Joseph Apfelböck

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Joseph Apfelböck (* 1903 in Munich ; † around 1985 there) was a German murderer.

Life

Apfelböck achieved notoriety in post-revolutionary Munich in 1919 because, at the age of 16, he killed his father and mother with a small-caliber pistol, apparently without motive, and lived for three weeks with his dead parents in the apartment in the Haidhausen district. The act shocked the public because it was carried out unsigned and with no subsequent regrets. The young Bertolt Brecht wrote in the wake of the events his ballad Apfelböck or the lily of the field (1927 in the Hauspostille added) and processed the story in the same year in the narrative Enlightenment. In contrast to the actual occurrences, however, Brecht changes a few facts: The protagonist is made Jacob and a few years younger. He also lets Apfelböck kill his parents. Despite these variations, the ballad and narrative reflect the dismay at the case. In the course of the court hearing, the juvenile perpetrator was shown to be greed as a motive, but this turns out to be very inadequate due to the files. Joseph Apfelböck was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He served 13 years in Landsberg am Lech , where Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley and Adolf Hitler were imprisoned before he was released in 1932 for follow-up care in Lichtenau in Franconia . From then on he lived in Munich , pursued simple jobs and had two children.

The Apfelböck case concerned the public tremendously, which was expressed in the press of the time, but also in Brecht's literary interpretation. Most recently, an exhibition was devoted to the topic of Apfelböck or Über das Killing , which took place in the same building on Lothringer Strasse where the crime had been committed 84 years earlier ( lothringer13 , 2003). The comprehensive documentation that emerged from this not only gathers the facts about the crime, but also gathers the public reactions.

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SURNAME Apfelböck, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German murderer
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH around 1985
Place of death Munich