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Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn * 1897

Völckersstraße 27 (Altona, Ottensen)

HIER WOHNTE
FRIEDRICH GUSTAF
KALLOHN
JG. 1897
VERHAFTET 16.2.1934
KZ FUHSLBÜTTEL
1938 ESTERWEGEN
GEFÄNGNIS OSLEBSHAUSEN
DEPORTIERT MAJDANEK
ERMORDET 21.3.1944

Friedrich "Fiete" Gustaf Kallohn, born on 5.12.1897 in Altona, murdered in Majdanek concentration camp on 21.3.1944

Völckerstraße 27 (Ottensen)

Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn (born on 5.12.1897) was the third child of Friedrich Gustav Kallohn and Auguste Mathilde Louise, née Arndt, at Mörkenstraße 47 in Ottensen, a district of the then still independent city of Altona. (The father bore the same first names as his son, but Gustav spelled with a "v" at the end).

The parents came from Ossowke in the Flatow district, which was part of what was then West Prussia. They had married on June 12, 1894 in Ratzebuhr in the district of Stettin. The couple belonged to the Protestant church, and their children were also baptized. Their first child, Otto Gustav Friedrich, was born in Jastrow in the Flatow district. The second child, Gustav Julius August Paul, was born in October 1896 in a place called Berthe, whose geographical location could not be determined, according to a later death register entry.

Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn's year of birth suggests that the family had lived in Altona since 1897. The father gave "laborer" as his occupation in the civil registrations of his children. It was said in the family that he worked "in construction."

The Kallohn couple had a total of 16 children between 1894 and 1928, 14 of whom were born in Altona. Nine died in infancy or childhood or already at birth. The unhealthy living conditions in the many basement apartments in which the family lived probably contributed to this, as they changed their accommodation almost every year between 1897 and 1919. The following addresses can be traced:
1897 Mörkenstraße 44, 1898 - 1899 Kleine Westerstraße 7, 1900 - 1902 Teichstraße 21, 1903 Kleine Mörkenstraße 44, October 1903 - 1904 Große Westerstraße 5, 1905 Kleine Mühlenstraße 44, 1906 Bürgerstraße 24, 1907 - 1908 Blumenstraße 40, 1910 Kleine Papagoyenstraße 21, 1911 - 1912 Lindenallee 32, 1912 Kleine Westerstraße, December 1912 Große Westerstraße 18, 1917 Schulstraße 1, 1918 Völckerstraße 27, mid-1919 - 1933 Völckerstraße 15, 1937 Große Bergstraße 151.

The mother Auguste was very weakened and sickly due to the many births and moves. In addition, her husband Gustav Kallohn had to participate in World War I as a soldier and could not support his family during this time.

We know little about the childhood of Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn, who was called "Fiete". His father, who was heavily addicted to alcohol, was often violent towards the children. In the cramped living quarters, there was usually only room for three beds, which six children had to share. This gives an idea of how frightening and stressful the living conditions must have been for Friedrich Gustaf and his siblings.

Fiete ran away several times until he was admitted to Martinstift on the outskirts of Flensburg in 1907 at the age of ten. He remained there until 1918. The Martinstift was an institution founded by pastors in 1842 for "neglected boys and girls". Fiete attended school here and earned a high school diploma. He also worked for a farmer during this time.

Eventually, his path led him back to Hamburg. In 1918 he returned to live with his parents in a dilapidated apartment building at Völckerstraße 27, and in 1919 he moved to Völckerstraße 15/17. Later he also lived with his parents for a time.

Back in the family, Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn again had to share the beds with his siblings. He therefore often slept on the street, was at times registered as homeless, and kept his head above water with odd jobs, e.g. at the Altona fish market or at a shipyard in the port of Hamburg.

As a "tramp," he was on the road a lot and often got into trouble with the law. In 1919, he was arrested in Lüneburg for stealing a woolen blanket from a beer wagon, which he needed for the cold nights. He had previously been imprisoned for three days in Plön for begging and three months in Altona for theft. In Lüneburg he received a prison sentence of four months, which he had to serve in Bremen. From 1920 onwards, further convictions followed for theft and grand larceny, in Altona for vagrancy, in Butjadingen near Nordenham again for theft, now for the first time to a prison sentence.

After the end of another prison sentence in Bremen on September 4, 1924, Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn moved back in with his parents, who still lived in Völckerstraße. Of the 13 children his parents had had by then, only four were still alive. In the next few years, three more children were born, two of whom died at birth.

