Günther Tschanun

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Günther Tschanun (born September 13, 1941 in Vienna ) is a Swiss architect who, as head of the Zurich building police, shot four of his senior employees in 1986 after disagreements within the authority.

Course of events and history

In 1984 Günther Tschanun became head of the Zurich building police. This was in a phase of upheaval, suffered from a shortage of staff and enormous pressure from the responsible city councilor Hugo Fahrner (FDP). In the following years there were disagreements between Tschanun and his executives, which were also reported in the media. The boss could no longer endure the poisoned working atmosphere and the serious differences with employees and on April 16, 1986 shot and injured four of them within ten minutes at his place of work in the office building, who in his opinion were most to blame for his mental distress fifth life-threatening. He fled and was caught three weeks later in a hotel in the small town of Saint-Loup-de-la-Salle in Burgundy , France.

Judicial consequences and social echo

In the first instance Tschanun was the Zurich High Court on 29 February 1988 for intentional homicide to 17 years in prison convicted. The court found that the victims were complicit: they would not have accepted the perpetrator as their boss and constantly complained about him. In addition, he was under a workload on the part of the city council that was no longer manageable - although he worked well over 600 overtime hours and up to 84 working hours per week.

This " bullying " theory (at that time the word was not even used) was later rejected by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court : The Lausanne judges decided that the victims had no influence on Tschanun's personal, family and professional misery. Tschanun was completely unsuitable for his management function and was largely overwhelmed, but denied this in front of himself and his employees. In 1990 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder and attempted murder. In 2000 he was conditionally released after 14 years for good conduct after serving 2/3 of his sentence. During this time he trained as a gardener. He is said to have changed his name and lives in an unknown place.

filming

  • Director Marianne Pletscher : Leap Day (The terrible bloody act of G. Tschanun and what it could have to do with us); Broadcast in "Zeitspiegel" on SF DRS at the end of 1988.
  • In 2007 Swiss television showed her documentary “Bloodbath in the Zurich Building Authority”.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Born in Vienna before a judge in Switzerland. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung of February 26, 1988
  2. ↑ Viktor Dammann: The murderer only showed feelings once. In: Blick.ch from February 8, 2016
  3. ↑ Leap day - Günther Tschanun's unbelievable bloodshed Video on srf.ch
  4. ↑ Description of the film on the Marianne Pletscher website
  5. ↑ Video of the documentation on YouTube
  6. ^ Bloodbath in the Zurich building authority (pdf; 79 kB) ( Memento from April 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Background information on the documentation from June 13, 2007
  7. ↑ Cihan Inan in conversation with Kurt Aeschbacher on September 16, 2010
  8. ↑ Stefan Volk: Out of joint in: Berner Zeitung of September 29, 2010
  9. ↑ Florian Keller: The Tschanun case at the Zurich Film Festival in: Tages-Anzeiger from September 29, 2010
  10. ↑ Hans-Peter Künzi: Tschanun case: A book rolls up the bloody act again. In: srf.ch from February 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Tschanun, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and murderer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna