Rudolf Opitz
Rudolf Opitz was a Leipzig lithographer, born in 1908 and killed in 1939 as an opponent of the Nazi Party. His work involved printing with a flat stone or metal plate. Leipzig remembers his resistance through several everyday places across the city.
A service road in Gohlis bears the name Rudi-Opitz-Straße. The Gohlis tram depot carried the name Jugendbahnhof „Rudi Opitz“ from 1950 to 1994. In Grünau, the school on Miltitzer Weg was called Rudi-Opitz-Oberschule before 1992 and Mittelschule „Rudi Opitz“ until 2004. These street, transport and school connections keep his memory visible in Leipzig’s urban landscape.
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