Julius Adolf Petersen

Lord von Barmbeck is a redirect to this article. For the feature film, see Der Lord von Barmbeck .

Julius Adolf Petersen (* October 7, 1882 , † November 21, 1933 ) was a professional criminal and bar owner in Hamburg - Barmbek , called "Lord von Barmbeck" (Barmbek was then still spelled with "ck").

Life

Petersen ran his pub in the basement of this house

Petersen came from Hamm-Süd . He grew up in poor conditions and in 1896 moved with his parents to Heitmannstrasse in southern Barmbek. From 1904 he ran a pub on the corner of Beim Alten Schützenhof and Bartholomäusstrasse, where coal workers and burglars frequented. He became the head of a criminal gang which is said to have had up to 200 members and which was first called the "Barmbeck burglar society" and later the "Petersen group". Some of his fellow thugs were called "Lockenfietsche", "Rabenmax" or "Schlachterkarl". Adolf liked to call his pub "Kaschemme" and his tools for breaking open the safes "Nibbling dishes".

In his memoirs ( written in Fuhlsbüttel prison in 1927 ) , he called himself a “goat-legged Mephisto disciple who succumbed to the curse of evil deed”. In the course of time, the Hamburg police put 20 meters of files on him, 200 offenses were tried against him over the years, 400 people had to testify, 3,000 arrest warrants were issued based on his extensive confessions.

He was nicknamed "Lord von Barmbeck" because of his always correct clothing and his thug honor, according to which gang members caught were provided with good defense lawyers and their families with support.

His son Hatzel emerged from his marriage to Helmi Petersen (of the same name, but not related). After his divorce he lived with Frieda Goedje .

In 1920 he became known in the city for the attack on the post office in Susannenstrasse, in which he and an accomplice stole 221,000 marks. After serving several years of imprisonment for burglary, theft and robbery, he hanged himself in 1933 in the remand prison.

Petersen's life story was filmed in 1973 by Ottokar Runze under the title Der Lord von Barmbeck . Martin Lüttge played the main role. In 2005, the biographical play Der Lord von Barmbeck by Frank Göhre , Ulrich Tukur and Ulrich Waller was performed in Hamburg's St. Pauli Theater .

In the years 2011 to 2013 there were plans to demolish the house of the former pub. After protests from local residents, the house was placed under monument protection and extensively renovated from autumn 2013. The resulting condominiums were offered at high prices under “Lord-von-Barmbeck”.

A café at the intersection of Am Schützenhof and Bartholomäusstraße is named after Petersen's nickname.

literature

• Petersen, Julius Adolf . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 319-320 .
• Julius Adolf Petersen and Helmut Ebeling (eds.): Der Lord von Barmbeck: The life of the infamous infiltrator Julius Adolf Petersen, told by himself , Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1973.

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Adolf Petersen in the catalog of the German National Library