- 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.
- In the next years he stayed in different countries where he was able to realise some more movies as a director like "Het meisje met den blauwen hoed" (1934), and "De vier mullers" (1935).
- He made his stage debut in Vieanna and in the next years followed engagements at different theaters in Austria.
- Rudolf Meinert was married with the screen writer Erna Thurk.
- After the fusion of his company with "Decla-Film" (later this company was renamed to Bioscop AG) of the legendary producer Erich Pommer, Rudolf Meinert was also engaged as a producer for some important German silent movies, above all "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" (1920).
- He made first experiences as a stage director from 1909 which inured to the benefit of him few years later in the film business.
- In 1907 he got an engagement at the Deutsches Theater in New York before he returned to Euorpe where he continued his stage career in Austria and Germany.
- He emigrated to France in 1937 but he was not in a safe place for a long time. According to Kay Weniger's "Es wird Dir im Leben mehr genommen als gegeben" Rudolf Meinert was caught in France in 1943 and transported to Drancy. After his deportation to the KZ Majdanek he was killed there probably between 1943 and 1945.
- His last cinematical works in Germany came at the beginning of the 30s into being with "Masken" (1930), Das Lied der Nationen" (1931) and "Die elf schillschen Offiziere" (1932). After 1933 his career came to an end in Germany.
- He made his film debut as an actor in 1912 with "Die lebende Brücke" (1912) but soon Rudolf Meinert became also established as a director and producer of his own company "Prometheus-Film.
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