Breeding chair

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Breeding chair, original in the Bruchsal City Museum

The breeding chair or penal chair was used in the 19th century in the Grand Duchy of Baden in the penal institutions , in addition to dark detention , for rebellious inmates . The use of the penal chair was strictly regulated and should not be used against prisoners for more than six hours a day and no longer than eight days in a row. The Baden judiciary assumed that the penal chair: "serves as a short, energetic punitive device ... and makes the delinquent feel his complete powerlessness in the most talkative way" .

In the breeding chair, straps were strapped to the neck, chest, arms and legs in such a way that the circulation of the blood stopped and the pain was unbearable . The use of the breeding chair was banned in the late 1940s.

The use of the breeding chair could lead to serious health problems, such as very severe pain, squeezing of the blood vessels (and thus the risk of death of individual body parts), damage to internal organs and the spine and the risk of venous thrombosis .