Rudolf Grosse
Rudolf Grosse (born June 9, 1905 in Berlin ; † December 9, 1942 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp ) was a German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Rudolf Grosse came from a Berlin working class family. He grew up with his two siblings and became a half-orphan at the age of nine. After graduating from elementary school , he received a scholarship for very good performance . This enabled him to continue attending school at the Gauß School , where he trained as a designer. He later worked as a technician and organized himself into the union youth. In evening classes he learned English and Russian as well as Esperanto .
When he found out that machines produced in Germany and intended for the Soviet Union had errors, he sent original drawings for important parts of these devices to the Soviet commercial agency. He was then in 1928 for treason to three years imprisonment convicted. While in prison he became a member of the KPD . Because of his arrest, his marriage to Martha von Ceminski (July 14, 1905 - October 27, 1978) was canceled, but the two remained engaged.
After his release from prison he became active in the Fichte workers' sports club. He founded the hiking group 296 in Lichtenberg.
From 1934 he lived with his fiancée, both worked together illegally for the KPD sub-district Berlin-Lichtenberg. Their shared apartment at Langestrasse 110 in Berlin O 17 served as an underground post office for the KPD district of Berlin-Brandenburg.
On April 30, 1934, he was shot and arrested while attempting to affix "Hitler means war" with an etched stamp on the window panes of large shops and in house and staircases in Lichtenberg. He was abducted to the SA restaurant on Türrschmidtstrasse in Berlin-Lichtenberg . He was so ill-treated by the SA thugs that he suffered a double fracture of the skull and had to be hospitalized.
On October 15, 1934, he was sentenced to three years in prison for preparing for high treason , after which he was not released but deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
At the end of November 1942 he was transferred to the Flossenbürg concentration camp , where he was murdered on December 9, 1942 during an explosion in the quarry.
Honors
- In Berlin-Lichtenberg there is Rudolf-Grosse-Straße
Web links
- Biography at Museum Lichtenberg with photo
- Lyrics by Rudolf Grosse from Sachsenhausen concentration camp
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grosse, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1942 |
| Place of death | Flossenbürg concentration camp |