Jürgen Bartsch

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Jürgen Bartsch (born November 6, 1946 in Essen as Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski , † April 28, 1976 in Lippstadt-Eickelborn ) was a German pedosexual serial killer who murdered four boys in Langenberg near Velbert . Bartsch became known as the "fair killer".

childhood

Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski was born out of wedlock in Essen in 1946. His birth mother Anna Sadrozinski died of tuberculosis shortly after his birth . He spent the first months of his life in the care of nurses in a clinic. A few months after his birth, Gertrud Bartsch, the wife of the wealthy Essen butcher Gerhard Bartsch, came to the same hospital to undergo a total operation. The childless married couple had the orphan at the age of eleven months. The youth welfare office initially had reservations about an adoption because of the “dubious origin of the child”, so that the adoption only took place seven years later in 1954. The boy grew up with his foster and adoptive parents in Langenberg (now Velbert- Langenberg) under the name Jürgen Bartsch. They kept him completely isolated from other children until he was six years old, locked in a basement room with barred windows and in artificial light because his parents feared he would find out outside that he was not their biological child.

Bartsch often described surprising violent attacks and an obsession with cleanliness in his adoptive mother to the experts and in his letters to the journalist Paul Moor . You have forbidden him to get dirty or play with other children. These constraints allegedly persisted into adulthood - even at the age of 19, he was still washed in the bathtub by his adoptive mother. In a depth psychological report before the retrial , it was assumed that Bartsch experienced the family atmosphere early on as a double-bind situation without empathy , which was later reflected in the relationship between him and his victims.

At the age of ten, Bartsch came to a home. As his parents were of the opinion that things were not strict enough there, they transferred him on October 14, 1958 to the Catholic boarding school of the Salesians Don Bosco in the Marienhausen monastery in Aulhausen / Rheingau , now a part of Rüdesheim am Rhein . During this time, Bartsch discovered by chance that he was adopted. He later explained that while he was in bed with a fever, Father Gerhard Pütz there sexually abused him. In October 1960, he fled the boarding school twice because he could no longer stand it there. Since his parents had brought him back after the first escape, he did not dare to go home after the second escape. He felt that his situation was hopeless. Alice Miller sees in her book In the Beginning Was Education , in which she deals with the Bartsch case, home education as the root cause of his sadistic tendencies. There Bartsch had to learn to accept the absurdities and whims of the educators without contradiction and without feelings of hatred. An unprecedented pressure of aggression has built up in his unconscious. When he got older, he behaved as domineering and callous towards boys as he was treated by adults. He was sexually aroused by the situation of deep humiliation, threat, destruction of dignity, disempowerment and fear of a little boy - this time no longer as a helpless victim, but as the powerful persecutor.

Inclinations

Bartsch was one of the sadistic , violent offenders who are fixated on children. In adolescence, his pedophile tendencies showed in the Catholic boarding school in Marienhausen. It was there that Jürgen Bartsch discovered for the first time that he was sexually attracted to boys. Psychological reports confirmed that the pedosexual inclinations of the outwardly extremely friendly Bartsch had clearly sadistic traits, he suffered from paraphilias and had carried out his actions under an "irresistible urge".

In June 1961 his inclinations became known to the police after he sexually assaulted and tortured the son of the Langenberg master painter B. in the former air raid shelter in the Oberbonsfeld district , Heeger Straße. The incident led to charges of assault in the Wuppertal district court ; however, the proceedings were soon dropped again, as Bartsch made it credible that he had just fooled around with the victim. From then on, Bartsch developed increasingly sadistic fantasies, which he gradually put into practice.

Victim

  • March 31, 1962: Klaus Jung, 8 years
  • August 6, 1965: Peter Fuchs, 13 years old
  • August 14, 1965: Ulrich Kahlweiß, 12 years old
  • May 6, 1966: Manfred Graßmann, 11 years old

Bartsch persuaded his victims to accompany him to the above-mentioned former air raid shelter. There he forced them to undress and engaged in sexual acts on them. Then he killed them and dismembered the bodies.

