Feldstrasse protective custody camp

Front building at Feldstrasse 17-18, Erfurt

Courtyard building

Plaque

The Feldstrasse protective custody camp was a prison in Erfurt that existed from April 1933 to September 1933 at Feldstrasse 18 in the Erfurt district of Ilversgehofen . The front building with a memorial plaque attached to it in GDR times is a listed building .

history

According to the ordinance of the Reich President for the protection of people and state of February 28, 1933 , a. Article 114 of the Weimar Constitution was also repealed “to ward off communist acts of violence that could endanger the state”, and so-called “ protective custody camps ” were set up in many cities , initially operated by the SA . Opponents of National Socialism were held prisoner there by the paramilitary troops of the NSDAP , interrogated and often brutally mistreated. Most of them were communists and social democrats . On March 12, 1933, Prime Minister Hermann Göring finally ordered the closure of so-called “ wild concentration camps ”.

In April 1933, a central protective custody camp for Erfurt was set up on a factory site in the backyard of Feldstrasse 18. From April to September 1933 up to 100 people were imprisoned there, including Heinz Sendhoff , Josef Ries , Waldemar Schapiro and Fritz Büchner . From here and from the police prison on the Petersberg they were subjected to the "special interrogations" and the like. a. brought to the dog sports field at the restaurant "Zum Blumenthal" on today's Oschatzer Weg and in the Steiger . Serious abuse by the SA also occurred in Feldstrasse, where the prisoners were locked up under catastrophic hygienic conditions. Three people lost their lives during the "interrogations". In September 1933 the camp was closed and it was planned that protective custody would only be carried out in state prisons or concentration camps .

Literature and web links

Sascha Münzel, Eckart Schörle: Erfurt Feldstrasse: An early camp in National Socialism . State Center for Civic Education Thuringia , Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-937967-93-6 .
erfurt-web.de: Memorial plaque for protective custody camp Feldstrasse

Individual evidence

^ Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post, Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933–1945 , 1st half volume. (PDF) Sources on the history of Thuringia. 2nd unchanged edition, 2005, ISBN 3-931426-83-1 , p. 155.

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[1] Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post, Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933–1945 , 1st half volume. (PDF) Sources on the history of Thuringia. 2nd unchanged edition, 2005, ISBN 3-931426-83-1 , p. 155.