Arbeitsscheu, verwahrlost, gefährdet. Zwangseinweisungen „Asozialer“ in die Arbeitslager der Stadt Stuttgart und der Gustav Werner Stiftung

Book presentation with Dr. Sebastian Wenger

During the National Socialist era and in the post-war years, the state in Germany dealt restrictively with so-called "asocials". They were stigmatized and persecuted because of their deviant behaviour. This study sheds light on both the actors involved and their networks as well as the practice of forced admissions of social misfits to the work and detention centers of the city of Stuttgart from 1934 to 1959. These were established in the 1930s in cooperation with the Gustav Werner Stiftung zum Bruderhaus in Göttelfingen and in Buttenhausen. The monograph also documents the everyday (working) life of the minors and adults housed in the institutions.

Sebastian Wenger, studied history at the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen and was a doctoral fellow at the Robert Bosch Stiftung's Institute for the History of Medicine from 2016 to 2019 on the topic of "Arzt - ein krank machender Beruf? Workloads, health and illness of doctors at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries", PhD in 2020. In the same year, he was awarded the Wilhelm Zimmermann Prize of the University of Stuttgart for his dissertation. Since 2019, he has been a research associate at the Robert Bosch Stiftung's Institute for the History of Medicine.