Ludwig Ruckdeschel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German politician
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Place of Birth: Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
About Ludwig Ruckdeschel
- Ludwig Ruckdeschel (15 March 1907 – 8 November 1986) was the Nazi Gauleiter of Bayreuth during final month of the Gau's existence before the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945.
- Before this, from 1933 to 1941, he served as the deputy of Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler, whom he had executed on orders by Martin Bormann.
- From 1933 to 1945 he was also a member of the German Parliament, the Reichstag. During the Second World War Ruckdeschel served in the Waffen-SS, rising to the rank of a Sturmbannführer, a rank equivalent to a major.
- After the war he was arrested in 1947 and eventually sentenced to 13 years in prison but released in 1952.
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