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Heinrich Steenbock * 1880

Amsinckstraße / Ecke Schultzweg (Hamburg-Mitte, Hammerbrook)

HIER WOHNTE
HEINRICH
STEENBOCK
JG. 1880
MEHRMALS VERHAFTET
ERMORDET 17.2.1945
BERGEN-BELSEN

Heinrich Steenbock, born 18.6.1880, perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 17.2.1945

last residential address: Spaldingstraße 27, house 3

Heinrich Steenbock was married and by profession Ewerführer (skipper for a special boat), since at least 1930 he lived in Spaldingstraße. His mother was Josefine Steenbock, née Hanndorf, whose husband had died in 1930 at the latest.

According to a 1930 extract from the criminal register, Heinrich Steenbock had been convicted ten times between 1896 and 1924 and sentenced to a maximum of three months' imprisonment or fines for trespassing, bodily harm, theft, unauthorized trade in pharmaceuticals, and insulting public officials.
On August 8, 1930, he received a two-week prison sentence from the Hamburg District Court, since he sold a sewing, although it had not yet been fully paid off.

Under the Nazi regime, however, he was apparently not prosecuted for minor crimes, but for political reasons. According to a death list, he was a member of the KPD and was imprisoned for helping Soviet prisoners of war, which was severely punished under Nazi rule.
This probably happened in 1942, because his name does not appear in the Hamburg address book since 1943.

He died at the age of almost 65 in the terrible conditions of the Bergen-Belsen camp in Lower Saxony.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: January 2022
© Benedikt Behrens

Quellen: StaH 332-8 Meldewesen, Fotoarchiv 741-4, Meldekarten der zw. dem 1.8.1943 und 31.12.1945 Abgemeldeten und Verstorbenen; StaH 213-11 Staatsanwaltschaft LG – Strafakten, A15943/30; VAN (Hg.), Totenliste Hamburger Widerstandskämpfer und Verfolgter, Hamburg 1968, AB 1933–1943.