Dirk Dettmar
Dirk Dettmar (* 1957 ) is a German criminal who was convicted of murder and other violent crimes.
First crime
Dirk Dettmar grew up in Lower Saxony and completed an apprenticeship as an advertising technician. In 1981 he was convicted of a robbery at a disco in Hameln 50,000 Mark prey and because of an attempted bank robbery in Bad Eilsen first arrested and to seven years in prison Hildesheim convicted.
In prison he met Wolfgang Sieloff, who had been convicted of robbery, and with whom he tried to escape in 1983, which, however, failed after a short time. A year later, Dettmar did not return to the prison after being on leave. In the following years he carried out several robberies together with Wolfgang Sieloff, who also fled while on prison leave, and the convicted Klaus Bergener.
Police murders
On October 22, 1987 at around 6.45 p.m. Dettmar shot the two police officers Rüdiger Schwedow and Ulrich Zastrutzki. The two officers followed up an anonymous call that suspicious work was being carried out in a workshop in Hanover after work. When the police officers, who did not know that they were dealing with the escaped criminals, wanted to question Dettmar, Sieloff and Bergener, Dettmar killed the two police chiefs with several shots. The next day, Bergener killed himself with a shot in the head in the Rote Reihe near the city center, shortly afterwards Dettmar and Sieloff were overpowered and arrested by special forces in front of their apartment in the suburb of Limmer .
In the workshop, the police found a converted Audi quattro , which was provided with steel plates as bullet protection and equipped with smoke grenades , a fire extinguisher converted into a bomb and an assault rifle . The police found firearms, explosives and a self-made bomb in the hiding places of the criminals who had spread them all over Lower Saxony. The trio had planned to kidnap the Hanoverian "machine king" Horst-Adolf Freise and extort a ransom. The trained chef and long-time amateur boxer had built up a gambling hall empire in a short time in the 1980s and earned millions. On October 27, 1988, Dettmar was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Hanover Regional Court with subsequent preventive detention and transferred to the high-security wing of the Celle prison.
In commemoration of the fatal mission and their murdered colleagues, the officers of the then special task force gather every year on October 22nd at a memorial stone set on a private initiative in Brabeckstrasse (No. 84) in Hanover-Bemerode ; In 2012, alongside Police President Axel Brockmann, more than 80 people were present at the commemoration; on the 30th anniversary day in 2017, around 70 people were present alongside Police President Volker Kluwe . The district council and parties also hold commemorative events.
Escape from the prison in Celle
On October 21, 1991 at around 7:00 in the morning, Dettmar and three other inmates overcame three prison officers with weapons they had made themselves and put explosives on them. The outbreak had long been planned and discussed among the four men. Dettmar used a self-made rifle made from a chair leg and iron parts that was loaded with screws as ammunition. When the dangerousness of the weapon was later determined, bombardment tests were carried out in the basement of the LKA Lower Saxony , with the screw projectiles penetrating a five centimeter thick pork belly and another two and a half centimeters into a paraffin block behind it.
The hostage takers demanded a getaway car and a ransom of two million marks, divided into Dutch guilders, English pounds, US dollars, and French and Swiss francs in used notes. They turned down the Renault Espace provided by the police after a test drive and instead asked for a Volvo , which the police did not get. In the prison yard they discovered a VW Passat , with which the four perpetrators began to flee with two of the hostages. They left the third hostage in prison. In Großburgwedel they changed the getaway car and released another hostage. On October 22nd, the police announced the identity of the refugees: besides Dettmar, it was the head of the "GTI gang" Bruno Reckert, who had already escaped from prison in 1990, who had been convicted of murder and was threatened with deportation Lebanese Samir El-Atrache and the ex-Yugoslavs Ivan Jelinic convicted of heavy robbery and predatory extortion.
On the night of October 22nd to 23rd, they tied their last hostage to a tree near Annaberg-Buchholz and fled to Karlsruhe , where they were recognized by a passerby who alerted the police. Civil investigators and MEK officials finally discovered the hostage-takers on the second deck of a parking garage and tried to catch the perpetrators. Reckert and El-Atrache surrendered without resistance, Jelinic and Dettmar managed to escape heavily armed.
They kidnapped the owner from a grocery store and drove a stolen car into a parking garage, where they stole another car at gunpoint and drove on with their hostage towards Ettlingen . 20 minutes later, they stopped a Mercedes and forced the driver to lie down in the trunk. They continued to flee with this car and the two hostages, but have since been followed unnoticed by the police. When the perpetrators wanted to refuel the vehicle at a gas station in Ettlingen, police snipers opened fire. During the subsequent exchange of fire, Jelinic was shot through the shoulder and Dettmar was hit several times in the chest and seriously injured. Both were operated on in a hospital in Karlsruhe and, after another conviction, transferred to high-security prisons.
Solitary confinement and artistic activity
Since then, Dirk Dettmar has renounced violence according to his own account. He fought for the right to artistic activity through several court instances. For the chapels of two penal institutions he made ceramic wall pictures, a multi-part way of the cross and reverse glass pictures on behalf of the church and pastoral care . During this phase he also received the Ingeborg Drewitz Literature Prize for Prisoners .
In 1998 he married his long-time guardian in prison. He voluntarily submitted to several psychiatric assessments and completed behavioral therapy. In 2005 he was transferred to the Sehnde correctional facility . His pictures, painted there with oil pastel chalk, are offered for sale on an internet platform; part of the proceeds will be donated to the Lower Saxony Police Foundation.
He is currently housed in the Sehnde correctional facility. By order of April 16, 2013, the Penal Enforcement Chamber of the Hildesheim Regional Court announced that Dettmar would have to serve at least 24 years of his life imprisonment “due to the particular severity of the guilt”, i.e. that he would be released from prison in 2021 at the earliest.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Artistic biography of Dettmar on art-in-prison.de .
- ↑ a b Markus Krischer: RAF woman at the organ Focus 46, 1996.
- ↑ a b c d Commemoration of a fatal mission 25 years ago Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 21, 2012.
- ↑ They hoped for the "big money": Trial of the murder of two police officers ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Hamburger Abendblatt from August 10, 1988.
- ↑ Obituary on corsipo.de memorial page for police officers who died violently.
- ↑ Memorial stone on Brabeckstrasse for the murdered police officers .
- ↑ Djangos and Kamikazes Der Spiegel 45, 1991.
- ↑ A tremendous dizziness. Police experts criticize the deployment concept after the hostage-taking in Celle, Der Spiegel 44, 1991.
- ↑ hostage gangsters grouped ( Memento of 21 May 2014 for Internet Archive ) Hamburger Abendblatt of 24 October 1991st
- ^ Andreas Johannes Wiesand, Annette Brinkmann, Susanne Keuchel, Center for Cultural Research (Bonn): Handbuch der Kulturpreise , Volume 4, ARCult Media, 1995, p. 727; Google Books .
- ^ Art in prison - the artist: Dirk Dettmar Bellastoria Film, film production and documentation.
- ↑ 24-year minimum period of service for police murderer Dirk Dettmar (PDF; 74 kB), press release of the Hildesheim Regional Court , May 16, 2013.
- ↑ Michael Zgoll: Police murder in Brabeckstrasse: Dirk Dettmar remains in custody , HAZ , May 21, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Dettmar, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German felon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |