Abduction of Jakub Fiszman
The kidnapping and murder of Jakub Fiszman took place in 1996 in Hessen .
Sequence of events
The entrepreneur Jakub Abraham Fiszman was overpowered, abducted and injured on October 1st, 1996 on the premises of his export company in Eschborner Landstrasse in Frankfurt am Main . The authorities remained silent about the case. The kidnappers initially demanded a ransom of DM 3.5 million . The first handover of the ransom failed, so the kidnappers increased their demands. On October 10, 1996, a ransom of 4 million DM was deposited at an agreed location by Fiszman's parents on federal motorway 3 and picked up by the perpetrators. There was an off-road vehicle registered in Sven Korppen's name in a nearby parking lot. This observation led the police to track down the perpetrators.
The Hessian State Criminal Police Office informed the public on October 12, 1996. On October 16, 1996, the police arrested three men - including father and son Rainer and Sven Körperpen - and two women. Almost the entire ransom was found buried in the garden of the Körppens parents in Wiesbaden . More than 500 police officers searched for Fiszman in an impassable forest area. On October 19, 1996, following information from Sven Körperpen, the police found Fiszman's corpse in Reckenroth im Taunus with the help of sniffer dogs .
Fiszman was buried on October 22, 1996 with great public sympathy in the New Jewish Cemetery in Frankfurt am Main next to his father's grave.
Background to the person
Jakub (in a different spelling Jakob) Abraham Fiszman (* July 28, 1956 , † October 3, 1996 in a forest near Reckenroth in the Rhein-Lahn district ) was a German businessman from Frankfurt am Main . He was one of the richest Frankfurt citizens and of Jewish descent. His father Uszer J. Fiszman, originally from Poland, became wealthy in the 1960s to 1980s with real estate business and as an importer of JVC audio consumer electronics equipment.
In 1978 Fiszman sold the majority of the JVC agency to the parent company. The Eastern European business with JVC devices was retained and continued by OWEC Ost-West Electronic GmbH after the death of the father by the son.
His older brother Georg Fischmann lives with his family in Cologne . His son was also kidnapped in 1991, but was released three days later, officially without paying a ransom.
Criminal trial
The trial of the two kidnappers began on October 2, 1997.
The father Rainer Körperpen was sentenced to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention on October 1, 1998, for murder and extortionate kidnapping , stating that the guilt was particularly serious . The perpetrator denied his actions. Incriminating statements by the son and circumstantial evidence led to the conviction. Other serious crimes committed by Rainer Körperpen had preceded it, including bodily harm resulting in death and two other kidnappings.
The son Sven KOERPPEN that because of extortionate kidnapping and aid was sentenced to death to twelve years in prison, came in May 2006, again free . He committed suicide in November 2010.
filming
The case has been the subject of several television productions.
In 2006 the case was filmed in the series The Big Crime Cases (Season 5, Episode 25) with the title Family Ties - The Murderer and His Son .
In 2008 he was featured in the series Lawyers of the Dead (Season 4, Episode 3) entitled Kidnapped, Tortured and Slain .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Chronik: Das Verbrechen und der Trial Archive of the Rhein-Zeitung , accessed on May 18, 2011.
- ↑ The career of the master painter Rainer K. . taz archive. December 14, 1996. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
- ↑ Missing Wiesbaden body pen is dead - tragic end of a resocialized person . Wiesbaden courier . December 2, 2010. Archived from the original on December 4, 2010. Retrieved on December 4, 2010.
- ↑ Family ties - The murderer and his son . YouTube . May 9, 2014. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
- ↑ Description on www.fernsehserien.de accessed on August 21, 2014.