Cohesion seems to have been a high priority in the Kallohn family. Fiete Kallohn was often able to eat at relatives' houses. He often went to his aunt Rosa (born 3.10.1874) and his paternal uncle Paul Emil Kallohn (born 22.9.1881) (see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de). The couple had lived at Siemensstraße 16 in Altona (now Planckstraße) since 1914.

Fiete Kallohn found another opportunity to eat at the home of his cousin, Martha Emma Hagen, née Kallohn (born 26.6.1905). Rosa and Paul Emil Kallohn's daughter, her husband Carl (also: Karl) Jonny Hagen, as well as their daughters Thea (born 28.10.1922) and Elfriede (born 24.6.1929) also lived in Altona. Carl Jonny Hagen, who died during a mission in the "Strafbataillon 999," is commemorated by a stumbling stone at the corner of Steintwiete and Deichstraße (see www.stolpersteine-hamburg.de).

After his release from prison in 1924, Fiete Kallohn received another eleven convictions and prison sentences for begging, homelessness, theft and grand larceny in Altona, Rendsburg, Braunschweig, Lübtheen/Mecklenburg and Hamburg until 1934. In one case, he had broken open a freight car and stolen apples because he was hungry. According to § 361 of the Reich Penal Code, anyone who begged or wandered around as a vagrant was punished with imprisonment.

Fiete Kallohn served several terms in the prisons of Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel and Wolfenbüttel. Most recently, the Hamburg Court sentenced him to one year and three months in prison for grand larceny. The end of the sentence was set for April 13, 1934. For the following period, the court ordered preventive detention in accordance with Article 5 No. 2 of the "Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals and on Measures of Security and Correction of November 24, 1933" ("Gesetz gegen gefährliche Gewohnheitsverbrecher und über Maßregeln der Sicherung und Besserung vom 24. November 1933"). According to this provision, a court could subsequently order preventive detention under certain conditions if someone was to be regarded as a "dangerous habitual criminal" after an overall assessment of his deeds.

Fiete Kallohn's preventive detention was to be carried out in Wolfenbüttel Prison. There are no surviving documents that specify the duration and form of preventive detention. On March 1, 1936, it was conditionally suspended, although neither the reason nor the conditions associated with the suspension are contained in the files.

During the summer, he is said to have been in the Farmsen Care Home (Versorgungsheim). For the end of 1936, an extract from the criminal record shows a three-month prison sentence in Bremervörde for theft, and also a prison sentence of several weeks in 1937 for embezzlement. A few months later, on January 7, 1938, he was arrested during a burglary of a leather store in Mönckebergstraße in Hamburg and was sent to the Fuhlsbüttel police prison ("KolaFu") on February 2, 1938. His case was tried before the Hamburg Schöffengericht (Court of lay assessors).

On June 8, 1938, Fiete Kallohn was sentenced to eight years in prison "as a dangerous habitual criminal" for the burglary on Mönckebergstraße and six other crimes, after which he was to be transferred to Neuengamme concentration camp.

Along with Fiete Kallohn, his accomplices were sentenced: Josef Attenberger, a showman's assistant (born 19.11.1911) received a total sentence of one year and nine months; Gustav Ernst Denker, a milker (born 14.5.1915) was sent to the Neusustrum and Walchum concentration camps, which were part of the Emsland camps, for 2 years and six months until he was transferred to Wolfenbüttel on June 18, 1938. The sentence of 8 months for dockworker Friedrich Behrendt (born 7.4.1912) led to his death on July 25, 1942 in the Buchenwald concentration camp, ostensibly from "stomach and intestinal catarrh."

On September 8, 1938, Fiete Kallohn filed an application with the district court in Hamburg for a retrial in order to obtain relief from imprisonment. He based his application on the fact that he had not been fully sane when he committed his deeds.

On September 21, 1938, Fiete was sent to prison camp VII Esterwegen and from there, on October 13, to Amberg penitentiary near Nuremberg, but was transferred back to Hamburg on December 12, 1938.

On November 25, 1938, he received a notice of revocation of preventive detention, but not of criminal detention. Whether this was a consequence of the application for reinstatement is not known. However, on December 16, 1938, he was informed that the end of his sentence was February 11, 1946, but at the same time that he would subsequently be held in preventive detention. Further execution of the sentence took place in the penitentiary in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel until he was transferred to the penitentiary in Bremen Oslebshausen on December 8, 1939.