On June 18, 1966 Bartsch roamed Wuppertal - Elberfeld , where he met another victim, 14-year-old Peter F. In the air raid shelter he forced the boy to undress with blows and kicks. He tied up F. and tried to rape him. With the announcement that he would come back soon and kill him, Bartsch left the bunker. F. managed to cut the bonds with a candle and flee.

After the boy escaped, the police started a search for the perpetrator and found the remains of the four victims in the bunker. The 19-year-old journeyman butcher Bartsch was identified as the perpetrator through information from the Langenberg master painter B. and arrested by the police three days after the crime on June 21, 1966.

After the arrest

Bartsch openly confessed to his actions. On November 27, 1967, the trial before the Wuppertal Regional Court began with great attention from the media and the public, both nationally and internationally. The court considered Bartsch a fully sane adult and sentenced him on December 15, 1967 to life imprisonment . The criminal defense was initially carried out by lawyer Alfred Linten from Essen and was continued by the Munich lawyer Rolf Bossi .

In 1969 put Bossi revision in the Federal Court a, who then picked up the first-instance judgment. Thereafter, the case was renegotiated before the youth chamber of the Düsseldorf regional court. Rolf Bossi took over the defense again. The only question in this trial was whether the accused was responsible for the acts that he had confessed to in full. During the process, the manipulations by the educator Pütz played a role and were commented on in the media through the mirror. On April 6, 1971 Bartsch was sentenced to a youth sentence of ten years and subsequent placement in the Eickelborn sanatorium. There Bartsch married a nurse from Hanover in 1974.

In January 1968, the American journalist Paul Moor, who lives in Germany, made written contact with Bartsch. In the period up to April 1976 he received 250 letters from him. Bartsch took the opportunity to tell in great detail from his life story. In Moor he had his first and only listener who followed up with questions, the questions often being psychoanalytically oriented. Moor processed the material collected in the process into the book published in 1972 entitled The Self-Portrait of Jürgen Bartsch .

Since Bartsch was still exposed to murder fantasies , he and his lawyer sought brain surgery from 1973 onwards. In December 1974, however, Bartsch was informed by doctors at the Saarland University Hospital that such an operation was not possible for him. In order to avoid his lifelong stay in psychiatry , Bartsch then applied for his castration . Before that he had strictly refused.

He was operated on in the Eickelborn State Hospital . The anesthesia was carried out, as was often the case in small hospitals in 1976 - without an anesthetist , only under the responsibility of the surgeon. In the anesthesia , there was a confusion between two chemicals, so that the agent halothane by using an inappropriate methoxyflurane - evaporator was overdosed tenfold. As a result, Bartsch suffered a fatal circulatory collapse after the successful operation . The attending physician had already made a similar mistake before. He was eventually given a suspended sentence for negligent homicide .

Jürgen Bartsch was buried in Essen without giving his name or life dates.

reception

theatre

In 1972 the one-person play "Das Tier" by Niels Höpfner was premiered in the Kammerspiel of the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus . It is based u. a. on the book by US journalist Paul Moor, who was living in West Berlin at the time, “The Self-Portrait of Jürgen Bartsch”. Actor Serdar Somuncu performed the play again in 2000.

Based on Bartsch's letters to Paul Moor, Oliver Reese wrote the one-person play "Bartsch, Kindermörder". It was premiered on September 24, 1992 at the Ulm Theater .

Movie

The documentary “Obituary for a Beast” (BRD, 1983) by Rolf Schübel was shown at the Berlinale in spring 1984 , but was not shown in the cinema because the Futura film distribution company did not receive any public funding. It was first broadcast on December 5, 1985 on ZDF . The film is essentially based on the sound recordings that the expert Wilfried Rasch had made during the exploration necessary for the preparation of the psychiatric report in the revision procedure .

The film "Der Kindermörder Jürgen Bartsch" by Thomas Fischer from the series The Great Criminal Cases (SWR production, 2000) was shown on May 18, 2000 on ARD .

