Rudolf Wunderlich

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Rudolf Wunderlich (born March 10, 1912 in Leipzig , † April 5, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German politician and anti-fascist.

Life

Rudolf Wunderlich was trained as a typesetter ; he was involved in the German labor movement as a worker athlete and functionary of the Communist Youth Association as well as a temporary member of the KPD opposition .

Because of his work in the political resistance against National Socialism , he was briefly arrested in 1933 and sentenced to four years in prison in 1935. In 1939 he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1942 he was transferred to the Lichterfelde satellite camp and became the camp's first elder . From there he managed to escape in 1944.

In the subsequent illegality , which lasted until the liberation at the end of April 1945, Rudi Wunderlich wrote a factual report about his imprisonment times.

In the post-war period he was involved in the memorial work of the GDR as a research assistant on the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters , until in 1970 he made the "mistake" of inviting the former prisoner Robert Havemann to the inauguration of the memorial in Brandenburg / Havel .

reception

Rudi Wunderlich commemorative trip 2018: Arrival at Schliemannstraße 9.

The initiative KZ-Außenlager Lichterfelde eV has been organizing an annual Rudi Wunderlich commemorative trip to commemorate the successful escape on June 10, 1944. It leads from the former economic administration main office to Rudi Wunderlich's refuge in Schliemannstrasse.

literature

  • Joachim S. Hohmann (editor), Günther Wieland (editor): Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg 1939 to 1944: The records of concentration camp inmate Rudolf Wunderlich. Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt 2015, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3631665282 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.stadtrand-nachrichten.de/rudi-wunderlich-gedenkfahrt-steglitz-prenzlauer-berg/
  2. ↑ Alexander Lange, packs, Broadway cliques, Young Guard: Leipzig youth groups in the Third Reich . Cologne, Weimar, 2010, p. 262.
  3. ↑ http://guenter-morsch.de/tag/rudi-wunderlich/
personal data
SURNAME Wonderful, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wonderful, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD) and anti-fascist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1988
Place of death Berlin