Josef Sattler (poacher)

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Josef "Sepp" Sattler (born May 26, 1830 in Niedernhart, Gde. Tiefenbach, † April 1, 1878 in Brauchsdorf near Tiefenbach ) was a poacher who killed two gendarmes .

Live and act

He was the son of the wealthy farmer Josef Sattler, who also owned a community hunt and only married his mother Korona after the birth of his son. The father took the son with him on the hunt from an early age, so that he was a good shooter even as a young man. He was the father of three illegitimate children: Maria, geb. on September 7, 1850 in Schalding left of the Danube, Josef, b. on October 15, 1851 in Thalham and Theresia, born. on December 20, 1855 in Schalding on the left of the Danube. In 1856 he stabbed his opponent Mathias Burnberger von Niederham in a scuffle and was therefore sentenced on July 7, 1857 to two years at work.

Because of his involvement in scuffles, the royal district court in Vilshofen issued a six-month ban on taverns in 1858. In 1860, after he shot a gendarme while he was poaching, he was sentenced by the Passau District Court to an eight-year workhouse sentence for poaching and bodily harm .

He served his prison sentence in the forced labor facility in Rebdorf near Eichstätt , where he broke out of a segregation bar in 1861, but was quickly caught again. After returning to his homeland, Sattler was sentenced to four months in prison in 1871 for illegal hunting and in 1874 to four years in prison for continued unauthorized commercial hunting.

His parents had also sold the farm in Höbersdorf in 1867 because of the criminal son and moved to Deichselberg. Sattler had thus lost his real home and he now switched to poaching and led an unsteady hiking life in what is now the district of Passau . In April 1877 he was sentenced to three years in prison for theft and described in the judgment as a poacher feared because of his audacity . On May 20, 1877, he managed to escape from the Passau prison.

He was now wanted by the police, but repeatedly found sympathizers among the people who gave him shelter and fed him. On June 14, 1877 he wounded gendarme Jakob Weber with shot in the face, neck, chest, arm and thigh and gendarme Johann Kraus on the arm, hand and knee, while himself only was easily injured.

On October 22, 1877, 32-year-old gendarme Michael Meisinger was stabbed to death by Sattler in Haidreuth, a small town between Ruderting and Tiefenbach. Before that, he had stopped the so-called fox saddler in the fox house, but was then killed by stabbing him in the heart, kidneys and larynx. Now the hunt started on the fugitive murderer, but at first only the empty shelters were found by the officers. The poacher, who is only 164 centimeters tall according to the profile, but armed with a double rifle always loaded, came over the winter again.

On April 1, 1878, after a tip-off, two gendarmes were able to arrest the wanted man in the barn of farmer Rauscher in Brauchsdorf near Kirchberg in front of the forest . Sattler immediately shot out of the barn and hit gendarme Sebastian Schütz in the neck with five “deer posts” (prohibited shotgun shot). After reinforcements arrived from Otterskirchen , Schütz was pulled with a rope to the nearby house, where he died at ten o'clock at night. A good two dozen men surrounded the house and engaged in a firefight with Sattler. At dawn on April 2, 1878, Sattler was found dead in the barn with a shot in the throat. He was buried on the cemetery wall outside the consecrated cemetery of Heining .

aftermath

Since 1946 a memorial service has been held in the parish church of St. Michael in Otterskirchen to commemorate the gendarme Sebastian Schütz who was murdered by the poacher Josef Sattler. The police from Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate commemorate all police officers who died on duty.

literature

  • Alfred Schwarzmaier: The saddler Sepp von Deichselberg. About the life and death of the most notorious poacher in our Lower Bavarian homeland. Attenkofer, Straubing 2015, ISBN 978-3-942742-60-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The murder shooter Sattler Sepp . In: Deggendorfer Zeitung . August 15, 2015. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Josef Sattler - REGIOWIKI . In: Wikiporno pnp.de . Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Life and death of the notorious poacher Josef Sattler (1830–1878) . In: gemeinde-tiefenbach.de . Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ Policeman - a profession that can be fatal . In: pnp.de . February 20, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Sattler, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sattler, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedernhart near Tiefenbach
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1878
Place of death Custom village near Tiefenbach