List of subcamps of Neuengamme

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Aerial shot of the Neuengamme camp taken by British aviation on 16 April 1945

This is an incomplete list of subcamps of Neuengamme complex. Neuengamme was a so called labour camp of the Nazi concentration camps. The camp was installed in Hamburg, Germany from 1938 until 1945. In labour camps, millions of prisoners died through mistreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labour.

The inmates were forced to work in several locations in Northern Germany. The dimensions of these subcamps ranged from more than 5,000 to only a few inmates. Inmates were often transported to other subcamps or other working locations. Due to this facts and the demolition of the Neuengamme camp and its records by the SS in 1945, the historical work is difficult and ongoing.^[1] For example: in 1967 the German Federal Ministry of Justice stated the camp from 1 September 1938 until 5 May 1945.^[2] As of 2008 the organistation of the memorial Neuengamme (German: KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme) – an establishment of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, Sports and Media – states that the empty camp was explored by British forces on 2 May 1945 and the last inmates were liberated in Flensburg on 10 May 1945.^[3] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states online, that the camp was established on 13 December 1938 and liberated on 4 May 1945.^[4]

More than 80 subcamps were part of the Neuengamme concentration camp. First in 1942, inmates of Neuengamme were transported to the camp Arbeitsdorf. The dimensions of the camps differed from about 2,000 inmates to 10 or less. Several of these subcamps have memorials or at least plates, but as of 2000 at 28 locations there is nothing.^[5] Dr. Garbe, from the Memorial Museum of the Neuengamme concentration camp, wrote, "The importance of the satellite camps is further highlighted by the fact that toward the ends of the war three times more prisoners were in satellite camps than in the main camp."^[5]

Contents 1 At the main camp 2 In Hamburg 3 Outside of Hamburg 4 Construction labor brigades 5 Further names 6 See also 7 Note 8 External links

[edit] At the main camp

1. Canalize of the Dove Elbe, a branch of the Elbe river: Elbekommando
2. Klinkerwerk (brick factory) of the DEST
3. Lagergärtnerei (camp plant nursery)
4. Tongruben (clay cavities)
5. Manufacturing plant of the Walther-Werke
6. Armament factories of Messap and Jastram

[edit] In Hamburg

Subcamps and working locations in Hamburg proper sorted by name.

Camp Name			Dates of use	Est. prisoners[6]	Est. deaths[6]	No.[7]
Blohm + Voss	Hamburg-Steinwerder		1 July 1944 – 21 April 1945			550
Bullenhuser Damm		Men	1 October 1944 – 21 April 1945	1,000		552
Hamburg-Geilenberg Dessauer Ufer	Hamburg-Veddel	Men	– 22 April 1945			557
Hamburg-Geilenberg Dessauer Ufer	Hamburg-Veddel	Women	20 June 1944 – 30 September 1944			556
Eidelstedt			1 March 1944 – 1 May 1945			553
Finkenwerder, Deutsche Werft			– 30 April 1945			554
Fuhlsbüttel	Am Hasenberge 26	Prison	1 January 1943 – 8 May 1945			556
Howaldtswerke, Hamburg						558
Langenhorn			12 September 1944 – 4 April 1945	ca 750	> 9	559
Neugraben		Women	13 September 1944 – 8 February 1945	500		560
Poppenbüttel		Working location for Sasel				1161
Sasel		Women	1 August 1944 – 4 May 1945	500	> 36	561
Spaldingstraße	Hammerbrook		1 September 1944 – 22 April 1945			562
Stülckenwerft	Steinwerder		– 15 April 1945			563
Hamburg-Tiefstack		Women	8 February 1945 – 5 April 1945	500		564
Wandsbek			2 May 1944 – 3 May 1945			565
Wilhelmsburg Jung-Ölindustrie						566
Hamburg, Bombensuchkommando		Men, brigade to search bombs	1 December 1940 –			551

[edit] Outside of Hamburg

Subcamps of Neuengamme in alphabetical order. Using the political division of Germany of the year 2000, there were at least 34 subcamps in Lower Saxony, 9 in Bremen, 9 in Schleswig-Holstein, 6 in North Rhine-Westphalia, 5 in Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania, 3 in Saxony-Anhalt, and 1 in Brandenburg.^[5] Also, four subcamps were located in Alderney, occupied Channel Islands, British Commonwealth.

