Andrzej Szablewski

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Andrzej Szablewski (born January 3, 1913 in Stary Radziejów , † March 13, 1942 in Hamburg ) was a Polish slave laborer .

Live and act

Andrzej Szablewski was born in Poland , where he grew up with four brothers and sisters each. He helped out on his parents' farm from a young age. Szablewski had strong horses and wagons with which he supported the construction of a nearby military airfield. He took out a loan for this, which he completely repaid a little later. At the beginning of 1940 he took Irena Malicka as his wife in his birthplace. She was 16 years old at the time of the marriage. During the Second World War , the National Socialists forcibly took Szablewski, his brother Kazimierz and their acquaintance Jan Kardasz to Hamburg against their will, where they were supposed to do forced labor. The place of work was the Hohenbuchen estate in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel . Together with his brother and the Pole Boleslaw Zawidzki, Szablewski shared an apartment on the estate and from April 17, 1940 had to work hard and dirty physically.

The NSDAP local group leader Walter Grimm was in charge of the estate and maintained good contacts with the Gestapo . After the end of the war, Bolesław Zawidzki reported at a trial in a British military court that Grimm had forbidden them to clean their clothes so that the men were not allowed to change their shirts for three months. In addition, Grimm often threatened operations by the Gestapo. Szablewski, who was illiterate, commissioned his brother several times to write letters to his wife in Poland to bring her to Hamburg, but this did not succeed.

During the time at Gut Hohenbuchen he made the acquaintance of the German Hildegard Lütten (died in 2007), who was married, had a little boy and was sexually molested by the estate manager Grimm. Since Lütten opposed Grimm's advances, Grimm reported her and Szablewski and insinuated that they both had a love affair, which the National Socialists regarded as forbidden. Lütten and Szablewski were then arrested. After an extorted confession, Ms. Lütten spent three years in the women's concentration camp in Ravensbrück , Szablewski was incarcerated in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp from August 5, 1941 . He was hanged on March 13, 1942 at 1:15 p.m. on the grounds of the Hohenbuchen estate. The Gestapo reported his death on April 22, 1942 at the registry office in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel . Szablewski's widow received a written notice of death from Hamburg in 1942. It said that her husband had been executed because of an affair with a German.

Looking back, Andrzej Szablewski was the first victim of so-called special treatment in Hamburg.

consequences

Memorial plaque with grave tray
Memorial plaque in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel

After the end of the war, the British military government brought a case against the death of Andrzej Szablewski in 1946 . The trial ended with three death sentences, including against Walter Grimm. Szablewski's widow and the other relatives only received a notification in March 2003 that Szablewski's alleged affair with Hildegard Lütten had been invented and that there was a grave in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Hildegard Lütten's husband filed for divorce during his war deployment without having contacted his wife. She married again after the end of the war and took the name Hildegard Lüdemann. Since 1999 she has received monthly payments from the Hamburg foundation "Help for those persecuted by Nazi". She was never officially rehabilitated.

memory

Since March 2003 a plaque in Hohenbuchenpark in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel has been commemorating Andrzej Szablewski. His grave can be found in the Ohlsdorf cemetery . In October 2016, a stumbling stone in memory of Andrzej Szablewski was inaugurated in front of the Hohenbuchen day care center.

literature

  • Andreas Seeger: Szablewski, Andrzej . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 378-379 .
  • Andreas Seeger : Andrzej Szablewski - a working life under compulsion, in: Forced Labor and Society, Contributions to the History of National Socialist Persecution in Northern Germany (Issue 8), pp. 145–162, ed. from the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Bremen 2004.
  • Andreas Seeger: The death of a forced laborer . Bremen 2003, Donat-Verlag ISBN 978-3-943425-63-5
  • Andreas Seeger: The death of a forced laborer . Bremen 2017, Donat-Verlag (2nd revised edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gravestone at genealogy.de
personal data
SURNAME Szablewski, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish slave laborer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Stary Radziejów
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1942
Place of death Hamburg