Hans Thiers

Hans Thiers
	Hans Thiers
To person
Date of birth	June 21, 1946
nation	GDR
discipline	Train, road
height	165 cm
Societies)
1962-1965 ; 1966-1967 ; 1967-1971	BSG unit Freiberg ; SG Dynamo Dresden North ; SG Dynamo Gera center
Most important successes
	Multiple district champion road and rail ; 3rd place GDR best determination 100 km 4-person team road ; 3 × 5th place GDR championship 4000 m team track ; 15 victories on the Berlin winter train - a total of 60 victories in track and road races
	Last updated: February 17, 2017

Hans Thiers (born June 21, 1946 in Wegefarth , Oberschöna ) is a former cyclist, criminalist, insurance advisor and author.

Cyclist

Thiers was a cyclist in the GDR . In his career he mainly drove on the train, less on the road. He had a number of successes.

Non-fiction author

Thiers wrote three books about the murders he witnessed during his time as a criminal:

Murder cases in the Gera district. Volume 1. Verlag Kirchschlager, ISBN 978-3-934277-47-2 .
Murder cases in the Gera district. Volume 2. Verlag Kirchschlager, ISBN 978-3-934277-56-4 .
GDR serial killer. Verlag Kirchschlager, ISBN 978-3-934277-75-5 .

His third book Serial Murderers in the GDR was published in March 2018 and was presented during the Leipzig Book Fair .

In Gera and the surrounding area, Thiers gives many readings together with his publisher Michael Kirchschlager . Since September 2014, both have held around 200 readings in Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony with great success.

Approximately 15,000 copies of both volumes have since been sold. His books were featured in articles by Hallo Deutschland and in the turntable on ZDF as well as twice in the MDR Thuringia Journal . In September 2017, the RBB broadcast a two-part television report on the "Transit corpse of Bad Klosterlausnitz".

Private

Thiers has been married to his wife Regina for many years. The couple has two children.

Individual evidence

↑ Fanny Zölsmann: Headlines of the Week - Between Hammer and Murder Motif . In: New Gera. September 19, 2014, accessed February 18, 2017 .

^ Murder and manslaughter: Gera ex-Kriminalrat Hans Thiers on his books "Murder cases in the Gera district" . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , accessed on February 17, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Hans Thiers - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official Facebook page of Hans Thiers

personal data
SURNAME	Thiers, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German book author
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wegefarth , Oberschöna

[1] Fanny Zölsmann: Headlines of the Week - Between Hammer and Murder Motif . In: New Gera. September 19, 2014, accessed February 18, 2017 .

[2] Murder and manslaughter: Gera ex-Kriminalrat Hans Thiers on his books "Murder cases in the Gera district" . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , accessed on February 17, 2017.