Prison service

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The prison service of the GDR (SV) was responsible in the German Democratic Republic from 1967 to the end of the GDR 1990 for the operation of prison facilities (StVE), youth houses, prison hospitals, prison departments and pretrial detention centers. Towards the end of the GDR there were 32 pre-trial detention centers and 44 penal institutions (StVE), youth centers, penal hospitals and penal departments. Around 7500 employees worked for the SV. Of these, around 1900 were officers, 5900 sergeants and around 700 civil employees.

The uniform was as follows: A dark blue / gray uniform jacket was worn, plus service trousers with light gray piping . The uniform jacket also had light gray piping. The ranks of the German People's Police were taken over for the execution of sentences . The heads of the institute mostly carried the rank of lieutenant colonel. The last administrative head of the penitentiary system in the Ministry of the Interior (MdI) was Penitentiary Director Harald Martens from April 11 to October 2, 1990 as the successor to Major General Wilfried Lustik .

After the reunification, a large part of the staff was taken over.

In addition to the prison service in the GDR, the Ministry for State Security also operated several pretrial detention centers and penal institutions.

literature

• Birger Dölling: Prison execution between the turnaround and reunification: criminal policy and prisoner protest in the last year of the GDR , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-527-0 .