Rudolf Rausch

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Rudolf Rausch (born April 11, 1906 in Meiningen ; † January 17, 1984 ) was a German typesetter , youth functionary ( SAJ / Rote Falken ), resistance fighter against National Socialism and head of the Thuringian state police .

Life

Rausch came from a working class family . His father was a machinist . After attending elementary school, he learned the profession of typesetter. In 1920 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). From 1923 to 1925 he went on the " Walz ". In 1926 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), became a member of the Freethinker Association and the Red Falcons . He became the head of the SAJ sub-district Meiningen and state chairman of the Thuringian falcons. In 1933 he left the SPD and was active in the International Socialist Combat League (ISK). Rausch was with Hulda Rausch geb. Schlorke († 1988) married.

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he was arrested in 1937 and sentenced in Berlin at the end of May 1939 to three years and three months in prison for “preparing for high treason ” . His release from the Untermaßfeld prison took place in March 1941. After his release, he worked again in his profession for a printer and was then monitored by the Gestapo . He was not drafted into the Wehrmacht because he was “unworthy of military service”.

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, Rausch joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in July 1945 . He was hired by the state police and became area inspector for Thuringia south and west. Soon afterwards he became the deputy of police chief Reschke and after his dismissal in October 1946 as VP inspector, chief of the Thuringian state police. In August 1948, however, he was removed from office again because he lacked the required absolute party discipline. Rausch barely escaped a party expulsion process in 1949 as head of department in the Ministry of Labor . He then worked as the 1st district secretary of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) in the Suhl district.

With the formation of the Suhl district in 1952, he became a member of the SED district leadership and worked from 1953 to 1967 as the first secretary of the Hildburghausen district leadership of the SED. Since 1974 he was chairman of the Suhl district committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters.

Awards

literature

  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 562, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia (PDF; 1.5 MB). I. Half volume, published by: State Center for Political Education Thuringia, unchanged new edition 2005, p. 264
  2. ^ Neues Deutschland , October 17, 1946, p. 2.
  3. ^ Berliner Zeitung , October 7, 1958.
personal data
SURNAME Intoxication, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German state politicians (KPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1984