Rudolf Hennig (politician)

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Rudolf Hennig (born March 11, 1895 in Danzig ; †  October 11, 1944 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

Life

Born in Gdansk, Hennig grew up in Düsseldorf from early childhood. He was a carpenter and in 1921 was elected chairman of the Central Association of Carpenters.

In 1920 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He initially worked as an instructor in the Düsseldorf sub-district . He later represented his party in the Düsseldorf city council. Hennig was elected to the Rhenish Provincial Parliament in 1926 and was a member of the Reichstag for Düsseldorf's constituencies from 1930 to 1933 . He succeeded Fritz Fränken in the role of secretary of the subdistrict Siegen , which included the districts of Siegen and Altenkirchen and parts of the neighboring districts.

After power was handed over to the NSDAP and its allies, Hennig was arrested and imprisoned in June 1933. On March 26, 1934, he was sentenced by the People's Court in Berlin to a two-year prison term for “preparing for high treason ” , which he served in Plötzensee prison and in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. Immediately after the end of his prison sentence, he was taken into “ protective custody ” and taken to the Esterwegen concentration camp . In 1937 he was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was shot on October 11, 1944 along with 26 other prisoners, including former Reichstag deputies Ernst Schneller and Mathias Thesen . On November 24, 1944, the commandant's office in Sachsenhausen justified the shooting against Hennig's wife with "attempted mutiny and incitement".

Honors

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

In the German Democratic Republic a school was named after Rudolf Hennig. Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Hennig near the Reichstag in Berlin . In addition, in June 2004 , a stumbling block designed by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig was set at Fischerstraße 21 in Düsseldorf .

literature

  • Hennig, Rudolf . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Heinz Schumann, Gerda Werner: Fight for the human right. Life pictures and last letters from anti-fascist resistance fighters . Ed .: Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1958, p. 658 .

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Hennig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 268f.
  2. ↑ Quoted in Schumacher, MdR , p. 268.
  3. ↑ Dietrich Zühlke: Between Mulde and Geyerschem Wald , 1978, p. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German craftsmen and politicians (KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1944
Place of death Sachsenhausen concentration camp