SS barrack camp Hahndorf

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The SS barracks camp Hahndorf (later colloquially “Hahndorfer Lager”) was a training camp of the Waffen-SS , which was located between 1939 and 1945 near Hahndorf on the connecting road between the Goslar air base and the former Grauhof marshalling yard.

This SS camp should not be confused with the sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration camp , which existed a few hundred meters south to the 1942nd

Origin and equipment

The landowner of the areas that administratively belonged to the municipality of Hahndorf was the Riechenberg monastery . From August 1, 1939, the land was leased to the Reich by the Hanover Monastery Chamber. 18 elongated, about 55 meters long and about 15 meters wide as well as 4 somewhat smaller barracks were built on it. Some of the barracks had a cellar.

The central warehouse heating plant was located in the cellar of the kitchen barrack on the south side of the warehouse. The heating systems were installed in a cellar about 6 to 7 meters deep. The four barracks on the north side of the camp were used to house the vehicle fleet and as vehicle workshops - therefore they had numerous assembly pits. The remaining barracks served as training and accommodation buildings. A waterworks and a sewage treatment plant were located in the northwest corner of the camp complex. The open space on the west side of the site was used as a parade ground.

Used by the Waffen SS

The intelligence, replacement and training department 3 (NEA 3) of the Waffen-SS was stationed in the camp. The NEA 3 consisted of the department staff, two telephone companies, two radio companies and a radio master course and had a total strength of around 1,600 men. The unit had the task of supplying the telephone divisions of the Waffen SS with trained telephones, radio operators and radio masters.

Subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp

From October 20, 1944 to March 25, 1945, the camp also housed a satellite camp of Neuengamme . The client was the SS site management in Goslar. The 15 prisoners of different nationalities probably had to do office work. It is not known where the concentration camp prisoners were transported to after the camp was closed on March 25, 1945.

One inmate of this subcamp, Henry Jens Sörensen, died on October 20, 1944 at the age of 46. Presumably, the strenuous physical work and at the same time food rations that were too small led to his death; he was buried in the Hahndorf cemetery. A stone plaque in the entrance to the cemetery commemorates him .

Use after the end of the war

After the end of the war, the SS camp, now colloquially known as the "Hahndorf camp", was used as emergency accommodation for foreigners. 400 beds were placed in the barracks. After all other emergency shelters in the Goslar city ​​area had been closed , only the Hahndorf camp served as central accommodation for stateless people and former forced laborers, especially from Eastern Europe and the Baltic region, and later also for socially marginalized families. From 1947 the International Refugee Organization (IRO) administered the camp (until around 1950/51), after which the administration was again taken over by German authorities.

Immediately after the war, a Polish teacher tried to teach the children living in the camp. In 1952 two teachers set up their own school there.

On October 15, 1965, the Hahndorf camp was finally closed and the site was left to its own devices for many years. Today the area at Kreisstraße 32 is used by a recycling company.

literature

  • Wolfgang Janz: Hahndorfer Stories & History, Volume 1 - Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-3779-6
  • Marc Buggeln: Goslar. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 390.
  • Margret Klinger: The West Harz Road Sign Project and the March of Life. A search for traces on the routes of the death marches of the concentration camp prisoners in April 1945 in the western Harz and about the commemoration of their sufferings and victims. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. AG Search for traces in the southern Harz region u. a., Osterode u. a. 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blume, H., Schulz, A. (1974): Report on the role of the intelligence, replacement and training department 3 of the Waffen SS in Goslar in April 1945 - records of the last days before the arrival of the Americans. - Goslar City Library, Inv. No. 14 BA 9/1, typ. Manuscript, 7 p., Goslar
  2. ↑ Blume, H., Schulz, A. (1974)
  3. ↑ Blume, H., Schulz, A. (1974)
  4. ↑ Federal Ministry of Justice : Directory of the concentration camps and their external commands in accordance with Section 42 (2) BEG No. 484, Goslar - Neuengamme
  5. ↑ Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Goslar satellite camp ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de
  6. ↑ Janz, Wolfgang (2010): Hahndorfer Stories & History, Volume 1 - page 66
  7. ^ Janz, Wolfgang (2010): Hahndorfer Stories & History, Volume 1 - page 56
  8. ^ Jacobs, F. (1994): Acquisition and exploration "Former Goslar Airfield" - Unpublished report on behalf of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment
  9. ↑ Janz, Wolfgang (2010): Hahndorfer Stories & History, Volume 1 - page 58
  10. ↑ History of the village of Hahnendorf ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hahndorf-goslar.de
  11. ↑ "From the barracks to Kramerswinkel" - Goslarsche Zeitung of September 29, 1965

Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 24.1 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 24.2 ″  E