Warehouse G

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Warehouse G
Warehouse G
Saale harbor and warehouse G

The Warehouse G is a 1903 erected soil storage at Dessauer Ufer (now Dessauerstraße) in Hamburg district Kleiner Grasbrook .

history

The building, which was used as the subcamp Hamburg-Dessauer Ufer (Hamburg-Veddel) of the Neuengamme concentration camp from 1944 to 1945 , is located at the inland shipping port Saale port in the eastern part of the port of Hamburg within the free port that existed until 2012 . The warehouse has three floors and is divided into eight sections by fire walls . Each section has an external elevator with a wind house on the land and water side .

The since 1988 under monument protection standing Warehouse G is a type of building, which is virtually non-existent in Hamburg. It documents the historical form of warehousing outside of the Speicherstadt with its brick architecture typical of the time . Since 1997, goods have been handled in the building again. As a former free port warehouse, it is used, among other things, for handling groupage . In 2013, the monument protection office requested an expert opinion on the structural condition of the building, which was available after three years. The office asked for improvements, but the owner went bankrupt. In the meantime, the owner died and, according to a press release, the insolvency administrator is said to have sold the building to the widow of the former owner. In 2018 it was reported that the building is in very poor condition and due to inadequate statics it is expected to sag towards the water.

Subcamp Dessauer Ufer

Commemorative plaque for the Dessauer Ufer subcamp

During the Second World War , the building was a satellite camp Dessauer Ufer of the Neuengamme concentration camp to house forced laborers used.

From June 20 to September 30, 1944, up to 1,500 Jewish women from Hungary and the Czech Republic were housed in the warehouse, who had to clean up the refineries and destroyed buildings of other companies in the port. In October 1944, 2,000 male prisoners were brought to the satellite camp. The majority of the prisoners were deployed to oil companies near the port for cleanup work. One command with around 100 prisoners was deployed at Mineralöl-Werke Ernst Jung , one with 120 men at Oelwerke Julius Schindler and another with 80 prisoners at Rhenania-Ossag . Commands were also used in the Bill brewery, the waterworks and track construction on the Reichsbahn . A commando had to build anti-tank trenches in the Hamburg area.

While most of the prisoners were on duty, the warehouse was badly damaged in an Allied bombing raid on October 25, 1944, in which many of the approximately 200 prisoners who were sick were killed. Around 1,500 of the surviving prisoners were then transferred to the newly established Fuhlsbüttel satellite camp. The building was repaired and again took in around 1,500 prisoners from the Fuhlsbüttel satellite camp, which was dissolved on February 15, 1945. The Dessauer Strasse subcamp was finally evacuated on April 14, 1945 and the prisoners relocated. First they were divided between the Hamburg satellite camps Hammerbrook (Spaldingstrasse) and Rothenburgsort (Bullenhuser Damm), then had to march to the main camp XB in Sandbostel (60 km west of Hamburg), where they were liberated by British troops on April 29, 1945.

Commemoration

A plaque commemorates this part of the building's history. A stumbling block reminds of the forced laborer Margarethe Müller (1899–1944) at her former place of work in Dessauer Ufer . In 1995, a mural by the artists Cecilia Herrero and Hildegund Schuster was realized for the women of the Dessauer Ufer subcamp as part of the FrauenFreiluftGalerie (Neumühlen 16-20).

Web links

Commons : Dessauer Ufer subcamp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Eusterhus: A piece of history that crumbles. In: WORLD. August 6, 2018, accessed September 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Conservation status 2018 , report on welt.de from August 6, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2018
  3. ↑ Tobias Piekatz and Friederike Ulrich: Historic warehouse in the harbor is about to deteriorate. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. August 8, 2016, accessed September 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Memorials in Hamburg hamburg.de, p. 69 (PDF).
  5. ↑ a b Marc Buggeln: Hamburg-Dessauer Ufer (men) . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , pp. 396-399.
  6. ^ Conceição Feist: A stumbling block in the port . In: HafenCity Zeitung , June 1, 2013, p. 21, accessed on September 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ Margarethe Müller (nee Meissl) * 1899 . In: Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg , accessed on September 3, 2017.
  8. ^ Mural for the women of the Dessauer Ufer subcamp. Neumühlen 16-20 (Ottensen) . ( Memento from May 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Gedenkstätten in Hamburg , accessed on September 3, 2017.

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 38 ″  E