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- Birth nameRudolf Bürstein
- Rudolf Meinert was born on September 28, 1882 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and producer, known for Der Saratogakoffer (1917), John Rool (1916) and Die schöne Jolan (1918). He died in 1943 in Majdanek Concentration Camp, Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland.
- ChildrenBodo Meinert
- Rudolf Meinert was murdered in the Holocaust.
- He was forced to leave the country in 1933 because of his Jewish ancestry. The emigration led him to Prague, then to Vienna, Amsterdam and Paris. Film historians believed he died at the end of the second world war in London. his His nephew living in Haifa found out that Meinert, living in France,was arrested by the Gestapo and deported on March 6, 1943, with the transport number 51 from Drancy to Majdanek. From there, he never came back. Meinerts wife Erna, who was not Jewish, and his son Bodo reached the United States. Probably, they never came back to Germany.
- The director Rudolf Meinert first worked as a technician for different companies before he dedicated to the acting in 1904.
- As an artist with Jewish roots his fate was sealed in the National Socialism.
- During World War I he served in Galicia and was seriously injured in 1915. When he left the military he continued his film career with the new founded company "Meinert-Film"and he realised again numerous adventure movies, often with Hans Mierendorff playing the role of the detective Higgs.
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