Ace of Spades (Hamburg)

Pik As is the name of a place to stay for homeless men in Hamburg . This is located in Hamburg's Neustadt district . The Pik As is the oldest homeless shelter in Germany. Sleeping places are only given to women in exceptional cases, for example at the G20 summit in Hamburg in 2017 .

history

The homeless shelter was completed in 1913 and opened as a so-called police asylum. From the official title of "P.As." derives the colloquial term Pik As . In 1937 responsibility for the homeless shelter changed from the police to the social authority.

Sponsorship

The sponsorship for the homeless shelter lies with promote and live , an institution under public law . The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is 100% owner of the institution.

Target places

210 target places (2013) are available in the four-story building in 65 rooms with two to twelve beds. There is an unconditional acceptance obligation beyond the target number. According to the Safety and Order Act of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (SOG), involuntary homelessness is immediately eliminated by immediately allocating a bed (in connection with a lockable cupboard). A recording can be made at any time, around the clock.

Ace of Spades in the media

In 1975 the book 13 unwanted reports by Günter Wallraff was published . In the first chapter of the book, Asylum Without a Return Ticket , he describes the days he spent in the Ace of Spades . He describes some men and their stagnant lives there and with his relentless description drew a broader public's attention to the situation of the homeless. The Pik As overnight accommodation is also the subject of radio reports. The Ace of Spades also finds its place in German-language music, for example with the Erfurt band Kirsche & Co. , who dedicated a song to the Ace of Spades .

literature

Uta Mertens, Heike Ollertz: PIK AS - 100 YEARS OF NIGHT ASYL , published by the Förderverein PIK AS eV, Hamburg 2013.

Web links

Website of the association Pik As

Individual evidence

↑ Annika Lasarzik: G20 summit: tension between throwing tents . In: The time . July 4, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 4, 2017]).
↑ During the Nazi era cf. Wolfgang Ayaß From "Pik As" to "Kola-Fu". The persecution of beggars and homeless people by the Hamburg social administration , in: Project group for the forgotten victims of the Nazi regime (publisher), Despised, pursued, destroyed. Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87975-377-6 , pp. 152-171.

[1] Annika Lasarzik: G20 summit: tension between throwing tents . In: The time . July 4, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 4, 2017]).

[2] During the Nazi era cf. Wolfgang Ayaß From "Pik As" to "Kola-Fu". The persecution of beggars and homeless people by the Hamburg social administration , in: Project group for the forgotten victims of the Nazi regime (publisher), Despised, pursued, destroyed. Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87975-377-6 , pp. 152-171.