Gerd Wenzinger

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Gerd Wenzinger (* 1941 , according to other sources 1943 or 1944 in St. Blasien , Germany ; † June 16, 1997 in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil ) was a German murderer, also known as the "Havel Ripper".

Life

Gerd Wenzinger was born the second of three children. He has a younger sister. He was interested in music and art from an early age. Wenzinger played the violin, liked to paint and model.

After graduating from high school, Wenzinger began studying mathematics and physics, but later switched to medicine. His marriage fails after four years, after which he had constantly changing partnerships. His sister later testified that his own jealousy and infidelity led to the end of all relationships.

In 1978 Wenzinger settled in Stuttgart as a general practitioner. In 1990, one of his partners accidentally discovered secretly filmed video footage of his patients during treatment. The find is passed on to the police. The medical association is investigating the incident and Wenzinger returns his license to practice medicine. He then sold his practice and moved to Berlin in 1991. His neighbors there described Wenzinger as a nice and polite man who had many girlfriends. The two murder victims were introduced to the neighbors as friends while they were still alive.

Wenzinger often went on vacation to Brazil. At the time of his death, Wenzinger was in custody in Brazil for a sexual offense. The Brazilian media reported that he had tortured around 90 women, mostly prostitutes, and killed four. In some cases he recorded his deeds on video. Various lawsuits against Wenzinger had already been carried out earlier, including for rape and sexual abuse of children. However, the proceedings were closed in 1993.

After he learned that an extradition application had been made and approved by the German authorities for the murder of Dana Franzke, Wenzinger hanged himself in his cell in 1997. Two days earlier he had tried suicide on antibiotics.

Gerd Wenzinger was buried in Salvador on July 21, 1997.

Murders

From June 25 to 28, 1994, the body of 23 year old Dana Franzke was recovered in 42 parts on the northern outskirts of Berlin from the Oder-Havel Canal. The identity of the corpse could not be established for the time being, although the fingerprints of the drug addicted prostitute were registered. A phantom image of the woman in the TV series Aktenzeichen XY finally led her mother to identify the victim in October 1994. Three sedatives and narcotics were found in the corpse, which are otherwise only used for anesthesia.

On November 5, 1994, frozen body parts of a young woman were found on the A 1 motorway between Hamburg and Lübeck near Bad Oldesloe, including the head and some internal organs. The dead person was identified on November 11th as 19 year old Sabrina G., also a prostitute.

The investigations in both cases were initially unsuccessful.

The investigation into the murder of Dana Franzke was resumed when a video cassette reached the Berlin Criminal Police in May 1996. The video contained on it showed the torture, murder, desecration and dismemberment of prostitutes in Wenzinger's Berlin house. It is believed that Dana was unable to act from the anesthetic, but was not passed out. Wenzinger injured and tortured the woman to the death with a chainsaw. He then abused the corpse before he saw it up systematically and not following the anatomy at regular intervals. He also made the cuts in such a way that many of the injuries previously inflicted by the torture were covered.

Shortly after his first suicide attempt, Wenzinger gave the Brazilian media an interview in which he denied the murder, but admitted the dismemberment. According to him, Franzke died of a heroin overdose, which could not be detected in the corpse.

In his suicide note, he continued to deny the murders; he merely stated that he had anesthetized the women.

Several psychiatric textbooks take Wenzinger's perpetrator profile as a case study for the breakthrough in aggressive-sexual fantasies from childhood.

literature

  • Michael Newton, Jaques Buval: The Great Encyclopedia of Serial Killers . Graz: Verlag für Collectors, 2002
    • Dizionario dei serial killer: una panoramica senza precedenti sugli omicidi seriali dall'antica Roma ai giorni nostri . Newton & Compton, 2004
    • The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers . Infobase Publishing, 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Haller : The soul of the criminal. How people become murderers . NP Buchverlag, 2002 (new edition Residenz Verlag , 2012)
  2. ↑ Gerd Wenzinger, Dr. - ALLCRIME. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b c Berliner Zeitung: 53-year-old doctor is said to have murdered and dismembered Dana Franzke: Prostitute murders: Police solve the "Havel-Ripper" case. Retrieved on August 18, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ a b Editors Neues Deutschland: Alleged murderer should be extradited (Neues Deutschland). Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c film cases »October 27, 1995 - FF 1 (Kripo Berlin) - murder of Sabrina G. Retrieved on August 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Gerd Wenzinger, Dr. - ALLCRIME. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Dana Franzke - Time and Place of Murder - Background. In: Sex Industry Kills. LISA Wiesbaden - Manuela Schon, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ October 27, 1995 - FF 1 (Kripo Berlin) - Murder of Sabrina G. Retrieved on August 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ So next to Reinhard Haller (see above) also Cornelia Musolff, Jens Hoffmann : Perpetrator profiles in violent crimes: Myth, theory and practice of profiling . Springer-Verlag, 2008; 2nd edition 2013 (p. 139 ff.)
personal data
SURNAME Wenzinger, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Havel ripper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German murderer
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Blasien , Germany
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1997
Place of death Salvador de Bahia, Brazil