St. Pauli camp

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The St. Pauli warehouse was located on the site behind the Telekom building.

The St. Pauli camp in Flensburg - Südstadt was a forced camp established in the 1930s in which Sinti and apparently also forced laborers were interned. After the Second World War it served as a refugee camp .

First plans

It is unknown how long the Sinti began living in Flensburg. Flensburg address books suggest that members of the Sinti Weiss family lived in Flensburg as early as the end of the 19th century. It is only documented for the 1920s that the White Sinti family lived in Flensburg. At that time she lived in an urban building complex on Norderstrasse , which was very dilapidated. Some of the courtyard buildings date from the 17th century. A second Sinti family who lived there was the Laubinger family. Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s document how poor the living and housing situation of the Sinti families was in this quarter. In spring the Flensburg magistrate decided to build a barrack for 60 " gypsies " at the main entrance of the Friedenshügel cemetery . A public discussion ensued, during which various citizens and associations spoke out against these plans. The arguments they made showed a discriminatory character. The building commission soon withdrew the decision. For the current site of the Waldorf School in Flensburg, on Valentinerallee , it is also known that "gypsy clans" have been stored there for weeks since the 1920s. In 1934 the dealer Emil Weiß lived there as a Sinto in a caravan. At the same time, other Flensburg citizens who apparently had no Sinti background lived there in a caravan and several apartment houses.

Memorial plaque to the murdered Weiss family

Establishment of the warehouse

The local NS officials finally had a primitive barrack camp built in 1935 in Steinfelder Weg 41–43, not far from Valentinerallee . Flensburg's Sinti families were forcibly resettled in the collection camp for "Gypsies" in autumn 1935. The houses at Norderstrasse 104 were demolished and replaced by new buildings. However, the families were not allowed to return there. Apparently around 50 people lived in the “gypsy camp”. Each family had only one living room there, with no water connection and no electricity connection of thirteen square meters. Buckets had to replace their toilet . On May 16, 1940, Flensburg's Sinti were deported to a collection camp in Hamburg. On May 20, 1940, they were deported to the Bełżec labor camp in Poland and a camp near Kielce in Poland. In Poland, most of them died in labor and extermination camps.

During the Second World War, prisoners of war forced laborers were apparently housed in the (presumably expanded) St. Pauli camp.

post war period

After the Second World War, the St. Pauli camp was occupied with refugees. At that time the camp consisted of 10 wooden barracks. Apparently about 271 people lived there. In April 1954, 242 people were still living in the camp. In the 1950s, the city tried to improve the living conditions of the refugees in order to be able to gradually dissolve the city's refugee camps. The last refugee barracks in Flensburg in the Westeralle could only be cleared in 1966. The St. Pauli camp was apparently demolished after it no longer served as refugee accommodation. The area was evidently built on gradually. At the end of the 20th century, today's telecommunications building was built not far from the former location of the camp.

Nothing on site reminds of the camp. At the beginning of August 2008, a plaque was put up on the building at Norderstrasse 104 to commemorate the Weiß family and the crimes committed against them.

literature

  • Uwe Carstens : Refugees and displaced persons in Flensburg. In: Gerhard Paul , Broder Schwensen (Ed.): May '45. End of the war in Flensburg (= publication series of the Society for Flensburg City History. 80). Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-925856-75-4 , pp. 148–177.
  • Björn Marnau, Stephan Linck: "Died in Kielce / Poland in January 1944." The Flensburg "Gypsies" in the years 1922 to 1945. In: Stadtarchiv Flensburg et al. (Hrsg.): Ausgebürgert. Marginalized. Separated. Victim of political and racial persecution in Flensburg 1933–1945 (= Flensburg Contributions to Contemporary History. 3). City archive Flensburg, Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-931913-02-3 , pp. 190–222.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City districts, published by the City of Flensburg ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Memorial sites for Sinti and Roma. Flensburg, Norderstraße Memorial plaque for the Weiß family , accessed on: May 2, 2020
  3. ↑ Björn Marnau, Stephan Linck: “In January 1944 died in Kielce / Poland.” The Flensburg “Gypsies” in the years 1922 to 1945 In: Stadtarchiv Flensburg et al. (Ed.): Ausgebürgert. Marginalized. Separated. 1998, pp. 190–222, here p. 190.
  4. ↑ a b c d Fl2020. Gypsy camp Steinfelder Weg , accessed on: May 2, 2020
  5. ↑ Björn Marnau, Stephan Linck: “In January 1944 died in Kielce / Poland.” The Flensburg “Gypsies” in the years 1922 to 1945 In: Stadtarchiv Flensburg et al. (Ed.): Ausgebürgert. Marginalized. Separated. 1998, pp. 190-222, here pp. 192-197.
  6. ↑ a b Björn Marnau, Stephan Linck: "Died in Kielce / Poland in January 1944." The Flensburg "Gypsies" in the years 1922 to 1945 In: Stadtarchiv Flensburg et al. (Hrsg.): Ausgebürgert. Marginalized. Separated. 1998, pp. 190–222, here p. 202.
  7. ↑ Björn Marnau, Stephan Linck: “In January 1944 died in Kielce / Poland.” The Flensburg “Gypsies” in the years 1922 to 1945 In: Stadtarchiv Flensburg et al. (Ed.): Ausgebürgert. Marginalized. Separated. 1998, pp. 190–222, here p. 214.
    Linde Apel (Ed.): Sent to death. The deportation of Jews, Roma and Sinti from Hamburg 1940 to 1945. = Sent to their deaths. The deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti from Hamburg, 1940 to 1945. Metropol, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-30-5 , p. 73.
  8. ↑ Björn Marnau, Stephan Linck: “In January 1944 died in Kielce / Poland.” The Flensburg “Gypsies” in the years 1922 to 1945 In: Stadtarchiv Flensburg et al. (Ed.): Ausgebürgert. Marginalized. Separated. 1998, pp. 190–222, here p. 206 ff.
  9. ↑ See Findbuch.net , search: "lager" and "pauli"
  10. ↑ stock list ; Retrieved on: May 2, 2015
  11. ^ Uwe Carstens: Refugees and displaced persons in Flensburg. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Ed.): May '45. End of the war in Flensburg. 2015, pp. 148–177, here p. 161 f.
  12. ^ Uwe Carstens: Refugees and displaced persons in Flensburg. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Ed.): May '45. End of the war in Flensburg. 2015, pp. 148–177, here p. 162.
  13. ^ Uwe Carstens: Refugees and displaced persons in Flensburg. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Ed.): May '45. End of the war in Flensburg. 2015, pp. 148–177, here p. 170.
  14. ^ Uwe Carstens: Refugees and displaced persons in Flensburg. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Ed.): May '45. End of the war in Flensburg. 2015, pp. 148–177, here p. 176 f.
  15. ↑ See also: Weiche where else InternetArchiveBot ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), page 10, April 2014; Retrieved on: May 2, 2015
  16. ^ City of Flensburg. Enforcement. Department number: Department 210. Address Address: Telekom building, Eckernförder Landstrasse 65, 24941 Flensburg , accessed on: May 2, 2020
  17. ^ European University of Flensburg. Telecom building. Energy and environmental management. Eckernförder Landstr. 65 , accessed on May 2, 2020

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