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Ferdinand Krüger * 1917

Grabenstraße Ecke Marktstraße (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)

Verhaftet 1937
KZ Fuhlsbüttel
Flucht in den Tod
20.09.1941

Ferdinand Albert Max Krüger, born 9 June 1917, imprisoned 1937, death by suicide 30 Sep. 1941

Corner of Marktstraße and Grabenstraße (Grabenstraße 40)

A native of Hamburg, Ferdinand Krüger was a barber’s assistant and lived with his parents at Grabenstraße 40.

Ferdinand Krüger was taken into police custody on 20 April 1937 on charges of homosexual activities. He was placed in pre-trial detention at the Hamburg City Prison on 21 May. The Hamburg District Court found him guilty of repeated offenses against the laws against homosexuality, and sentenced him to six months in prison on 11 June 1937, although he was still a minor. He served the sentence in the Fuhlsbüttel prison.

On 20 September 1941, he asphyxiated himself at his home by inhaling coal gas. He died on the way to the hospital.
His parents did not mention his homosexuality to the police investigating his death, and claimed that his death was an accident.

Translator: Amy Lee

Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2016
© Bernhard Rosenkranz/Ulf Bollmann

Quellen: StaH 213-8 Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht – Verwaltung, Abl. 2, 451 a E 1, 1 b; StaH 331-5 Polizeibehörde – Unnatürliche Sterbefälle, 1550/41; StaH 242-1 II Gefängnisverwaltung II, Abl. 13 und 16.