Rudolf Maus (resistance fighter)

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Rudolf Maus (born March 3, 1902 in Chemnitz , † September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Maus lived at Heidestrasse 20 in Mannheim from 1912 until his death in 1942 . After attending school, he learned the locksmith's trade. He then found a job at the Strebelwerk. Politically, he was close to the SPD without belonging to it.

In 1939 he met the KPD functionary Jakob Faulhaber and from then on took part in organizing the resistance in the Mannheim armaments factories. Together with Willi Probst, he founded a resistance group in the Strebelwerke. As a member of the Lechleiter group , Maus took part in the printing and distribution of the opposition underground newspaper Der Vorbote during the Second World War as an opponent of Nazi politics . He was arrested for this in March 1942 and sentenced to death two months later (see also Stuttgart Regional Court # Lechleitergruppe ).

literature

  • Heinz Hoffmann : Mannheim, Madrid, Moscow. Experience from three decades. Military publishing house: Berlin 1985
  • Luise Kraushaar et al .: German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1970, Volume 1, pp. 628-631
  • Fritz Salm : In the shadow of the hangman . Frankfurt am Main 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other information: March 4, 1902 in Graz , in: Erich Matthias , Hermann Weber (Ed.): Resistance against National Socialism in Mannheim . Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-923003-27-7 , p. 332
personal data
SURNAME Mouse, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1942
Place of death Stuttgart