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Julius Schultz * 1912

Bleicherstraße 46 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)

verhaftet 1936
KZ Fuhlsbüttel
Emslandlager
ermordet 06.11.1942
KZ Neuengamme

Julius Karl Hans Schultz, born 12/26/1912, imprisoned 1936, 1937, died 11/6/1942 at Neuengamme concentration camp

Bleicherstrasse 46 (Bleicherstrasse 42)

In 1912, Emile Schultz gave birth to an illegitimate son in Altona. The only thing that Julius Schultz learned about his father was that he belonged to the upper class. Julius lived with his grandmother in Altona until he was six. He left elementary school in 1927. He began an apprenticeship as a metalworker, which he had to leave after he had been caught stealing 1,000 RM. A former teacher was appointed as his guardian; he sent Julius to a reformatory.

Julius Schultz was only thirteen when he started frequenting brothels. Years later, he called himself "normal” when the police questioned him about his sexual orientation. He went to sea as a ship boy and cook. In 1929, he was punished for having deserted his ship. From then on, he lived from welfare payments and support from his grandmother. In 1930, he frequented the bar "Zur Sonne”, a hangout of homosexuals at Kohlhöfen 42 in Hamburg’s New Town, where he discovered the opportunity to make money by prostituting himself. For 5 to 10 RM, he pleased men. In 1931, he met Marie Pagels, who was to become his wife. In December 1935, the couple broke up, and Marie returned to her hometown of Büsum on the North Sea Coast. Between 1934 and 1936, Julius Schulz repeatedly stood trial for theft and tax evasion. After a quarrel with the foreman in a factory, he gave up trying to make a living by legal work. More and more in financial distress, he worked as a rentboy.

He mainly solicited his clients at the Millerntor comfort station, going there on Fridays and Saturdays and taking his suitors home with him. When his wife moved back in with him in August 1936, he only worked Saturdays, when his wife was out. Julius Schultz made 2 to 5 RM per job.

At 10 p.m. on December 7th, 1936, he was caught in a police raid at the Grevendamm comfort station. As the police knew him, they turned him over to the Gestapo, who took him into "protective custody.” He was detained at the Fuhlsbüttel police jail until January 16th, 1937.

On March 16th, 1937, the Hamburg Court of Appeals sentenced him to four years at hard labor for an offense pursuant to Art. 175 of the Reich Penal Code (old version) and for "commercial buggery” pursuant to Art. 175 a no. 4. His wife Marie Schultz, who had supported him by tolerating his suitors in their mutual home, was sentenced to six months in jail for procuration pursuant to Art. 180 of the Penal Code.

On August 28th, 1937, Julius Schultz again stood trial, this time At the Altona District Court, for offenses that had occurred in 1932. He was charged with several cases of larceny and robbery in grocery and linen stores in Altona and St. Pauli. The judge sentenced him to 15 months in jail, allowing the defendant’s social distress and unemployment at that time as mitigating circumstances. The court combined its verdict with Schultz’ previous conviction to a total sentence of four years and nine months at hard labor plus five years’ deprivation of civil rights.

Julius Schultz served his sentence in Hamburg until June 11th, 1938, when he was transferred to the Esterwegen VII prison camp, where he arrived June 14th. On September 10th, 1938, he was admitted to the penitentiary in Münster, Westphalia; eleven days later, he was transported back to Esterwegen VII prison camp. On December 3rd, 1938, he was admitted to prison camp I in Börgermoor near Papenburg, the very next day to the penitentiary in Amberg, Bavaria, and on April 12th, 1939 to prison camp III Brual-Rhede.

Four and a half months later, on August 28th, 1939, Julius Schultz was admitted to prison camp II Aschendorfermoor, and on December 7th, 1940, to the penitentiary in Straubing, Bavaria. On September 9th, 1941, he was handed over to the Hamburg criminal police, and detained at the Hütten police jail. From there, a filing card "regular police observation” is preserved. In October 1941, he was registered as admitted with the inmate number 6439 at Neuengamme concentration camp, where he was murdered on November 6th, 1942.

Julius Schultz’ Odyssey through the Emsland camps and several penitentiaries is exemplary for the fate of many homosexuals, who had to serve their sentences at several places.


Translation by Peter Hubschmid 2018
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: January 2019
© Bernhard Rosenkranz(†)/Ulf Bollmann

Quellen: StaH 213-8 Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht – Verwaltung, Abl. 2, 451 a E 1, 1 a; StaH 213-11 Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht – Strafsachen, 2415/37 und 8/41; StaH 242-1 II Gefängnisverwaltung II, Abl. 13 und 16.