Bruno Rüffer

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Bruno Rüffer (born October 5, 1901 in Straupitz (Silesia), † February 24, 1943 in Stuttgart ) was a communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Bruno Rüffer came from a working class family in Mannheim . As a young man he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After the transfer of power to the Nazi party , he joined the Mannheim resistance group of Georg Lech manager and was involved in the resistance against Nazism by participated in the distribution of the newspaper "The Harbinger". It contained instructions on how to listen to the illegal radio station “ Deutscher Volkssender ” and called for resistance to the prevailing system in Mannheim companies. When the group was exposed in 1942, Rüffer was one of those arrested by the Gestapo . He was sentenced to death and executed with the guillotine on February 24, 1943 in Stuttgart .

memory

  • On November 20, 1984, a whole group of streets in the Schöna-Nordost development area in Mannheim was named after members of the Lechleiter group, including “Bruno-Rüffer-Straße”.

literature

  • Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A Documentation, Volume I, p. 58

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A Documentation, Volume I, p. 58
  2. ↑ https://www.marchivum.de/de/strassennamen/bruno-rueffer-strasse
personal data
SURNAME Rüffer, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Straupitz
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1943
Place of death Stuttgart