Rudolf Renner

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Bust of Rudolf Renner on Conertplatz in Dresden

Rudolf Renner (born March 27, 1894 in Beule , Schwelm district (Westphalia); † July 30, 1940 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was a German politician ( KPD ).

biography

Renner was born in Beule , a place in what is now the Wuppertal district of Nachbarebreck . The son of a beer merchant initially trained as a stone printer . During the First World War he became a member of the Spartacus League . After his arrest for anti-militarist propaganda, Renner was imprisoned until 1918.

He was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Elberfeld . After working as a reporter for the Volksblatt in 1924 and editing the Workers' Voice in 1925, Renner was elected to the Central Committee of the KPD in 1929 and became Political Secretary for Saxony . At the same time, he was a member of parliament from 1920, and later also chairman of the KPD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament . In 1932 he published the Sächsische Arbeiter-Zeitung in Leipzig .

Rudolf Renner's grave in the Heidefriedhof in Dresden

On February 7, 1933, Renner took part in the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the KPD in the sports store Ziegenhals near Berlin. Renner was imprisoned on April 11, 1933 and later sentenced to three years of forced labor, which he served in Waldheim prison. After his internment in the Sachsenburg concentration camp in 1936 and his transfer to Buchenwald in 1937 , he died in 1940 under unexplained circumstances. His grave is on the Heidefriedhof in Dresden.

Appreciation

Between 1984 and 1991 the wing path bridge in Dresden was called Rudolf-Renner-Brücke. Today's Conertplatz in the Löbtau district of Dresden was called Rudolf-Renner-Platz between 1945 and 1993. A bust of Renner is still on the square today. Rudolf-Renner-Strasse, located in the Dresden districts of Löbtau and Cotta , is now named after the politician (Rudolf Renner lived in this district at Hühndorfer Strasse 1 until his imprisonment). Between 1950 and 2000, Julius-Krause-Strasse in the Leipzig district of Stünz was also called Rudolf-Renner-Strasse, and there are also Rudolf-Renner-Strasse in Pirna and in Oderwitz in eastern Saxony . In the NVA , the 9th Motorized Rifle Regiment, which belonged to the 9th Panzer Division , used him as an honorary name. It was equipped with the then new BMP-2 armored personnel carrier. In Neusalza-Spremberg , the Obermarkt of the city was named Rudolf-Renner-Platz in his honor until the fall of the Wall (1990) , after which the square was given its old name again. At the "Ratskeller" (Obermarkt) there was also a commemorative plaque, which was removed and stored in the course of the renaming of the square. Their inscription reads: “ Rudolf Renner. Editor and member of the Saxon state parliament of the KPD. * 27.3.1894, + 30.7. 1940 in Buchenwald ”.

literature

  • Rudolf Renner. Striving towards the highest of humanity. Brief descriptions of the lives of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters . In: Contributions to the history of the Dresden workers' movement . Dresden 1959, issue 4, pp. 25-39
  • Erika Kücklich: Renner, Rudolf . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 380-381.
  • Rudolf Renner . In: German resistance fighters. 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 82-84.
  • Renner, Rudolf . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
  • Lutz Mohr : Rudolf Renner - a fighter's life for the cause of the working class . Greifswald / Neusalza-Spremberg: self-published 1975. 24 pp.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Renner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of participants
  2. ↑ Paper Workers 1800-1900. Archived from the original on June 13, 2007 ; Retrieved April 8, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Wing Bridge. In: Übigau online. Retrieved April 8, 2014 .
  4. ^ Streets and squares in Löbtau. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved April 8, 2014 .
  5. ^ Julius-Krause-Strasse. In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved April 8, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Renner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bump , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1940
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp