List of stumbling blocks in Kellinghusen

Stumbling block for Otto Linke

The list of the stumbling blocks in Kellinghusen results by artist Gunter Demnig laid stumbling blocks in Kellinghusen on. Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . As a rule, they are in front of the victim's last self-chosen place of residence.

Victim groups

There were no Jews in Kellinghusen. There are no known murders of disabled people or of homosexually oriented people. In Kellinghusen, too, there was massive persecution of politically dissenters and victims of forced labor. There were clear differences in contact and food with regard to nationalities. Forced laborers from the East were treated worse than Italian or French prisoners of war, because in the Nazi racial ideology the former were considered subhuman. In Kellinghusen too, food and clothing were poor, contacts with Germans were strictly forbidden and there was only very limited free time. The forced laborers were kept in terrible hygienic conditions in camps, for example in the former restaurants Lindenhof, Patentkrug and Stumpfe Ecke. In the Singelmann woodworking factory, handles for hand grenades were produced, among other things. The company provided the loading area of ​​a truck as a sleeping place for forced laborers. 47 Russians had to live in a pigsty on Overndorfer Strasse, known as the Russian camp. Women and men of different nationalities were assigned to the work detail at Gut Luisenberg. Anyone who refused to work or offered resistance was transferred to the Nordmark labor education camp. Numerous prisoners of war were murdered there, including three forced laborers from Kellinghusen, Stanislaw Burny, Piotr Skiermont and Stanislaw Zbrog.

