Saarbrücken correctional facility

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Saarbrücken correctional facility
The Saarbrücken correctional facility photographed from Lerchesflurweg.
Information about the institution
Surname Saarbrücken correctional facility
Reference year 1907
Detention places > 750

The correctional facility in Saarbrücken , popularly known as Lerchesflur or "Lerch", is the largest correctional facility in Saarland . There is a second correctional facility in Saarland, the Ottweiler prison . On July 1, 2011, the Neunkirchen penal institution was closed as part of a penal reform.

location

It is located on Lerchesflurweg in Saarbrücken , in the Alt-Saarbrücken district, not far north (1.2 km) from the German-French border. The building is located high above the city on a hill called "Bellevue" (from French "belle vue", "beautiful view") 200 m east of the federal highway 41 . It was inaugurated on December 1, 1907.

history

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Imperial Era and League of Nations administration

At the end of 1904, the planning of the building began, which was then handed over three years later in late 1907. The royal agricultural inspector Hartung and the royal foreman Deinerth had the planning and construction management. The buildings, which were built exclusively by prisoners, consisted of a three-winged male prison and a female prison. This included three farm buildings (two for the men, one for the women), as well as apartments for officials, which consisted of a house for guards, two houses for guards and an house for inspectors. The complex also had two gatehouses . The institution was set up to carry out all custodial sentences. There was also a guillotine for executing the death penalty , which was kept in the attic and was last used on November 3, 1933.

Times of National Socialism

After the first Saar referendum on January 13, 1935, the Saarland came from the League of Nations administration to the National Socialist German Reich . The prison administration was transferred to the Cologne Higher Regional Court on March 1, 1935 . However, the new rulers did not like the organization or the personnel structure of the institution, so that extensive restructuring measures had to be initiated, which also meant the relocation of prisoners. From July 1, 1935, the Lerchesflur was only responsible for prisoners on remand and prison prisoners up to nine months' imprisonment, which in August 1936 was reduced to imprisonment sentences of up to six months through a new execution plan.

On October 1, 1938, the Saarbrücken regional court district was separated from the Cologne Higher Regional Court and assigned to the Zweibrücken Higher Regional Court . At the beginning of March 1939, another change brought noticeable relief. This stipulated that, in addition to pre-trial detention, only prison sentences of between 2 weeks and 3 months should be carried out in Saarbrücken. In no way did the number of prisoners decrease. As a result of building extensions and constant overcrowding, it rose from 250 to an average of 610. In the war years, foreign prisoners were also increasingly housed, mainly foreign and forced laborers from Eastern Europe, but also from neighboring occupied Lorraine and prisoners transported from occupied France.

Until 1943, the prison had the inglorious task of receiving police prisoners and so-called “protective prisoners” from the local secret state police station . Many now “political” inmates were recruited from the ranks of the resistance against National Socialism , the banned organizations of the labor movement and the opponents of the union. After the establishment of the "Neue Bremm Police Prison" on June 21, 1943, the situation eased after the transfer of 50 protective prisoners. Air raids on Saarbrücken and destruction in the further course of the war soon made regular hospital operations impossible. At the beginning of October 1944, the Public Prosecutor's Office reported to the Reich Ministry of Justice that all prisoners from Saarbrücken and Zweibrücken would be transferred to the prisons of the OLG district of Bamberg ; in December the institution was closed for an indefinite period.

The Saarland in the Federal Republic of Germany

In the 1970s, the complex was expanded with new workshops, farm buildings, heating and high-pressure systems. A remand prison , another administrative building and an additional detention center were also added. In 2001 the detention and economic departments (including a kitchen, the bakery and the laundry) as well as the prison church, which is part of one of the detention centers, were extensively refurbished . At the beginning of 2011 a new prison house with around 200 prison places was opened.

Occupancy

In 2018 the "Lerch" was occupied by an average of 650 male prisoners.

Director of the institution

  • 1907–1910 Ludwig Schütz
  • 1910–1913 Gustav Adolf Apitz
  • 1913–1917 Felix Grüttner
  • 1917–1921 Hermann Messerschmidt
  • 1921–1935 Hermann Hempel
  • 1935–1939 Hubert Dackweiler
  • 1940–1944 Erich Keil
  • 1944 Christian Duus (acting)
  • 1945–1946 Franz Ullinger
  • 1946–1947 Johannes Göhler
  • 1947–1969 Kurt Uherek
  • 1970–1987 Georg Buhr
  • 1987–1991 Hermann Kipper
  • 1991–1998 Ernst-Peter Hirschmann
  • 1998–2001 Wolfgang Kuhl
  • 2002–2013 Birgit Junker
  • from 2013 Pascal Jenal

Prominent prisoners

Known inmates of the prison were also:

  • Hugo Lacour (* 1941; † 2020), ex- red light king of Saarbrücken, escapee, convicted a. a. as the murderer of the businessman "Heinz W." from 1993-2009
  • Abbas Hamadi (* 1959), kidnapper of the German managers Rudolf Cordes and Alfred Schmidt on behalf of Hezbollah , 1988–1993
  • Martin R. (* 1963), acquitted co-defendant in the Saarbrücken Pascal trial , convicted of violent crimes 2009–2015, already in prison again in 2016
  • The financial jugglers accused and convicted in the Alphapool Bonofa trial

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Mysterious message in a bottle from prison. Saarbrücker Zeitung, June 4, 2020, accessed on June 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ A breath of fresh air behind bars. Saarbrücker Zeitung, January 8, 2014, accessed December 4, 2018 .

Web links

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 30 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 47.8"  E