Rudolf Klug

"Table with 12 chairs" memorial in Hamburg-Niendorf

Rudolf Klug (born October 8, 1905 in Hamburg , † March 28, 1944 in Beistfjord / Norway) was a German communist educator , resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Klug came from a Hamburg working class family . His father was a dock worker. At the age of eleven he had to contribute to the family's livelihood. Because he was busy and the money to pay for studies mustered themselves for the most part, he studied after obtaining his university education . After completing his exams , he found employment at the free, reform-pedagogical Telemann School . Klug gained a personal relationship with his students. He supported the idea of ​​a further training opportunity for young workers and was one of the founders of the “ Proletarian Volksheim youth ”. In 1929 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD). Because he was one of those whom a bourgeois council majority distrusted because of his proximity to the KPD, he also joined the Interest Group of Opposition Teachers (IOL) in 1931 . After the KPD had put him up as a candidate for the state election , he was dismissed from school in 1931 . After parents and students protested, his dismissal was reversed with the support of the high school councilor Fritz Köhne and converted into a transfer to the school on Breitenfelder Straße .

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, he was completely removed from school service. He had also spoken out publicly against the conformity of the unions . From then on he earned his living in a coffee shop, for which he cycled coffee to customers. The management of the IOL had decided to split up into smaller groups; one of them was now headed by Klug. As a driver in customer service , he was able to keep in touch with the others, distribute anti-fascist pamphlets and coordinate projects. When the Gestapo became aware of his resistance activities, he was taken into " protective custody " on May 25, 1933 . A court sentenced him to one year in prison . When he was released, he had to do forced labor in the youth home “ Puan Klent ” on Sylt . Then he continued his customer service in the coffee shop of the resistance fighter Kurt Adams and was able to strengthen the connection with the other IOL teacher groups. In 1935 he was arrested again and sentenced by a court for " high treason " to an unknown prison term. Once again he fell victim to a mass arrest by the Gestapo in 1937 and was immediately transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After his release from the concentration camp, he joined the resistance group “ Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen ” in 1940 . After his revoked "military worthiness" had been revoked, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 and initially used in the POW camp Stalag XB Sandbostel and from July 1943 in a POW camp in Norway to guard Soviet prisoners of war . He used this function to establish contact with Soviet prisoners and appointed Norwegian resistance fighters. He was arrested on February 26, 1944 for allegedly giving Soviet prisoners of war the opportunity to flee to neutral Sweden, but he was able to escape and hide. He was betrayed and arrested again. On March 15, 1944, a court martial sentenced him to death . The sentence was on March 28, 1944 enforced . Rudolf Klug rests on the Narvik war cemetery.

Rudolf Klug was married to his wife Margareta.

Honors

Stumbling block for Rudolf Klug at Barmbeker Straße 93 in Winterhude .

• In 1981 the Eimsbüttel district assembly decided to name the streets of a planned new development area for eleven resistance fighters. As a result, a street was named " Rudolf-Klug-Weg "
• The local committee of the Niendorf district decided to erect a memorial to the eleven resistance fighters and Nazi victims. In 1987 the Düsseldorf artist Thomas Schütte created the memorial “ Table with 12 Chairs ”, one of which is dedicated to Rudolf Klug.
• A stumbling block has been laid in front of his house at Barmbeker Strasse 93 in Hamburg-Winterhude .

literature

• Edith Burgard, Herbert Diercks , Rose-Marie Zahrndt: Rudolf Klug, a teacher does not adapt , with a foreword by B. Halfpap. Ed .: Bund der Antifaschisten in Hamburg, 1982.

Web links

• Rudolf Klug's biography.Retrieved August 25, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 25, 2011