Rudolf Hallmeyer

Rudolf Hallmeyer (born February 3, 1908 in Plauen , † September 8, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Hallmeyer, son of a bookbinder , grew up in Plauen. During his apprenticeship as a pipe fitter, he was already actively involved in the KJVD , which he joined at the age of 16. In 1931 he became a member of the KPD . In December 1932 he was elected city councilor in Plauen. After the Reichstag fire , the SA searched for him, so that Hallmeyer had to leave Plauen in March 1933. At first he worked illegally as an instructor for the KPD district leadership of Saxony in Meerane and in the sub-district Hohndorf - Rödlitz .

Wanted by the Gestapo , he emigrated to Prague in April 1934 . However, in autumn of the same year he was ready to return to Germany as an instructor for the Central Committee of the KJVD. It was used in the districts of Hanover and Magdeburg . In Magdeburg, in particular, he was able to consolidate ties to company groups, including the Polte company and the Buckau R. Wolf machine factory . Hallmeyer left Germany again in the summer of 1935, as he was threatened with arrest. In September and October 1935 he took part on VI. World Congress of the Communist Youth International in Moscow , then he attended the International Lenin School of the Comintern for two years .

At the end of 1937 Hallmeyer went to Prague and from 1938 to Gothenburg . Hallmeyer worked there in the KPD foreign section management. He came repeatedly to Berlin from Czechoslovakia and Sweden to convey and explain decisions about the organization and direction of the resistance struggle to the illegal groups of the KPD. In the spring of 1940 he was sent to Copenhagen , but only reached Berlin via Stettin at the end of June 1940 due to the war events . There Ottilie Pohl found him a room with her friend Martha Krüger. Hallmeyer's partner, Willi Gall , had already been arrested. As an instructor, he was given the task of supporting the illegal party organizations, establishing links between them and bringing them together into a permanent organization. During his stay in Berlin Hallmeyer wrote the text "Fight against all falsifications of socialism". Together with Hans Schulz and Fritz Klemstein , he created a resistance group in the Ludwig Loewe company in Berlin-Moabit .

After Hallmeyer had visited his contact partners in Magdeburg, Halle and Dresden , he was arrested on August 24, 1940 in Berlin. On August 5, 1943, he was sentenced to death by the “ People's Court ” and executed a few weeks later in Plötzensee .

Honors

Hallmeyerstrasse in Dessau

In Dessau a road and is Mylau a settlement named after him. A street named after him in his native Plauen was renamed Wettinstraße again after the fall of the Wall . The memorial plaque and street name for the communist city councilor in Meerane were also removed after the end of the GDR. The SG Dynamo Magdeburg, the 32nd Combat Group Hundreds (mot.) Plauen and the rocket department 10 of the NVA in Schneeberg also bore his name.

The DEFA documentary protocol for one (1966) by Joachim Hellwig describes Hallmeyer's last days.

literature

• Luise Kraushaar (Ed.): German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 1. Dietz, Berlin 1970, pp. 358-361.
• Johannes Richter: Life and struggle of the Plauen anti-fascist Rudolf Hallmeyer: born on February 3, 1908 in Plauen, murdered on September 7, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee. Vogtland District Museum, Plauen 1974. ( Series of publications by the Vogtland District Museum , Volume 42).
• Hallmeyer, Rudolf . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
• Hallmeyer, Rudolf , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 266