Dominik Brunner

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Dominik Florian Brunner (born May 18, 1959 in Stuttgart ; † September 12, 2009 in Munich ) was a German manager and a member of the three-person board of the brick manufacturer Erlus in Neufahrn in Lower Bavaria . On September 12, 2009, at the Solln S-Bahn station in Munich, he attacked a group of young people who had previously attacked other young people, demanded money and threatened them with beatings. He was seriously injured in the confrontation that followed. A little later he died of cardiac arrest in the hospital. The events generated a lot of media coverage and he was posthumously awarded numerous honors for moral courage .

Life

education and profession

Dominik Brunner came from an entrepreneurial family. He grew up as an only child in Ergoldsbach . His father Oskar Brunner worked in a managerial position at the roof tile manufacturer Erlus from the early 1960s . After graduating from the Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium in Landshut, Brunner studied law at the University of Munich and after graduating worked for law firms in San Francisco , Paris, Munich, Frankfurt and Leipzig. He then followed his father's career at Erlus AG. In 1994 he was promoted to company management, where he was responsible for finance, organization, human resources, law and procurement.

death

On September 12, 2009, four 13- to 15-year-old schoolchildren were threatened by three young people (two 17-year-olds, one 18-year-old, one of them drunk) at the Donnersbergerbrücke S-Bahn station in Munich . They asked for 15 euros, otherwise they would use force. To reinforce the demand, one of the youth slapped one of the students in the face and kicked another in the thigh. The racket then got on the S6 in the direction of Tutzing , the threatened schoolchildren and the two remaining youngsters got on a S-Bahn train on the S7 in the direction of Wolfratshausen a little later . On the train, the two remaining young people continued to talk provocatively, but without threatening; Dominik Brunner, who hadn't noticed anything happening at the Donnersbergerbrücke (he was already sitting in the arriving S-Bahn), stepped in and alerted the police. Brunner got off with the students at the Solln S-Bahn station. According to the driver and the pupil, Brunner then walked up to the two defendants, who wanted to leave the station, with raised fists, “dancing, in a boxing position,” and shouted to the S-Bahn driver, “Something was about to happen ". Then Brunner hit one of the defendants in the face with his fist. In the course of the argument that followed, Brunner fell; the perpetrators beat and then further kicked the person lying on the ground. The younger of the two left Brunner relatively quickly and then tried to pull the 18-year-old who continued to step on Brunner away from Brunner. According to the charges, they inflicted 22 blows and kicks on him within a minute. According to the autopsy report, none of these injuries led to the immediate death of Brunner.

Both perpetrators were arrested at the station by the police, who arrived shortly after the S-Bahn stopped. They tried to flee, but could not get past the station fence. According to the autopsy report, Brunner died a little later in the Großhadern Clinic of cardiac arrest due to an enlarged heart. The court records adopted the finding that he had died from cardiac arrest, not from the injuries of the fight. An arrest warrant was also issued against the third 17-year-old involved. In retrospect, however, there was also criticism of Brunner's approach, which was sometimes described as an overreaction in an allegedly already resolved situation.

Dominik Brunner's urn was buried on September 18, 2009 in the closest family circle in the Ergoldsbach cemetery. Eight days later there was a funeral service for him in the village.

Reactions

The crime scene in Munich-Solln six days after the crime

The incident sparked a debate about unsafe public transport and a possible tightening of youth criminal law. On September 16 at 6:30 p.m. all means of transport in the MVV area were stopped for a minute's silence. Around 50 people spontaneously gathered for a vigil at the crime scene. On September 17, 2009, Deutsche Bahn announced that the emergency telephones in Solln and 19 other Munich train stations were not working. She blamed the Bavarian Oberlandbahn (BOB), which in turn, the Deutsche Bahn.

On November 9, 2009, Erlus AG and friends and companions founded the Dominik Brunner Foundation for Civil Courage .

Shortly after the fact, the investigation by the Bremen public prosecutor Daniel H. Heinke , according to which the vast majority of the population was aware of the danger to life of kicks in the head, sparked a debate about the criminal prosecution of such crimes as (attempted) homicidal offenses.

The death of Dominik Brunner was the reason for the Münchner Fahrgäste campaign to organize behavioral training for passengers together with the Munich Police Headquarters and the Munich Federal Police Inspection. The patronage was the then Mayor of Munich, Christian Ude . Under the motto “Act with heart and mind. Emergency? You help - me too! ”The courses are held in the traffic center of the Deutsches Museum .

In his novel Angel of Death, the writer Andreas Eschbach indirectly remembers Dominik Brunner. At the beginning of the novel, an old man who, as part of moral courage, tries to prevent two young men from destroying a bench, is attacked by them and seriously injured. What happened shows clear parallels to the Dominik Brunner case. In addition, the incident in the novel takes place in the “Dominikstraße” subway station, and the victim's daughter-in-law lives in “Brunnerstraße”.

