Johannes Rode (SS member)

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Johannes Rode (born May 12, 1889 in Bad Segeberg ; † September 23, 1947 in Fischbek ) was a German police officer and at the time of National Socialism he was in command of the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and police prison in Fuhlsbüttel and the Langer Morgen labor education camp in Hamburg .

Life

After the First World War, Rode joined the Hamburg police service in early October 1919.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Rode became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 3,493,786). He also joined the SS (SS No. 253.086), in which he rose to become SS-Obersturmführer .

Rode moved to the state police in Hamburg at the beginning of November 1933, promoted to detective assistant. After the arrest of the first camp commandant of the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, Paul Ellerhusen, in the course of the so-called Röhm putsch , Rode was appointed as the new camp commandant in July 1934. Under Rode, arbitrary mistreatment of inmates by the guards was limited; however, this only marginally improved the poor conditions of the prisoners in custody. Under Rode, z. B. Imprisonment in the dark and deprivation of food ordered as camp penalties for prisoners. In addition, Rode personally abused Jews , pimps , homosexuals and transvestites , whereas he harassed opponents of the Nazi regime less.

A Germany report by the SPD in exile in Prague from 1936 also dealt with the conditions in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp under Rode:

“A new stage of interrogation begins in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. [...] Little by little, a call is made and everyone has to report to the commandant Hannes Rhode (sic!) In a military position. He has to read aloud to the commandant his alleged crimes under the protective custody order . The commandant then explains that lying is pointless here. If you have lost your memory, it would be refreshed every now and then. "

In April 1943 Willi Tessmann became Rode's deputy in the Fuhlsbüttel camp, which had been known as a police prison since 1936, and succeeded him as commandant in November 1943. Then Rode headed the Langer Morgen labor education camp . In May 1944, Rode was transferred to Gestapo Department IV I a (Communism and Marxism) of the Hamburg State Police Headquarters as a criminal inspector .

After the war ended, Rode was arrested in May 1946. Because of the crimes committed by him in Fuhlsbüttel, investigations were initiated against Rode. Rode died in the Fischbek internment camp in 1947 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Herbert Diercks: Documentation town house. The Hamburg police under National Socialism. Texts, photos, documents , Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , Hamburg 2012, p. 27.
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (Ed.): The place of terror. Early camps, Dachau , Emslandlager , Munich 2005, p. 117
  3. ↑ Johannes Rode on www.dws-xip.pl
  4. ^ A b Gertrud Meyer : Night over Hamburg. Reports and documents 1933-1945. Library of Resistance, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 125.
  5. ↑ Germany reports of Sopade, 3rd year No. 8, Prague 1936, in: Herbert Diercks: "Freedom lives!" Resistance and persecution in Hamburg 1933–1945. Texts, photos and documents . Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg 2010, p. 37.
  6. ^ Christl Wickert : Willi Tessmann - Commander of the Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Police Prison , Darmstadt 2004, p. 232f.
personal data
SURNAME Rode, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and camp commandant in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and police prison as well as the AEL Langer Morgen
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Segeberg
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1947
Place of death Fischbek