Hermann Lutz

Hermann Lutz (1881-1965) was a German civil servant and writer.

From 1919 to 1937 Lutz worked for the Kriegsschuldreferat (War Guilt Section) within the German Foreign Ministry. He contributed the section on 'The German Case' to the 'War Guilt' article in the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica, and wrote Die europaische Politik in der Julikrise 1914 (1930) 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.