Information Board Stülcken-Werft

Schanzenweg 12, 20457 Hamburg

Germany Hamburg Hamburg

Concentration Camp,
Stülcken-Werft Unit
The Stülcken-Werft shipyard was the site of a satellite camp of Concentratiecamp Neuengamme, located on the other side of the shipping channel. It was set up at the end of November 1944, and held 250 prisoners, mostly Hungarian Jews. They were housed in an attic room on the fourth floor of the boiler shop. The prisoners had to work day and night shifts, cleaning the bottoms of ships, doing electric arc welding and clearing bomb damage. The satellite camp was evacuated by the SS on 21 April 1945. At least 79 prisoners lost their lives on the Stülcken-Werft site.

Concentration Camp,
Blohm & Voss-Werft Unit
In October 1944, after a request from Blohm & Voss, the SS transferred 600 Neuengamme prisoners to the shipyard to work in submarine construction and on clearance detail. Their guards were members of the German navy. Harsh conditions and maltreatment led to a high death toll. To date, 89 victims are known by name, but the actual number was much higher. On 12 April 1945, the SS evacuated the camp. The prisoners were taken to Lübeck and put on board ships. Mistaking them for troop carriers, British planes bombed and sank the ships. Among the 7,000 victims were hundreds of prisoners from the Blohm & Voss satellite camp.

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