Konrad Lutze

Konrad Lutze was a professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. Initially, he was favored by department chairman, Franz Oppenhoff, who intended to send Lutz to the Medieval English Association's annual meeting in London alone, until Susanna Weiss convinced Oppenhoff to send her, too.

When Fuhrer Heinz Buckliger set elections for the Reichstagg by the end of 2010, Oppenhoff publicly argued against change during a faculty meeting. He seemed genuinely shocked and dismayed when Lutze, generally seen as apolitical, defended the value of democratic institutions.