Camp Name			Dates of use[7]	Est. prisoners[6]	Est. deaths[6]	wikipedia	No.[7]	Webpage[8]
Alderney concentration camps or Camp Alderney	See SS–Baubrigade I	Lager Borkum, Lager Helgoland, Lager Norderney & Lager Sylt	Jan 1942 - Jun 1944	6,000	700		6a	[9],[10]
Alt Garge[6] Alt-Garge a.d.Elbe[7]	Near Bleckede	Later used as Alt-Garge UNRRA displaced persons camp, a camp for Latvian displaced persons	24 August 1944 – 15 February 1945				15
Aurich District Aurich			21 October 1944 – 23 December 1944	2,000	188		51
Bad Sassendorf	SS–Eisenbahnbaubrigade 11
Barkhausen	a part of Porta Westfalica		18 March 1944 – 1 April 1945				77
Blumenthal	See Bremen-Blumenthal						142
Boizenburg (District Hagenow, Bezirk Schwerin (old))			– 30 April 1945				150
Braunschweig, Camp Büssing and Schilldenkmal	(Brunswiek)	Büssing–NAG	17 August 1944 – 26 March 1945	800	> 380		165	[1]
Braunschweig, SS–Reitschule	Brunswiek, SS – Riding school						167
Braunschweig, Stahlwerke	Brunswiek Steel factory	See Watenstedt					168
Braunschweig, Truppenwirtschaft	Brunswiek Military depot						169
Bremen-Blumenthal Deschimag			1 September 1944 – 20 April 1945				176
Bremen, Behelfswohnbau	Temporary housebuilding		– 26 April 1945				175
Bremen, Borgwardwerke	Borgward factory		– 12 October 1944				176
Bremen, Deschimag, Camp Schützenhof			– 11 April 1945				178
Bremen-Farge			1 July 1943 – 8 April 1945				179	[2] [3]
Bremen-Neuenland			16 Aug 1944 – 28 Nov 1944				181
Bremen-Osterort			28 Nov 1944 –	1,000			183
Bremen-Vegesack			– 30 Sep 1944				184
Darß - Wieck			January 1941 – end-February 1941[6]	50
Darß - Zingst, Germany
Dalum District Meppen		Command from Meppen-Versen[6]	– 25 March 1945				260
Drütte Municipality Watenstedt-Salzgitter			1 September 1942 – 8 April 1945	3,100			316	[4]
Düssin / Mecklenburg		Men / agricultural work	15 September 1944[6] – 1 March 1945	80	1		328
Eisleben Command from Helmstedt-Beendorf		Men					346a
Fallersleben Women camp		Volkswagen[6]	Aug 1944[6] – 8 April 1945	650			387
Fallersleben-Laagberg (also Laagberg)		Volkswagen[6]	31 May 1944[6] – 8 April 1945	800			794
Glasau District Segeberg			29 March 1945 – 2 May 1945				466
Goslar		(Not Goslar subcamp to Buchenwald)	20 October 1944 – 25 March 1945	15	1		484
Gross-Hesepe District Meppen		Command from Meppen-Versen[6]	– 25 March 1945				504
Hannover-Ahlem			30 November 1944 – 11 April 1945				568
Hannover-Limmer			– 7 April 1945				570
Hannover-Linden	(Mülhenberg-Hannover)		– 7 April 1945				571
Hannover-Misburg		Men	26 June 1944[6] – 7 April 1945	1,000			572
Hannover-Stöcken Accumulatorenwerk			19 July 1943 – 8 April 1945				573
Hannover-Stöcken Continental-Werke			7 September 1944 – 30 November 1944				574
Hausberge an der Porta	a part of Porta Westfalica		1 February 1945 – 1 April 1945				585
