Franz Josef Ludy

Franz Josef Ludy (* 1933 in Hamburg ) is a German serial killer who killed four people between 1952 and 1968 and who was sentenced to three life imprisonment plus 15 years. The Bild newspaper described him as "one of the greatest lust killers in German criminal history". Although convicted of murder , he tried to prevent the tabloid press from being labeled a murderer on the grounds that he merely killed and not murdered.

Example

Ludy was the only son of a carpenter besides eight sisters. At the age of 15 he fell while jumping on a moving tram , got up again and only collapsed after a few steps. He then made his first appearance in criminal law: Due to the theft of radio lottery tickets worth 32.00 DM , he also lost his job at the post office , during which he so far as money postman had discharged amounts of up to 30,000.00 DM. The first and only friendship with a girl was destroyed by her mother; until his conviction, Ludy never had a relationship with a woman again.

In the following years he left the parental home and roamed around as far as southern Germany, the GDR , Switzerland and Belgium and sometimes lived under a false name. During this time he attempted suicide in the toilet of a train in Hamburg using sleeping pills .

Deeds

At 19 he killed a twelve-year-old boy and was sentenced to eight years of youth imprisonment as an adolescent . The instrument of the crime was a pitchfork . After the early release, numerous sexual crimes and attempted murder of children followed.

In 1956 he struck a 13-year-old with a stone on the head; this survived, although the brain had emerged from the skull as a result of the blow , with permanent damage.

On September 18, 1961, he shot a seven-year-old whom he had kidnapped in Rottweil , choked him and pushed him out of his car. The child survived. On September 28, 1961, he shot a 57-year-old man and his 37-year-old girlfriend in the Schwetzingen state forest with a pistol that he always carried with him.

This was followed by various sexual and liberty crimes as well as attempted murder. Among other things, he kidnapped and abused a nine-year-old girl in Hamburg in November 1964.

Ludy's last victim was also a seven-year-old boy on February 16, 1968, whom he had initially kidnapped and sexually abused. After the body had been discovered, Ludy was posted on February 20, 1968 arrested .

judgment

The examination of the fully confessed Ludy revealed that he had suffered a traumatic brain injury in the traffic accident in 1948 . He himself said in front of the jury : "Everything has gone wrong for me since the accident." He also stated that he can only remember the deeds in fragments. The court was therefore of the opinion that his guilty capacity was severely limited. Nonetheless, it convicted him of committed murder in three cases, attempted murder in three other cases, and fornication with children in four cases, in some cases in unity with deprivation of liberty. The evidence revealed that Ludy had sought sexual contact with a good hundred boys. The appeal , which the defense brought in primarily with regard to the sentence , was unsuccessful. The attempt to obtain an injunction against the Axel Springer Verlag also failed because the Bild newspaper had already described Ludy as a murderer or "one of the greatest lust killers in German criminal history" before the conviction .

reception

Helga Goetze dealt with Ludy in a poem entitled We are all murderers .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Dieter Sinn: The great criminal dictionary. Herrsching 1984, p. 117
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Julia and Peter Murakami: Lexicon of the serial killers. 450 case studies of a pathological type of killing Munich 2001, p. 117
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Dieter Sinn: The great criminal dictionary. Herrsching 1984, p. 118
4. ↑ ^{a b} Julia and Peter Murakami: Lexicon of the serial killers. 450 case studies of a pathological type of killing Munich 2001, p. 118
5. ↑ Evidence of a new beginning: Poems from 1970 to 1973 , accessed on May 22, 2019

literature

• Peter Murakami, Julia Murakami: Lexicon of serial killers. 450 case studies of a pathological type of killing ; Munich: Ullstein, 2001; ISBN 3-548-35935-3
• Dieter Sinn: The great criminal dictionary. ; Herrsching: Pawlak, 1984; ISBN 3-88199-146-8