Ludwig Hilberg

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Ludwig Hilberg (born around 1840 in Ockershausen (?); Died October 14, 1864 in Marburg ) from Ockershausen near Marburg in the Electorate of Hesse was a German shoemaker and the penultimate offender publicly executed in Germany.

Rabenstein Marburg execution site

The penultimate public execution took place near Marburg on October 14, 1864. The last one took place in Greiz on October 21, 1864 . Hilberg was convicted of the murder of his lover, a 24-year-old day laborer, on September 9, 1861. Hilberg was also 24 years old. On June 27, 1864, the guilty verdict and the verdict for the beheading of Hilberg took place. Hilberg cut the throat of his beloved Dorothea Wiegand, who was pregnant through him. He refused to marry her. The body was found three days later with numerous knife wounds on the southern slope of the Dammelsberg , which belongs to the Marburg Ridge . After the verdict, he confessed to having committed the murder and that he did not intend to marry Dorothea Wiegand, because she was mocked in the place because of her state of mind as the "Hinkel", nor did he want to bear the social consequences as the father of an illegitimate child would have arisen. The killing oak at the scene of the crime is a reminder of this crime. There, however, the date “9/12/1861” is on a sign attached to the oak. It is probably the date on which the corpse Dorothea Wiegand was found by the " forester " Lorenz Reinhardt. According to Matthias Blazek, that was three days after the crime. The event went into the collective memory of Marburg, which u. a. the murder oak testifies.

Hilberg was executed by beheading by the sword on October 14, 1864 in front of a large audience at the Rabenstein in Marburg. There is also a memorial plaque for this, which reads: Old sword erection site Rabenstein Last execution October 14, 1864 . The execution took place according to the stipulations of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina .

It should be noted that the death penalty (Art. 21) was only deleted from the state constitution of Hesse in 2018. It is the last state constitution within the Federal Republic that deleted this passage.

The murder was in turn a template for a crime novel by Christina Bacher under the title: Hinkel's murder . She also wrote a short story under the title: The Last Rabensteiner , where this case found literary processing.

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  1. Jump up ↑ Frank Esche and Wolfgang Krüger: Thuringian Murderers: Women's fates between love and the scaffold; 1859-1938 , Kirschschlager Verlag, Arnstadt 2009, p. 60.
  2. ↑ https://hansenhausgemeinde.de/rabenstein/
  3. Jump up ↑ Frank Esche and Wolfgang Krüger: Thuringian Murderers: Women's fates between love and the scaffold; 1859-1938 , Kirschschlager Verlag, Arnstadt 2009, p. 60 note 18.
  4. ↑ https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4R7WP_rabenstein?guid=a5325855-9380-4051-9ce8-012ae11c1888
  5. ↑ http://www.suehnekreuze.eu/html/body_marburg.html
  6. ^ Hesse state election 2018
  7. ↑ https://gefaengnisseelsorge.net/todesstrafe
  8. ↑ Christina Bacher: Hinkels Mord , KBV, Hillesheim 2020. ISBN 978-3-95441-522-9
  9. ↑ Christina Bacher: The Last Rabensteiner In: Limitless Determination, Solo Gemeiner No. 5, 23 Rätsel-Krimis, Messkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3-8392-1452-7
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SURNAME Hilberg, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shoemaker and the penultimate offender publicly executed in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH around 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Ockershausen
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1864
Place of death Marburg