Rudolf Gerngroß

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Rudolf Gerngroß (born February 15, 1898 in Suhl , † January 5, 1945 in Weimar ) was a German police lieutenant and anti-fascist resistance fighter who was executed with the guillotine in Weimar .

Life

Rudolf Gerngroß attended the elementary school in Suhl. In 1914 he went to the First World War as a volunteer and experienced the absurdity of war and became an opponent of the war. In 1920 he joined the police force and was promoted to police lieutenant in 1930 after ten years of training. In that year he also joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He must have become aware of the legal developments in the Weimar Republic , which is probably why he left the SPD again in 1932. This exit could not prevent his retirement in January 1934 . In the meantime he had developed into an opponent of Hitler and had illegal contacts with anti-fascist people. This became known to the Gestapo , which arrested him on October 19, 1942 and took him to the Gestapo prison on Posener Strasse von Burg . In a trial before the People's Court on December 1, 1944, he was sentenced to death for preparation for high treason , favoring the enemy and degrading military strength . Reich Justice Minister Thierack decided on December 21, 1944, to enforce the judgment that was carried out on January 5, 1945 in the court of the Weimar Regional Court . He was one of the eight men and one woman who were murdered there with a guillotine every 20 seconds.

Gladly was married and had two children: son Siegfried and a daughter. His wife couldn't get over her husband's fate and committed suicide in November 1967 .

memory

  • A memorial stone on Lupinenweg of the Friedbergsiedlung von Suhl to six executed anti-fascists also reminds of Rudolf Gerngroß.
  • In Burg near Magdeburg , a street was named Rudolf-Gerngroß-Straße during the GDR era.

literature

  • Gerd Kaiser (Ed.): Upright and strong, therein: Siegfried Gerngroß, Memories of my father on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death (1995), p. 44

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism II, p. 885
personal data
SURNAME With pleasure, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighters against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1945
Place of death Weimar