Uelzen, Friedhof St. Marien

According to information provided by the St. Marien cemetery administration on January 7, 2014, a total of 495 victims of both world wars and the National Socialist tyranny are buried in two large cemeteries as well as in individual or family graves in the cemetery area. Buried in the so-called cemetery of honor for German war victims are: - 66 soldiers of the First World War who died in Uelzen military hospitals, - 156 soldiers of the Second World War - who died in military hospitals up to the end of the war, died during the fighting in April 1945 in and around Uelzen and died in the bombing raids on Uelzen railroad station on 22.2.1945 and 7.4. in the cemetery of honor is also the grave of Hptm Erich Marquardt, who was shot on 15.4.1945 because he probably spoke out against defending the town (grave 1, left, 6th row), - about 50 civilian victims of air raids and combat operations - Uelzen citizens, flak and Wehrmacht helpers and Reichsbahn personnel. The "foreigners' cemetery" (section 17) contains: - 8 Russian prisoners of war from the First World War, all of whom died in 1918 or shortly afterwards, and - 188 victims of tyranny from many nations, in particular Poles, members of the former Soviet Union and some Dutch nationals. 82 of them are unknown. They were deployed as forced laborers in Uelzen factories. Many of them also lost their lives in the air raids. approx. 500 concentration camp prisoners from the Neuengamme concentration camp had to carry out clearing and track construction work on the railroad site in March and April 1945 and were then returned to Neuengamme. Photos: Volker Fleig 2013