Helmstedt-Beendorf		women underground armaments industry	– 10 April 1945	2,500			596	[5]
Hildesheim			– 6 April 1945				608
Hohwacht	See Lütjenburg[6]
Horneburg		Philips-Valvo-Röhrenwerke[6]	a) Mid-October 1944 – mid-February 1945[6] b) 24 February 1945 – 8 April 1945[6] – 31 March 1945	a) 250 b) 300			636
Husum-Schwesing			25 September 1944 – 22 December 1944				643	[6]
Kaltenkirchen		Building a "Fliegerhorst" (Military airport)[6]	August 1944[6] – 17 April 1945	500	> 214		693	[7]
Kiel		Clearing up work[6]	July 1944 – September 1944[6]	50			727
Ladelund	Near Flensburg		– 16 December 1944	2,000	> 298		796	[8]
Langenhagen Province Hanover			2 October 1944 – 15 April 1945				808
Lengerich District Tecklenburg			– 1 April 1945	200	> 7		838
Lerbeck	a part of Porta Westfalica		1 October 1944 – 1 April 1945				843
Lübberstedt District Wesermünde		Women	August 1944[6] – 30 April 1945	500			883
Lütjenburg		Men	– 30 March 1945	197			893
Ludwigslust	See Wöbbelin
Meppen-Versen			– 1 April 1945				927
Misburg	See Hannover-Misburg						942
Mölln - Breitenfelde			1 December 1944 – 30 April 1945	20			953
Neesen District Minden	Working location for Porta Westfalica						1024
Neuhof								[11][12]
Neustadt in Holstein			December 1944 – 1 May 1945[6]	15			1049
Nutzen								[11][12]
Porta Westfalica near Barkhausen-Lerbeck	See Barkhausen and see Lerbeck						1164
Salzgitter-Bad			1 August 1943 –	500			1278	[9]
Salzwedel Province Saxony		Women	10 July 1944 – 15 April 1945	1,250			1282
Sandbostel			15 April 1945 –			Stalag X-B	1285	[10]
Schandelah District Braunscheig	Now Cremlingen		8 May 1944 – 12 April 1945	800	200		1292
Schwesing	See Husum-Schwesing
Uelzen		Men	End 1944 – 17 April 1945	500			1491
Vechelde, Braunschweig		Command from Braunschweig, Camp Büssing and Schilldenkmal	September 1944 – March/April 1945[6]	400			1509
Verden			8 October 1945 – April 1945	8			1515
Warberg District Helmstedt		(from Braunschweig, Truppenwirtschaft)	5 June 1944 – 8 January 1945[6]	8
Watenstedt Salzgitter Watenstedt Leinde	Stahlwerke Braunschweig Hermann-Göring-Werke	Men	– 30 April 1945 (May 1944 – 7 April 1945[6])	2,000[13]		Salzgitter#History	1540	[11]
Watenstedt Watenstedt Leinde	Stahlwerke Braunschweig Hermann-Göring-Werke	Women	7 July 1944 – 30 April 1945 (– 7 April 1945[6])	800		Salzgitter#History	1540	[12]
Wedel (Women)			13 September 1944 – 27 November 1944	500			1541
Wedel (Men)			17 October 1944 – 20 November 1944	500	> 27		1541
Wilhelmshaven Alter Bant Weg		(Not SS–Baubrigade II)	17 September 1944 – 5 April 1945	1,200	234		1582
Wittenberge (Old: District Wittenberge)			15 August 1942 (28 August 1942)[6] – 17 February 1945	500	119		1587
Wöbbelin District Ludwigslust		(Also referred to as Ludwigslust)	12 February 1945 – 2 May 1945			Wöbbelin concentration camp	1591
Wolfsburg	See Fallersleben Arbeitsdorf (working village)						1595

