Johann Lang (assassin)
Johann Lang (born October 27, 1982 in Hutthurm im Ilztal , † November 26, 2004 near Auretzdorf , Lower Bavaria ) was a German assassin . He was charged with nine addressed to politicians and civil servants 2004 letter bombs than the mail bomber from Hutthurm known.
Life
Lang grew up in the hamlet of Ramling near Hutthurm in Lower Bavaria . There he attended secondary school . At the age of 14, he saw his mother die of a heart attack after a traffic accident. After finishing school in 1997, Lang could not find an apprenticeship and lived with his father and aunt in seclusion. It was only with his community service that he started working in the community's nursing home.
During a series of break- ins in schools and kindergartens in Hutthurm in winter 2002, the police found traces of DNA on a bloody glove that had been left behind . The break-ins remained unexplained; the genetic traces could only be ascribed to Lang after his death.
From the beginning of April 2004 Lang began to send a total of nine letter bombs to politicians and high officials in Lower Bavaria, Munich and Würzburg. The first addressees were Passau District Administrator Hanns Dorfner (CSU) on April 6, and a week later, on April 15, the Lord Mayor of Passau Albert Zankl (CSU).
On June 29th, a letter bomb was received by the Deggendorf Bundestag member Brunhilde Irber (SPD) and on August 10th by the district administrator of the Dingolfing-Landau district, Heinrich Trapp (SPD).
On August 30th, someone was injured for the first time by Lang's explosives when a letter addressed to the Regener District Administrator Heinz Wölfl (CSU) injured his secretary slightly on the forehead with a flame when opening it. At the same time, an explosive device, which was aimed at the mayor of Straubing Reinhold Perlak (SPD), was seized.
The police also defused an explosive device that was received at the Polish consulate general in Munich on October 12 .
His last two explosives were received on November 10, 2004 by the Lower Franconian district president Paul Beinhofer and the president of the Munich regional finance office, Ulrich Exler , without exploding.
When the Bavarian criminal police found skin particles on one of these letter bombs that they could assign to the series of burglaries from 2002, they began to organize one of the largest mass genetic tests in Bavarian criminal history in Hutthurm . In an initial test, she focused on men between the ages of 40 and 60, who, according to the case analysts , are suspected of being the attacker. When this test failed, police expanded the suspect group to include men aged 17 to 70 and, as of November 26, 2004, invited more than 2,300 men to the local gym for a saliva sample . Lang was also summoned. Shortly after the test began, Lang blew himself up in a meadow near Auretzdorf (Hutthurm municipality) with a self-made bomb tied around his stomach.
Other perpetrators
Other assassins with a similar approach were Franz Fuchs and Theodore Kaczynski .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNA mass test to clarify letter bomb attacks , Frankfurter Allgemeine, accessed on November 23, 2010
- ↑ Dangerous beyond death , Focus dated November 27, 2004, accessed on November 23, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lang, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German letter bomb assassin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hutthurm in the Ilztal |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 2004 |
| Place of death | near Auretzdorf , Lower Bavaria |