Hohenasperg correctional hospital

Hohenasperg correctional hospital
place	Asperg
state	Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates	48 ° 54 '36 "  N , 9 ° 8' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '36 "  N , 9 ° 8' 17"  E
beds	172
Employee	over 150
areas of expertise	3
founding	1968
Website	www.jvkh-hohenasperg.de

The Hohenasperg correctional hospital is located in the Hohenasperg Fortress together with the Baden-Württemberg Social Therapy Institute . The hospital is designed exclusively to care for sick prisoners in need of inpatient treatment. For safety reasons, the hospital may not be used for civil purposes.

history

Since 1968 it has been the prison of the Baden-Württemberg judiciary.

Jurisdiction

The Hohenasperg correctional hospital is responsible for the medical care of sick prisoners in need of inpatient treatment in Baden-Württemberg.

According to Section 34 (1) of Baden-Württemberg's Prison Act III, a sick prisoner can be transferred to a prison hospital. According to Section 27 (1) of Baden-Württemberg's Prison Act II, a prisoner on remand can be transferred to a prison hospital if, in the event of illness, the required treatment in the institution in which he is located cannot be guaranteed.

The competences of the prisons in Baden-Württemberg are regulated in the enforcement plan of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Furnishing

The prison hospital currently has around 135 beds due to lengthy construction work, of which an average of 115 are occupied. Eighteen internists, surgeons and psychiatrists treat an average of 1500 patients per year on the Hohenasperg. Five psychologists, four social workers and two pastors work there as well as about 120 law enforcement officers, most of whom are also trained as nurses. The department for internal medicine (53 beds) has two wards. The focus of treatment is on concomitant and secondary diseases of alcohol dependence, infectious and metabolic diseases, cardiovascular and gastroenterological diseases. The department for psychiatry and psychotherapy with almost 100 beds includes two wards for the diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses from the entire spectrum of mental disorders, one ward for the treatment of long-term psychotic illnesses and an addiction ward with one-year treatment for drug addiction and personality disorders. The surgery department consists of one ward and, like the surgical outpatient department, is operated in cooperation with an external hospital.

In the media

The hospital gained notoriety through well-known criminals. In the correctional hospital was u. a. the serial killer Heinrich Pommerenke in custody, who died there on December 27, 2008. Another prisoner was the former concentration camp commandant and SS Oberscharführer Josef Schwammberger , who died there on December 3, 2004. The Holocaust mass murderer Karl Jäger was also cared for here until he hanged himself in June 1959. From August 2 to 21, 1995, Peter Graf , the father of the tennis player Steffi Graf , was in custody there during the investigations of the Mannheim public prosecutor's office against him and (at first) his daughter for tax evasion due to his poor state of health in the prison hospital before he went to the Mannheim correctional facility was relocated. The RAF terrorist Günter Sonnenberg , who was seriously injured by a shot in the head when he was arrested in spring 1977, was cared for here, as was Helmut Palmer in autumn 2000.

Web links

• Hohenasperg correctional hospital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ jvkh-hohenasperg.de
2. ↑ enforcement plan-bw.de
3. ↑ Stefan Hupka, Sitting more beautifully. In: Badische Zeitung, September 1, 2012.
4. ^ ^{A b c} Verena Mayer: Hohenasperg correctional hospital: Prominent prisoners make the headlines. Stuttgarter Zeitung , March 9, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Hans Leyendecker , Heiner Schirmmöller, Klaus Brinkbäumer : There is a lot of ego involved. The story of Steffi Graf (II): The picture of the unsuspecting tennis princess and the bad father . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1996 ( online ).