Correctional facility Stuttgart

Information about the institution
Surname	Correctional facility Stuttgart
Reference year	1964
Detention places	787
Employee	350 (February 2020)
Institution management	Matthias Nagel, Jürgen Goll (Head of Administration)
Website	official homepage

Correctional facility Stuttgart

The Stuttgart correctional facility is located in the Stuttgart district of Stammheim , the northernmost district of the state capital of Baden-Württemberg. It is the largest of a total of 17 penal institutions with 19 branch offices in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The Stuttgart correctional facility was built between 1960 and 1963 according to the then most modern knowledge of security with two prison houses and was put into operation in 1964; it replaced the Urbanstrasse prison in downtown Stuttgart from 1872.

In 2005 another prefabricated prison house was added, which offers space for 128 prisoners.

In December 2006, Regina Grimm was the first woman to head a men's prison in Baden-Württemberg.

From the beginning of 2006, the entire entrance area was rebuilt. In 2009 the new gate guard was opened as the central entrance to the prison. In February 2012, construction work began on five new detention houses, which will be connected to the last House 3 built and will replace the old high-rise building in need of renovation (Building 1). The opening of the new buildings was planned for 2015, but was delayed by water damage and two bankruptcies by contracted construction companies.

The new buildings were finally handed over in October 2017. They offer space for a total of 559 prisoners. 337 of them can be accommodated in single cells, 222 in group cells with three to four people. The cost was 57 million euros. After completion of the renovation work, the institution will have 787 prison places and will thus become the largest correctional facility in Baden-Württemberg.

In the future, it is planned to move the nearby Hohenasperg correctional hospital here.

Jurisdiction

The Stuttgart correctional facility is factually and locally responsible for men in closed prison with prison sentences of up to one year and three months, prison sentences of more than one year and three months, pre- trial detention and criminal arrest .

facts and figures

The institution consists of three detention houses, the so-called building 1 (the largest detention house), building 2 and the new building 3. The fenced and walled area of ​​the institution covers 49,600 m². In October 2018, an average of 768 prisoners were detained.

The institution is designed for up to 787 prisoners. Nine of these places are intended for women on transport, the remaining 778 for male prisoners in normal detention. The approx. 600 cells are divided into individual cells or communal cells, with the communal cells being occupied by two to four prisoners. The enforceable labor system employs around 250 prisoners in several companies and has a production area of ​​950 m².

Training and leisure activities

The prison employs two pedagogues who offer school courses for inmates. School-leaving certificates are not possible because the prison mainly accommodates prisoners on remand. Many leisure groups are offered for which the detainees have to register with an application, as well as discussion groups, Bible studies, chess and skat groups, as well as weight training and football. There are also concerts or theater performances at irregular intervals. A prison library is also available to the detainees. The detainees have the opportunity to lock up several times a week , whereby detainees can visit their fellow inmates in their cell.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Rock im Knast initiative has been trying to bridge the gap between “inside and outside” by giving bands and musicians the opportunity to perform in prisons.

RAF trials

The prison has become known to the general public primarily through the imprisonment of leading members of the Red Army Fractional terrorist organization . In 1975, a multi-purpose building was built next to the prison grounds especially for the trials against RAF members. As a precaution against possible rescue attempts with helicopters , this hall - like the courtyard corridor - was spanned over a large area with steel nets. The construction costs for the extension amounted to 12 million DM.

After the extensions were completed, up to nine RAF members were temporarily amalgamated on the seventh floor of the prison. The prisoners had the opportunity to lock up on a daily basis , while the prisoner had the option of being locked up (“locked up”) with another prisoner in his / her cell . Contrary to the usual regulations, women and men were merged. The prisoners were allowed to operate record players and, at times, television sets and received hundreds of magazines and books.

While the terrorist attacks of the German autumn 1977 was an official during some weeks prohibition of contact , which by the specially subsequently resolved contact ban law had become possible. During this phase, the inmates were isolated. Prisoners and lawyers then claimed that isolation torture was being practiced in the prison . It later became known that Jan-Carl Raspe had tinkered an intercom system over the network of the prison's former prison radio, which the prisoners could use to talk unnoticed even while the contact was blocked.

After Ulrike Meinhof's suicide by hanging on May 9, 1976, RAF members Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe died by suicide on October 18, 1977 on the night of death in Stammheim . The fourth detained member of the group, Irmgard Möller , survived with multiple stab wounds in the chest area.

Multipurpose building of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court

After the first RAF trials, the multi-purpose building (MZG) of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court continued to be used for large trials, including against later members of the RAF. The lawsuits against Christian Klar , Peter-Jürgen Boock and Verena Becker were conducted in this building.