Stumbling blocks in Kellinghusen

Stumbling block	inscription	Location	Name, life
	STANISLAW BURNY JG COULD LIVE HERE . 1926 POLISH HARD WORKER ARRESTED 02/15/1945 Gestapo CIVIL WORK TRAINING CAMP NORDMARK MURDERED 04/26/1945	In front of the old Café Mohr in the pedestrian zone	Stanislaw Burny was born on March 5, 1926 in Ruda Tarnowska , in a village about 57 kilometers south-east of Warsaw. At the age of 17 he was deported to Germany for forced labor and housed in the Patentkrug , Hauptstrasse 5 in Kellinghusen. Here he belonged to the Luisenhof work detachment. On February 15, 1945 Burny was arrested by the Kiel Gestapo and taken to the Nordmark labor education camp . He was charged with participating in the resistance movement. Stanislaw Burny was murdered by representatives of the Nazi regime on April 26, 1945, presumably in one of the mass shootings of forced laborers and prisoners suspected of resisting the collapsing regime. Between April 16 and 26, 1945 a total of 119 inmates of the labor education camp were buried in the Eichhof cemetery, including sixty victims of executions. The victims were suspected to have belonged to the resistance group founded by the Kiel communist Scoor. Stanislaw Burny is on the camp's death list, which included 418 names and which was handed over to the British Military Tribunal as evidence in 1947. His grave is in field 60 with grave number 639.
	OTTO FABIAN JG LIVED HERE . 1909 SHOT BY SA March 5, 1933	Feldstrasse 42	Otto Fabian was born on October 8, 1909 in the East Prussian town of Lötzen am Löwentinsee. He had an older brother. Both children were born before wedlock and first raised by their grandmother because the mother had to work. His mother married Ernst Rose who, after the family had moved to Kiel, hired himself out as a casual worker. Otto Fabian was also unable to complete an apprenticeship and had to do auxiliary work. Fabian and Rose joined the KPD. Otto Fabian belonged to the Kellinghusener workers gymnastics and sports club and was used as hall protection at communist events. He was feared by the Kellinghuser SA men because of his robustness and his fearlessness. On the evening of March 5, 1933, the day of the Reichstag election , he was out and about in town with his bride, Käthe Meinert. On the way home he was attacked and beaten by a large number of SA men. He managed to break free and tried to escape. SA man Wilhelm Lempfert ran after him, drew a pistol and shot him from behind. Otto Fabian died at 11 p.m. The autopsy resulted in a shot in the stomach, the death resulted from severe injuries to the transverse bowel with internal bleeding. Investigations were started against the perpetrators, but a few weeks later they were closed due to an amnesty. It was not until 1948 that proceedings were initiated again following a report from the KPD . On April 6, 1949, the Itzehoe regional court sentenced the perpetrator to two years in prison for bodily harm resulting in death in unity with a crime against humanity. In 1950 the public prosecutor requested an appeal and the sentence was increased to four years. On the basis of a petition for clemency, signed by the mayor and Otto Fabian's parents, among others, the perpetrator only had to serve two years and three more years on probation.}
	OTTO LINKE JG LIVED HERE . 1887 ARRESTED 23.8.1944 NEWENGAMME KZ DEAD 16.1.1945	Schützenstrasse 35	Otto Linke was born on September 17, 1887 in Zaborowo in the Lissa district, the town of his birth on the southern edge of the Prussian province of Posen. He moved from Bremen to Kellinghusen on October 20, 1911 and worked as a typesetter for Stör-Boten , the daily newspaper for Kellinghusen and the surrounding area. He lived first on Schulstrasse, and from 1923 on Schützenstrasse. He was considered an open and courageous man, became a member of the SPD and from 1929 was a city councilor of Kellinghusen. He lost this function after the National Socialists came to power. He was arrested on August 23, 1944 as part of the grating action and deported to Neuengamme concentration camp . He became seriously ill in the concentration camp. He was released from prison in December 1944. Otto Linke died on January 16, 1945 in Kellinghusen from the consequences of imprisonment.
	OTTO RALFS JG LIVED HERE . 1894 ARRESTED 23.8.1944 KZ NEUENGAMME TOT 3.5.1945	Mathildestrasse 4	Otto Ralfs , born in 1894, was married, his wife's name was Minna. The couple had two sons, Heinrich and Walter. He belonged to the SPD, became a city councilor and was head of the city council from 1929 to 1933. He was arrested on August 23, 1944 as part of the Grid Action , transferred to the Kiel police prison and deported to Neuengamme concentration camp . He was given prisoner number 43372. Meanwhile, both sons were on the Eastern Front. The older brother was allowed to visit his father in the concentration camp. He said that he was not feeling well, was terribly emaciated, and was suffering from the effects of forced labor. In March 1945 Neuengamme was evacuated step by step, the prisoners had to march towards the Baltic Sea and were loaded onto the Häflings ships Cap Arcona and Thielbek . Otto Ralfs died on May 3, 1945, the day the British fighter squadrons bombed the two ships. In total, 7,398 of the 7,500 people who marched off died that day. A Dutch prisoner visited his family in 1945 and reported that he and Otto Ralfs had jumped from the Cap Ancona. While he was able to save himself on land, Otto Ralfs did not. It is believed that he, who had a heart condition, drowned in the Baltic Sea.
	PIOTR SKIERMONT JG COULD LIVE HERE . 1919 POLISH HARD WORKER ARRESTED 02/17/1945 Gestapo CIVIL WORK TRAINING CAMP NORDMARK MURDERED 04/26/1945	In front of the old Café Mohr in the pedestrian zone	Piotr Skiermont was born on October 29, 1919 in Łódź . He was deported to Germany for forced labor and assigned to the Singelmann und Co. KG company as a tractor driver and worker. This wood processing factory produced, among other things, handles for hand grenades and was therefore considered to be economically important. Skiermont was given accommodation in the Patentkrug at 5 Hauptstrasse. In the early summer of 1944 he was targeted by the Secret State Police in Kiel, presumably not having adhered to all of the strict rules for Eastern workers. But for the time being he was spared from reprisals, the Gestapo told the mayor, because his manpower was urgently needed for Wehrmacht orders and another suitable tractor driver was "currently not available". When the war was already lost, on February 17, 1945, he was arrested on suspicion of resistance and deported to the Nordmark labor education camp. Piotr Skiermont was murdered there on April 26, 1945. He was buried in the Eichhof park cemetery , field 49, grave 439.
	STANISLAW ZBROG JG COULD LIVE HERE . 1914 POLISH HARD WORKER ARRESTED 02/15/1945 Gestapo CIVIL WORK TRAINING CAMP NORDMARK MURDERED 04/21/1945	Lindenstrasse 97 In front of the former Gut Luisenberg	Stanislaw Zbrog was born on May 22, 1914 in Przyłogi , in a village about a hundred kilometers southwest of Warsaw. He was married to Eugenia. On April 11, 1940, the couple were deported to Germany for forced labor. Both were assigned to work on Gut Luisenberg in Kellinghusen. On February 15, 1945 Stanislaw Zbrog was arrested by the Gestapo in Kiel and taken to the Nordmark labor education camp . He was charged with organizing a resistance movement. Stanislaw Zbrog was murdered by representatives of the Nazi regime in April 1945, either on the 21st (as noted in the Kiel death certificate) or on the 26th (as another source noted). At that time, there were mass shootings of forced laborers and prisoners who were suspected of resisting the collapsing regime. Between April 16 and 26, 1945 a total of 119 inmates of the labor education camp were buried in the Eichhof cemetery, including sixty victims of executions. Stanislaw Zbrog is not on the camp's death list.

