Rudolf Herrnstadt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Herrnstadt

German politician

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1903

Place of Birth: Gliwice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 28-Aug-1966

Profession: politician, archivist, resistance fighter, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Rudolf Herrnstadt (18 March 1903 – 28 August 1966) 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 (SED) in the 1950s. Herrnstadt actively provided intelligence about Nazi Germany and Poland to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.