In addition, Islamists , PKK activists and Black Jackets were already on trial in the MZG . As a result, the building could never be used as a sports hall or workshop for the Stuttgart JVA as originally intended. After the completion of the new courthouse in June 2019 (see below), demolition is planned.

New courthouse

According to the state, the old multi-purpose building could no longer be economically renovated. Therefore, a new court building for the Higher Regional Court was built next to it. Like the old building, this is used for state security procedures.

The topping-out ceremony took place on June 22, 2016; completion was originally planned for the end of 2017. In fact, the handover did not take place until June 3, 2019. The new building has two meeting rooms with 90 and 60 seats. The construction cost a total of 29 million euros.

Film / television

• Stammheim - feature film about the Baader-Meinhof trials by Reinhard Hauff , with Ulrich Tukur as Andreas Baader.
• The Baader Meinhof complex - film adaptation of the book of the same name by Stefan Aust , with Moritz Bleibtreu as Andreas Baader.
• Death game - two-part documentation (Part 1: People's Prison , Part 2: Abduct the Landshut ) by Heinrich Breloer

literature

• Ulf G. Stuberger : The days in Stammheim - As an eyewitness to the RAF trial. Herbig, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7766-2528-8 .
• Stefan Aust : The Baader Meinhof Complex . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-455-08253-X .
• "We were so incredibly consistent ..." A conversation about the history of the RAF with Stefan Wisniewski . ID, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89408-074-4 (PDF).
• Kurt Oesterle : Stammheim. The law enforcement officer Horst Bubeck and the RAF prisoners. Klöpfer and Meyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-937667-10-5 .
• Andreas Magdanz : Stammheim. Illustrated book. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3457-8 .
• Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann: The Red Army faction in the original tone. The tape recordings from the Stuttgart Stammheim trial. In: Contemporary historical research . Vol. 5, 2008, pp. 299-312.
• Sabine Bergstermann: Stammheim. A modern prison as a place of conflict between the state and the RAF (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 112). De Gruyter, Oldenbourg / Berlin / Boston 2016 (also dissertation, University of Munich, 2013).

Web links

Commons : Stuttgart prison  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the JVA Stuttgart , with a virtual tour
• Fully enforceable work system - Stuttgart JVA branch
• Photo exhibition Andreas Magdanz. Stuttgart Stammheim , November 17, 2012 - March 24, 2013, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
• Sabine Bergstermann: correctional facility Stuttgart-Stammheim , published on April 19, 2018 in: Stadtarchiv Stuttgart: Stadtlexikon Stuttgart

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://jva-stuttgart.justiz-bw.de/pb/,Lde/Startseite/Aktuelles
2. ↑ http://www.jva-stuttgart.de/servlet/PB/menu/1158023/index.html?ROOT=1157996
3. ↑ management . Retrieved October 20, 2019.
4. ↑ Ministry of Justice and for Europe, Baden-Wuerttemberg: For the first time a woman at the head of a male prison in Baden-Wuerttemberg - Regina Grimm new head of the Stuttgart prison - Long-time director Maximilian Schumacher retired from Justice Minister Goll 2006 Press Releases , accessed July 18, 2016.
5. ↑ Inauguration of the new gate guard of the Stuttgart-Stammheim - Goll prison: "The high-rise building in need of renovation with the 7th floor, in which the RAF prisoners also sat, is being torn down" . ( baden-wuerttemberg.de [accessed October 15, 2017]).
6. ^ State of Baden-Württemberg: New accommodation building handed over to the Stuttgart JVA. October 20, 2017. Retrieved October 20, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: New prison building with nocturnal radiant constellations. October 20, 2017. Retrieved October 20, 2019 . 
8. ^ JVA Stuttgart: data and facts. Retrieved October 20, 2019 . 
9. ^ JVA Stuttgart: News. Retrieved October 20, 2019 . 
10. ^ Website of the Rock im Knast initiative .
11. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: RAF courtroom is history. April 4, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019 . 
12. ↑ www.landgericht-stuttgart
13. ^ The courtroom in Stammheim is being torn down. SWR aktuell, October 17, 2017, accessed on October 19, 2017 . 
14. ^ Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart: Topping-out ceremony for the new construction of the trial building of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart. Retrieved October 15, 2017 . 
15. ↑ www.swr.de/blog/terrorismus/2011
16. ↑ welt.de/Skandal-in-Stammheim
17. ^ Ministry of Finance Baden-Württemberg: New meeting building handed over to the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court. June 3, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 18 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 20 ″  E