Background
Victor Lutze was born on 28 December 1890 in Hörstel.
Victor Lutze was born on 28 December 1890 in Hörstel.
After joining the ranks in 1912, he served as an officer in World War I, entering the NSDAP in 1922 and taking part a year later in the fighting in the Ruhr. An SA -Leader in 1924 and deputy Gauleiter in the Ruhr region, Lutze was subsequently promoted to SA-Oberfuhrer in 1928. In 1930 he became a Nazi member of the Reichstag, representing the electoral district of South Hanover-Braunschweig. Appointed Police President of Hanover in March 1933 and Oberprasident (a post he held until 1941), Lutze became a member of the Prussian State Council in the same year. Following the Blood Purge directed against Ernst Rohm and other SA leaders, in which SA-Obergruppenfuhrer Lutze was closely implicated, he was officially designated by Hitler as Chief of Staff of the SA on 1 July 1934.
Lutze held the position until his death in a car crash on 2 May 1943. Under his leadership the SA played an insignificant role in the Nazi State, its influence having declined drastically as a result of the Rohm purge.