Rudolf Langendorf
Rudolf Langendorf (born December 29, 1894 in Hausen im Wiesental / Baden, † September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart ) was a German communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Langendorf was the son of a petty-bourgeois - Catholic family. After completing his commercial training, he worked as an accountant . In the November Revolution he was a member of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council of Loerrach . During this time he met his future wife Antonie Glanzmann . Langendorf joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Mannheim in 1919 and sympathized with the Communist Workers' Party of Germany (KAPD) in the early 1920s . In 1925 , Langendorf was sentenced to a three-year prison term. After his release, Langendorf became an employee of the KPD district leadership in Baden , where he was primarily responsible for selling literature . He was arrested in March 1933. Until 1935 he was in " protective custody " in the Heuberg , Ankenbuck and Kislau concentration camps . After his release, he sought contact with the Baden KPD functionary Georg Lechleiter, whom he had known from the Weimar period . With this and other communists he systematically built up the Lechleiter group from 1941 , one of the strongest communist resistance groups. In Mannheim she not only produced leaflets, but also the illegal newspaper "Der Vorbote", which she distributed in large companies until the group was "blown up" . Rudolf Langendorf was arrested in February 1942, sentenced to death in May 1942 together with Georg Lechleiter and other resistance fighters, and executed in Stuttgart on September 15, 1942.
family
The Langendorf couple had two sons, Kurt and Hans, who was shot by the Wehrmacht while attempting to overflow.
Honor
- In Mannheim a street is named after Rudolf Langendorf.
Web links
- The Harbinger of the VVN-BdA Heidelberg case
- Rudolf Langendorf in the exhibition "Resistance against National Socialism" in Mannheim
- Newspaper history of the city of Mannheim
literature
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Second, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3320021306 ( online )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langendorf, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hausen in Wiesental |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1942 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |