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Werner Schmidt * 1918
Seilerstraße 17 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)
HIER WOHNTE
WERNER SCHMIDT
JG. 1918
VERHAFTET 1938
KZ FUHLSBÜTTEL
TOT AN HAFTFOLGEN
28.8.1941
further stumbling stones in Seilerstraße 17:
Bruno Müller
Werner Ernst Schmidt, born 1/8/1918, imprisoned in 1938 and 1939, died at Barmbek hospital on 8/24/1941
Seilerstrasse, between houses 17 and 19 (Seilerstrasse 23)
After having quit an apprenticeship as an artist, Werner Schmidt, born 1918 in Flensburg, worked at a variety of jobs, e.g. clerk, waiter, assistant innkeeper, salesman, worker, hotel and domestic servant. Before coming to Hamburg, he had lived in Wyk on the island of Föhr, in Westerland/Sylt, Flensburg, Grabow, Mecklenburg, and Hannover.
In August 1938, Werner Schmidt, previously convicted of theft, was arrested in a police raid on a homosexual hangout in St. Pauli. From August 30th, to September 2nd, 1938, he was detained at the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp as a "protective prisoner” of the police. In October 1938, the Hamburg Regional Court acquitted him of charges pursuant to Art. 175 no. 4 of the Penal Code ("perverted buggery”). After his release, he slapped through as a rent boy.
In March 1939, he was denounced as a homosexual by a colleague and additionally as a rent boy by former sex partners, which again led to arrest and imprisonment at the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. In August 1939, Werner Schmidt stood trial in the Hamburg Regional Court. The judge sentenced him to three and a half years in jail for an offense pursuant to Art. 175 of the Penal Code and additionally for "commercial buggery” pursuant to Art. 175 no. 4. Werner Sch
midt served his sentence at the Wolffenbüttel penitentiary. On June 21st, 1941, of the hospital of the Hamburg City remand jail, and one month later to the Barmbek Hospital, where he died of tubercular meningitis on August 24th, 1941.
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 c und 1 d; StaH 213-11 Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht – Strafsachen, 7384/39 und 9809/38.
