Where did Friedrich Schumann work?
Upvote:-1
Wustermark is quite close to Falkenhagen and has/used to have a large railway yard.
Upvote:2
Via Railway Enthusiasts
There's a list of RAWs in 1932. For the area of Berlin, the following are noted:
- RAW Berlin
- RAW Berlin-Schöneweide
- RAW Grunewald
- RAW Potsdam
- RAW Tempelhof
- RAW Brandenburg-West
There is no RAW Wusterhausen denoted. However, the list of Bahnbetriebswerke 1939 has category Berlin 2:
| Type | Location | Short designator | employees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bw | Wustermark | Wur | 200-499 |
The RAW Grunewald is very close to the Wustermark, as is the RAW Potsdam.
The byname of Schumann is Massenmörder vom Falkenhagener See, which is a location about halfway between BW Wustermark and Grunewald. It is also part of the Spandau district, where Schumann did live.
A part of the former Bw Wustermark, technically located between Wustermark and Dallgow-Döberitz, nowadays serves as a logistics area
Via Newspapers
In 1919, the Boulevard paper BZ did reports about the murders. In 2019, they did a column about their reporting then. It denotes that the circumstances of the arrest and that the case was held in the Landgericht Berlin III, but not his occupation. However, the original archive seems to be not offered by the newspaper. RElevant is, that the arrest was reported on the 21st of August.
However the Berliner Morgenpost of that day IS archived. Page 5 has a column titled "Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhagener See ist Gefasst" - the terror of Falkenhagen Lake is arrested. They declare..
Es handelt sich um den 27jährigen Gelegenheitsarbeiter Otto Schumann aus der Staalener Straße 6 in Spandau.
The MoPo of 1919 does mislabel the first name, and indicates he didn't have steady employment but would be employed wherever, however, and whenever he could. In contrast, the Morning issue of the Berliner Tageblatt und Handelszeitung identifies him on page 5 as "Schlosser Friedrich Schumann aus der Staalener Straße 6", but doesn't indicate the place of work.
The case started 5th of July 1920 and was reported about on page 5 of the Berliner Tageblatt und Handelszeitung. Again on the 7th (page 5, 8th (page 5, morning issue), 9th (page 6, morning issue), 10th (page 5, morning issue), 11th (page 5, morning issue), 13th (page 5, morning issue), and finally 14th (page 5, morning issue). Nowhere in the exhaustive reporting, his place of work is denoted.
Conclusion
Not just is the location, as Lloyd Crowther notes, possibly a misidentification, but also the classification of the location as a RAW is wrong: Wustermark was a service station of the Bahnbetriebswerk level. It is likely the place of work, if the Wuster- part is correct.
Upvote:5
The book by Blazek is most probably in error on this detail.
The data given is highly improbable and implausible. That applies to the exact naming of the facility he worked for as well as the exact location and how he is said to have got there usually.
An alternative is presented below, arguing for a conflation between different railraod terminologies for the refitting station itself and as well for the name of the town that belonged to.
Schumann is recorded as having lived at Staakener Straße 6, in Spandau, right next to the train station there.
Wuster_hausen_ and Königs Wuster_hausen_ are indeed simply too far away.
His preferred escape back to nature and it's urges was the Falkensee in Falkenhagen and surrounding woods and forests.
The distance to travel on foot from Staakenstraße to lake Falkensee for his spare time fun is 5–9 kilometers. Well in range for pedestrian entertainment.
The distance to travel on foot from Staakener Straße in Spandau to Wuster_mark_ railway stationj is less than 15 kilometers.
Falkensee is to the northwest, Wustermark to the west of Spandau.
There was a Bahnbetriebswerk Wustermark Bw/Wur operating at the time.
The strange things here are the small inconsistencies we observe:
Obviously, the naming for the location of employment is confounded. There was no 'RAW' in Wustermark — and none in the respective Wusterhausens…
As a railway employee living right next to a station who worked at another railway station 15 kilometers away, it seems very strange for him to have walked the entire distance. He would have had very cheap access to tickets from his employer and the shortest travel path on foot is elongated by detours: the railway tracks make the trip much longer on foot than by train, as the train tracks almost follow a crow's flight while the pedestrian route has to follow some roads and avoid crossing/following the railroads.
It looks like one has to travel to Elstal railway logistics (today: one stop before coming from Berlin to station Wustermark, coordinates: 52°32'50.50"N 13° 0'1.40"E), to see where Schumann was working. If Schuman worked as a locksmith at some railroad refitting facility starting with 'Wuster-' then it was Wustermark. Most probably.
More post
- 📝 Has a criminal organisation ever become a formal government?
- 📝 What factors contributed to successful colonization of Asia & Africa?
- 📝 Why was an SS commander dismissed and charged for the mistreatment of Jewish prisoners?
- 📝 Were US decision makers aware of the destructiveness of the Bomb of Nagasaki?
- 📝 Did the early Christian community on Iceland require the import of wine for liturgy?
- 📝 Why didn't invaders of India ever cross into Myanmar and beyond (east)?
- 📝 Which event is this memorial referring to when it says WW1 ended in 1919?
- 📝 How does this bird trap work?
- 📝 What were the traveling practices of merchants, roughly between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?
- 📝 What policies governed freedom of speech under Marcus Aurelius?
- 📝 What can be said about conditions of slaves owned by George Washington?
- 📝 What was the first spy agency?
- 📝 Why was the Western Front so static in World War I?
- 📝 Did the ancient Chinese use an ink covered finger to sign documents?
- 📝 Who were the first leaders of the Yahwistic sect?
- 📝 Would occupying Big Round Top have been a good idea for the Confederates?
- 📝 Why did the Federalist Party collapse?
- 📝 What is this 19th century British army uniform?
- 📝 Why and when did countries develop long names that include the form of government?
- 📝 What weapon systems have come and gone very quickly?
- 📝 Time to travel around Europe in the 18th century
- 📝 Is there any documentation on the creation of Article 1 Section II of the US Constitution?
- 📝 Was the German Empire responsible for the advancement of German technology?
- 📝 When did the tilt of the tower of Pisa become seen as a feature instead of a defect?
- 📝 How much has U.S. currency inflated since 1792?
- 📝 Challenges Margaret Thatcher faced as a woman?
- 📝 Why does the US have states?
- 📝 Were Germans permitted to give the Hitler salute with the left arm?
- 📝 Did James Monroe and James Madison ever disagree?
- 📝 What’s this odd hat/crown and is it related to Baal?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Where did Friedrich Schumann work?
- 📝 Where did the Romans store their cash?
- 📝 Where did Hitler get the funds to invest in economic development programs such as the autobahn when the German economy was in a depression?
- 📝 Where did Asian Americans go to school during the 'separate but equal' era?
- 📝 Where did the Gaels originate?
- 📝 Where did Medieval Europe's gold come from?
- 📝 Did medieval peasants work 150 days a year?
- 📝 Transatlantic Zeppelin trips usually took > 100 hours. How did they stock enough food, and where did they sleep?
- 📝 Where did the “vikings wear helmets with horn” stereotype come from and why?
- 📝 When and where did socks become common?
- 📝 Where did Hannibal cross the Pyrenees?
- 📝 Where did the archived discussions in Google Groups come from?
- 📝 How did bank transactions (or "data" transactions) work when it took people weeks to travel vast distances?
- 📝 Where did the term "Middle Ages" come from?
- 📝 When and where did just war theory originate?
- 📝 Where did Japan get their oil during WWII?
- 📝 Where did Southern Fried Chicken come from?
- 📝 Where did Roman senators mostly live in the time of Tiberius or Caligula?
- 📝 After the fall of the Roman Empire, where did their armor go? Was it used by any dark ages forces?
- 📝 Where did John Adams write of the night he shared a bed and an argument with Benjamin Franklin? Did Franklin write of it as well?
- 📝 Where and how did the concept of "incorporation" originate?
- 📝 Where did the Roman money involved in the spice and luxury trade end up?
- 📝 Where did the so-called "Japanese Skulls" end up?
- 📝 "No sane man will dance."? When / where / about-what did Cicero say this?
- 📝 Where did the Crusaders go after 1291?
- 📝 Where did the French revolutionists get their weapons?
- 📝 Where did the Greeks look for descendants of the Byzantine dynasties?
- 📝 Where did Otto von Bismarck say "lying awake all night, hating"?
- 📝 Where did prejudice against left-handed people originate from?
- 📝 Where did the money come from to build the Colosseum?