“Unashamed of the Gospel”: Johann Hinrich Wichern and the Battle for the Soul of Prussian Prisons

摘要

ON August 23, 1859, a death occurred in the prison at Moabit, a largelynworking-class neighborhood in Berlin that housed the largestnpenitentiary of its time.n2nAn inmate named Jacobi attacked andnwounded a fellow inmate, forcing the prison warden, Ku ¨gler, and the prisonnsupervisor, Brother Anton, to intervene. When Jacobi showed no signs ofncalming down, Ku ¨gler and Anton tried to force Jacobi into a straitjacket.nDuring the struggle, Ku ¨gler shot and killed the inmate.