning against the "so beloved" Herr Röhm. But then again; why wait for almost 10 years ... ?

Just a thought!

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Post by Bankers » 25 Jan 2006, 17:52

I have asked several people this question and no one seems to have an answer. The SA, even at the time of Lutze's death, was still a force in Germany--although very curtailed----who succeeded Lutze as head of the SA???

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