Rudolf Margolius

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rudolf Margolius (born August 31, 1913 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † December 3, 1952 in Prague) was a Czech politician, deputy foreign trade minister from 1949 to 1952 and a co-defendant in the Slansky trial in November 1952.

Life

Rudolf Margolius comes from a well-off family in Prague . After his high school graduation, he studied law, he obtained his doctorate 1937. 1941 he was first in the ghetto of Lodz brought and then to the concentration camp Auschwitz and Dachau deported. After the war, he became convinced that pre-war systems could not be reformed, and for this reason he joined the Communist Party in 1945.

As a result of his numerous travels, he became an economist, particularly in the field of foreign trade, and held several functions in government. It is possible that it was precisely his work and his contacts with Western European partners that contributed to his arrest on January 10, 1952 and assigned to the alleged group of conspirators around Rudolf Slansky . In the well-known show trial, which was tried before the newly established State Court , he was sentenced to death and executed on December 3rd .

Margolius was rehabilitated in 1963. In 1968 he received the Order of the Republic , one of the highest honors in Czechoslovakia, from the then President Ludvík Svoboda in memoriam .

References

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Igor Lukeš, Čistý character ve špinavé době , in Lidové noviny , November 20, 2008, lidovky.cz / ...
  2. ↑ Czech 'Martyr' Honored, Executed in 1952, in The Scotsman , May 16, 1968

literature

  • Jan Gerber : A trial in Prague. The people against Rudolf Slánský and comrades, Göttingen / Bristol 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-37047-6
  • Artur London: I admit. The trial of Rudolf Slansky . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-04500-6
  • Heda Margolius Kovaly: A Jew in Prague. Under the shadow of Hitler and Stalin . From the American by H.-H. Harbort. Rowohlt, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87134-035-9
  • Ivan Margolius: Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th Century . Wiley, London 2006, ISBN 0-470-02219-1
  • Ivan Margolius: Praha za zrcadlem: Putování 20. stoletím . Argo, Praha 2007, ISBN 978-80-7203-947-0

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Margolius, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1952
Place of death Prague