Friedrich Lutz

Friedrich Lutz ( born February 22, 1852 in Heidenheim, † May 14 1918 in Oettingen ) was a German brewery owner, farmer and member of the German Reichstag.

Life

Friedrich Lutz, son of the brewery owner Gerhard Andreas Lutz and his wife Margaret, née Müller, attended elementary school, and trade school. On August 9, 1881, he married Sophia Maria Herrmann from Heidenheim. By 1881 he was managing director, since owners of the parent business. He was a member of the District Council Committee, Chairman of the Agricultural District Association and Chairman of the Middle Franconian peasant association to which he had co-founded in 1885 counted. The middle Franconian peasant association was conservatively oriented, but occasionally worked together with the more liberal Bavarian Farmers' Federation. Lutz was first a member of the Conservative Party and the Agrarian League. He scored in the 1890s, the main actors of the conservative -oriented German farmers in Bavaria.

From 1890 to 1898 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the electoral district of Middle Franconia 5 ( Dinkelsbühl, Gunzenhausen, wet cheeks). He belonged to a faction in the Reichstag of the German Conservative Party. From 1887 to 1905 he was in the constituency of Nördlingen in Swabia and conservative Member of the Bavarian Parliament. Since 1902 Lutz again sought the proximity to the Bavarian Farmers' Federation. The issue of electoral reform for the Bavarian state parliament broke Lutz 1904/ 05 with the Conservative Party. In the state elections in 1905, he presented himself from the Centre Party and the Bavarian Farmers' Federation. As the catchment failed in the state legislature, he retired for a few years out of the business of politics. In the state elections in 1912, he took up for the Bavarian Peasants' League and won the seat in Parliament for Nördlingen. This he retained until his death in 1918.

Lutz was of the view that emerging markets had dangerous to farmers and the middle class, and therefore called for a department store tax. In remarks on this subject Lutz also represented anti-Semitic positions. Frequent target of anti-Semitic verbal attacks Lutz ' was the department store owner Oscar Tietz. Lutz also called for a boycott of Jewish businesses. The brewery in Heidenheim he had given at an advanced age and was warped by Oettingen, where he died.