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Fritz Raudies * 1899

Stiftstraße 68 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Georg)

Verhaftet 1937 und 1941
KZ Fuhlsbüttel
Strafgefängnis Wolfenbüttel
Flucht in den Tod
06.11.1941

Fritz "Fiete" Raudies, b. 1.24.1899, imprisoned 1937 and 1941, suicide on 11.6.1941 in the Wolfenbüttel penal institution

Stiftstraße 68 (formerly Stiftstraße 86)

Without any professional training, Fiete Raudies was a vagabond between 1925 and 1930. He survived, among other ways, by doing occasional labor in agriculture, in factories, as a market helper, and placard bearer, and as a rivet warmer at the Blohm & Voss dockyard. He was convicted several times for embezzlement, the insulting of officials, and begging.

In 1937, he and a partner were denounced by a tavern owner: "it was obvious to me earlier that these two men were fondling each other, were falling all over one another....” From 25 October to 29 December 1937, Fiete Raudies found himself in police "protective custody" in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. In 1938, there followed a sentence by the Hamburg State Court of one year in jail for violations of §175 and §175, clause 3 of the Reich Penal Code.

Free again, he was again the victim of a denunciation--this time by a work colleague at the Cacao & Chocolate Factory C. H. L. Gartmann in Altona-Bahrenfeld. Between 6 and 13 June 1941, Raudies was once again in police "protective custody” in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. On 4 September 1941, the Hamburg State Court imposed a two-year jail sentence according to §175 and §175, clause 3 of the Reich Penal Code. The court followed the recommendation of the state attorney’s office. As an extenuating circumstance, the court recognized that the accused "apparently regrets the deed and is ready to take full responsibility for it. He makes a pitiful impression and in no way seeks to arouse the sympathy of the Court. His assurance that he has the firm intention to keep himself reined in in the future ought not be disbelieved.”

Fiete Raudies served his sentence in the Wolfenbüttel penal institution. His mother’s plea for mercy was rejected on 1 November 1941. On 6 November 1941, Fiete Raudies hanged himself in his cell.


Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.

Stand: October 2018
© Bernhard Rosenkranz/Ulf Bollmann

Quellen: StaHH, 213-11 Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht – Strafsachen, 2133/38 und 6786/41; StaHH, 242-1II Gefängnisverwaltung II, Ablieferungen 13 und 16; StaHH, 331-1II Polizeibehörde II, Ablieferung 15 vom 18.9.84, Band 1; StaHH, 213-8 Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht – Verwaltung, 451 a E 1, 1 b.