Villa ten Hompel

Om museet

The villa on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring was built in the 1920s for Rudolf ten Hompel, general director of the Wicking-Werke, then Germany's largest cement group, and a member of the Reichstag for the Center Party. After the company collapsed in the early 1930s and the owner was convicted, the property passed to the German Reich around 1939.

From April 1940, the villa housed the Commander of the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) for Military District VI, whose area covered present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, the Osnabrück region, and parts of Belgium. At least 22 police battalions were formed from here, which took part in the mass murder of Jews in occupied Eastern Europe; the office also provided guard units for deportation trains. In the fall of 1944, the staff moved to Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth.

After the war, police authorities used the undamaged building; the committee that decided on the denazification of police officers in the Münster urban district met here. From 1954 to 1968, the restitution department of the regional government processed some 12,000 compensation claims from victims of Nazi persecution in the villa.

On the initiative of committed citizens, the city of Münster opened the building as a historical site on December 13, 1999. The permanent exhibition "Geschichte – Gewalt – Gewissen" (History – Violence – Conscience) was redeveloped from 2012 to 2015 and links biographies of perpetrators and victims with media stations. The villa is also a venue for historical and political education, research, events, and the Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus (mobile counseling against right-wing extremism).

Højdepunkter

• Authentic site: former headquarters of the Commander of the Order Police
• Permanent exhibition "Geschichte – Gewalt – Gewissen" in seven rooms
• Biographies of perpetrators, persecuted people, and bystanders with media stations
• Companion booklets in eight languages, including plain German
• Themed tours and the neighborhood tour "Rund um die Villa"

Permanente udstillinger

• Geschichte – Gewalt – Gewissen – Using the history of the building, the permanent exhibition shows how the uniformed police took part in war and genocide and how denazification, prosecution, and "restitution" unfolded after 1945 – told through the biographies of perpetrators and persecuted people.

Grundlagt

1999

Ejer

Stadt Münster

Ledelse

Stefan Querl

Entrépriser & rabatter

Der er gratis entré.

Free admission; donations to the friends' association are welcome. Guided tours and seminars by registration only and subject to a fee.

Tilgængelighed

• Delvis kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Partially accessible: accessible parking space near the door, platform lift (100 × 77 cm; load capacity 225 kg according to the homepage, 200 kg according to the directions page), elevator (90 cm wide) to the first floor with the permanent exhibition and to the second floor, partially accessible restroom on the first floor. Website section and companion booklet in easy-to-read and plain German.

Børn og familie

Kun delvist egnet til børn

A historical site on the Nazi era; the educational programs are aimed at school classes and groups, and the museum does not list any family programs of its own.

Transport & parkering

GPS: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 28.

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