Nutella gang

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Eros Center, St. Pauli
Reeperbahn street view
Herbertstrasse
Boxer bar " Zur Ritze "

The Nutella gang was a pimp organization in the Hamburg red light district of St. Pauli , which controlled a large part of prostitution from the end of the 1970s to the mid-1980s and was in direct competition with the long-established GmbH .

Origin of name

The Nutella gang was so named because its members were mostly younger than the pimps (so-called "Jungluden") of the GMBH and first had to fight for their territory on the street with their fists. The new organization generally had a “younger and fresher” reputation than the dominant GMBH group. This applied to both her demeanor and the younger prostitutes who worked for her.

“... and the so-called Nutella gang. The troupe of young men owes its name to its older rivals. They smile at the boys and think they should eat more Nutella breads to get big and strong first ... "

- Ada von der Betten : NDR: When the killers came to the neighborhood

Another version derived this name from the fact that two members were colored.

history

A founding member of the Nutella gang was the former sailor Peter Töpfer, who joined nine other pimps in the mid-1970s to form a new organization that soon controlled more than a hundred whores. At that time there was still a lot of money to be made in prostitution. Hamburg-St. During this time, Pauli was called the “sex capital of the world” by the British Daily Mirror. The starting point of the new shops was initially the Galerie-Café Adler in Eimsbüttel , famous for its drug excesses around Uschi Obermaier and Dieter Bockhorn , in which the pimps around Töpfer met to determine the new route for the neighborhood.

One of the leaders of the Nutella gang who marked out their territory around Herbertstrasse and Reeperbahn was Klaus Barkowsky . She was able to enforce her goals with vigor when she poached the martial artist and boxer Thomas Born "Karate-Tommy" from the GMBH as a so-called "stress manager" (enforcer). The Nutella gang belonged to a new generation of Hamburg pimps who attached great importance to status symbols such as sports cars , valuable Rolex watches and the like. Compared to the GMBH, which had sometimes mistreated their prostitutes, they were said to be more humane with the female employees. The organization mainly employed women who worked in the large brothel and whirlpool “Eros Center” on Reeperbahn No. 146. In the mid-1980s, the Nutella gang comprised around 80 pimps, ten of them in the upper management level, and 350 prostitutes. Most of the former members are either dead, arrested or, like Peter Töpfer or Stefan Mitroi, have completely separated from the pimping.

Rivalries

While the Nutella gang was mainly active in and around the Eros Center, the GMBH controlled Silbersackstrasse and the Chicago gang around Hans-Albers-Platz. The open outbreak of the conflict with the GMBH, which was long considered ordering power on the neighborhood, came when in October 1982 the wife got a Nutella-leader on a Kontakthof of Eros Center in a physical confrontation with a prostitute of the GMBH. The dispute then escalated later in the Bel Ami and ended with the shooting of the two Nutella members "SS-Klaus" Klaus Breitenreicher and "Angie" Jürgen Becker. Then there was a major raid in the brothels of the Nutella gang and five members were arrested for “promoting prostitution”. Only the activities of the newly founded investigation group against organized crime (OK) of the Hamburg State Office of Criminal Investigation brought about the end of the Nutella gang.

Business conduct

The appearance of a Nutella pimp included a strongly masculine demeanor on the part of “Hamburg merchants”, as the self-termed. Until the 1980s, rivalries and conflicts were resolved with boxing matches or payments. The use of weapons and cooperation with the Hamburg police were frowned upon for a long time. Disputes in the milieu were settled by a kind of tribunal. It was only after the collapse of business due to the AIDS wave, the high incidence of cocaine (“the white lady”) and the massive appearance of foreign gangs, that turf wars and distribution fights began with firearms. The wave of violence began on September 28, 1981 with the murder of the pimp Fritz Schröder "Chinesen-Fritz" in the boxing bar "Zur Ritze".

Known members

  • Peter Potter
  • "Beautiful Klaus / Lamborghini-Klaus" Klaus Barkowsky
  • “Karate Tommy” Thomas Born
  • "The Klatscher vom Kiez" Stefan Hentschel (assignment uncertain)
  • "Neger-Waldi" Waldemar Dammer
  • Siegfried Porter
  • Ralf "Korvetten-Ralf" Kühne
  • "Bongo" Horst Reinhardt

See also

Web links

literature

  • Ariane Barth: The Reeperbahn. The fight for Hamburg's sinful mile. Spiegel-Buchverlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-15028-4 .
  • Ariane Barth: In the red light. The explosive life of Stefan Hentschel (= Ullstein. 36769). Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-548-36769-0 .
  • Cem Gülay , Helmut Kuhn : Turkish Sam. A German gangster career (= dtv. 34769). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-34769-3 .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Reeperbahn - Luden cartels
  2. ↑ Ada von der Betten: When the killers came to the Kiez. In: NDR . April 15, 2016, accessed June 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Peter Töpfer speaks in the Göttinger Bullerjahn about his change of heart. Göttinger Tageblatt. June 6, 2014
  4. ^ Prostitution. The Paul of St. Pauli. In his previous life, Peter Töpfer was the master of a hundred whores. Today he preaches God's word and wants to close all brothels. Frankfurter Rundschau. May 6, 2009
  5. ↑ Paulsens St. Pauli: The rise of the Nutella gang
  6. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schmitz: “I'm a rascal.” “There was the Nutella gang in the Eros Center.” ZEIT Online
  7. ↑ Paulus von St. Pauli. Peter Töpfer speaks about his change of heart in the Göttinger Bullerjahn. Göttinger Tageblatt. June 6, 2014
  8. ↑ Kiez boss fights for rags. BILD newspaper. Regional edition Hamburg. October 23, 2010
  9. ↑ The guiding hands from the neighborhood. DER SPIEGEL August 18, 1986
  10. ↑ The sharp shots in the Salon Bel Ami. Time online. May 20, 1983
  11. ↑ What's Left of the Myth. Hamburger Abendblatt, January 19, 2016
  12. ↑ According to other information, Hentschel is said not to have belonged to either the GMBH or the Nutella gang, but went about his business on his own account