Fratricide

As fratricide is referred to the murder of his own brother .

Known fratricides (selection)

Fratricides as motifs in religious or mythological stories:

Cain murdered his brother Abel ( Genesis )
Romulus, the founder of Rome , murdered his brother Remus. (See Romulus and Remus .)
Seth murdered his brother Osiris , who was later brought back to life by his wife Isis . (See the myth of Osiris .)

Examples of historical fratricides:

Eberhard II, grandson of Countess Anna, murdered his brother on October 31, 1322 because of an inheritance dispute in Thun Castle
1359 - Cansignorio della Scala murdered his brother Cangrande II della Scala
1381 - Cansignorio's illegitimate son Antonio (1375-1387) murdered his brother Bartolomeo (1375-1381) in 1381 , see Scaliger
In the Ottoman Empire , fratricide was common when a new sultan took office from the 15th to the 17th centuries. In a Kânûn-nâme , which is ascribed to Mehmed II , fratricide was supposedly permitted if the "order of the world" required it. The legal force of this Kânûn-nâme is disputed.

Fratricide in literature and poetry

William Shakespeare : Hamlet (drama, 1602)
Friedrich Schiller : The Bride of Messina (Drama, 1803)
Franz Kafka: A Fratricide (story, 1920)
Georg Britting: Fratricide in the backwater (short story, 1929)
Hans Herbjørnsrud : Kai Sandmoser (story, 1997)
Yılmaz Arslan : Fratricide (film)

Sibling in the animal kingdom

Similar to fratricide is the non-gender specific cainism found in the bird world , which is innate in some species. Bearded vultures, for example, lay two eggs, the first-born pushes the later hatching sibling out of the nest, and only one young is raised at a time.

Definition in criminal law

According to German criminal law , the murder of a person, also for a religious motive, and regardless of the existence of a family relationship between the murderer and the murder victim, and thus the fulfillment of the criminal offense of murder according to Section 211 of the Criminal Code (StGB), punished with life imprisonment.

Web links

Wiktionary: fratricide - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

↑ Josef Matuz: The Ottoman Empire, baseline of its history ; 5th edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2008, p. 41.
^ Klaus Kreiser: The Ottoman State 1300-1922 ; Munich 2008, p. 53.
^ Rejecting about Konrad Dilger: Investigations into the history of the Ottoman court ceremonial in the 15th and 16th centuries ; Munich 1967, p. 30ff.

[1] Josef Matuz: The Ottoman Empire, baseline of its history ; 5th edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2008, p. 41.

[2] Klaus Kreiser: The Ottoman State 1300-1922 ; Munich 2008, p. 53.

[3] Rejecting about Konrad Dilger: Investigations into the history of the Ottoman court ceremonial in the 15th and 16th centuries ; Munich 1967, p. 30ff.