Lahde labor education camp

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The Lahde labor education camp was a labor education camp near the East Westphalian town of Petershagen in the Minden-Lübbecke district in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Lahde district . It was set up by the Hanover Gestapo in May 1943 as the successor to the Liebenau labor education camp near Minden an der Weser and existed until April 1, 1945.

location

The Lahde labor education camp was about 60 kilometers west of Hanover in what was then the Minden district on the eastern bank of the Weser. At that time Lahde belonged as an independent municipality to the Windheim zu Lahde district . The branch camp in Steinbergen is located south of the Weser Mountains chain . There are traditionally quarries here. The accommodation was here in the former tithe barn of Arensburg Castle .

history

The Lahde labor education camp was founded in 1943 by the Gestapo Hanover control center in order to use prisoners as forced laborers in the construction of power plant projects in the Lahde area. Before that, employees of the Hanover Gestapo Office, headed by SS-Obersturmbannführer Johannes Rentsch, had contacted the local mayor in Lahde and announced that they would move their Liebenau labor education camp to Lahde. In addition to the East Workers' Camp in Lahde, this created another larger camp in the area, in which the PREAG work camp was converted and taken over as a work education camp. In the region, the Lahde power plant of PREAG , which was started in 1941 and completed in 1951, and the construction of the Petershagen barrage, which contributed to the navigability of the Weser from the Mittelland Canal to the Lahde power plant and also includes a run-of-river power plant on the left bank of the river, are to be supported. The camp in Liebenau, which provided forced laborers for the powder factory in Liebenau, was closed after the construction work there and relocated to Lahde.

The branch camp in Steinbergen replaced the permanent workforce of the quarry who had been drafted into the Wehrmacht. Ballast stones were produced , which were used to fill in bomb damage and as track ballast for the alignment of railway traffic routes.

The basis for the construction of the Lahde labor education camp was the construction of an imperial labor camp . The labor camp consisted of four wooden barracks with ten rooms each, each accommodating 15 to 20 prisoners. The camp was usually occupied by around 900 to 1,000 prisoners, 85 to 95 percent of whom were foreigners. There was also a food barracks and two or three barracks for administration and a medical area. Individual cells were housed in a stone bunker. In total, at least 7,000 men were detained there during the existence of the camp.

The treatment in the camp was considered particularly brutal. At times two to three men were killed every day. When the camp was closed, numerous prisoners were murdered. The camp was closed on April 1, 1945, and Allied troops arrived on April 4. The Lahde immigration camp was set up in the same area after the war . Here were displaced persons accommodated.

On March 11, 2003, the city of Petershagen entered the property into the list of monuments as a ground monument.

More than 260 Nazi victims were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Petershagen. Most of them were prisoners from the Lahde labor education camp.

The British military authorities, as the administrative authority in the British zone of occupation, to which the former labor education camp belonged, indicted over 20 people in two trials. One trial was directed against those primarily responsible for the camp administration, the second against the subordinate ranks of the guards and against some prison functionaries. This was supplemented by charges against actors in the Steinbergen satellite camp. The head of the Lahde labor education camp, SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Winkler, was arrested and sentenced in his apartment in Liebenau.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The work camp Liebenau in www.martinguse.de
  2. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: "Interior views from the camp", print edition of November 11, 2016, p. 9.
  3. ^ Hermann Kleinebenne: Das Ausländerlager Lahde, 1st edition, p. 38.
  4. ↑ "Labor education camps and labor policy in National Socialist Germany: The example of Lahde with the Steinbergen branch camp" ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Dissertation in the field of modern history in the department of culture and geosciences at the University of Osnabrück; Julia Beese - Kubba, Lauenhagen 2010, page 148 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / repositorium.uni-osnabrueck.de
  5. ^ "Labor education camps and labor policy in National Socialist Germany: The example of Lahde with the Steinbergen branch camp" ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Dissertation in the field of modern history in the department of culture and geosciences at the University of Osnabrück; Julia Beese - Kubba, Lauenhagen 2010, page 202 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / repositorium.uni-osnabrueck.de
  6. ^ Hermann Kleinebenne: The Lahde foreigners camp. P. 39.
  7. ↑ a b Nazi forced labor: "Arbeitsserziehungslager" Lahde , Göttingen City Archives, accessed on June 15, 2016
  8. ↑ a b Stayed here: Neue Westfälische, edition of March 25, 2005: Labor camp in Lahde is a ground monument / stone remains of the Hitler regime were the subject of an administrative court process , accessed on November 11, 2016.
  9. ↑ Left here: Mindener Tageblatt March 30, 2007: "Didn't throw soil at prisoners" / contemporary witness remembers life with the Lahde labor education camp / students lay wreaths on the memorial stone , accessed on November 11, 2016.
  10. ^ Jewish communities: Petershagen , accessed on November 11, 2016.
  11. ^ "Labor education camps and labor policy in National Socialist Germany: The example of Lahde with the Steinbergen branch camp" ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Dissertation in the field of modern history in the department of culture and geosciences at the University of Osnabrück; Julia Beese - Kubba, Lauenhagen 2010, page 21 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / repositorium.uni-osnabrueck.de
  12. ^ Hermann Kleinebenne: Das Ausländerlager Lahde, 1st edition, p. 59.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 11.4 ″  E