Independent expert commission for the scientific review of administrative care before 1981

The Independent Commission of Experts for the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981 is a Swiss commission of experts whose activities form part of the legal mandate to rehabilitate victims of administrative care . It was installed by the Swiss Federal Council on November 14, 2014 , at the request of former victims and in accordance with the Federal Act on the Rehabilitation of People Cared for Administratively of March 21, 2014; it demands the scientific processing of administrative supplies in Switzerland and recognizes these government measures at the time as injustice. For its work, which was completed in 2019, it had a budget of 9.9 million francs . It employed 26 people. Their appointment is related to similar processing processes as they have already been carried out in Ireland, Australia, Canada, Norway, Germany and other countries.

The following persons belong to the commission for the scientific processing of administrative care:

• Markus Notter , Lawyer, Dietikon, Former Government Councilor of the Canton of Zurich (President)
• Jacques Gasser , psychiatrist, University of Lausanne
• Beat Gnädinger , historian, state archivist of the Canton of Zurich, Zurich
• Lukas Gschwend , lawyer, University of St. Gallen
• Gisela Hauss , social worker, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Olten
• Thomas Huonker , historian, Zurich
• Martin Lengwiler , historian, University of Basel
• Anne-Françoise Praz , historian, University of Friborg
• Loretta Seglias , historian, Wädenswil

It started work in January 2015. At the beginning of September 2019, the independent expert commission completed its publications, a total of 10 volumes, and presented its final report to the public in Bern. According to the report, at least 60,000 women and men were imprisoned by cantons and communes without them having committed a crime and without prior due process. Those affected were interned because they did not conform to the moral standards of the time. They were considered to be “work-shy”, “dissolute” or “alcoholic”. Illegitimate pregnancies were also sufficient for administrative support. In around 650 prisons and other institutions across the country, the victims were locked up, exploited and, in many cases, severely ill-treated.

In the opinion of the Commission, the reparations decided at the federal level in 2014 are insufficient. These consist in particular of a "solidarity contribution" of 25,000 francs per person, which those affected could apply to the federal government by March 2018. Around 9,000 people have registered, and all applications should be processed by the end of the year. The expert commission made suggestions as to how the victims could be better compensated through further financial contributions. The spectrum ranges from a free general subscription , a "House of the Other Switzerland" to be founded in Bern as a place for self-organization of those affected as well as a place of remembrance and the fight against similar forms of exclusion and discrimination to a tax exemption to an aid fund for those affected who cannot bear their health costs themselves. In the Commission's view, a special life-long pension may also be necessary. Behind these demands is the recognition that the injustice of that time often had lifelong consequences and in some cases even passed on to subsequent generations.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Admin.ch: Federal law on the rehabilitation of administratively cared for people
2. ↑ Federal law on the rehabilitation of people with administrative care. March 21, 2014, accessed January 7, 2016 . 
3. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Federal government sets up expert commission. November 5, 2015, accessed January 8, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Fabian Schäfer: Free GA travelcard and special pension for contract children and other victims of coercive measures In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 2, 2019
5. ↑ Scary find: Skeletons with numerous broken ribs show how badly Switzerland treated social outsiders Auf Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 13, 2019
6. ↑ Compulsory care should be better compensated In: SRF from September 2, 2019

Web links

• Website of the Independent Commission of Experts (ICE) for the scientific processing of administrative provisions in Switzerland
• Dossier Compulsory welfare measures. Ed .: Humanrights.ch Retrieved on January 9, 2016.

literature

• Ruth Ammann , Thomas Huonker , Jos Schmid : Faces of administrative care / Visages de l'internement administratif , portraits of those affected / Portraits de personnes concernées. Publications Independent Commission of Experts for the Scientific Review of Administrative Supply Before 1981, Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1511-0
• Joséphine Métraux , Sofia Bischofberger , Luzian Meier : Questions about yesterday are questions from today, insights into administrative care, publications Independent commission of experts for the scientific analysis of administrative care before 1981, Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340- 1512-7 (also published in French)
• Christel Gumy , Sybille Knecht , Ludovic Maugué , Noemi Dissler , Nicole Gönitzer : Des lois d'exception? / Special laws? Légitimation et délégitimation de l'internement administrative / legitimization and delegitimization of the administrative supply, publications Independent expert commission for the scientific review of the administrative supply before 1981, Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1513-4
• Anne-Françoise Praz , Lorraine Odier , Thomas Huonker , Laura Schneider , Marco Nardone : "... je vous fais une lettre" , Retrouver dans les archives la parole et le vécu des personnes internées / The voice of the interned in the archives, Publications Independent expert commission for the scientific review of administrative care before 1981, Volume 4, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1514-1
• Ruth Ammann , Alfred Schwendener : "Zwangslagenleben" , biographies of people who were previously administratively cared for, publications Independent commission of experts for the scientific analysis of administrative care before 1981, Volume 5, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1515-8
• Ernst Guggisberg , Marco Dal Molin : "Tens of thousands" , figures on administrative care and the institutional landscape, publications Independent Commission of Experts for the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981, Volume 6, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1516-5
• Rahel Bühler , Sara Galle , Flavia Grossmann , Matthieu Lavoyer , Michael Mülli , Emmanuel Neuhaus , Nadja Ramsauer : Ordre, Moral und Zwang / Ordre, morale et contrainte , Administrative supplies and authority practice / Internements administratifs et pratique des autorités, publications Independent expert commission on scientific Review of administrative supplies before 1981, Volume 7, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1517-2
• Loretta Seglias , Kevin Heiniger , Vanessa Bignasca , Mirjam Häsler Kristmann , Alix Heiniger , Deborah Morat , Noemi Dissler : Everyday life under coercion / Un quotidien sous contrainte / Vivere sotto costrizione , Between institutional internment and discharge / De l'internement à la libération / Dall ' internamento in istituto alla liberazione, Publications Independent Commission of Experts for the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981, Volume 8, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1518-9
• Thomas Huonker , Lorraine Odier , Anne-Françoise Praz , Laura Schneider , Marco Nardone : "... this is how you are thrown into the hole" , sources on the history of administrative care - Histoire de l'internement administratif: sources - Storia dell'internamento amministrativo : fonti, Publications Independent Commission of Experts for the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981, Volume 9, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1519-6
• Independent expert commission for the scientific processing of administrative care before 1981 (ed.): Organized Arbitrariness . Administrative supplies in Switzerland 1930–1981. Final report. Publications Independent Commission of Experts for the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981, Volume 10, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1520-2 (also published in French, Italian and English)