Rudolf "Rudi" Opitz (1908–1939) was a German lithographer,
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor ...
opponent and victim.
His name appears on the Rudi-Opitz-Straße, a service road (''Anliegerstraße'') in
Leipzig-Gohlis. The Gohlis tram depot (''Straßenbahnhof'') was named ''Jugendbahnhof „Rudi Opitz“'' from 1950 to 1994.
From 1992 to 2004, ''Mittelschule „Rudi Opitz“'' was the official, but seldom-used, name of the 94th School (
Secondary school
A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...
), Schulgebäude Miltitzer Weg 3,
Leipzig-Grünau. To 1992, ''Rudi-Opitz-Oberschule'' has been the official name of the previous polytechnic high school at the same location.
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Leipzig Lexikon(André Loh-Kliesch)
German activists
Assassinated activists
1908 births
1939 deaths
German painters
German artists
German male painters
German male artists
German lithographers
German people who died in Buchenwald concentration camp
20th-century lithographers
20th-century German engravers
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