Hermann Strübing
* 1891

Hermann Strübing, b. 6.30.1891 in Cammin bei Rostock, died (by suicide) in Hamburg on 11.27.1936

Barmbeker Straße 177

Hermann Strübing lived with his wife and their three children at Barmbeker Strasse 177. When he came to Hamburg is not known. He was a policeman by profession, having reached the rank equivalent of a sergeant in the military. In 1933, after the Nazi Party Deputy to the Hamburg City Parliament, Alfred Richter, was appointed as police senator, there followed a political “cleansing” of the police apparatus; this did not affect Hermann Strübing. He had been neither a socialist, a communist, or a member of a trade union.

Since 1935, he had, because of several homosexual contacts, come under the constant threat of punishment according to §175 of the penal code. On 25 November 1936, he was observed by the Gestapo making contact with another man in a public bathroom. Thereupon, he was taken into police “protective custody” and brought to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp. There, two days later, on 27 November 1936, he took his own life

Translator: Richard Levy
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.