Rudi Lattner
Rudi Lattner (actually: Rudolf Lattner) (born February 20, 1904 in Dresden ; † February 2, 1945 in Yugoslavia ) was a Dresden worker sportsman and anti-fascist resistance fighter .
Life
Rudi Lattner worked as a commercial clerk. In his free time he was an active mountaineer and thus came into contact with the United Climbing Department (VKA, also: "Red Mountaineers"). The VKA was a resistance group in the time of National Socialism , which was composed of the ranks of the workers' movement and nature lovers and was particularly active in Saxon Switzerland and the Ore Mountains . Lattner also sang together with Fritz Hoffmann in the mountaineering choir , which was directed by Kurt Schlosser . Although Lattner was non-party, he took part in the illegal resistance campaigns of the VKA. Above all, this included smuggling newspapers and magazines illegally printed in Czechoslovakia across the border through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains into Germany.
In 1934, Lattner was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to 5 years in prison and 5 years in loss of honor in the so-called "Brown Book Trial" . He had to serve his prison sentence in Waldheim prison. After his release, he again contacted his VKA comrades. In 1941 he was called up to the Penal Division 999 , like other anti-fascists classified as "unworthy of defense" . In 1943 his unit was relocated to the Balkans. In February 1945 his wife received the news that Rudi Lattner had "died". It was never clear whether he fell at the front or was killed by a firing squad of the Wehrmacht. His symbolic grave is located in the honor grove of the Heidefriedhof .
Commemoration
In November 1962 the former Zastrowstrasse in Dresden- Dölzschen was renamed Rudi-Lattner-Strasse .
literature
- Rudi Lattner . In: Museum for the History of the City of Dresden: Biographical notes on Dresdner Strasse and squares that recall personalities from the labor movement, the anti-fascist resistance struggle and the socialist rebuilding . Dresden 1976, p. 46.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Rudi Lattner in the Stadtwiki Dresden
- Biographical collection of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime in the Federal Archives , files DY 55 / V 278/6/1070
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lattner, Rudi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lattner, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German worker athlete and anti-fascist resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1945 |
| Place of death | Yugoslavia |