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Otto Röser * 1901
Frankenstraße 33 (Hamburg-Mitte, Hammerbrook)
Bewährungsbataillon 999 umgekommen Juli 1944
Otto Röser, born on 10 Sept. 1901 in Halle/Saale, killed in July 1944, probably during deployment in the 999th Division Probation Battalion (Bewährungsbatallion Division 999)
last residential address: Frankenstrasse 33
Otto Röser was one of six children of the married couple Franz and Emilie Röser, née Dietsch, from Halle/Saale; his siblings were Lina, Anna, Franz, Martha, and Willi. He was a baker by trade and belonged to the New Apostolic Church. It is not known when he moved from Halle to Hamburg.
In 1935, he lived with his wife Ilse, née Stahl, and his four children Otto, Werner, Irma, and Gerda at Viktoriastrasse 21 in Hammerbrook. On 28 June 1935, the "Criminal Senate” (Strafsenat) of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court (Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht) sentenced him to 15 months for "preparation to high treason” ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat”), a prison term he served in a Hamburg penal institution until 1 Aug. 1936. According to the register of residents, he moved with his family to Frankenstrasse 33, also in Hammerbrook, at an unknown date. Later, he must have been arrested once more and committed to a concentration camp, subsequently being drafted from there into the so-called 999th Division Probation Battalion (Bewährungsbatallion Division 999), comprised to a considerable extent of politically persecuted persons. While deployed in this battalion, he was probably killed in action in July 1944.
A Stolperstein for him is located in front of today’s house no. 35 on Frankenstrasse.
Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: October 2018
© Benedikt Behrens
Quellen: StaH 242 – 1 II Gefängnisverwaltung II, Abl. 13; StaH, 332-8, Meldewesen, Fotoarchiv 741-4, Meldekarten der zw. dem 1.8.1943 und 31.12.1945 Abgemeldeten und Verstorbenen; VAN (Hrsg.), Totenliste Hamburger Widerstandskämpfer und Verfolgter, Hamburg 1968.
