Reichsjägerhof Rominten

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Entrance and gatehouse of the Reichsjägerhof Rominten

The Reichsjägerhof Rominten in the Rominter Heide in northeastern East Prussia was one of two large forestry operations that were established during the Nazi era . It was supposed to serve as the hunting lodge of the Reichsjägermeister Hermann Göring , but with the beginning of the Russian campaign in 1941 it was supplemented by the Robinson camp as his headquarters in the east. The area is now in the Kaliningrad Oblast .

history

The Reichsjägerhof in Rominter Heide was completed in September 1936. Göring personally initiated the construction in September 1935 after Wilhelm II, who lived in exile in the Netherlands , had emphatically refused to use the Rominten hunting lodge in the former imperial hunting ground two years earlier . Originally, this facility was supposed to be called Emmy Emmyhall after his second wife, analogous to Göring's property Carinhall in the Schorfheide , but Göring finally decided on Reichsjägerhof Rominten . The construction area was located around 15 kilometers northeast of the small town of Goldap , in the area of ​​the Nassawen Forestry Office . Construction work on the block house complex began in late April 1936 and was completed in September.

In order to get to the facility, a small train station of his own in Schakummen (1938–1946: Eichkamp / Ostpr.) Was built especially for Göring .

In the autumn of 1944, in view of the approaching Russian front, Goering gave the order to destroy the complex (Operation St. John's Fire). On October 20, 1944, the building was set on fire by the only remaining caretaker.

photos

  • Colonel-General Friedrich Fromm and Hermann Göring in front of the Reichsjägerhof Rominten

  • Reichsjägerhof from 1936 to 1944

  • Reichsjägerhof from 1936 to 1944

  • Ernst Udet, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff

  • Friedrich Fromm, Hermann Göring, Walter v. Keudell

  • Goering House

  • Remnants of the main entrance (2015)

  • Ruins of the bomb shelter (2015)

  • Information board in Russian and English (2015)

  • Remains of the northern corner of the building (2015)

First Reichsjägerhof

→ Main article: Reichsjägerhof "Hermann Göring"

A first "Reichsjägerhof" had already been handed over to Göring a year earlier, it was a business in Riddagshausen near Braunschweig . By the will of the Nazis, this first court should serve as a model for other such facilities in all districts serve. However, the idea could not prevail. There was only another Reichsjägerhof, the one in Rominter Heide. In contrast to the complex in East Prussia, the one in Braunschweig still exists today.

literature

  • Uwe Neumärker, Volker Knopf: Goering's area: hunting and politics in the Rominter Heide. Links, Berlin 2007, p. 61ff. ISBN 978-3-86153-457-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Volker Knopf, Stefan Martens: Görings Reich: Self-Staging in Carinhall , Links Verlag; 4th act. Edition, 2007, p. 168.
  2. ^ Otto Neuschulz: My time at Hermann Göring's Waldhof Carinhall in the Schorfheide 1943–1945 , at dhm.de.

Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 22 ° 31 ′ 16.7 ″  E