Lothar Prützmann

Lothar Prützmann (d. 2010) was the Reichsführer-SS of the Greater German Reich. He held the office at the end of Kurt Haldweim's term as Fuhrer and through the early months of Heinz Buckliger's term as fuhrer in 2010. Prützmann opposed the reforms instituted by Buckliger, but was too loyal a Nazi to criticize the fuhrer publicly. As the year progressed, Prützmann found himself dealing not only with Buckliger, but the Gauleiter of Berlin, Rolf Stolle. Prützmann initially opted to oppose both of these men subtly, including attempts to drown out Stolle's speech with a marching band, and the publication of an article entitled Enough is Enough, credited to Dr. Konrad Jahnke, designed to refute Buckliger's reforms.

After these schemes failed, Prützmann and the SS attempted a Putsch, detaining Buckliger at his vacation home in Croatia, installing Odilo Globocnik as the new Fuhrer, seizing the state television and radio stations, and sending a detachment of troops to arrest Stolle. The people of Berlin took to the streets, among them secret Jews Heinrich Gimpel and Susanna Weiss.

Earlier in the year, Prützmann had halted an investigation into the Klein family. The Kleins were in fact Jews, and their youngest son had been diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a disease most common in Jews. Prützmann's niece had a son with Tay-Sachs, and Prützmann did not want the possible scandal. Two other secret Jews, Esther and Walther Stutzman began circulating the rumor that Prützmann was Jewish himself. This stymied the SS until the Wehrmacht moved against it in support of Buckliger. Prützmann, realizing he'd failed, shot himself before the Wermacht could arrest him.