Alfred Loritz

Alfred Loritz ( born April 24, 1902 in Munich, † April 14, 1979 in Vienna ) was a German politician of the postwar founded his own party structure Economic Association ( WAV).

Weimar Republic

The father of Loritz was President of Upper Bavaria. After graduation in 1921 at the Munich School Wilhelm Alfred Loritz studied law and settled as a lawyer in Munich. 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the Party of the German middle class (business party ) and there chairman of the constituency association Upper Bavaria Swabia. At times, he was member of parliament for the party of big business in Bavaria. The Economic Party joined him on May 27, 1932 due to " querulous behavior " from.

Period of National Socialism

After 1933 Loritz had contact with several resistance groups. In 1939 he was expelled from the Bar Association and fled - by the Nazis as " high treason dangerous size" ( as the Gestapo in Würzburg APB ) wanted - to Switzerland.

After 1945

In 1945 he founded the WAV and became its first chairman. 1946 Loritz was elected to the Constituent Assembly of the country of Bavaria until 1950 he was a member of the Bavarian Parliament. From December 1946 to June 1947 he was Bavarian Minister of denazification. Immediately after his release, he was arrested for perjury and to the black market for alleged incitement, but managed to escape from custody in September 1947 and stayed on in the underground. After another arrest in October 1948, he was acquitted and again WAV Chairman. 1949 to 1953 he was a member of parliament and first Chairman of the Group.

1949 Loritz claimed to have been responsible for the Bürgerbräuattentat to Adolf Hitler; Georg Elser had only been a courier.

On June 21, 1951 he graduated from the WAV Group, because he planned to merge the WAV with the later banned SRP. After he was re-elected on September 9, 1951 still as WAV party chairman, the group disbanded by conversion to the DP. On March 25, 1953 Loritz founded with the deputies Günter Goetzendorff, Wolfgang Hedler, Erich Langer and Otto Reindl for the rest of the legislature again a parliamentary group of the WAV.

1955 Loritz was indicted for incitement to perjury and false certification due to inaccuracies when submitting a nomination for the Bremen State Parliament. In 1959, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and five years deprivation of political rights, but managed to escape before entering prison to Austria, where he received political asylum in 1962.