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JVA Landsberg am Lech
JustizvollzugsanstaltMediummaleHigh
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Background
Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west-southwest of Munich and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Augsburg. It is best known as the prison where Adolf Hitler was held in 1924 after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich and where he dictated his memoir Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess. The prison was used by the Allied powers during the occupation of Germany for holding Nazi war criminals. In 1946, general Joseph T. McNarney, commander in chief of the U.S. Forces of Occupation in Germany, renamed Landsberg War Criminal Prison No. 1.
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1908
Operational
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Facility profile
Operator
Bayerische JustizPopulation held
male
Opened
1908
Region
Bayern (Bavaria)
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
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Known issues
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Notable inmates
Held Adolf Hitler in 1924 (where he wrote Mein Kampf). Post-WWII used by Allied forces for war-crimes prisoners.
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Data completeness
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Sources
- Bayerische Justiz â JVA Landsberg
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- German Länder Justizvollzugsanstalten (consolidated from 16 state Justiz portals) — Bundesländer Justiz portals
- Wikidata (Q47515390)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). JVA Landsberg am Lech. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jva-landsberg-am-lech
Chicago
"JVA Landsberg am Lech." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jva-landsberg-am-lech.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-jva-landsberg-am-lech,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {JVA Landsberg am Lech},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/jva-landsberg-am-lech},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}