Curiohaus – Wikipedia
The Curiohaus is a office and event building in Hamburg built as a company house in the district of Eimsbüttel, Rotherbaum district. It was built between 1908 and 1911 according to a design by the architect Johann Emil Schaudt and Walther Puritz an der Rothenbaumchaussee 11–17 for the Society of Friends of the Patriotic School and Education Service and after the founder of this society, Johann Carl Daniel Curio. Since 1948 it has been the property and seat of the Hamburg State Association of the Education and Science Union (GEW). In October 1997, the building was listed as an overall facility and with its fixed equipment, the front garden post office, the lights and the oval of the court garden. [first]
For decades, the very renowned Vogt’s conservatory under the direction of Friedrich Vogt and the co -director, the music critic and writer Ferdinand Pfohl was based; In 1942, the Vogt’s Conservatory emerged the urban “School of Music and Theater of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg”, which was also based there. This in turn was the forerunner of today’s University of Music and Theater Hamburg.
Hamburg artists celebrated carnival festivals every year during the 1920s in the Curiohaus every year, which with their cultural program gained importance as Hamburg’s artist festivals.
The large hall of the Curiohaus was largely spared from bomb damage in World War II. From 1946 to 1948 it served British military courts as the courtroom for the procedures called “Curiohaus processes” on Nazi and war crimes. This also included the new Gamme main process and seven Ravensbrück processes against SS members who were responsible for crimes in these concentration camps (including the numerous secondary camps). The new gamme main process is often referred to as the “Curiohaus process”, but was only one of many. In this procedure, among others. Extreme abuse, the killing of Russian prisoners of war with poison gas, suspension of Dutch resistance fighters and the murders of twenty children in the Bullenhuser Damm branch camp and thus known to the general public. [2]
From 1967 to the restoration in 1997, the Curiohaus served as a cafeteria of the university. Since 1998, the Curiohaus has been used as an event location for concerts, conferences, presentations, corporate or club festivals.
A blackboard inscription is reminiscent of the foundation and the expropriation of the house in 1933. It is also pointed out that the processes of the British military courts took place in the house. The subject of the individual procedures, such as the children’s murder from the Bullenhuser Damm, the aviation murders and the process against the cyclone B delivery company Tesch & Stabenow, also negotiated here, is not mentioned separately.
A building next to the CurioHaus, Rothenbaumchaussee 19 (also known as “RO 19”), which was owned by a community of heirs from Jewish descent, was bought in spring 1935 by the “teacher house” existing before 1933 and later legally independent and after 1945 was awarded by an independent examination body of the GEW. Since 2005, a working group of trade unionists and experts have been researching the closer circumstances that had led to the acquisition of the house. None of the participants said a doubt that the house clearly belongs to the GEW. Of those who thought that the sale could be described as an “argument”, the sale was considered, among other suggestions to build a Jewish museum there.
On November 27, 2006, the State Representative Assembly (LVV) of the GEW Hamburg decided to add an information board to the history at the house, to publish a brochure and further documentation and to check by spring 2007 whether it was possible in view of the financial consequences, on the income to do without the rental. At the following LVV on April 23, 2007, the assertion of an “argument” was classified as not proven.
However, part of this working group called for the sale of the house to the city of Hamburg due to political-moral responsibility. Others pointed out that neither the sellers nor a Jewish aid organization had claimed reimbursement after the war. There is no evidence that the sales price was inappropriately low and due to the pressure of persecution. Even with another historical assessment, cheap sales to the city is also not a compelling consequence. In 2007, the LVV rejected the sale with a narrow majority. She decided to set up a fund, from which a sum of up to 10,000 euros annually to support anti -fascist and anti -racist initiatives inside and outside the GEW Hamburg can be paid out.
The controversy was again the subject of the state representative assembly in November 2008. It was known to be a general historical responsibility, but remained in the matter in the decision of the previous year.
- ↑ List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in Internet Archive ) (PDF; 915 KB), accessed on December 26, 2011.
- ↑ Neuengamme concentration camp: exhibition on CurioHaus processes
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