Politische Häftlinge (ehemalig): Unterstützung

The Prisoner Assistance Act provides victims with numerous opportunities for help in order to be able to claim social compensation.

The Prisoner Assistance Act regulates financial compensation for persons of German nationality who were taken into custody for political reasons after the Second World War in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) or in the Soviet sector of Berlin or in the states of the Eastern Bloc, as well as for their relatives and survivors.

If a person suffers injury during custody, he or she receives care in analogous application of the provisions of the Federal Supply Act. Survivors also receive benefits if the detention resulted in the death of the detainee.

Rehabilitation certificate

Damage to health during detention

none

Rarely under 12 months

None for the application.

Any benefits will only be granted from the application.

• Provision of care for the injured according to the Prisoner Assistance Act
• Prisoner Assistance Act regulates financial compensation for persons of German nationality who have been employed after the Second World War
  • in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ)
  • in the Soviet sector of Berlin
  • in the countries of the Eastern Bloc
• were taken into custody for political reasons
• Relatives and survivors are also entitled

Please contact

• the pension offices for the care provided for under the HHG, the StrRehaG and the VwRehaG due to liability or persecution-related damage to health,
• the local social assistance institutions for compensation under the BerRehaG,
• the Supervisory and Service Directorate Trier
  • for the capital compensation (liability compensation) according to the StrRehaG,
  • for the special benefit, the so-called victim's pension.

Forms are provided by the countries. There is no online procedure, there is a written form requirement.