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Adam Molinnus * 1897
Hammer Landstraße Ecke Burgstraße (Hamburg-Mitte, Hamm)
Strafanstalten
Schwetz / Weichsel
Tilsit
1941 KZ Sachsenhausen
1943 KZ Groß-Rosen
ermordet 27.05.1943
further stumbling stones in Hammer Landstraße Ecke Burgstraße:
Paul Prechner
Adam Molin(n)us, born on 14 Jan. 1897, death on 27 May 1943 in Gross-Rosen
Intersection of Burgstrasse/Hammer Landstrasse
"To the Pioneer Helmuth Molinus
2nd Company Pioneers’ Training Battalion 12
Graudenz/West Prussia
In response to your letter above, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp informs you that your father Adam Molinus died of pulmonary tuberculosis in the local infirmary on 27 May 1943 around 8:40 a.m. All medical efforts applied and care administered were to no avail. His death was calm and composed.
The Camp Commander"
What may sound astonishingly caring upon first reading raises suspicion on further consideration. So much care in the infirmary – if it took place at all – and individual attention to one of many deaths by the camp commander of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp must have a special background. The relatives of Adam Molinus or, more precisely, Adam Molinnus, have attempted for many years to clarify these circumstances.
Adam Molinus was born on 14 Jan. 1897 in Kantweinen/Memel (today Kantvonai in Lithuania). He belonged to the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). We do not know whether he was arrested in connection with his party membership or with resistance activities. After detention in the penal institutions in Schwetz/Weichsel (today Swiecie/Vistula in Poland) and Tilsit (today Sovetsk in Russia), he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Nov. 1941, passing through several other concentration camps before eventually being committed to Gross-Rosen in Feb. 1943, where he perished on 27 May 1943.
It was due to a confusion of names that we came across Adam Molinus, who – as we now know – never lived in Hamburg. However, since probably in his original home, the Memel Territory, no stumbling stone will ever be laid for him, we decided nonetheless to commemorate him with a Stolperstein in the Hamm quarter.
Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.
Stand: October 2017
© Hildegard Thevs
Quelle: Martens, Dr. Holger; Tormin, Dr. Walter: Für Freiheit und Demokratie. Hamburger Sozialdemokraten in Widerstand und Verfolgung 1933–1945. Hrsg. vom Landesverband der SPD Hamburg; AB 1933, 1936 und 1943; Mitteilungen von Angehörigen.
