Prison Werl

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Prison Werl
Aerial photo (2014), on the right the extension construction site
Information about the institution
Surname Prison Werl
Reference year 1906
Detention places 1034
Employee 530
Institution management Thomas King

The correctional facility (JVA) Werl is located on a fourteen- hectare site on Belgische Strasse in the north of the city of Werl . External security is ensured by a wall up to six meters high. Five observation booths are integrated in this. The pulpits are occupied by servants. The institution is also monitored by cameras. Some of the courtyards inside the institution are fenced off by electronic alarm fences. With 1034 prison places, JVA Werl is one of the largest correctional facilities in Germany.

Listed official apartments
Wall with observation pulpit

History and architecture

The four-wing, four-storey cross building in a panoptic arrangement was erected from 1906 and put into operation on July 1, 1908 as the Royal Prussian Central Prison . The prison was later renamed the penitentiary and security institution and penal institution until it was given the current name of the penal institution .

In the shortened south-western wing is the institution church with a retracted, rectangular tower. The exterior of the building is structured through the alternation of plastered surfaces and exposed brickwork. Outside the facility there are one- and two-story houses along the walls of the institution. They were built from 1906 to 1908 for the servants. The buildings on green sandstone bases were partly built with half-timbered upper floors and are partly under monument protection .

In the post-war period, the prison served as the Allied National Prison, Werl (also British military prison or Werl war crimes prison ). The convicted war and Nazi criminals from the Nazi trials in the British Zone served their prison terms here . In some cases the death penalty was carried out. Similar facilities were the War Criminals Prison No. 1 in Landsberg in the American zone and the Wittlich war crimes prison in the French zone.

An expansion was started in 2007. Factory halls were built (including the renovation of the institutional bakery and the locksmith's shop). The preventive custody facility of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is to be built on another neighboring fallow property in the next few years. The plans had to be changed several times, including the cell size (including a wet area and a kitchenette) will be 20 m². The construction work makes it necessary that a number of the staff residences in the affected area also have to be demolished. This is particularly worth mentioning because the houses are listed and the residents were assured that the houses would not have to give way to an extension of the institution. However, the plans have changed and so the entrance gate for the entire institution is to be expanded as a new central gate.

Jurisdiction

The JVA Werl is responsible for the execution of:

The competences of the penal institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia are regulated in the enforcement plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28).

Education and training

The JVA Werl has 20 training places for prisoners. Carriers of the training is the Berufsförderungswerk of the German Federal union . Be formed:

Nazi war criminal

Most Nazi war criminals were released in the early to mid- 1950s . In August 1955 there were only 55 British prisoners left in Werl, who were released over the next two years.

In the media

On June 30, 1992, the two felons Michael Heckhoff and Kurt Knickmeier took a dentist, his two assistants and four officers hostage with a dummy pistol in the prison hospital and demanded a ransom and safe conduct. After 13 hours Heckhoff was overwhelmed while visiting the getaway car with two shots, then bend Meier lit two of the hostages with benzine , injuring them seriously, before he was overpowered even in the storming of the hospital.

On 19 April 2011, was ARD - talk show People and Politics broadcast, which was previously recorded in the prison. Moderator Sandra Maischberger had Michael Skirl, lawyer and director of the JVA Werl, Tatort doctor and prison doctor Joe Bausch, as well as prisoners, as guests.

The prison doctor Joe Bausch plays in the Cologne Tatort episodes with the actors Dietmar Bär (KHK Alfred Schenk) and Klaus J. Behrendt (KHK Max Ballauf) the coroner Dr. Joseph Roth. The former Institute director Michael Skirl is the author of a book on preventive detention ( locking up: A prison director about the sense and nonsense of preventive detention? ) Was published the year 2012; In this context, Skirl and the JVA Werl were also reported in national media.

In the report "Behind bars - The prison doctor Joe Bausch" from the series " Planet Wissen " Joe Bausch reports on his work as a prison doctor in the JVA Werl.

Others

  • Savitri Devi , writer, was imprisoned for about six months for "spreading National Socialist propaganda".
  • One of the inmates was Dieter Degowski, who, together with an accomplice, after a failed bank robbery in Gladbeck in 1988, while fleeing through Germany, took several prisoners, two of whom were killed, compare Gladbeck's hostage drama .
  • Together with the theologian Theo Halekotte, Karl Cervik from the Humanist Union carried out group work in a residential group.

Web links

Commons : Werl correctional facility  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
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  3. ↑ Information brochure: Law enforcement in North Rhine-Westphalia, publisher: Justizministerium NRW, 2008, p. 58.
  4. ↑ Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 1712.
  5. ↑ datenbanken.justiz.nrw.de ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Enforcement plan for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, (AV d. JM of September 16, 2003 - 4431 - IV B. 28 -). (PDF 1,2MB) Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 1, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Information brochure: Vocational training opportunities in penal institutions of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ed .: Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2011, p. 22.
  8. ^ Arieh J. Kochavi: Prelude to Nuremberg: Allied war crimes policy and the question of punishment . UNC Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8078-2433-X , p. 245.
  9. ↑ ISBN 978-3-651-00050-6 ; Report for example Julia Schaaf: Where others stop, we start: Michael Skirl is prison director. In the future, all preventive detainees from North Rhine-Westphalia are to be accommodated in his prison. A visit to a man for whom the correct distance is a question of survival. , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, October 7, 2012, p. 64.

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 59 ″  E