Honors

Four days after his death, the Bavarian Council of Ministers remembered Brunners and called for a nationwide minute's silence. The Prime Minister posthumously awarded him the Bavarian Order of Merit . In addition, Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble reached an unresolved agreement with the editors of the show Aktenzeichen XY ... to subsequently award Brunner the XY Prize for moral courage , which will be awarded jointly.

One week after Brunner's death, Uli Hoeneß called for a minute's silence before the match between Bayern Munich and 1. FC Nürnberg in Munich's Allianz Arena and honored Dominik Brunner's courageous commitment. He also encouraged people to show more moral courage and condemned the alleged non-intervention by passers-by, which was still being discussed at the time. Both teams ran in honor Brunner with black armbands on.

On October 4, 2009, Federal President Horst Köhler posthumously awarded Brunner the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany for his commitment . He presented the Cross of Merit to the deceased's parents. Köhler understands the award "as a sign of the gratitude of all compassionate people in Germany for their humanity, helpfulness and moral courage, which Dominik Brunner selflessly showed when he realized that other people were in need" .

On December 20, 2009, around 3,000 people came to a memorial rally on Munich's Odeonsplatz, to which the Münchner Courage initiative and the Dominik Brunner Foundation had called for.

In July 2010, the Hessian city of Dietzenbach named a square after Dominik Brunner. The application was made by Cengiz Hendek, a member of the then foreigners' advisory board.

Dominik Brunner memorial at Solln train station

Since December 21, 2010 there is a Dominik-Brunner-Weg in Munich at the Solln S-Bahn station. Next to a platform of the S-Bahn station there has been a memorial since September 12, 2013, donated by the Dominik Brunner Foundation and created by Stefan Rottmeier.

Ergoldsbach, Brunner's home community in Lower Bavaria, has erected a monument in his honor. The sculpture designed by Stefan Rottmeier shows a man standing protectively in front of a boy. The approximately 2.20 m tall and 200 kg heavy sculpture stands in front of a building on Ergoldsbacher Badstrasse. There is a day nursery and a school day nursery. The building has been renamed the Dominik-Brunner-Haus.

On May 5, 2013 in Landshut the path to the new community center on Porschestrasse, which was supported by the Dominik-Brunner Foundation and established by the Landshut Community Foundation, was named Dominik-Brunner-Weg. Uli Hoeneß also took part in the opening as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dominik Brunner Foundation. Together with the Lord Mayor of Landshut, Hans Rampf, the chairman of the community foundation and other representatives from politics and society, he cut the red ribbon on the street sign and thus opened the Dominik-Brunner-Weg and at the same time opened the new community center.

The secondary school in Poing was named after Dominik Brunner on July 1, 2015, as was the asteroid (192293) Dominikbrunner , discovered by Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel .

On March 24, 2017, the Dominik-Brunner-Haus of Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe in Munich - Ramersdorf was officially inaugurated.

Legal processing

The 17-year-old, who acted as spokesman when he and his friends threatened the students, was on 13 April 2010 by the youth jury court in Munich District Court , among others, for grievous bodily harm and attempted extortion in a youth custody sentenced of 19 months, the enforcement of Parole has been suspended. The convict, who was then undergoing addiction therapy, was ordered to continue this for another five months. The judgment was critically discussed with regard to the assessment of evidence and the duty to provide information under youth criminal law.

On February 4, 2010, the two main perpetrators were charged separately with joint murder. On July 13, 2010, the process began before the Munich I Regional Court . In the public trial sitting days were more than 50 witnesses heard at twelve. On September 6, 2010, the two defendants were sentenced. The now 19-year old main perpetrators received for aid for attempted extortion in Tatmehrheit with murder a youth sentence of nine years and ten months, the 18-year-old youth for attempted extortion in Tatmehrheit with assault resulting in death a youth sentence of seven years. In doing so, the court largely followed the prosecution's requests, and the defense announced a revision . The appeal was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice in 2011 , which means that the judgments have become final. However, in retrospect there was also criticism of the unusual amount of punishment for the young person.

