Mißler concentration camp

Memorial at the senior citizens' residence Walsroder Str. 1 in Bremen-Findorff

Memorial plaque in front of the senior citizens' residence Walsroder Str. 1 in Bremen-Findorff

The Mißler concentration camp was an early concentration camp , which was set up at the end of March 1933 at the instigation of the Interior Senator and SA Sturmbannführer Theodor Laue in the former emigration halls of the Friedrich Mißler emigration agency between Walsroder Strasse and Hemmstrasse in the Findorff district of Bremen . Today only two commemorative plaques remind of the former concentration camp, which are attached to the place where the emigration halls, which were demolished in 1986, stood before the destruction in World War II . Under the direction of SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Löblich , 148 prisoners, primarily persecuted communists , were held here in “ protective custody ”; later the occupancy increased to 300.

The prisoners included the music teacher Hermann Böse , the sculptor Klaus Bücking , the actor Edgar Bennert , the Reichsbannerführer and SPD member of parliament Oskar Drees , the later editor of the WESER-KURIER Hans Hackmack, and the SPD member of the Reichstag, Alfred Faust .

On July 11, 1933, the police senator decided to dissolve the Mißler concentration camp, but it was not until September 13, 1933 that the Bremen News reported that the prisoners had been transferred to an inland barge in the mouth of the Ochtum .

A memorial plaque created by Fritz Stein with a quote from Tucholsky has been a reminder of the history of the place since 1983.

Web links

• Hartmut Müller: Documentation
• Newspaper report from Austria with picture (The interesting sheet No. 40, from October 5, 1933)
• Jörg Wollenberg: From Voluntary Labor Service to Concentration Camp. On the history of the early concentration camps using the example of Bremen-Mißler and Ahrensbök-Holstendorf.
• Jörg Wollenberg: The Bremen-Mißler concentration camp, text by the history professor of the University of Bremen ("Mißler text")
• Sources and literature on the "Mißler-Text"

Single receipts

1. ↑ Kurt Tucholsky's text on the memorial plaque reads: "Nothing is heavier and nothing requires more character than to be in open opposition to your time and to say NO!"
2. ↑ The text on the commemorative plaque reads: “Behind these walls, the first Bremen concentration camp was built on April 1, 1933 in the former Missler emigration hall. This is where the persecution of politically dissenters by the National Socialists, which violates human rights and destroys people, began in this city. In order to cover up their crimes, the 'KZ Missler' was relocated at the end of August 1933. "
3. ^ History of the former concentration camp
4. ↑ Jörg Wollenberg, "Mißler-Text", ... 6. Dissolution of the Mißler concentration camp ...
5. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , pp. 211f.

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 8 ″  E