Rudolf Herrnstadt

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German politician (1903-1966)

JournalistsLived 1903 to 1966 · aged 63

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Rudolf Herrnstadt was a German journalist and communist politician. After abandoning his law studies in 1922, Herrnstadt became a convinced communist.

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Herrnstadt c. 1930s

Herrnstadt (second row, second from left) at the first session of the Volkskammer, 1950

Walter Ulbricht (left) with Herrnstadt, 1951

A sketch of Herrnstadt, 1952

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Rudolf Herrnstadt was a German journalist and communist politician. After abandoning his law studies in 1922, Herrnstadt became a convinced communist. Despite his bourgeois origins, he was accepted into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1931 and worked for the Soviet military intelligence service Glawnoje Raswedywatelnoje Uprawlenije. As a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt, he worked in Prague (1930), Warsaw and Moscow (1933). He emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1939, days before the Invasion of Poland, where he was active in the fight against the Nazi state as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Freies Deutschland in the National Committee for a Free Germany from 1944 during the German-Soviet War.