Rudolf Herrnstadt
Rudolf Herrnstadt (18 March 1903, Gleiwitz [Gliwice] – 28 August 1966, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt) 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 to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Personal facts
| Birth date | January 01, 1903 |
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| Date of death | January 01, 1966 |