Fuhlsbüttel

Fuhlsbüttel
Quarter of Hamburg
Hamburg Airport Terminal 2
Fuhlsbüttel
Location of Fuhlsbüttel in the city of Hamburg
Coordinates: 53°38′6″N 10°0′58″E / 53.63500°N 10.01611°E / 53.63500; 10.01611Coordinates: 53°38′6″N 10°0′58″E / 53.63500°N 10.01611°E / 53.63500; 10.01611
Country	Germany
State	Hamburg
City	Hamburg
Borough	Hamburg-Nord
Area
• Total	6.6 km2 (2.5 sq mi)
Population (1.1.2006)
• Total	11,890
• Density	1,800/km2 (4,700/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Dialling codes	040
Vehicle registration	HH

Fuhlsbüttel is an urban quarter in the north of Hamburg, Germany in the district Hamburg-Nord. It is known as the site of Hamburg's international airport, and as the location of a prison which served as a concentration camp in the Nazi system of repression.

In 1871, at the declaration of the German Reich the village Fuhlsbüttel was given to the State of Hamburg.

On 4 September 1933 parts of the prison Fühlsbüttel, originally built as a regular prison in 1879, were converted to a concentration camp seven months after Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany (30 January 1933). First, it was placed under the command of the SA. Most of the inmates were Communists, Social Democrats and other political opponents of Nazism, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Romani, homosexual men and others whom the regime wanted to lock up. In 1936, the Gestapo began running the camp, then called Polizeigefängnis Fuhlsbüttel (police prison). Over 700 people were interned in the camp following Kristallnacht in 1938. The Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp was referred to in common parlance as KolaFu (abbreviated from Konzentrationslager Fuhlsbüttel) and became a synonym for oppression and death through hard labor. Fuhlsbüttel was often an initial point of incarceration for prisoners who were sent on to other camps such as Buchenwald, Esterwegen, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück or Sachsenhausen. The camp was liberated on 3 May 1945, by which time over 250 people had been murdered there.