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Oskar Neeth * 1908
Suhrenkamp 98 Gedenkstätte KZ Fuhlsbüttel (Hamburg-Nord, Ohlsdorf)
OSKAR NEETH
JG. 1908
VERHAFTET 1938
KZ FUHLSBÜTTEL
NEUENGAMME
TOT 23.5.1943
Oskar Emil Neeth, born on 1.4.1908 in Neustettin, died on 23.5.1943 in Neuengamme concentration camp
Suhrenkamp 98, Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and penal institutions memorial
Oskar Neeth was born in 1908 in the district town of Neustettin in south-eastern Pomerania on the border with West Prussia, as the son of Richard Neeth, a teacher, and Florentine, née Bergau. His father came from the East Prussian district of Rastenburg.
Little is known about Oskar Neeth's life. He had at least one older sister, Käthe Meier, who was also born in Neustettin in 1899 and married there in 1934 as an office clerk. He also lived and worked as an accountant in his native town, presumably after completing a commercial apprenticeship.
His father died in Neustettin in 1935 at the age of 54.
The background to his stay in Hamburg in the fall of 1938, during which he was transferred by the criminal investigation department to "protective custody” in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, already euphemistically known as the "police prison” at the time, also remains a mystery. He remained in Fuhlsbüttel until November 3, as evidenced by accounting documents for "protective custody costs”. This stay was followed by pre-trial detention in the Holstenglacis prison on charges of "unnatural immorality”. fornication”. Oskar Neeth remained in custody there until November 25, 1938, before being transferred to the Köslin court prison, also in Hinterpommern. No information is available about the further course of the proceedings against him, which were presumably conducted in accordance with § 175.
Oskar Neeth only became the focus of National Socialist persecution in Hamburg again when he was sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp, which, according to the prisoner number 17778 assigned to him, took place in March 1943. We do not know the exact reason for his imprisonment. He only survived the main camp in Neuengamme for a few weeks. Gestapo officer Otto Apenburg, head of the political department of the concentration camp, reported his death to the Neuengamme A special registry office on May 23, 1943. The time of death was recorded as "6:00 minutes” and the cause of death as the clichéd and repetitive "cardiovascular failure due to pneumonia”. Oskar Neeth was just 35 years old at the time.
As Oskar Neeth did not live in Hamburg, a Stumbling Stone was laid for him on behalf of the homosexual men imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp.
Translation: Beate Meyer
Stand: November 2024
© Ulf Bollmann
Quellen: StaH, 213-8 (General-)Staatsanwaltschaft Oberlandesgericht – Verwaltung, Nr. 975 (Schutzhaftkostenabrechnung); StaH, 242-1 II Gefängnisverwaltung II, 22495 (= StaH, 741-4 Fotoarchiv, A 250, Untersuchungshaftkartei); StaH, 332-5 Standesämter, 10723 Nr. 2368; Landesarchiv Berlin, Personenstandsregister von Neustettin, abgerufen über www.ancestry.de, eingesehen am: 21.11.2020; Bernhard Rosenkranz/Ulf Bollmann/Gottfried Lorenz: Homosexuellen-Verfolgung in Hamburg 1919–1969, Hamburg 2009, S. 240.