Rudolf Herrnstadt

Politician

1903 – 1966

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Who was Rudolf Herrnstadt?

Rudolf Herrnstadt was a German journalist and communist politician – most notable for his anti-fascist activity as an exile from the Nazi German regime in the Soviet Union during the war and as a journalist in East Germany until his death, where he and Wilhelm Zaisser represented the anti-Ulbricht wing of the Socialist Unity Party in the 1950s.

Herrnstadt actively provided intelligence about Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

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Born
Mar 18, 1903
Gliwice
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
Aug 28, 1966

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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