Dieter Krombach

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Dieter Krombach Paul Christian (* 5. May 1935 in Dresden ) is an award in Germany and France legally convicted offenders . The former doctor received international attention in the course of several decades of proceedings for the killing of his stepdaughter Kalinka Bamberski .

youth

Krombach was born on May 5, 1935 as the son of the married couple Walter and Marianne Brendler. His father worked as a lawyer in the Ministry of Finance; his mother was a housewife. Krombach himself describes the living conditions at that time as rather poor. In elementary school he witnessed the air raids on Dresden while his father served as an officer in the Wehrmacht . Later Krombach attended the Leibniz School in Offenbach am Main . Krombach's father was a member of the government at the time. After a very good high school Krombach studied in Frankfurt Medicine, acquired as part of his doctorate on a topic from the field of psychiatry the doctoral degree and became a specialist for internal medicine . In 1964 he specialized in cardiology in Zurich.

First marriage

In the early 1960s, Krombach began a relationship with Monika Hentze, who was then still a minor. At the age of 15 he became pregnant unplanned and had the child aborted. In 1963 she became pregnant again by Krombach, and in November 1963 the two married. Shortly afterwards their daughter Diana was born and a little later their son Boris. The family was living in Zurich at the time.

The marriage was marked by violence. Krombach mistreated his wife, raped her and threatened to kill her. In 1969 Monika was attacked by an inexplicable illness that left her at first dumb and blind, and then paralyzed. In October 1969, at the age of 24, she died of a cerebral haemorrhage - a few hours after Krombach had given her an injection that was said to have contained snake venom . Krombach himself diagnosed the cause of death in his dead wife as a blockage of an artery on the brain stem ( basilar thrombosis ) as a result of taking an excessive dose of contraceptive pill .

Determined mid-1970s, the prosecutor Bernd Weiland in the matter against Krombach because of the urgent suspicion that his wife killed to have. There was no charge .

Second marriage

Ten months after the death of his first wife, Krombach married Inge Wienröder in 1970. Both emigrated to Casablanca in Morocco, where Krombach got a job as a doctor in the German consulate . Krombach was dissatisfied with the marriage and had numerous sexual relationships with other women. In 1974 the French couple André and Danielle Bamberski lived just a few houses away from the Krombachs with their two children, Kalinka and Nicolas. Krombach liked his neighbor's wife, he constantly pursued and seduced her. When André Bamberski noticed this, he confronted Krombach. Shortly thereafter, the Bamberski family moved to Pechbusque near Toulouse in France. Krombach then left his wife and followed Danielle to France. During a stopover in Algeciras , Spain, he watched her and swore that he would never let her go. The two continued their affair in France without Bamberski's knowledge. From 1975 onwards, Danielle spent most of the weekdays with Krombach while she led her husband to believe she was in Nice to work. A year later, Danielle left her husband and children for Krombach and moved with him to Lindau on Lake Constance.

Third marriage

Danielle became Krombach's third wife in 1977. The custody of the children Kalinka and Nicolas was initially granted to the father, André Bamberski. In July 1980 Bamberski moved back to Morocco with both children. As a result, Danielle took custody of her children in court and Bamberski moved back to Pechbusque. However, the two French-speaking children born in Casablanca did not feel at home in Germany. That's why they were supposed to move back to their father in France in September 1982. It turned out differently.

Kalinka's death

On the night of July 9-10, 1982, Krombach killed his 14-year-old stepdaughter Kalinka by injecting her with strong drugs . The respected doctor then claimed that he only wanted to save Kalinka and was thus able to evade prosecution by the German authorities. In France, Krombach could not be brought to justice for killing the French woman because Germany refused to extradite her. Kalinka's biological father did not want to accept this and worked tirelessly for a legal punishment of Krombach. When it looked like Krombach would soon escape prosecution for good, Bamberski had him kidnapped to France in 2009, where he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for bodily harm and death on October 22, 2011 and was imprisoned until he escaped in February 2020 was discharged for health reasons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judgment in criminal proceedings KLs 211 Js 5180/97 for the sexual abuse of persons incapable of resistance from October 9, 1997 , accessed on December 26, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d Julie Saulnier: Qui est le Dr Dieter Krombach? L'Express dated March 30, 2011, accessed December 26, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d Joshua Hammer: The Kalinka Affair. The Atavist Magazine, no.13, 2012 (also available as mp3 audio files)
  4. ↑ a b Cinema drama about girl murder has Offenbach's history. op-online.de from October 20, 2018, accessed on December 26, 2018
  5. ↑ a b CV on Justice pour Kalinka , accessed on December 26, 2018
  6. ^ A b France: le procès Krombach est lancé, le médecin allemand nie tout crime. Report from the Belgian news channel RTBF of March 30, 2011, accessed on December 26, 2018
  7. ^ A b Andrew Anthony: Thirty Years in Search of Justice. The Guardian, October 24, 2010; accessed December 26, 2018
  8. ^ Thierry Lévêque: Au procès Krombach, l'histoire d'un trio amoureux tragique. Reuters March 31, 2011, accessed December 26, 2018
  9. ^ Marie Desnos: L'interminable affaire Krombach. Paris Match, April 7, 2011, accessed December 26, 2018
  10. ^ Isabelle Monnin: Procès Krombach: la mère de Kalinka, une femme entre deux hommes. L'Obs on November 27, 2012, accessed December 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Krombach, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krombach, Dieter Paul Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, criminal convicted several times in Germany and France
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden