Max Liedtke

Max Liedtke ( born December 25, 1894 in Prussian -Holland, Prussia, † 1955 in Sverdlovsk ) was a German journalist. He was honored as Righteous Among the Nations in the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in 1993.

Liedtke was 1929-1937 Publishing Director of Greifswald newspaper. As a major in the Wehrmacht and the local commander of the eastern Polish city of Przemysl he saved, at the suggestion of his adjutant Albert Battel out in July 1942 about 500 Jews from Przemysl from deportation to the Belzec extermination camp by the SS, while he and the bridge over the San hence the could block access to the ghetto, to prevent the SS in the deportation of the Jewish population. He was then demoted to the front in the Caucasus. From there he went on foot to Gdansk, from where he was evacuated to Bornholm. He was delivered to the Soviet Union and died in 1955 in Soviet captivity. He was awarded on 24 June 1993 as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.