Karl Rudolf Hennig

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Wanted poster from March 12, 1906

Karl Rudolf Hennig (born October 30, 1874 in Berlin , † December 7, 1906 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a robbery. The deed and the escape of Hennig was filmed. This film adaptation led to the introduction of pre-censorship for films in the German Reich .

Life

Hennig, the son of a master craftsman, started an apprenticeship as a leather worker after attending primary school. On December 9, 1905, the body of the 21-year-old former waiter Giernoth was found near a road to the Wannsee, he was killed with two head shots. The investigation quickly revealed that the last person to see the victim alive was Hennig. Hennig was then the investigation advertised and a fact sheet produced.

On February 6, 1906, a detective met Hennig on Schönhauser Allee in Berlin , who was known to be in contact with women there. Hennig was able to avoid arrest by knocking the officer down with a pistol in front of the door of a police station. The police officers in the station followed suit and surrounded a house that Hennig had fled to. The wanted man escaped over the roof into a neighboring house. As a result, Hennig's apartment was found and searched, as well as a nearby allotment garden colony and the area around Schönfelder Allee and Kopernikusstrasse . Only papers of the murdered man were found in Hennig's apartment. As a result, two people who were mistakenly mistaken for Hennig were arrested. Hennig offered the Berliner Lokalanzeiger his life story for sale. He pretended to accept the offer and offered 1700  M , but the police were actually informed. Hennig left the handover location because he had suspected something. As a result, the reward for the capture of Karl Rudolf Hennig was increased from the original 500 to 3000M.

On March 15, 1906, a man observed a bicycle theft by Hennig in Stettin and pursued the thief. Hennig ran into the arms of a police officer who arrested him. The trial against Hennig took place on April 30th and May 1st, 1906, the death penalty was recognized and Karl Rudolf Hennig was beheaded on December 7th, 1906 with an ax .

Filming and introduction of pre-censorship

Hennig's escape was filmed in 1906 under the direction of Gustav Schönwald under the title The flight and persecution of the robbery murderer Rudolf Hennig over the roofs of Berlin . This film was initially successful, on April 13 the police chief of Berlin banned the showing on the grounds that the film denigrated the police and intervened in an ongoing procedure. On April 18, 1906, this ban was lifted again. On May 5, 1906, a police ordinance was issued , according to which every film that was shown in Berlin must first be checked by the police. Previously there was post-censorship, i.e. H. After the film started, police officers could ban films, but not before it started.

As a result, similar ordinances were issued in most of the other countries of the empire.

Other literary mentions

In 1920 Kurt Tucholsky called another fictional book title “My last lust murder. By robbery murderer Hennig ”and mentioned elsewhere that Hennig had achieved amazing things in high-altitude gymnastics .

Christian Morgenstern opposed the death penalty for Hennig and wrote "Peace in his memory".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the pursuit of the robbery . In: Vossische Zeitung, February 7, 1906. Further reports can be found under the same collection of texts.
  2. ↑ IMDb
  3. ^ Sources on film history 1906-1920: Article on the history of film censorship , www.kinematographie.de
  4. ^ As "Ignaz Wrobel": The political fig leaf . In: Tucholsky, Complete Edition (Note 2), Vol. 4: Texts 1920, ed. by Bärbel Boldt, Gisela Enzmann-Kraiker and Christian Jäger, Reinbek 1996, pp. 231–233, p. 232.
  5. ^ Also as "Ignaz Wrobel", On theft: Death penalty -! , in: Kurt Tucholsky, Complete Edition. Texts and letters, ed. by Antje Bonitz, Dirk Grathoff, Michael Hepp and Gerhard Kraiker, Vol. 5: Texts 1921–1922, ed. by Roland and Elfriede Links, Reinbek 1999, pp. 84-88, pp. 84f.
  6. ^ The case of the robbery murderer Hennig on christian-morgenstern.de

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personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Karl Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennig, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German robbery
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1906
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee