The Landsberg correctional facility is making room for Alfons Schuhbeck as a precaution. The fallen celebrity chef will be in jail for a while for tax evasion. Schuhbeck was sentenced to three years and two months in prison last October for tax evasion amounting to millions. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) largely confirmed this judgment in June, and Schuhbeck has now been summoned to appear in prison.
A prison with a lot of history – and “Hitler cell”
The prison at the foot of the Alps is an old building: built in 1908 in a “restrained baroque reform style” (Wikipedia), the prison served as a prison for the Weimar Republic. The history of the prison was also shaped by the dark days of National Socialism.
Cell number seven is still considered the “Hitler cell” today, because in 1924 the later dictator was sitting in what was then Landsberg Fortress. There he dictated parts of his book “Mein Kampf” and later made his cell part of Nazi propaganda.
After the end of the Second World War, the Americans named today’s prison “War Criminal Prison No. 1”, imprisonment and death sentences from various trials were carried out there. The last execution took place in June 1951, two years after the death penalty was abolished in West Germany.
War crimes prison number one was dissolved on May 9, 1958, and operations as a JVA followed from 1959. The better-known inmates of the facility include football official Karl-Heinz Wildmoser Junior, Klatten blackmailer Helg Sgarbi, investment advisor Josef Müller and Bayern boss Uli Hoeneß.
581 detention places – always cold
The prison offers 581 so-called detention places behind thick, orange doors. As expected, the furnishings in the cells are extremely sparse. As early as 2014, former prisoners said that the accommodation was no picnic. When Hoeneß moved in, it was said that there was a shortage of hot water, that visiting hours were limited to two hours a month and that contact with the outside world was only possible in absolutely exceptional cases.
Also the star was allowed to attend a tour of the prison at the time. In his text “Zu Knast bei Hoeneß” reporter Felix Hutt wrote: “Each cell has a toilet, a sink, a desk, a cupboard and a bed, whereby bunk is the better word for it. About two meters long, 70 centimeters wide, and so stable that half a Hoeneß seems to be enough to make them collapse. Hoeneß won’t be able to roll around in his sleepless nights in Landsberg either, because once he rolls over, he lands on the floor. It’s cold, like everything here, the heating costs are saved.”
No good prospects for the former star of Munich’s chic crowd.