Klagenfurt-Lendorf subcamp

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The Klagenfurt-Lendorf subcamp was a satellite camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp . It existed from November 19, 1943 to May 8, 1945 in the Klagenfurt district of Lendorf. Today the former SS Junker School , which was adjacent at the time, is used as Khevenhüller barracks by the Austrian Armed Forces to train the 25th Jäger Battalion .

history

Horse stable built by concentration camp prisoners. The concentration camp barrack was located on the now undeveloped area in the foreground.

Up to 130 prisoners from Mauthausen concentration camp (Germans, Austrians, Czechs, Poles, Italians, Russians, Spaniards, French, two Slovenes and a Serb) had to build barracks and an SS junker school there for the Waffen SS .

The client was the construction management of the Waffen SS and police in Klagenfurt . The work included the construction of barracks for horses and SS Junkers , the construction of (two?) Air raid tunnels (below the Koglsiedlung) and the construction of the extinguishing water pond and the swimming pool . The prisoners were also used to repair numerous bomb damage , mainly in the area of ​​the Klagenfurt train station. The prisoners' barracks, surrounded by a barbed wire fence and two watchtowers, are said to have stood in the barracks yard, outside the fence a barracks for the SS guards.

Before the camp was evacuated to the Loibl concentration camp on May 6 and 7, the prisoners had to demolish the two barracks. The camp was closed on May 8, 1945.

Re-use of the barracks

During the occupation, the barracks were used by the British troops. On August 22, 1956, the 25th Jäger Battalion of the Armed Forces was stationed in the "Lendorf Barracks". In 1967 the barracks were renamed "Khevenhüller barracks" after Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller .

Commemoration

The existence of the subcamp was long in the dark. In a letter from the Carinthian provincial government of October 19, 1954, it says: "... after detailed surveys it is reported that a subcamp of the former Mauthausen concentration camp never existed in Klagenfurt."

In the commemorative publication published by Jägerbataillon 25 on the 50th anniversary of its founding in 2006, the construction of parts of the barracks by concentration camp prisoners is not mentioned at all. It only says: "The barracks is one of the most frequently discussed military buildings in publications from the Nazi era." And "The groundbreaking ceremony took place in June 1938 ..."

On September 17, 2007, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the barracks by Peter Gstettner , Chairman of the Mauthausen Committee Carinthia / Koroška, ​​and Defense Minister Norbert Darabos . Rajmund Pajer , the last survivor of the subcamp, was also present at the ceremony . Afterwards, the alienation of a mural showing a Waffen SS soldier by the Graz artist Richard Kriesche was presented in the dining room of the barracks .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of the concentration camps and their external commands in accordance with Section 42 (2) BEG , No. 734, Klagenfurt / Austria, Mauthausen, November 19, 1943 to May 8, 1945.
  2. ↑ Mauthausen Memorial: List of satellite camps ( Memento from February 2, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ A b Peter Gstettner: The concentration camp in the Lendorfer barracks outside the gates of the city of Klagenfurt. In: Justice and Remembrance No. 4, May 2001.
  4. ^ Homepage of the Jäger Battalion 25
  5. ^ Letter from the Carinthian state government to the Ministry of the Interior, October 19, 1954, Zl. 11.176-1 / 1954.
  6. ↑ Festschrift 50 years Jägerbataillon 25, page 14.
  7. ↑ Austrian Armed Forces - Current - Darabos unveils a memorial plaque in the Klagenfurt Khevenhüller barracks

Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 56.1 ″  E