Ahrensbök concentration camp

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The building of the former Ahrensbök concentration camp - today the site of the Ahrensbök memorial

The Ahrensbök concentration camp (mostly referred to as Ahrensbök concentration camp ) was an early (“wild”) concentration camp in Ahrensbök in Schleswig-Holstein from October 1933 to May 1934.

The detainees have been mostly to Nazi opponents - mostly communists , social democrats , trade unionists - and others the Nazis undesirables.

history

After the “ seizure of power ” by the NSDAP , the head of the NSDAP in Eutin, Johann Heinrich Böhmcker, made arbitrary arrests. The prisoners were initially held in the prison in Eutin ( Eutin concentration camp ).

From October 3, 1933, the prisoners in Holstendorf near Ahrensbök were housed in the building of a former factory. A total of 300 prisoners were held in the Ahrensbök concentration camp - an average of 50 to 60 people at the same time. The prisoners were u. a. used in road construction. There were no deaths. According to former inmates in post-war trials, they were brutally beaten, mistreated and publicly humiliated.

The building in which the “Protective Custody Camp Ahrensboek” was located in 1933/34

In December 1933, the inmates moved to an empty shoe shop in the center of Ahrensbök (Plöner Straße), which is also known as the “Protective Custody Camp Ahrensbök”.

The Ahrensbök concentration camp was dissolved on May 9, 1934 (and a school was subsequently set up in the building).

Commemoration

The Ahrensbök memorial is located in the building of the “wild” Ahrensbök concentration camp , which commemorates and documents it. In five permanent exhibitions, pictures and texts show that terror and the consequences of war between 1933 and 1945 did not only take place in distant places. National Socialist terror also reigned in communities such as Ahrensbök and in regions such as the Lübeck part of the Free State of Oldenburg - later: Ostholstein in Schleswig-Holstein.

literature

  • Jörg Wollenberg : Ahrensbök - a small town under National Socialism. Concentration Camp - Forced Labor - Death March. Edition Temmen : Bremen undated
  • Jörg Wollenberg: The Ahrensbök-Holstendorf concentration camp in the Oldenburg region of Lübeck - in: Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel: Terror without a system - the first concentration camps under National Socialism 1933–1935, Berlin 2001
  • Jörg Wollenberg: Our school was a concentration camp. Documents on labor service, concentration camp and school in Ahrensbök from 1930–1945. Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-783-9 .
  • Norbert Fick, Jörg Wollenberg: Ahrensbök. A small town under National Socialism. Concentration Camp - Forced Labor - Death March and Jörg Wollenberg: Our school was a concentration camp; In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde 2004, Eutin (pp. 199–200)
  • Jörg Wollenberg: The Ahrensbök-Holstendorf Concentration Camp, In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde 2001, Eutin (pp. 144–170)
  • Jörg Wollenberg - Search for traces from Ahrensbök to Auschwitz and back. The other memory and the limits of finding the truth - in: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde ( Heimatverband Eutin ), Eutin 2007 (pages 257–298)
  • Manfred Bannow-Lindtke ( Ed .: City of Bad Schwartau) - Bad Schwartau under the swastika 1929–1945 (exhibition guide ), Bad Schwartau 1993 (Chapter "13. The Eutin Concentration Camp")
  • Wilhelm Wulf - The flax roast in Holstendorf and its history; in: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde - Eutin ( Heimatverband Eutin , Eutin 1980 (pages 122–124))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flyer Memorial Ahrensbök, supporting organization Group 33

Coordinates: 54 ° 1 ′ 34 ″  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 37 ″  E