District Hospital Ansbach

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The District Hospital Ansbach is a specialist psychiatric hospital in Ansbach . The carriers are the district clinics of Middle Franconia .

history

The clinic was founded in 1902 as a "county insane asylum".

time of the nationalsocialism

Like all sanatoriums and nursing homes, Ansbach was involved in the crimes during the National Socialist era . Between 1934 and 1943, 379 patients were forcibly sterilized under the law for the prevention of hereditary offspring .

Between October 1940 and April 1941 892 patients were transferred from here in seven transports to killing centers as part of Operation T4 . Ansbach also served as an intermediate facility for patients transferred from other facilities for four to six weeks.

Two types of food rations were introduced in Ansbach as early as 1941 - anticipating Walter Schultze's hunger food decree of November 1942. A total of 1,200 patients died as a result.

In 1941 the Reich Committee set up a children's department in Ansbach for the scientific recording of serious genetic and genetic disorders . Of 306 children, under the doctor Irene Asam-Bruckmüller, 156 children between the ages of one week and 16 years of malnutrition or the intake of sedatives died. During this time, the institution's director was Hubert Schuch . The proceedings against Asam-Bruckmüller were closed on December 2, 1968. Schuch was not convicted either.

In 2004 it was decided to transfer the sponsorship to the district clinics in Middle Franconia .

In 2012 a memorial for the victims of euthanasia was inaugurated.

Facility

The house has the clinics for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics (403 beds) and day clinic, for neurology (45 beds), for geriatric rehabilitation (45 beds), for psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy for children and adolescents (41 beds) and Day clinic and forensic psychiatry (148 beds).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Died suddenly ... Ansbach
  2. ^ A b Jan Nedoschill, Rolf Castell: "Child euthanasia" during the National Socialist dictatorship: The "children's department" Ansbach in Middle Franconia. In: Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie , 50th year (2001), number 3, pp. 192–210.
  3. ↑ Lutz Kaelber: Ansbach (Middle Franconian state, sanatorium and nursing home Ansbach).
  4. ^ History of the district hospital in Ansbach.
  5. ↑ http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/children/ansbach/ansbach.html

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 36.7 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 6 ″  E