Bartsch's life was filmed again in 2002 by Kai S. Pieck under the title “ Wearing shorts for a lifetime - The Jürgen Bartsch case ”. The basis for the script was Paul Moors book "Jürgen Bartsch: Victims and perpetrators". It was performed at the Berlinale in 2003.

literature

Heinz Strunk added quotes from Jürgen Bartsch to his novel " The Golden Glove ".

literature

  • Mark Benecke : Signs of murder. Spectacular criminal cases. G. Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-2307-4 (with numerous original letters from Bartsch).
  • Michael Föster: Jürgen Bartsch. Obituary for a beast. Documents, pictures, interviews; the book about the film by Rolf Schübel. Torso, Essen 1984, ISBN 3-924868-00-X .
  • Kathrin Kompisch, Frank Otto: Monsters for the masses. The Germans and their serial killers. Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-86189-722-9 .
  • Ulrike Meinhof : Jürgen Bartsch and society. In U. Meinhof: Human dignity can be touched. Essays and Polemics. Wagenbach, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8031-2491-3 .
  • Alice Miller : In the beginning there was education . Suhrkamp, ​​1983, ISBN 3-518-37451-6 .
  • Paul Moor : The self-portrait of Jürgen Bartsch. Fischer, 1972.
  • Paul Moor: Jürgen Bartsch: Victims and perpetrators. Rowohlt, 1991, ISBN 3-498-04288-2 ; same as TB (2003) under the title:
  • Paul Moor: Jürgen Bartsch - self-portrait of a child murderer. Rowohlt, 2003, ISBN 3-499-61482-0 .
  • Peter & Julia Murakami: Lexicon of Serial Killers . 10th edition. Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-548-35935-9 , p. 26-29 .
  • Peggy Parnass : Trials 1970-1978. Two thousand and one, 1978
  • Horst Petri : educational violence. On the relationship between personal and social violence in upbringing. Fischer, 1989 (Consequences of educational violence: From the self-portrait of Jürgen Bartsch, p. 138 ff.).
  • Hans Pfeiffer : The compulsion to series - serial killers without a mask. Militzke Verlag, OA (1996), ISBN 3-86189-729-6 ( online (p. 172 ff.) , Accessed on May 30, 2014).
  • Friedhelm Werremeier : Am I a person for the zoo? Limes, 1968.
  • Regina Schleheck : True Crime: The Fair Killer. Criminal story about Jürgen Bartsch SAGA Egmont 2020, ISBN 9788726410440 . Also as an audio book.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Processes: Easily tripped over . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1972, p. 70-72 ( Online - May 15, 1972 ).
  2. ↑ wdr.de , accessed on February 13, 2012.
  3. ↑ Alice Miller : In the beginning there was education . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-518-37451-6 , pp. 259 .
  4. ↑ a b Magic with verse . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1966, pp. 32–33 ( online - June 27, 1966 , article on Jürgen Bartsch and his arrest).
  5. ^ Doll in the bush , in: Der Spiegel 21/1971 of May 17, 1971; Paul Moor: What options does the court have , in: Die Zeit 13/1971 of March 26, 1971
  6. ↑ Mark Benecke: Mordspuren , p. 207
  7. ↑ Mark Benecke: Traces of Murder. P. 208
  8. ↑ Mark Benecke: Traces of Murder. P. 249
  9. ↑ Criminal proceedings files of the Paderborn public prosecutor's office in the State Archives NRW Department OWL, D 21 No. 5895-5903 and 6143
  10. ↑ Damn drive . Review in: Der Spiegel 42/1972 from October 9, 1972
  11. ^ History of the Dudweiler Statt-Theater, accessed on dudweiler-statt-theater.de on May 11, 2014
  12. ↑ Bartsch film not in the cinema , in: Der Spiegel 48/1984 of November 16, 1984
  13. ^ Obituary for a beast filmportal.de, accessed on August 9, 2020.
  14. ↑ Thomas Fischer: The child murderer Jürgen Bartsch , The great criminal cases , Das Erste from May 18, 2000 (YouTube)
  15. ↑ A lifetime of wear shorts on: berlinale.de
  16. ↑ H. Strunk: The golden glove. Reinbek near Hamburg 2016. p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Bartsch, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sadrozinski, Karl-Heinz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal, pedosexual serial killer who murdered four children
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1976
Place of death Lippstadt- Eickelborn