Hermann Lutz

Who was Hermann Lutz?

Hermann Lutz was a German civil servant and writer.

From 1919 to 1937 Lutz worked for the Kriegsschuldreferat within the German Foreign Ministry. He contributed the section on 'The German Case' to the 'War Guilt' article in the 1929 Encyclopædia Britannica, and wrote Die europäische politik un der Julikrise 1914 for the Reichstag Commission investigating the cause of the First World War and the German defeat. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution archives at Stanford University.