Rudolf Bergtel

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Rudolf Bergtel (born December 25, 1897 in Immenhof / East Prussia , † July 18, 1981 in East Berlin ) was a German trade union official and resistance fighter .

Life

Bergtel came from a working class family. He worked as an assistant in an inn and lived in Berlin from 1913. In 1915 he was recruited for military service in the First World War .

Bergtel joined the USPD in early 1919 and became a member of the KPD in 1923. From 1932 he worked as an instructor for the RGO district committee in Berlin, which he continued illegally in Charlottenburg until November 1933 in the resistance against fascism .

Because of an imminent arrest, he fled to Czechoslovakia; After a short training in conspiratorial behavior, he returned to the resistance in Germany and became the organizational leader of the RGO for Berlin. In the resistance he worked together with Reinhold Popall , Wilhelm Knapp , Liesbeth Neubauer , Erich Hanke and Wienand Kaasch . Bergtel was arrested on August 8, 1935 and indicted by the People's Court on May 10, 1936 in the trial of Kaasch and others and sentenced to eight years in prison. Bergtel first came to the Luckau prison and then to the Aschendorfer Moor and Esterwegen concentration camps . In June 1939 he managed to escape from the Emsland camps via Berlin to Switzerland. He was interned there until the end of the war.

In October 1945 Bergtel was able to return to Berlin. He married Lotte Schleif , the librarian who had helped him escape. During the post-war period, Bergtel worked for the Berlin transport company and was the second secretary of the SED general operating group.

literature

  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The “other” capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945 . Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1
  • Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. - With an introduction by Heinrich Scheel. results, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0
  • Erich Hanke: Memories of an illegal. Berlin 1974
  • Sabine Friedrich : Who we are: Roman. Second part

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Herbst: Very, very painful ... In: neue-deutschland.de. September 28, 2002, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Heinz Höhne: ptx calls moscow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1968 ( online - June 17, 1968 ).
personal data
SURNAME Bergtel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade union official and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Immenhof / East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1981
Place of death East Berlin