Hans-Georg Neumann

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Hans-Georg Neumann (born September 14, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German prisoner who has been in custody for murder since 1962. He is currently the longest prisoner in Germany .

History and act

Neumann was born the son of a prostitute and grew up in the city orphanage in Berlin-Kreuzberg and with a foster family . On December 29, 1951, he was assigned to the youth court in Schlachtensee by the youth judge for various thefts . A year later, the boy was described in the discharge report as "calm and nice, open-minded and in need of love". In 1953 his foster mother died. He found connection in the family of a master craftsman, where he did an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic . In 1956 he embarked for Canada , but was deported to Germany in 1961 after being convicted of armed bank robberies .

On January 13, 1962, he kidnapped lovers sitting in a parked car in Berlin and, after the woman had resisted, shot them with a Smith & Wesson revolver , caliber .38 , which he always carried with him at the time. He was arrested a few days later and taken to the Moabit Detention Center on January 20, 1962 . The man had survived seriously injured and was able to identify Neumann, but died shortly afterwards.

Sentencing and enforcement

Neumann was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 30, 1963 for the double murder he had committed . The process attracted nationwide attention. The painter Gerhard Richter based one of his paintings on photos of the trial.

Neumann served his sentence first in the JVA Berlin-Tegel , from 1991 in the JVA Bruchsal . In Tegel he was noticed again and again through cannabis consumption and spent a long time in a "shielding station for dealers". In Bruchsal he was considered a quiet prisoner; a first execution took place in 1993. In March 1994, the Karlsruhe Regional Court ruled that even the particular severity of the guilt no longer required further serving. Applications for suspension of the remainder of the sentence (Section 57a ​​of the Criminal Code) have since been regularly rejected because experts certified him with a negative social prognosis . Have so far rejected just for clemency .

In a report dated June 5, 2012, the chief physician of the North Baden Psychiatric Center wrote : "All in all, it can be stated that Mr. Neumann appears just as unbound after 50 years of imprisonment as at the beginning of his imprisonment."

On March 28, 2014, the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court confirmed the decision of the Penal Enforcement Chamber at the Karlsruhe Regional Court in response to an immediate complaint by the defense attorney at the time , with which his application for a suspension of the remaining sentence was again rejected. Neumann's new defense attorney filed a constitutional complaint against this decision on April 28, 2014 before the Federal Constitutional Court. This was rejected as unfounded.

Neumann filed another request for parole in 2016, but then withdrew it.

Duration of detention

Since the death of the serial killer Heinrich Pommerenke in 2008, Hans-Georg Neumann has been the longest incarcerated prisoner in Germany with over 58 years in prison.

literature

  • Roman Deininger: 18,628 days. Hans-Georg Neumann has been in prison for 51 years, longer than any other prisoner in the history of the Federal Republic. Visiting a man for whom going to court is freedom . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 12, from January 15, 2013, p. 3.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katrin Bischoff: Probation rejected after 52 years in prison: No mercy for prisoners in Berlin . In: Berliner-Zeitung.de , March 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Katrin Bischoff: Behind bars for 55 years: This is Germany's longest-serving prisoner . In: Berliner Zeitung . June 2, 2018 ( online ).
  3. ^ Kai Schlieter: 52 years behind bars: the eternal prisoner . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 3, 2013 ( taz.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prisoner who has been in prison for over 50 years
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin