Meisnerhof concentration camp
The concentration camp Meisnerhof (short KZ Meisnerhof ) was an early German concentration camp in the Nazi era . It was set up in February 1933 by the Sturmabteilung on a former farm near the Brandenburg town of Velten . Originally the farm served as the house of nature lovers for the international association of nature lovers . After the seizure of power , SA Standard 224, based in Nauen, took over the farm and ran a driving school here. At the same time, it was used as a so-called “wild” or “early” concentration camp . Most of the prisoners were communists from the East and West Havelland districts, several of whom were killed by SA men.
Among others, the Velten steelworker and communist Richard Ungermann (born July 9, 1908; died May 16, 1933) was arrested on May 14, 1933, brought to Meisnerhof and shot there two days later. His body was sewn into a sack and sunk near Hennigsdorf in the Havel . A school (today's Linden elementary school ) and a street (today's Wilhelmstrasse) were named after Ungermann until 1990 in Velten . On February 20, 2020, a stumbling block was laid for him in front of his former residence at Wilhelmstrasse 19 in Velten .
After the concentration camp was closed on June 24, 1933, the prisoners were taken to the Oranienburg concentration camp .
literature
- Günter Morsch , Agnes Ohm (ed.): Terror in the province of Brandenburg. Early concentration camps 1933/34. Series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , Volume 46, Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-211-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Drobisch , Günther Wieland: System of the Nazi concentration camps, 1933–1939 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-05-000823-3 , p. 129.
- ↑ Roland Becker: Warning: Three stumbling blocks for three fates. In: moz.de. February 20, 2020, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Günter Morsch, p. 85.
Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 49.4 " N , 13 ° 12 ′ 55.1" E