Christian Bogner

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Christian Bogner (* 1955 in Herford ) is a German criminal and long-time prisoner . His original name is Bernhard Lenz.

On October 26, 2004, he killed the gardener Engelbert Danielsen in order to assume his identity. Bogner was caught on October 30, 2004 and is regularly transferred to security stations in various correctional facilities in Lower Saxony because of his dangerousness and his escape .

In the most recent case, his escape became the subject of the state election campaign in Schleswig-Holstein . The Springer press ( Hamburger Abendblatt , Die Welt , Lübecker Nachrichten ) called Bogner the " escape king ". Bogner has escaped from prisons five times, from detention hospitals twice and from a courtroom once . To date, he has spent well over half his life in prison.

First offenses

In the 1970s, Bogner lived in an apartment building in Herford's old town Feldmark , where he twice raided the nearby Sparkasse Herford branch . He was serving his first sentence for this and other bank robberies. After his school friend Thomas Ranke disappeared in 1995, Bogner lived for several months under Ranke's identity in East Germany, where he was arrested by Ranke's brother-in-law's investigations. The murder of Ranke could not be proven to Bogner. He served the sentence for the bank robberies in the Lübeck correctional facility .

Escape from the Lübeck correctional facility

In the early morning hours of October 26, 2004, he managed to escape from the Lübeck correctional facility. With the help of a forklift and a ladder made in the prison locksmith's shop, he penetrated the prison wall, which had been expensively equipped with barbed wire and high-tech sensors, into the outside area. Bogner ran a parked right near the hospital rented limousine of the brand Mercedes-Benz E-Class in the district Lübeck-Kücknitz where he reportedly stayed until about 13 PM. He probably changed his clothes there too. He continued his escape in a jacket and tie . A witness claims to have seen Bogner in a Lübeck café shortly after the outbreak. He had breakfast there for half an hour. Bogner is said to have left the café abruptly after a report about his escape was heard on the radio.

murder

According to the police, he then went to the Eutin apartment of the unemployed landscape gardener Engelbert Danielsen and drove with him, presumably around 2 p.m., on the autobahn in the direction of Hamburg . According to previous investigations by the public prosecutor's office, Bogner Danielsen is said to have promised a job in the Sindelfingen area. According to the indictment, Bogner's brother is said to have brought them together. Bogner himself claims to have dropped Danielsen off at Hamburg Central Station in the afternoon . After that he had in the room Egestorf in the Nordheide ( district of Harburg go) to see banks there, presumably for later planned raids . In fact, it was reliably established that he was in the Salzhausen area (Nordheide) at around 5 p.m. At that time, according to police reports, Danielsen was already dead. The homicide squad assumes that Bogner killed his victim that afternoon. According to the indictment, he wanted to assume Danielsen's identity and go into hiding.

arrest

After covert investigative measures under the direction of a manhunt by the Schleswig-Holstein State Criminal Police Office , Christian Bogner was arrested on October 30, 2004 at around 9:40 a.m. by officers from the Kiel Mobile Task Force and the Eutine Special Task Force on Trappenstrasse in the Lübeck district of St. Lorenz- Nord. Bogner was not armed, seemed surprised and did not offer any resistance. The escape vehicle that Bogner's brother is said to have organized was also searched. A shovel, spade and cable ties, which are said to have been in them immediately before the escape, were not found. Bogner was first sent again to the Lübeck correctional facility and later to the Oldenburg prison.

Reactions

The outbreak on October 26, 2004 sparked violent reactions. It became a topic in the Schleswig-Holstein state election campaign in 2005, in which CDU candidate Peter Harry Carstensen called on the then Prime Minister Heide Simonis ( SPD ) after the outbreak to make the conditions inside the Lübeck-Lauerhof prison a top priority. Justice Minister Anne Lütkes ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) rejected calls for resignation from the FDP and CDU. She declined personal responsibility and instead initiated disciplinary investigations against employees of the institution. The police union (GdP) then sharply criticized the Kiel Ministry of Justice , which had long been informed about security deficits due to staff shortages - specifically in the metalworking shop.

process

On August 12, 2006, the trial against Bogner and his brother Martin Lenz began at the Lübeck Regional Court . Bogner was charged with the murder of the gardener Danielsen. Lenz was charged with freeing prisoners and aiding and abetting murder. Because of the dangerous nature of Bogner, the trial took place under strict security precautions: Bogner was presented in handcuffs and ankle cuffs, his brother in handcuffs. 47 witnesses were to be questioned at the trial. In the closing argument, the public prosecutor's office requested that Bogner be sentenced to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention. On the following day of the hearing, the defense demanded an acquittal, because the murder of Danielsen could not be proven to Bogner.

judgment

On September 5, 2006, Christian Bogner was sentenced to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention. The court considered it proven that Bogner, in order to gain a new identity, had lured Danielsen into a trap and killed. However, the court did not determine that Bogner's guilt was particularly serious, as the actual killing process could not be determined. Bogner's appeal against the judgment at the Federal Court of Justice was rejected; the judgment was thus final after exhaustion of the legal remedies. Bogner's brother was sentenced on the same day to three years and three months in prison for aiding and abetting murder and for freeing prisoners.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva-Maria Mester, Christof Bock: Murderer wanted to be a gardener. In: Stern . August 12, 2005
  2. ↑ Karsten Krogmann: 5000 days of solitary confinement: The Bogner case . Nordwest-Zeitung from July 5, 2018. Accessed December 24, 2018.
  3. ↑ It was his eighth outbreak Hamburger Abendblatt (October 28, 2004)
  4. ↑ www.faz.net

Press articles

personal data
SURNAME Bogner, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenz, Bernhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German felon
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford