Walter Sammet
* 1907
HIER WOHNTE
WALTER SAMMET
JG. 1907
VERHAFTET 1937
’FRONTBEWÄHRUNG’
TOT 27.11.1944
Annenstraße 4
Annenstraße 4
Walter Theodor Sammet, born on 8 Apr. 1907, detained in 1937, died on 27 Nov. 1944 as a prisoner of war in the area of Baranovichy in Russia
Annenstrasse 4
Walter Sammet was among the homosexuals having become liable to prosecution whose criminal justice records no longer exist. Only a prisoner card file contains sparse clues to his fate.
On 16 Mar. 1937, the Hamburg District Court (Amtsgericht) sentenced the worker and truck driver Walter Sammet, a native of Altona, to four months in prison for offenses in accordance with Sec. 175 of the Reich Criminal Code (Reichsstrafgesetzbuch – RStGB). He served his prison term in the Fuhlsbüttel penitentiary until 16 July 1937.
On 1 July 1941, he was drafted into military service with the 3rd Company Territorial Reserve Battalion 10 (3. Kompanie Landschützen-Ersatz-Bataillon 10) in Lüneburg. In the very end, he was a private first class (Obergefreiter) in the 390th Field Training Division (390. Feldausbildungs-Division) in Central Russia. Walter Sammet died in captivity in the area of Baranovichy/Soviet Union (today Belarus) on 27 Nov. 1944.
Translator: Erwin Fink
Kindly supported by the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung, Hamburg.