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Oskar von Schmeling * 1880
Simon-von-Utrecht-Straße 64 (Hamburg-Mitte, St. Pauli)
HIER WOHNTE
OSKAR VON SCHMELING
JG. 1880
MEHRMALS VERHAFTET
ZULETZT 1939
KZ FUHLSBÜTTEL
SACHSENHAUSEN
ERMORDET 5.10.1941
Oskar Georg Neveling von Schmeling, born 7/2/1880, imprisoned 1935, 1938 and 1939, died on 10/5/1941 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Simon-von-Utrecht-Straße 64 (formerly Eckernförderstrasse 64)
Oskar von Schmeling, a member of the landed gentry from Gross Möllen in the Köslin district of Outer Pomerania (now Poland) was widowed, and after receiving an inheritance, ran a fish smokery in Köslin.
After World War I, he moved to Altona, where he worked as a merchant and an office clerk. He remarried and had nine children.
In May 1935, Oskar von Schmeling, who had previously been convicted of embezzlement, was indicted for "performing indecent actions” in the Altona District Court. In September 1935, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sex crimes, which he served from September 19th at the Neumünster penitentiary.
From March 3rd to April 13th, 1938, he was detained at the Hamburg City remand jail for "perverted buggery.” On May 16th, 1939, he was taken into "protective custody” by the Hamburg police at the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, from where he was transferred to the Hamburg city remand jail on May 23rd, 1939. Presumably, he was taken to the Wolffenbüttel penitentiary on July 7th, 1939 following a trial for "perverted buggery” – the verdict is not preserved.
For the second half of 1941, Oskar von Schmeling is recorded as a "temporary prophylactic prisoner” at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Further entries in the records are dated September 10th and October 1st, the latter the admittance to the sickbay. Oscar von Schmeling died on October 5th, 1941 at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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 d; StaH 242-1 II Gefängnisverwaltung II, Abl. 13 und 16; Müller/Sternweiler, Homosexuelle Männer, 2000, S. 19; Dank an Jürgen v. Schmeling, www.jvsd.de/schmeling für die Überlassung von weiterführenden Informationen zur Familiengeschichte und von Bildmaterial.
