Rudolf Hartmann (politician, 1885)
Rudolf Hartmann (born December 11, 1885 in Demern , Mecklenburg ; † March 5, 1945 in Mauthausen concentration camp ) was a Low German writer and communist politician.
Life
After graduating from high school in Bützow, the son of a large Mecklenburg farmer began studying history , economics and philosophy in Freiburg, Berlin, Rostock and Erlangen, which he broke off in 1912. After working in his father's company for two years, he was called up for military service at the beginning of the First World War , after being wounded several times, he became a staunch opponent and refused to become an officer. After two years as a prisoner of war in France, Hartmann returned to Demern in 1920, became a writer and founded a political organization there in April 1922, the Freedom Association Demern . After discussions with politicians of the KPD such as the member of the state parliament Hugo Wenzel , Hartmann and 40 other members of the Freedom League joined the KPD.
In 1923 Hartmann, popular in the region, was elected to the Mecklenburg-Strelitz state parliament with the highest number of votes of all KPD candidates , to which he belonged until 1927. In 1926/27 he also belonged to the district party leadership of the KPD in Mecklenburg . In 1928 he was a member of the European Preparatory Farmers Committee and in 1931 a delegate to the European Farmers' Congress , during this period he gradually withdrew from politics and lived on his lands as a farmer, writer and private scholar .
During the time of National Socialism, Hartmann, who himself was subject to a writing ban, often supported persecuted KPD members. In December 1942 he was arrested after being denounced for defeatist statements that " degrade military strength " and in April 1943 he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which he served in the Dreibergen-Bützow prison. After the end of the prison sentence, the Reich Main Security Office ordered his imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , after which he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was murdered immediately after arriving in the gas chamber .
In Demern today a memorial plaque commemorates Rudolf Hartmann, and streets in several Mecklenburg towns are named after him. A large part of his literary work, which mostly deals with everyday life in his region in Low German, was only published by his son Rainer Hartmann after his death .
Works
- Riemels, Vertellers and Graffsprch . Rostock 2002 ISBN 3-935171-75-7
- Buernwies with an Ogenplinkern . Rostock 2002 ISBN 3-89954-010-7
- How läwt us rut ut't paradise . Rostock 2004 ISBN 3-89954-034-4
- Dat Leigen mütt tau hürn wäsen Rostock 2005 ISBN 3-89954-137-5
- From all's a bit as Mankkaakt ät Rostock 2007 ISBN 978-3-89954-243-1
literature
- Hartmann, Rudolf . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Hartmann in the GBV
- Literature by and about Rudolf Hartmann in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartmann, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Low German writer and communist politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Demern , Mecklenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1945 |
| Place of death | Mauthausen concentration camp |