Relocations

Originally all of the stones were supposed to be laid by Gunter Demnig, due to the severe frost the three stones could not be laid for the forced laborers, these stones were handed over in March 2018 and later by pupils of the community school as part of the project days "School without Racism - School with courage ”. The Stolpersteine ​​in Kellinghusen were laid on the following days:

• on August 14, 2007 at Feldstrasse 42, Mathildenstrasse 4 and Schützenstrasse 35 by Gunter Demnig personally
• in July 2018 in front of Cafe Mohr and Lindenstrasse 97

literature

• Walter Vietzen: Kellinghusen under the swastika: Contemporary historical considerations of a small town in Mittelholstein, 2018, ISBN 978-3746060606
• Walter Viezen: Forced Laborers in Kellinghusen 1939 - 1945, 2017, ISBN 978-3744829397

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Eutin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chronicle of the laying of the stumbling blocks on the website of Gunter Demnig's project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norddeutsche Rundschau : KELLINGHUSEN CITY HISTORY: Forced laborers on almost every farm , October 27, 2017
2. ^ Walter Vietzen: Kellinghusen under the swastika: Contemporary historical observations of a small town in Mittelholstein, 2018, ISBN 978-3746060606 , p. 214; Vietzen was a teacher at the community school with upper secondary school in Kellinghusen.
3. ^ Walter Viezen: Forced Laborers in Kellinghusen 1939 - 1945, 2017, ISBN 978-3744829397 , p. 19
4. ↑ shz.de: Calendar photo awakens dark memories .
5. ^ Walter Vietzen: Kellinghusen under the swastika: Contemporary historical considerations of a small town in Mittelholstein, 2018, ISBN 978-3746060606 , pp. 58-65
6. ^ Walter Vietzen: Kellinghusen under the swastika: Contemporary historical considerations of a small town in Mittelholstein, 2018, ISBN 978-3746060606 , p. 73
7. ^ Walter Vietzen: Kellinghusen under the swastika: Contemporary historical considerations of a small town in Mittelholstein, 2018, ISBN 978-3746060606 , pp. 78-81
8. ↑ Walter Viezen: Forced Laborers in Kellinghusen 1939 - 1945, 2017, ISBN 978-3744829397 , pp. 17-18
9. ^ Walter Vietzen: Kellinghusen under the swastika: Contemporary historical considerations of a small town in Mittelholstein, 2018, ISBN 978-3746060606 , p. 214
10. ↑ Indispensable memory work , accessed on June 7, 2020
11. ↑ Stumbling blocks remind of forced laborers , accessed on June 7, 2018

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