Charlotte Sophie Henriette Meyer
Charlotte Sophie Henriette Meyer (* unknown; † March 2, 1837 in Berlin ) was a German murderer. She was the last person to be publicly executed in Berlin.
Meyer had murdered her husband in 1836 by cutting his throat in his sleep. The background was that she wanted to live with her lover. After she was convicted of this act, she was sentenced to death.
On March 2, 1837, Meyer was executed by wheels on the so-called Galgenberg, today's garden square in Wedding , when the executioner Hansen smashed all her limbs with a heavy cartwheel from her feet upwards with a heavy wagon wheel ("with the wheel promoted from life to death from below ”). Before that, as she resisted, she was dragged to the place of execution with a cow skin . It was the last public execution of the death penalty in Berlin.
In the same year the print The Crime and the Execution of Charlotte Sophie Henriette Meyer, published by LW Krause , appeared in verse ... According to an urban legend of Berlin, the murderess Meyer walks around as a ghost every last Friday of the month , which is the St. Sebastian's Church migrates.
literature
- Matthias Blazek: "The execution of Henriette Meyer 1837 - The light in the Sebastiankirche in Berlin." In: Yearbook of the Landesarchiv Berlin 2011. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-7861-2652-2 , p. 37– 45.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Conrad: Measurement with military accuracy. In: Tagesspiegel. December 7, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Charlotte Sophie Henriette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German murderer, last person to be publicly executed in Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th century or 19th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1837 |
| Place of death | Berlin |