Rodgau-Dieburg prison camp

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The Rodgau-Dieburg prison camp was a prison labor camp of the judiciary in fascist Germany in what was then the Dieburg district in Hesse and existed from spring 1938 until the liberation at the end of March 1945.

At least a third of the prisoners were political prisoners of the unjust state. At the beginning of the camp, the prisoners came from all over Germany and Austria . During the Second World War , an increasing number of thousands of foreigners from all over Europe who had fought against the German occupying power in their home countries or who had violated its regulations were arrested and deployed here .

history

The aim was to use condemned prisoners under maximum exploitation as cheap labor for land development work, especially in main camp II in the so-called Rollwald near Nieder-Roden , which got its name from Camp Rollwald . It was expressly used to exploit the labor of prisoners . Only prisoners capable of working outside were accommodated here. At the end of March 1942, there were 2,611 prisoners. The camp was operated by the Darmstadt Public Prosecutor General at the time .

The main camp I , based in Dieburg was located in the premises of the previously workhouse mentioned and even today still existing prison , which is in the former Capuchin monastery the city after its secularization was established in the 19th century.

The workhouse has been converted into Prisoner Camp I by prisoners from Darmstadt prison and regional craftsmen since spring 1938 . Mostly political opponents, including Fritz Erler and Hans Glaser, were imprisoned here. From May 1938 the workhouse was probably used as a prison camp. In this camp, the accommodations for the prisoner camp II were created and later used by the prisoners in the Rollwald to build the main camp II .

At the beginning of the war, however, they were mostly withdrawn from the development work and mostly with orders for the Wehrmacht , in armaments production , in the " Munitionslager Münster" (today's district of Breitefeld ), as auxiliary workers in agriculture and to repair war damage, repair work for the Reichsbahn or used for bomb clearance.

Later the main camp III in Eich (Rheinhessen) was set up especially for male Polish prisoners. In addition, there were 31 other satellite camps, spread over the whole of Hesse and today's neighboring Rhineland-Palatinate , which were used at times and were assigned to the various main camps.

literature

  • Ursula Krause-Schmitt, Jutta von Freyberg: Local history guide to places of resistance and persecution 1933-1945 (Volume 1: Hessen; Dept. 1: Administrative region Darmstadt), publisher: Study group for research and communication of the history of the German resistance 1933-1945 , Frankfurt 1995, ISBN 3-88864-075-X . P. 34

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information board on the Rollwald camp , created in 2010 by the city of Rodgau in cooperation with the Association for Multinational Understanding Rodgau eV (munaVeRo), accessed on June 27, 2016
  2. ↑ The city's current Capuchin monastery is a new building from the 19th century.
  3. ↑ Ph. A. Walther The Grand Duchy of Hesse according to history, ... Darmstadt 1851, DIEBURG p. 302 (as digitized version on Google: [1] )
  4. ^ Website on the history of the Rollwald camp , in the section Prehistory / Origin: The main camp I was located in Dieburg in the workhouse of the justice administration.
  5. ^ Creation and organization of the camp - work assignment and the camp structure on the website www.lagerrollwald.de/ of the Verein für multinational Understanding Rodgau eV , Rollwald working group, accessed on June 27, 2016

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '54 "  N , 8 ° 50' 39"  E