Memorial panel at the former Altona goods station

In October 2022, a panel was placed in the grounds of the former Altona goods station, now the Mitte Altona neighbourhood, in memory of the first prisoner transport to Esterwegen concentration camp in August 1933.

Panel text:

On the night of 11 August 1933, the first transport of prisoners from Altona to a concentration camp departed from here carrying around 185 opponents of National Socialism.
The prisoners, who had previously been held in the Fuhlsbüttel Prison and the Altona Police Prison, were locked in goods carriages and transported to the Esterwegen concentration camp in the Emsland region. Prior to departing, the men had been forced to march through the streets to the goods station while guarded by members of the Altona police and the SA.
The prisoners included the social-democratic Reichstag member and Altona police chief Otto Eggerstedt (born 1886), who was murdered in the concentration camp by SA guards on 12 October 1933.