Alfred Ander

Alfred Ander

Johan Alfred Andersson Ander (born November 27, 1873 in Ljusterö , † November 23, 1910 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish robbery. He was the last person to be executed in Sweden .

Life

Ander was an innkeeper by profession . He was often in financial difficulties and had drinking problems . His wife testified at the trial that her husband had mistreated her several times and that she feared for her life. Ander was known to be a petty criminal and was arrested several times.

Robbery

Viktoria Hellsten

On January 5, 1910, Ander attacked the Gerell bank at Malmtorgsgatan 3 in Stockholm. He attacked the 24-year-old cashier Viktoria Hellsten and injured her so badly that she died an hour after the attack in the Serafin hospital. He escaped with 6,000 crowns . Some of the money was used as evidence against Ander, as some bills had drops of blood on them.

To the last, Ander denied having committed the crime. After the death sentence on May 14, 1910, he went on revision several times , but this was rejected in all instances .

execution

On November 23, 1910, Ander was the last person to be executed in Sweden in the central prison on Långholmen . The sentence was carried out by Sweden's last executioner Albert Gustaf Dahlman using the guillotine , which was imported from France in 1903 and was therefore used for the only time in Sweden.

In 1921 Sweden abolished the death penalty for peacetime. In 1973 it was finally abolished.

swell

• Aftonbladet , November 23, 1910, Anders afrättning
• Fogelström, Per Anders : Mödrar och söner , Bonnier, 1992
• Joakim Forsberg: Liv för liv , Albert Bonniers, 2005
• GA Dalman and GO Gunne: Sveriges siste skarprättare AG Dalman , Skandinaviska pressförlaget, Stockholm 1934

Web links

• Den sista avratstningen - other. In: Kriminalvården. Archived from the original on November 11, 2007 (Swedish, information on Ander at the Swedish Criminal Police Office).