Wittlich correctional facility

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wittlich correctional facility
Driveway
Information about the institution
Surname Wittlich correctional facility
Reference year 1902
Detention places 1000
Employee 363 (as of 2020)
Institution management Jörn Patzak

The Wittlich correctional facility is a prison in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Wittlich for male prisoners in closed and open execution with sentences of between two and eight years. In addition, there is a penal hospital for female and male prisoners on the grounds of the Wittlich prison. In the neighboring Wittlich juvenile prison, male convicts are serving their juvenile sentences or are in pre-trial detention for male juveniles.

history

The prison was founded in 1902 as a twin facility consisting of a Royal Male Prison and a Royal Women's Prison . The institution building in the typical radiation construction of the time was initially designed for 708 prisoners. In 1912, a youth prison opened in the part of the women's prison .

In the summer of 1943, the Wittlich prison served as alternative accommodation for the night and fog prisoners from the Klingelpütz prison in Cologne , which was badly damaged by bombing. The Cologne special court responsible for these prisoners also met in Wittlich, since the prisoners could not be brought permanently to Cologne, 150 km away, for negotiations.

Wittlich war criminals prison

In the post-war period, the prison served the French occupying power as a prison for war criminals in Wittlich . The convicted war criminals and Nazi criminals from the Nazi trials in the French zone served their sentences here.

Similar facilities were the War Criminals Prison No. 1 in Landsberg in the American zone and the Allied National Prison in Werl in the British zone .

In December 1950 there were 254 convicted war criminals in custody in Wittlich, on January 31, 1952 there were only 154 prisoners. In August 1955 there were only 19 French prisoners in Wittlich; they were released over the next two years. In 1950 the French handed over the youth prison to the German administration, and in 1954 the men’s prison as well.

Prison in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Between 2004 and 2009, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate had an extension with 610 prison places built for 70 million euros. Together with the juvenile prison, the prison now has 1000 prison places, making it the largest prison complex in Rhineland-Palatinate. The old building previously used by the adult prisoners is to be completely renovated and then serve as a juvenile detention center.

Known inmates

  • Otto Funke , communist resistance fighter, was imprisoned by the Nazis in the 1930s.
  • Holger Meins , RAF member, died here in 1974 after a 58-day hunger strike.
  • Klaus von Raussendorff , long-time Stasi spy in the Foreign Office, was incarcerated from 1991 to 1994.
  • Michael Born , German television journalist and "film forger".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The prison opens its doors. In: Trierischer Volksfreund. September 4, 2009, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ JVA Wittlich is getting bigger. In: Eifelzeitung. January 22, 2020, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Jörn Patzak new head of the Wittlich correctional facility. In: Eifelzeitung. October 9, 2014, accessed April 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Lothar Gruchmann: "Night and Fog" Justice. The participation of German criminal courts in the fight against resistance in the occupied Western European countries 1942–1944 (PDF; 2.5 MB) . In: "Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte", vol. 29 (1981), issue no. 3, p. 373.
  5. ↑ One exception is known: Max Bastian (from September 1939 to October 1944 President of the Reich Court Martial ) was imprisoned in Wittlich prison and then in Bastion XII until April 17, 1948, without a trial.
  6. ^ Norbert Frei: Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi past: the politics of amnesty and integration , Columbia University Press, 2002, ISBN 0231118821 , p. 371.
  7. ^ Arieh J. Kochavi: Prelude to Nuremberg: Allied war crimes policy and the question of punishment . UNC Press, 1998, ISBN 080782433X , p. 245.
  8. ^ Stefan Aust: The Baader-Meinhof complex . Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 1847920454 , pp. 208-209.

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 48 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 53 ″  E