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Ernst Reichenberg * 1905

Schloßgarten 32/34 (Wandsbek, Marienthal)

Verhaftet 1938 und 1941
KZ Fuhlsbüttel
Flucht in den Tod
01.06.1941

Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Reichenberg, born 31.12.1905 Hamburg, imprisoned May 1941, died 1.6.1941 in Holstenglacis remand prison 3

Schlossgarten, between house numbers 32 and 34 (Schillerstraße 9)

The commercial employee Ernst Reichenberg is one of the homosexuals to whom we have found only a few references. Only through a file of the prison administration, a list of protective custody expense accounts from the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, as well as some prisoner index cards, basic data about his fate have survived.

Ernst Reichenberg was born in Hamburg on December 31, 1905. At the time of his arrest, he lived with his parents at Schillerstraße 9. From January 14 to February 25, 1938, he was in police "protective custody" in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp.

A little over two years later, from May 13 to 16, 1941, he was again among the inmates of this concentration camp. On May 16, he was sent to the Holstenglacis 3 remand prison to await the start of his trial at the Hamburg District Court. The public prosecutor's office investigated him for violating § 175 of the RStGB and § 185 of the RStGB (felonious insult). On May 31, 1941, Ernst Reichenberg cut his wrists with razor blades.

On June 1, 1941, he died of this in the central hospital of the remand prison.

Since Ernst Reichenberg's last freely chosen place of residence was with his parents at Schillerstraße 9 (today Schlossgarten, between house numbers 32 and 34), a Stolperstein is to commemorate his fate there.

Translation by Beate Meyer
Stand: January 2022
© Bernhard Rosenkranz, Ulf Bollmann

Quellen: StaHH 242-1II Gefängnisverwaltung, II Abl. 12; ebd., 213-8 Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht – Verwaltung, Abl. 2, 451 a E1, 1 b; ebd., 331-1II Polizeibehörde II, Abl. 18.9.84, Band 1.