Flossenbürg-Obertraubling

Names

• Obertraubling
• Regensburg-Obertraubling
• Fliegerhorst Obertraubling
• Obertraubling bei Regensburg

Type

• Concentration camp
• Subcamp of Flossenbürg
• Forced labour camp

Dates

(YYYY-MM-DD)

• Opened: 1945-02-20, 1945-02-24
• Closed: 1945-04-16

Locations

Camp location

Obertraubling Messerschmitt Werk with pond and the SS-casino where the concentration camp prisoners were held, 1943

Obertraubling Messerschmitt Werke after bombing raid

• This location may not be accurate. More research is needed.

48.993584/12.195235

geo:12.195235,48.993584 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: Regensburger Straße 11
• District: Gärtnersiedlung
• Town: Neutraubling
• State: Bayern
• Country: Germany

Organisations involved

• OT-Bauleitung

Victims and Survivors

Population information

• 600 men of various nationalities, mostly Jews

Location of graves

• A concentration camp cemetery existed, built on the location of the mass graves, at what is now Breslauer Strasse/Falkenauer Strasse. This cemetery was closed in 1957 and the memorial cross was placed at the municipal cemetery.

Staff

Names of perpetrators and any other people involved

• SS-Hauptscharführer Cornelius Schwanner
• Lagerältester Josef Kierspel

Current status

Status of the site

• The Fliegerhorst was replaced with homes, the

Memorials

Memorial location

• This location may not be accurate. More research is needed.
• Unable to find the memorial online, it should be around the Neutraubling Rathaus according to sources.

48.993584/12.195235

geo:12.195235,48.993584 (link for navigation systems)

• Street Address: Regensburger Straße 11
• District: Gärtnersiedlung
• Town: Neutraubling
• State: Bayern
• Country: Germany

"Seit Oktober 2006 befindet sich ein Gedenkstein am Ort des ersten KZ-Friedhofs."

Resources

Bibliography

• Messerschmitt-Giganten und der Fliegerhorst Regensburg-Obertraubling 1936-1945, Peter Schmoll 2022, ISBN 9783955874162, https://search.worldcat.org/title/1352880256
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 648
• Das Nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, (CCP), page 213
• Die nationalsozialistischen Lager, page 194
• Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer-SS 1933-1945, page 116

Links

• https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/de/geschichte/aussenlager/obertraubling
• https://www.br.de/medienkompetenzprojekte/inhalt/jugendliche-und-medien/audioguide-obertraubling-kz-aussenlager-simon-snopkowski-preis100.html
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ-Au%C3%9Fenlager_Obertraubling

Outstanding questions

• Nearby POW-camp for Soviet prisoners?