Rudolf Harlaß
Rudolf Harlaß (* 31 August 1892 in Kappel in Chemnitz , † 6. December 1944 in Chemnitz ) was a German Communist Party - official and anti-fascist resistance fighters .
Harlaß was an iron turner by profession and head of the KPD's military apparatus in the Ore Mountains / Vogtland.
During the Second World War , the connecting threads between the Chemnitz resistance fighters and the large resistance groups in Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden came together with the communists Rudolf Harlaß and Ernst Enge . Both led the network of anti-fascist resistance groups in the Chemnitz factories and maintained contact with the Soviet resistance committee in the city, with which they produced joint leaflets in Russian and distributed them to the prisoners of war and slave labor . They were arrested in autumn 1944 as part of the Gewitter campaign and murdered by the National Socialists along with 70 other resistance fighters from Chemnitz .
Honors
- A polytechnic high school (POS) and an iron foundry (VEB foundry "Rudolf Harlaß") in Karl-Marx-Stadt , in the Kappel district, carried his name until the fall of the Berlin Wall
- In the village Wittgensdorf was Rudolf Harlass street named after him
- Barbarossastraße, which leads over the Kaßberg , was called Rudolf-Harlaß-Straße until December 1990
- In the memorial of the socialists in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde is Rudolf Harlass together with 326 other women and men of the anti-fascist resistance honored
literature
- SED Commission for Research into the History of the Local Labor Movement (ed.): Revolutionary fighters. Biographical sketches: Book 2: Johanna Claus to Kurt Zierold. Published by the district leadership of the SED. 1st edition. Karl-Marx-Stadt 1972.
- Lutz Heydeck, Günther Hoppe, Jürgen John (eds.): Historical guide - sites and monuments of history in the districts of Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt. Urania Verlag, Leipzig 1981.
- Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Bund der Antifaschisten eV (ed.): Against forgetting. Chemnitz sites of memory and commemoration of the victims of the fascist dictatorship from 1933–1945. Radebeul 2000.
- From Alberti to Zöppel. 125 biographies on Chemnitz's history. Ed. Reintzsch Verlag, Radebeul 2000, ISBN 3-930846-22-5 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harlaß, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German KPD functionary and anti-fascist resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kappel near Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1944 |
| Place of death | Chemnitz |