The documents still available do not reveal how the further years up to May 28, 1943 went for Fiete Kallohn. On this day he was assigned to the Neuengamme concentration camp. From there he was finally sent to the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin. We do not know when he was assigned to this camp and by what route he got there.

He died in the Majdanek concentration camp on March 21, 1944. In the death certificate prepared by the Arolsen Special Registry Office, "pulmonary tuberculosis" was listed as the cause of death.

Translation Beate Meyer

Stand: March 2023
© Bärbel Klein (Angehörige)

Quellen: StaH 213-11 Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht – Strafsachen 56028 (Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn), 79144 (Oskar Ernst Kallohn); 61099 (Gustav Ernst Denker), 53992 (Walter Heinrich Paul Müller); 242-1 I Gefängnisverwaltung I 18303 Strafkarteikarte Friedrich Kallohn; 351-11 Amt für Wiedergutmachung 2337 (Rosa Kallohn), 424-110_137 Josef Attenberger und Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn; 332-5 Standesämter 6301 Geburten Nr. 3574/1897 Friedrich Gustaf Kallohn, 13002 Geburten Nr. 97/1899 Carl Wilhelm Kallohn, 13459 Geburten Nr. 1488/1900 Wilhelm Max Kallohn, 13678 Geburten Nr. 2190/1901 Emma Auguste Kallohn, 13980 Geburten Nr. 1414/1903 Frida Louise Kallohn, 14578 Geburten Nr. 189/1905 Rudolf August Kallohn, 14784 Geburten Nr. 2314/1906 Oskar Ernst Kallohn, 14894 Geburten Nr. 2885/1907 Ella Minna Kallohn, 113310 Geburten Nr. 3171/1908 Paula Anna Kallohn, 5347 Sterberegister Nr. 1441/1901 Wilhelm Max Kallohn, 5253 Sterberegister Nr. 990/1903 Gustav Friedrich Kallohn, 5255 Sterberegister Nr. 2083/1903 Gustav Julius August Paul Kallohn, 5256 Sterberegister Nr. 235/1904 Frida Louise Kallohn, 5259 Sterberegister Nr. 116/1905 Carl Wilhelm Kallohn, 5973 Heiratsregister Nr. 360/1907 Kallohn/Kothe, 5271 Sterberegister Nr. 436/1908 Ella Minna Kallohn, 5273 Sterberegister Nr. 1171/1908 Rudolf August Kallohn, 6066 Heiratsregister Nr. 579/1922 Hagen/Kallohn; 5367 Sterberegister Nr. 624/1927 Lisa Kallohn, 5371 Sterberegister Nr. 770/1928 Paul Kallohn, 5380 Sterberegister Nr. 1297/1930 Meta Auguste Kallohn, 5082 Sterberegister Nr. 98/1931 Paula Anna Kallohn, 5413 Sterberegister Nr. 560/1938 Mathilde Louise Kallohn, 5112 Sterberegister Nr. 1262/1943 Oskar Ernst Kallohn, 5124 Sterberegister Nr. 524/1947 Friedrich Gustav Kallohn; 741-4 Fotoarchiv A 468 Gustav Ernst Denker, A 473 Kallohn, K 4465 Kallohn, K 5212 Kallohn, K 6345 Kallohn; Heiratsnachweis aus Jastrow Friedrich Gustav Kallohn und Mathilde Louise Kallohn, geb. Arndt von 1894; Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Abt. Osnabrück, Rep. 947 Lin I Nr. 457 (Haftnachweis Emslandlager VII), Mail vom 06.04.2020 von Heike Ostwald; Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Abt. Wolfenbüttel, 43 A Neu Fb. 3 Nr.3, lfd. 317/8 (Haftnachweis Gefängnis Wolfenbüttel) Mail vom 01.04.2020 von Lisa Spatzier; Panstwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, APMM XIX-38, Seite 40 (Todesbescheinigung Friedrich Gustav Kallohn, Mitt. vom 10.4.2020); Staatsarchiv Bremen 4.80, II.20, Eintrag 93, Seite 1, 2 (Haftnachweise Bremen-Oslebshausen) Mail vom 06.04.2020 von Dr. Wagener-Fimpel; Frank Nonnenmacher, Du hattest es besser als ich, Bad Homburg, 2014, S. 70. Kristina Schuster, Die Sicherungsverwahrung im Nationalsozialismus und ihre Fortentwicklung bis heute, Baden-Baden 2019.