Poppenhausen Memorial

Monument (2014)

The Poppenhausen Memorial commemorates the execution of Buchenwald prisoners during a deterrent carried out by the Gestapo on May 11, 1942 . It lies on the road between Poppenhausen and Einöd in the Hildburghausen district .

history

In the forest on the road to Einöd, about two kilometers north of Poppenhausen and three kilometers east of Hellingen, there has been a memorial since 1966/67 that commemorates a massacre on May 11, 1942. There, in a reprisal on the orders of were Reich SS nineteen Polish prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Polish forced laborers in January Sowka by the SS hanged .

The execution took place on three gallows erected for this purpose . The forced laborers Jan Sówka and Nikolaus Stadtnik had previously stabbed the police chief Albin Gottwalt at the same spot on April 26, 1942 after he had beaten them up. Nikolaus Stadtnik escaped and Jan Sówka was arrested at the Bamberg train station . All Polish forced laborers in the area had to be present at the execution. In addition, district administrators, district leaders and other representatives of the party and state were on site.

The circumstances of this terrorist action were researched by Bernd Ahnicke from Hildburghausen. Afterwards, on May 11, 2014, a new plaque was unveiled at the crime scene with the names of all 20 victims in the presence of their bereaved families. The German teacher from the vocational school in Kolno , Urszula Banach, found out almost all the families of the victims and invited them to the unveiling of the memorial plaque.

The victims

serial no.	First and Last Name	Date of birth	father	mother	place of birth
1	Piotr Laskowski	June 29, 1917	Stanislaw Tomiak	Wiktoria Szewczyk	Chodybki , Kalisz district
2	Józef Pikur	February 4, 1919	Unknown	Anna Sawka born Picure	Sokal near Konotopa, Lwów Voivodeship
3	Edward Broszko	April 16, 1921	Mikołaj Broszko	Rozalia born Wojtowicz	Susiec , Majdan Sopocki parish, Tomaszów district
4th	Stefan Tokarski	January 20, 1915	Stanislaw Tokarski	Helena born Abramov	Rykały , Grójec County
5	Kazimierz Skurczyński	March 13, 1920	Wincenty Skurczyński	Helena born Ćwiklińska	Sosnowiec
6th	Stanislaw Kaprzyk	February 10, 1920	Stanislaw Kaprzyk	Natalia born That one	Dąbrowa , Katowice County
7th	Tadeusz Guzek	March 24, 1911	Wladyslaw Guzek	Aniela born Brzezińska	Ignackowo , Lipno County (Kuyavian-Pomerania): Lipno
8th	Nikodem Zawadzki	November 17, 1922	Jan Zawadzki	Marianna born Ceglarek	Julijanów
9	Wladyslaw Pasiak	May 21, 1912	Michał Pasiak	Elżbieta b. Dąbrowka	Pabianice
10	Michał Makowski	July 28, 1920	Franciszek Makowski	Natalia born Antoniuk	Konotopy at Hrubieszów
11	Jan Smolarek	October 19, 1915	Jan Smolarek	Agnieszka born Klimczak	Malenia , Buczek commune, Łask district
12	Bronislaw Pokorski	October 17, 1909	Andrzej Pokorski	Maria born Orlenik	Cząstków , Łask County
13	Stanislaw Kaźmierczak	October 18, 1916	Szczepan Kaźmierczak	Maria born Dąbrowska	Kobyla Łąka
14th	Leon Jaroch	July 18, 1916	Jan Jaroch	Franciszka born Smolińska	Świekatowo , Świecko District (German Schwetig)
15th	Wladyslaw Sokal	January 6, 1905	Paweł Sokal	Marianna born Parucl	Sinołęka , Mińsk District
16	Jan Przybyła	June 20, 1913	Marcin Przybyła	Magdalena born Zuborova	Mýto pod Ďumbierom , Brezno nad Hronom County , Slovakia
17th	Jan Jaros	January 7, 1920	Józef Jaros	Stanisława née Kuszarzik?	Oraczew, Łódź district
18th	Adam Szczerkowski	November 29, 1904	Piotr Szczerkowski	Józefa born Olewińska	Działoszyn , Wieluń County
19th	Henryk Wajdenfeld	December 25, 1915	Piotr Wajdenfeld	Felicjanna born Proniatowska	Łódź
20th	Jan Sówka	October 19, 1922	Adam Sówka	Antonina born Kocemba	Thayngen / Switzerland

gallery

Prisoners waiting to be executed
Jan Sówka
Monument - state 2013
Unveiling of the plaque
Unveiling of the plaque
Unveiling of the plaque

Web links

Commons : Poppenhausen Memorial - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Katja Wollschläger: Horror in Einöd: Memorial smeared with Nazi symbol. In: inSuedthueringen.de. Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft, September 19, 2013, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
↑ Katja Wollschläger: The terrible pictures remain. In: inSuedthueringen.de. Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft, August 8, 2012, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
^ Frank Spieth, Ursula Krause-Schmitt: Thuringia . In: Study group for research and communication of the history of the German resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945 . tape 8 . VAS, Verlag für Akad. Schriften, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 124 f .
^ Reinhard Tenhumberg: Atonement measures in Poppenhausen. Retrieved March 7, 2015 .
↑ Falk Zimmermann: Documents against forgetting. In: inSuedthueringen.de. Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft, May 9, 2012, accessed on March 7, 2015 .

50.25535 10.7239Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 19.3 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 26" E

[wollschlger-entsetzen-1] Katja Wollschläger: Horror in Einöd: Memorial smeared with Nazi symbol. In: inSuedthueringen.de. Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft, September 19, 2013, accessed on March 7, 2015 .

[wollschläger-bilder-2] Katja Wollschläger: The terrible pictures remain. In: inSuedthueringen.de. Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft, August 8, 2012, accessed on March 7, 2015 .

[wegweiser-3] Frank Spieth, Ursula Krause-Schmitt: Thuringia . In: Study group for research and communication of the history of the German resistance 1933–1945 (Ed.): Local history guide to sites of resistance and persecution 1933–1945 . tape 8 . VAS, Verlag für Akad. Schriften, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 , p. 124 f .

[sühne-4] Reinhard Tenhumberg: Atonement measures in Poppenhausen. Retrieved March 7, 2015 .

[zimmermann-vergessen-5] Falk Zimmermann: Documents against forgetting. In: inSuedthueringen.de. Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft, May 9, 2012, accessed on March 7, 2015 .