Background
Rudnick was born in Sichts (today Żychce, Kashubia, Poland) in the Prussian Province of West Prussia and grew up in Deutsch Krone.
Rudnick was born in Sichts (today Żychce, Kashubia, Poland) in the Prussian Province of West Prussia and grew up in Deutsch Krone.
He was active in catholic Youth organizations and founded a local group of young Catholics in 1935-1936, which caused persecution by the Nazi authorities including a house search and an interrogation by the Gestapo. After World World War II Rudnick was expelled from his hometown, which became Polish and worked at the administration of Rheine in 1945-1949. In 1950 Rudnick founded a clothing company, which became one of the leading German shirt-producers with about 1500 employees.
Already throughout the 1960s and 70"s Rudnick started to approach textile factories in Eastern Europe such as Wolczanka South America in Łódź.
Rudnick organised several transports of humanitarian aid throughout the Martial law in Poland.
He also engaged in the political reconstruction and was a founding member of the local Christian Democratic Union of the Kreis Steinfurt and their Youth organisation Junge Union.