Arwed Imiela

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Arwed Erich Imiela (born October 7, 1929 in Schlawe ; † June 3, 1982 in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel ) was a German serial killer .

Childhood, youth and life after the war

Arwed Imiela ended in Koszalin , the elementary school and started in Berlin training at the city administration. His father lived there after the divorce from Arwed's mother in 1936. The son commuted between his parents. Relations with his violent stepfather were poor. His mother did not allow him to go to high school. Shortly before the end of the war , Imiela was sent to a military training camp and then to a Polish labor camp .

After the end of the war, Imiela earned his living on the black market and as an actor and journalist. He got forged papers at a black market shop and from then on called himself Detlev-Klaus Holm-Menhardt. With this name he built a new existence for himself: he made himself eight years older, pretended to have a high school diploma and a diploma and to be a junior teacher. In 1952, Imiela's bogus existence was discovered during an arrest; he was sentenced to two years in prison.

In prison he dealt with astrology , passed an exam at the German Astrologer Association and called himself a "Diplom-Astrologe". With that he had found his livelihood and purpose in life. With the help of a typewriter he produced mass horoscopes, which he could make a living from selling. He got to know his first two victims through this activity.

Fraud and murder

In 1967, after seventeen years of marriage, Imiela left his second wife, Ilse. He got to know Annemarie Schröder and her mother Anna-Maria Kieferle, for whom he worked as a life coach. He gained the trust of the two women and acted as their treasurer. When he was given an account authorization, he immediately killed both women and probably dismembered the corpses and disposed of the body parts on Fehmarn or in the sea.

His next victims were Ilse Evels and her daughter Urte from Celle . They got to know Imiela through his then fiancée Ulrike Roland, whose aunt was Ilse Evels. At that time Imiela was living in Reinbek . He buried his victims in a slut pit near Gahlendorf in the east of Fehmarn . He had rented a hunt on Fehmarn and was a member of the local hunting club. He had rented a bungalow in Marienuchter for residential purposes, where he probably murdered the first two victims, first Anna-Maria Kieferle and, after her return, her daughter Annemarie Schröder. Ilse Evels and her daughter Urte, however, were apparently killed in Reinbek. When Imiela wanted to initiate a transaction for 150,000  DM from Ilse Evels' account into his account, a savings bank employee became suspicious.

Judgment and end of life

Imiela was arrested on April 23, 1970 with his fiancée on suspicion of fraud. After investigations, a connection to the two victims on Fehmarn emerged. As the suspicion against Imiela's fiancée was not confirmed, she was released after three weeks. Despite further investigations, the bodies of his previous victims could not be found. Imiela was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 24, 1973 by the Lübeck district court in a circumstantial trial for four murders . He never made a confession and always protested his innocence. Imiela died of heart failure in the Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel prison in 1982 and was buried anonymously in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

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SURNAME Imiela, Arwed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Imiela, Arwed Erich; Holm-Menhard, Klaus-Detlev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Slack
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1982
Place of death Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel