Friedrich Rödel
Friedrich Rödel (born April 18, 1888 in Witzleshofen ( Upper Franconia ), † February 5, 1945 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Rödel came from a small farmer's background. After completing his military service, he became politically active and joined the trade union and the SPD in 1910 . Professionally, he worked as a milling cutter .
After the beginning of the First World War , he returned to the military and was deployed on the Western Front. There he was wounded in 1915 and then discharged from military service.
Rödel went to Magdeburg and joined the USPD . He became a shop steward of the German Metalworkers' Association and was one of the main initiators of the big strike in the spring of 1917. After participating in the January strike in 1918, he was drafted again into military service. Another wounding followed in September 1918.
Politically, Rödel was part of the left wing of the USPD. In 1920 he joined the KPD . From 1924 he was a member of the Magdeburg city council and was a member of the district leadership of the KPD. In 1927 he became editor of the KPD newspaper Tribüne .
1933, after the takeover of the Nazi party , he was arrested in June. The Court of Berlin , he was together with 16 co-defendants in April 1934 two and a half years prison sentenced. The conditions of detention meant that he was disabled at the age of 50.
After his release from prison and Germany's attack on the Soviet Union , Rödel belonged to the resistance group around Hermann Danz . In the course of the arrest of Anton Saefkow's group in Berlin, with whom the group around Danz was connected, the Magdeburg resistance fighters were arrested in July 1944.
Like Hermann Danz, Johann Schellheimer and Martin Schwantes, Rödel was sentenced to death by the People's Court on November 1, 1944 . The execution took place on February 5, 1945 in the Brandenburg prison .
Honors
The cities of Berlin and Magdeburg named a street in his honor as Rödelstraße .
literature
- Beatrix Herlemann : Rödel, Friedrich. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .
- Rödel, Fritz . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rödel, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rödel, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witzleshofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1945 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg on the Havel |