Frank Schmökel

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Frank Schmökel (born August 19, 1962 in Strausberg ) is a legally convicted German murderer and rapist . His repeated escapes from the penal system , sometimes combined with renewed criminal offenses, sparked nationwide discussions and tightening of the penal code.

Chronology of acts of violence and escapes

Frank Schmökel, son of a police officer , had already become conspicuous in his youth due to zoophilia . In 1988 he was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for the first time for an act of violence, the attempted rape of a 13-year-old. After he fled a short time, he was detained for an additional ten months. In 1989 he was released under a partial amnesty.

After his release, Schmökel committed other crimes, including the rape of an eight-year-old; In 1993 he was sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment and placement in the penal system of the Brandenburg State Clinic for sexual abuse in four cases by the Frankfurt (Oder) regional court.

In 1994 Schmökel managed to escape again during an outdoor activity; he then raped an eleven-year-old in Quitzerow and tried to kill her. For sexual abuse and attempted murder, he was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment, again in the penal system.

In 1995 Schmökel managed to escape again, but was arrested again one day later. He fled again in 1996 while on leave and was arrested again three days later. In the spring of 1997 he escaped again, but turned himself in to the police after a week and was then transferred to the Neuruppin State Clinic . He broke out of custody again after six months, but was arrested the next day.

In April 2000, as part of his therapy, Schmökel was given the opportunity to move freely outside the prison accompanied by carers. On October 25, 2000, he was allowed to visit his mother in Strausberg, which he used to escape, severely injuring his mother and the attendant accompanying him with knife wounds. On November 2, 2000, he killed a 60-year-old pensioner in a Strausberg arbor colony where he was hiding and fled in his car.

A search operation with several hundred police forces, which had been extended to the Czech Republic and Poland , was successful when the escape vehicle and Schmökel's hiding place in a forest near Bautzen were located on the basis of a passer-by . On November 7, 2000, Schmökel was caught in Saritsch near Bautzen and injured by a shot in the stomach.

Final conviction

On 11 December 2002 the district court of Frankfurt (Oder) Frank Schmökel convicted of crimes committed during his escape felony to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention . With the decision of the Federal Court of Justice of November 12, 2003, which dismissed an appeal by Schmökel, this judgment became final.

In 2004 the police investigated Schmökel on suspicion of killing his half-brother in 1982 after he had allegedly admitted the crime to the editor of his autobiography. The book appeared in the same year.

In 2006 the MDR produced a film by Christian Frey for the ARD documentary series Die große Kriminalfälle , in which Schmökel himself also has a say in addition to companions, investigators and psychologists.

Schmökel was an inmate in the Brandenburg / Havel penal system . At the end of March 2017 he was transferred to the Luckau-Duben correctional facility . The Higher Regional Court of Brandenburg had last instance has the laying on 5 December 2016 as assessor Schmökel certified not to be treated. There he began his life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention.

Consequences of the Schmökel case

Above all, the renewed escape of Schmökel in autumn 2000 and his subsequent murder brought the practice of the penal system in general, and in the state of Brandenburg in particular, into national criticism. The responsible State Secretary for Brandenburg, Herwig Schirmer , resigned at the beginning of November 2000. As a result, the safety precautions in the penal system were increased and the opportunities for clearance were reduced.

literature

  • Tomas A. Hartmann (Ed.): When witches give birth to monsters. The true story of a monster: Frank Schmökel . Hartmann, Halle 2004, ISBN 3-00-013948-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dorit-kowitz.de
  2. ↑ Press release of the BGH from November 20, 2003 on the judgment BGH 5 StR 468/03.
  3. ↑ Schmökel: Is he also a brother-murderer? In: Berliner Kurier , June 13, 2004.
  4. ↑ Schmökel: The murderer on the garden fence . ARD series The Great Criminal Cases , first broadcast on March 13, 2006.
  5. ↑ Serious criminal Schmökel receives SED victim pension . In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 19, 2009.
  6. ^ Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung online , accessed on March 25, 2017
  7. ↑ Jürgen Jaskolla: A residual risk remains . In: Justament . December 2002, p. 14 f . ( Issue archive on justament.de , PDF ).
  8. ^ The Schmökel case : Brandenburg's social welfare state secretary resigns Spiegel Online , November 3, 2000.
  9. ↑ High walls, deep trenches . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 31, 2003; Modernized penal system . Welt online , September 9, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Schmökel, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German murderer and rapist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Strausberg