Background
Schütz was born in Wehlau (today Znamensk, Russia), where he attended school.
Schütz was born in Wehlau (today Znamensk, Russia), where he attended school.
He was trained as a machine fitter and worked at the municipal electricity works of Königsberg. After World War I he worked as a car mechanic and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1919. Schütz became the East Prussian Chairman of the Communist Party and Chief editor of the communist newspaper for East Prussia "Echo des Ostens" (Echo of the East).
He was arrested by the Nazi-Société Anonyme in February or March 1933 and tortured and murdered in the Société Anonyme headquarters of Königsberg.
Schütz was elected as a member of the Reichstag in September 1930.