The offender, sentenced to seven years, was released early from prison in July 2014 for good conduct. In May 2019, the second offender was also released a month early.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV of Dominik Brunner. (PDF; 50 kB) Dominik Brunner Foundation, accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Erlus: Ergoldsbacher success story ›dachbaumagazin. In: dachbaumagazin.de. March 22, 2012, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Christian Rost: Brunner Trial: Ex-girlfriend says: "Hello, I can't reach you now ..." In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 14, 2011 ( sueddeutsche.de ).
  4. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Civil Courage. In: Focus Online . October 4, 2009, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  5. ^ Confession is expected sueddeutsche.de, April 13, 2010
  6. ↑ a b c Judgment in the Brunner trial: With all severity. Der Spiegel, September 6, 2010
  7. ↑ a b Gisela Friedrichsen : "For me Brunner was the attacker" . The mirror . July 20, 2010. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
  8. ↑ a b c d Judgment in the Solln trial - “They wanted to take revenge on Dominik Brunner” on sueddeutsche.de; Retrieved September 8, 2010
  9. ↑ A defendant confesses and gives Brunner complicity on welt.de; Retrieved July 29, 2010
  10. ↑ The police came just a few seconds later
  11. ↑ Cause of death: heart failure sueddeutsche.de, July 17, 2010.
  12. ^ S-Bahn drama: Brunner died of heart failure. In: Spiegel Online . July 17, 2010, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Francesco Giammarco: How the Tugce Albayrak case affects people: Longing for moral courage . The daily mirror . December 6, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  14. ^ Death of Dominik Brunner: Trigger of the spiral of violence on sueddeutsche.de; Retrieved July 28, 2010
  15. ↑ Marcus Jauer: Solln und haben: court minutes from the Brunner trial . In: FAZ of September 2, 2012, accessed on June 8, 2012.
  16. ↑ Farewell to Dominik Brunner  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.donaukurier.de  
  17. ↑ A minute's silence for Dominik B .: buses and trains stand still
  18. ↑ S-Bahn: emergency telephones only dummies
  19. ↑ a b charter of the foundation. (PDF; 382 kB) Dominik Brunner Foundation, accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  20. ↑ FAZ.net: Whoever kicks in the head wants to kill ; Retrieved August 16, 2010
  21. ↑ Reference to various specialist publications on the subject at SelectedWorks, Berkeley Electronic Press
  22. ↑ FAZ.NET: Killer
  23. ↑ NZZ Online: Stand up to the perpetrators ; Retrieved August 16, 2010
  24. ↑ Report on the passenger training in the Augsburger Allgemeine from June 30, 2011: Help without playing the hero
  25. ^ Report from the cabinet meeting: Part 1. In: bayern.de. Bavarian State Chancellery , September 16, 2009, accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  26. ↑ A minute of silence for the man who did not want to stand idly by. www.welt.de, September 20, 2009. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
  27. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for S-Bahn Victims Brunner  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from heute.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heute.de  
  28. ↑ Thousands remember Dominik Brunner , Spiegel Online, December 20, 2009
  29. ↑ Offenbach-Post from July 10, 2010
  30. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of October 13, 2010
  31. ↑ Street signs in Munich remind of Dominik Brunner, Sächsische Zeitung of December 22, 2010
  32. ↑ Land Survey of the City of Munich
  33. ^ Human chain against violence , Süddeutsche.de, September 12, 2013
  34. ↑ Dominik Brunner was beaten to death in a Munich S-Bahn station. They erect a monument to him at home. In court, the two perpetrators testify that he struck first: Because he didn't look away - berliner-zeitung.de July 14, 2010
  35. ↑ Focus from September 12, 2010
  36. ↑ Press release of the Dominik-Brunner-Foundation on the opening of the Dominik-Brunner-Weg in Landshut
  37. ↑ Barbara Mooser: Dominik Brunner gives the Realschule its name . Southgerman newspaper. March 19, 2015. Accessed March 20, 2015.
  38. ^ State secondary school Poing named after Dominik Brunner. In: Welt Online . July 3, 2015, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  39. ↑ (192293) Dominikbrunner . IAU - Minor Planet Center. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  40. ↑ Dominik Brunner House of the Johanniter . In: Johanniter [live] . March 19, 2017 ( johanniter.de [accessed March 24, 2017]).
  41. ↑ Dominik Brunner case: Instigator gets away with suspended sentence. In: stern.de . April 13, 2010, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  42. ^ Eisenberg, Journal for Child Law and Youth Welfare 2012, p. 54 ff.
  43. ↑ Murder charges against S-Bahn thugs FAZ, February 4, 2010
  44. ^ Criminal proceedings against Markus S. and Sebastian L. for murder etc. a. (Solln S-Bahn station) ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Higher Regional Court Munich, September 6, 2010
  45. ↑ The verdict against the main perpetrators in the Brunner trial is final. Augsburger Allgemeine , October 5, 2011, accessed on July 4, 2012 .
  46. ↑ He hit Dominik Brunner - now he's free again. In: Focus Online . September 2, 2014, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  47. ↑ Dominik Brunner case - a perpetrator is at large again. Bayerischer Rundfunk , September 2, 2014, archived from the original on September 17, 2014 ; accessed on September 2, 2014 .
  48. ↑ Welt.de: Dominik Brunner case - violent perpetrator released early , April 30, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Dominik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunner, Dominik Florian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2009
Place of death Munich