Hans Rüdiger (politician)

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Hans Arnold Georg Rüdiger (born December 1, 1910 in Danzig ; † December 24, 1964 in Leipzig ) was a German party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD . He was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR, a member of the Saxon Landtag in Dresden, founder and chairman of the NDPD and its later regional associations in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

Youth and education

Hans Arnold Georg Rüdiger was born on December 1, 1910 as the son of master weaver Emil Rüdiger and his wife Emilie, née. Schaller, born in Danzig. After his father was transferred to Glatz in Silesia , he attended elementary school there from 1917 to 1920 and then middle school until 1926, which he left with a secondary school leaving certificate. From 1926 to 1929 he completed an apprenticeship as an administrative clerk at the town council of Glatz. From September 1930 to August 1931 he attended the workers' economy school in Peterswalde in the Heilsberg district and joined the SPD . From autumn 1932 to May 1933 he took part in an administration course at the Sparkasse School in Breslau , where he successfully passed the exam.

Pre-war period

Due to his political activities in the SPD, he was dismissed from the public administration service in May 1933 because of his subversive attitudes and started his own business as a tax and accountant in Kanth near Breslau. In 1935 he joined the NSDAP- affiliated aid organization German Labor Front (DAF) and the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) in Kanth. On September 11, 1937, he married Ruth Rüdiger, b. Bormann (born July 29, 1915 in Strehlen / Silesia; † July 12, 2005 in Waldheim, Saxony ). His daughter Inge was born to him on May 18, 1938.

Second World War

Rüdiger was drafted into the Wehrmacht on July 18, 1939 in Liegnitz , 60 km west of Breslau, where he was employed as a sergeant in the news department 4. (E.) / News Q18 and in the 1st news regiment Q 252 . This department was subordinated to the 18th Infantry Division . This took part in the decisive battle of the attack on Poland from 9 to 19 September 1939 , the Battle of the Bzura , near Kutno . In 1940 his unit was relocated to Saarbrücken to take part in the breakthrough battle on the Maginot Line . Further battles on the Rhine-Marne Canal and in the Vosges Mountains followed. From 1941, Rüdiger took part in the Russian campaign, in June in the Kesselschlacht near Białystok and Minsk , on August 24th in the pursuit battle of the crossing over the Desna and in October in the victorious battles in the Vyazma Basin , which is 110 km from Moscow in the The small town of Rusa and the overcoming of the Stalin Wall at the Jelna Arch ( see Battle of Moscow ) in November 1941 ended. Rüdiger experienced the entire German trauma, for example the battle of Orscha in 1942 , the defensive battle of Newel and Lowscha in 1943, the bridgehead at Narew in 1944 and one of the last great battles for East Pomerania in Danzig. Rüdiger managed to escape to the island of Bornholm , where he was taken prisoner on May 9, 1945. He was sent to the Hammerstein camp and the Leningrad Gulag 77/45. There Rüdiger worked his way up from unskilled laborer to brigadier, got a position as camp commandant and was an Antifa active elder.

Release papers from GULAG 77/45 in 1948

post war period

As a political propagandist, he was preferably dismissed in 1948 and was given a position in the auditing office at the council of the district of Löbau . There he founded the National Democratic Party of Germany in the summer of 1948 and in 1948 was appointed its political director of the State Association of Saxony. From November 1950 he was deputy state chairman in Saxony-Anhalt and from May to July 1952 its state chairman. From 1950 to 1951 Rüdiger was a member of the Saxon state parliament ( 2nd electoral period ). From September 1952 to December 1954 he was district association chairman of the NDPD Frankfurt / Oder. In 1954 he passed the state examination at the legal faculty, specializing in administrative law, of the German Academy for State and Law “Walter Ulbricht” in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In his term paper for the state examination he dealt with the question:

How does the standing commissions involve the working people in the management of the state?

From January 1, 1954, he was district association chairman of the NDPD Saxony, based in Leipzig. From 1954 to 1958 Rüdiger was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR. In 1959, despite his reluctance, Rüdiger was directly involved in the political fate of the former Wehrmacht general and unofficial employee of the State Security, Wilhelm Kunze . Hans Rüdiger succumbed to a heart condition on Christmas Day 1964 and was given a GDR state funeral. A condolence speech reads: "His personality was dominated by the indomitable will to help people, to serve society for progress and for the good." His grave is in the grove of honor in the Leipzig south cemetery .

Place of death in 1964 in Norderneyer Weg 4, Leipzig-Gohlis, 1st floor
Gravestone of the Leipziger Südfriedhof

Honors / awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 284.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 742.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No information: files and negotiations of the Saxon State Parliament, 1946 - 1952, meeting minutes, 2nd electoral period, full sessions of the Saxon State Parliament, 1.-28. Meeting, November 3, 1950 - July 25, 1952. , Quote: ... will be transferred to Halle. , Keip Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1991, p. 187, ISBN 978-3-8051-0083-0 .
  2. ↑ Hans Brückl: Between brown and red. The decreed anti-fascism of the GDR and the "Wilhelm Kunze" case. , Editions la Colombe, Moers, 2001, p. 201, ISBN 978-3-929351-14-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Rudiger, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüdiger, Hans Arnold Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NDPD functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1964
Place of death Leipzig