Rudolf Gyptner

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Rudolf Gyptner (born January 4, 1923 in Hamburg , † November 28, 1944 in Pawonków ) was a German communist and resistance fighter .

Life

Rudolf Gyptner's father was the communist Richard Gyptner . The family immigrated to the Soviet Union before Rudolf was born . She returned to Germany in 1923. In 1933 she emigrated first to France and then again to Moscow, where Richard Gyptner later became part of the Ulbricht group . After the attack by the German Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union in 1941, Rudolf reported to the Red Army , where he was trained as a radio operator.

On August 9, 1944, the Central Committee for Foreign Policy Information of the CPSU (OMI) decided to remove several KPD men specially trained by the Institute from behind the German lines in order to make contact with political activists who had gone underground. Rudolf Gyptner, Arthur Hoffmann , Ferdinand Greiner , Joseph Giefer and Josef Kiefel landed with a parachute at Lubliniec on August 23, 1944 . Presumably by their radio activities of the location of the group was of Peilwagen the Wehrmacht elucidated. Warned by Polish resistance fighters, the group split up. Kiefel, Greiner and Hoffmann were able to flee, while Gyptner and Giefer were killed by the SS and Gestapo on November 28, 1944 in Pawonków in the courtyard of the Polish resistance fighter Roch Kurpies .

In memory of Rudolf Gyptner, institutions and organizations in the GDR were named after him, including a regiment of the NVA , the “Rudolf Gyptner Oberschule” in Berlin, a barracked intelligence department of the Ministry of the Interior and also a unit of the Polish border troops carried the name “Rudolf Gyptner ". The Polish government unveiled a memorial plaque at the mill in Pawonków that reads in German:

“At this point, on November 28, 1944, Joseph Giefer and Rudolf Gyptner and the fighters of the Polish resistance movement, Rohch Kurpies, died fraternally at the hands of the Hitlerites. Honor her memory. "

- German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and Letters - Vol. 1, p. 314

literature

  • Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters . Volume 1, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 312-315
  • Else and Bernt von Kügelgen : The front was everywhere: experiences and reports from the struggle of the National Committee “Free Germany”. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1978

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinz Kühnrich and Werner Müller: In league with the enemy. Germans on the Allied side . Verlag Dietz, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01875-2 , p. 34
  2. ^ A b Jörg Morré: Behind the Scenes of the National Committee. The Institute 99 in Moscow and the German policy of the USSR 1943–1946 .
  3. ↑ a b Florian Ring: The representation of the resistance against Hitler in the Soviet Zone / GDR in relation to the school books as well as in the journalism of the NVA . Pro Universitate, Sinzheim 1996, ISBN 3-930747-76-6 , also: Master's thesis, Catholic University Eichstätt, 1995
  4. ^ German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters . Volume 1, p. 314.
  5. ↑ private homepage for the 28th POS Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg ( memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), viewed June 17, 2009
  6. ^ Klaus Schroeder and Peter Erler: History and Transformation of the SED State . Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-05-002638-3 , page 58
  7. ↑ Die Zeit, Journey into Another Germany , June 27, 1986
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Barracked units of the MdI, viewed June 17, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Gyptner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1944
Place of death Pawonków