[edit] Construction labor brigades

Inmates of concentration camps were centralized in construction labor brigades (German:Baubrigaden), organized by the SS, to clean up after air raids, remove unexploded ordnance devices and bombs, or recover corpses. Some of the brigades worked also at the Friesenwall — part of the Atlantic Wall at the German North Sea coast — and fortifications in German cities e.g. antitank obstacles. Other brigades were placing or repairing rails or railway stations.

Brigade[6]	Locations[6]		Dates of use[6]	Est. prisoners[6]	Est. deaths[6]	Webpage
SS-Baubrigade I	Alderney	Building the Lager Sylt	12 March 1943 –	1,000	100	[13]
SS-Baubrigade II	Bremen	Clearing up after air raids	12 October 1942 – 15 April 1944	750
SS-Baubrigade II	Osnabrück	Clearing up after air raids	17 October 1942 – May 1943	250	86
SS-Baubrigade II	Wilhelmshaven	Clearing up after air raids	Spring 1943 – November 1943	175
SS-Baubrigade II	Hamburg-Hammerbrook	Clearing up after air raids	7 August 1943 – April 1944	930
SS-Baubrigade II	Lüneburg-Kaland	Diging anti-tank obstacles	12 August 1943 – 13 November 1943	155
SS-Eisenbahnbaubrigade 11 (Railway building unit)	Bad Sassendorf near Soest	Building rail tracks after air raids	15 February 1945 – 4/5 April 1945

[edit] Further names

Names found in some lists, probably mistake in writing or double-listings:

Name		See	No.[7]	Found
Altgarge Altgarga	Probably mistake in writing	See Alt Garga		[11][12]
Arbeitsdorf	Autonomous concentration camp	Volkswagen[6]	29
Aumund	Probably double-listing	See Bremen-Vegesack[6]	No ref	[11][12]
SS-Baubrigade 1 SS-Baubrigade 2	Probably double-listing: Roman number I = 1, II = 2	See SS-Baubrigade I or II
Baubrigade V - West			No ref
Barskamp			No ref	[11][12]
Bergstedt			No ref	[11][12]
Borkum	Probably meaning Lager Borkum	Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Osterort	Probably double-listing	See Bremen-Osterort
Bremen-Weser			No ref	[11][12]
Brink-Hannover			No ref	[11][12]
Ebensee (subcamp to Mauthausen)	Some prisoners from SS-Eisenbahn-Baubrigade 11 were deported to [6]		334
Engerhafe	Double-listing	See Aurich[6]
Fidelstedt	Probably mistake in writing	See Hamburg-Eidelstedt	No ref	[11][12]
Fliegerhorst	Translation for military airport	Probably Kaltenkirchen	No ref
Fludwigslust	Probably mistake in writing probably double-listing	See Ludwigslust see: Wöbbelin	No ref	[11][12]
Glassau bei Sarau	Probably mistake in writing	See Glasau		[11][12]
Gross-Fullen	(Village to Meppen)		No ref	[11][12]
Helgoland	Probably meaning Lager Helgoland	Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Ibbenbüren			No ref
Laasberg	Probably mistake in writing	See Fallersleben-Laagberg	No ref	[11][12]
Norderney	Probably meaning Lager Norderney	Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Minden	Maybe Neesen, district Minden		No ref	[11][12]
Ohldorf	Maybe Cemetery Ohlsdorf in Hamburg working location for SS-Baubrigade II		No ref	[11][12]
Peenemünde	or Karlshagen	Subcamp to Ravensbrück	699
Schützenhof or Schützenhof-Bremen		See Bremen, Deschimag, Camp Schützenhof		[11][12]
Sollstadt				[11][12]
Stöcken-Hannover		See Hannover-Stöcken	1409
Steinwerder	(Quarter of Hamburg)	2 camps, see above		[11][12]
Stuklenwert	Probably mistake in writing	See Stülckenwerft in Hamburg	No ref	[11][12]
Sylt	Probably meaning Lager Sylt	Nazi name for a camp on Alderney (see there)
Veerssen	Probably mistake in writing	See Meppen-Versen		[11][12]
Veleen				[11][12]

[edit] See also

• Alderney concentration camps
• Nazi concentration camps
• Nazi concentration camp list
• Neuengamme concentration camp
• The Holocaust

[edit] Note

[edit] External links

• Memorial Neuengamme (German)
• Holocaust memorials