Ludwig Pfister

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Ludwig Aloys Pfister (* around 1769 ; † December 29, 1829 in Mannheim ) was the grand ducal city director in Heidelberg and became known as a criminalist .

Life

Dr. jur. Ludwig Pfister worked in Schwetzingen towards the end of the 18th century . In 1792 he became a cantonal count and later bailiff. In 1807 he became senior councilor in Schwetzingen and in 1810 city director in Heidelberg. In 1814 he was also appointed city director to Freiburg im Breisgau , where he moved on September 24, 1814. A year later, however, he was called back to Heidelberg. In 1820 he became a grand ducal secret councilor of Baden. He died at the age of 60.

According to Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, Pfister lived in Darmstadt .

Act

Rottmann's depiction of the blood court over the Holzlipsbande

The Heidelberg city director became known through his extensive investigations and arrests after the attack on a stagecoach near Hemsbach an der Bergstrasse in the spring of 1811 by the Hölzerlipsbande as well as through his litigation and the execution of the criminals. He designed the execution of the four main perpetrators of the attack - including Mannefriedrich - at the gates of Heidelberg as a sensational mass event, which Friedrich Rottmann captured in two pictures. Pfister wrote several books about his criminal investigations and the robber gangs of his time. The “file-like history of the robber gangs on the two banks of the Main and in the Odenwald” comprised almost 250 pages and was supplemented by an equally extensive addendum. One of the purposes of his writings was to “inform the public of the procedures of these robbers, to identify the members of the gang that were still free, thereby to facilitate their by-catch and thus to increase public safety”. Pfister's works are interesting today in terms of criminal history. According to Michael Heinz and Hans-Olaf Richter, his remarks “partly still meet today's standards”. Pfister's works, especially the “Strange Criminal Cases”, were provided with large drawings to illustrate the location of the traces and bear witness to the investigative work and conduct of investigations in the early 19th century.

Josef K. von Train certified Pfister to have written "the best and most detailed that we have ever had about the Yenish language ".

Works

  • Record-based history of the robber gangs on both banks of the Main, in the Spessart and in the Oldenwalde, along with a collection and interpretation of several words from the Yenish or crooks language
  • Addendum to the record-based history of the robber gangs on both banks of the Main, in the Spessart and in the Odenwalde. Also contains the story of the further arrest, condemnation and execution of the murderers of the merchant Jacob Rieder von Winterthur , (Gottlieb Braun), Heidelberg 1812
  • Strange criminal cases with special regard to the conduct of the investigation , Frankfurt a. M. 1814-1820

literature

  • Dieter Preuss, Peter Dietrich: Wooden briefs. On the poetic life of the Odenwald robber captain , Ravensburg 1983, ISBN 3-473-38848-3
  • Michail Krausnick , occupation: robber. On the crimes of the robber gangs of the Hölzerlips and Mannefriedrich in the Spessart and Odenwald and their terrible end in Heidelberg , Wellhöfer 2009, ISBN 978-3-939540-38-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Peter Becker, Verderbnis und Entartung , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-35172-7 , p. 213
  2. ^ Friedrich Christoph Karl Schunck, Yearbooks of the Entire German Legal Literature , Volume 14, 1829, p. 224
  3. ↑ http://www.schule-bw.de/unterricht/faecheruebergreifende_themen/landeskunde/modelle/epochen/neuzeit/absolutismus/schwetzingen/d3.pdf
  4. ↑ General German Realencyclopaedie for the educated classes , Volume 8, Leipzig 1819, p. 450
  5. ↑ Ludwig Pfister, Strange Criminal Cases with Special Consideration for the Conduct of the Investigation , Vol. 2, Frankfurt 1816, p. 356
  6. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Seventh Volume, Second Part, 1829, p. 981
  7. ↑ Cyrille Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli, Organized Crime in Europe: Concepts, patterns and control policies in the European Union and beyond (Studies of Organized Crime) , Springer Netherlands 2004, ISBN 978-1-4020-2615-7 , p. 111
  8. ↑ http://www.zum.de/Faecher/G/BW/Landeskunde/rhein/hd/km/kdm/juli03b.htm
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mespelbrunner-spessartraeuber.de
  10. ↑ http://germanistory.worteinrichtungen.de/wiss/raeuber.htm
  11. ^ Josef K. von Train, Chochemer delete. Dictionary of crooks and thieves, commonly known as the Yenish language , Meißen 1833, p
personal data
SURNAME Pfister, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfister, Ludwig Aloys (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminalist and Heidelberg city director
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1829
Place of death Mannheim