Leipzig Prison (Strafvollzugseinrichtung Leipzig, later Justizvollzugsanstalt Leipzig) was a prison in Leipzig, Germany. Built together with an adjacent court building in 1906, it was used as a prison until 2003. During East German rule, a secret part of the prison was used as the central execution site of East Germany. In 1981, Werner Teske was the final person executed here. The prison was used until 2003, the site is now used as an extension of the nearby court building, with the execution site remaining as a memorial site.
LeipzigPrison (Strafvollzugseinrichtung Leipzig, later Justizvollzugsanstalt Leipzig) was a prison in Leipzig, Germany. Built together with an adjacent...
his trial, Teske was executed in a secret part of LeipzigPrison on Alfred-Kästner-Straße, Leipzig, by executioner Hermann Lorenz [de]. Teske was shot...
clemency. After he declined to intervene, Horst was guillotined at LeipzigPrison on December 22, 1962. Horst's remains were cremated, and he was buried...
executed in Germany was the East German Werner Teske, who was executed at LeipzigPrison in 1981. A 1949 opinion poll, when West Germany abolished capital punishment...
Ulbricht rejected his petition for clemency. Puhr was guillotined at LeipzigPrison on 15 April 1964. His remains were then cremated, and he was buried...
400 villagers in Poland, and sentenced to death. Schuster was shot at LeipzigPrison in 1973. His body was cremated and buried in an unmarked grave. In 1994...
and Vasil Tanev) were acquitted. Van der Lubbe was guillotined in a Leipzigprison yard on 10 January 1934, three days before his 25th birthday. He was...
Walter Ulbricht refused clemency, Fischer was executed by guillotine in Leipzig on 8 July 1966, one of the last persons to be executed in this way in East...
the West. Swinka was sentenced to death, and on October 1, 1970, at LeipzigPrison, shot from close range by executioner Hermann Lorenz. The body was then...
Ulbricht declined to intervene, Feustel was executed by shooting at LeipzigPrison on May 8, 1973. His body and belongings were then cremated, and he was...
The Leipzig war crimes trials were held in 1921 to try alleged German war criminals of the First World War before the German Reichsgericht (Supreme Court)...
Brandenburg, East Germany Died 15 September 1972(1972-09-15) (aged 20) LeipzigPrison, Leipzig, East Germany Cause of death Execution by shooting Criminal status...
August 2019 Runde Ecke Leipzig (in English) Archived 18 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 18 August 2019 Runde Ecke Leipzig. Stasi Bunker Museum...
He was hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin on 14 November 1944. In 1945, a street in the Gohlis neighbourhood of Leipzig was named Walter-Cramer-Straße...
numerous youths sent to penitentiaries, youth prisons or reformatories. The Meuten became active in Leipzig around 1937, and such as members of Blasen[incomprehensible]...
In Leipzig, as in other German cities, Jews and Jewish institutions suffered from attacks during the events called Kristallnacht, from November 9–10,...
times, including in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen and in the Leipzigprison in 1944–45. In 1945, he became the "People's Commissioner for Culture"...
work in the Torgau military prison, in the Buchenwald's satellite camp of Abberode, and finally in a factory near Leipzig. After her release in April...
Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Mulde, here crossed by two bridges, 25 km east of Leipzig, by rail N.E. of Leipzig on...
senate of the Reich Supreme Court in Leipzig from September 21 to December 23 in 1933. The trial known as the Leipzig Trial took place and was presided over...
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