Bruno Fabeyer

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Bruno Fabeyer (born June 4, 1926 in Osnabrück , † February 8, 1999 in Bad Orb (Spessart)) was a German violent criminal who was responsible for the murder of police chief Heinrich Brüggemann and numerous break-ins.

Life

Fabeyer was born the son of Friedrich Ludwig Fabeyer and Luise Fabeyer (née Langemeyer). At the age of three, he is said to have lost his speech for at least half a year after falling into boiling water. After regaining the language, a lifelong stutter remained. The parents' marriage ended in divorce when Fabeyer was of school age. When he was eight years old, his father, who had multiple convictions, hanged himself in a prison cell in the penitentiary.

At the age of twelve Fabeyer ran away to Hamburg with his brother. He was then placed in correctional homes. Among other things, he lived in the Göttingen Provincial Education Center , where he claims to have experienced physical violence. At the age of 15 he began an apprenticeship as a butcher.

Like his two years older brother Fritz, who was executed for desertion , Bruno Fabeyer also left the Wehrmacht in 1944 , which led to his imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp . In 1945 he was liberated by the US Army .

In the period that followed, Fabeyer committed several thefts and break-ins. In 1957, he was sentenced to several years in prison with subsequent preventive detention. On August 1, 1965, Fabeyer was conditionally released from the Celle prison because of good conduct and went into hiding. He lived in hidden forest camps, which earned him the nickname "forest man".

A series of break-ins in the Osnabrück area followed. In addition to food and money, Fabeyer preferred to steal various items of clothing. On December 29, 1965, at around 2:45 a.m., Fabeyer broke into the house of the post office clerk Alois Broxtermann. When Broxtermann stood in the way of the burglar, the burglar shot him down and was able to escape.

Memorial in Hunteburg , where Heinrich Brüggemann was shot by Bruno Fabeyer

On February 24, 1966 at around 6 p.m., Fabeyer was recognized by the hostess of the house and the guest Herbert Schubert in the Gasthaus Heemann in Hunteburg . Schubert went to the police chief Heinrich Brüggemann. When both arrived at the inn again, Fabeyer was already on the run with his bike. Brüggemann took up the chase with the car and quickly caught up with the fugitive. When he wanted to catch Fabeyer, the latter dropped his bicycle and tried to escape over a pasture. Brüggemann took up the pursuit on foot. When he had almost succeeded in reaching Fabeyer, he shot the policeman down with several shots and was able to escape. Brüggemann succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital. From now on Fabeyer was also known under the name "Moormörder".

This incident triggered the most expensive manhunt since the end of the war. During this time Fabeyer was the most wanted man in Germany. Exactly one year to the day after the shooting at Brüggemann, the police managed to arrest Fabeyer on February 24, 1967 in a department store in Kassel. A cashier had recognized the fugitive.

In November 1967 the Osnabrück Regional Court sentenced Fabeyer to life imprisonment for attempted murder and a particularly serious case of manslaughter .

Fabeyer escaped from prison in Celle in 1983 when he was released, but was arrested a few days later in Bramsche and taken back into custody without trial.

On February 8, 1999, Bruno Fabeyer died of heart failure in a nursing home in Bad Orb (Spessart).

The search measures of 1966/67 were headed by Waldemar Burghard, who later became the director of the Lower Saxony LKA. In an obituary for Fabeyer, Burghard looked back on his biography, but above all on the considerable mishaps of the police work and judged self-critically: "Fabeyer has pointed out the shortcomings and limits of a nationwide search which - if at all - were only very hesitantly and not always completely eliminated . And he has uncovered idiosyncrasies and arrogance of federal states that shine through again and again. To this day. Therefore, it does not seem impossible that a Fabeyer case might not happen as usual, but something like that.

literature

  • Gisbert Strotdrees: Tatort Dorf . Historical crimes from the country. Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-7843-5324-1 , p. 168-175 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fabeyer, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violent criminal
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1999
Place of death Bad Orb (Spessart)