Marianne Bachmeier

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Marianne brook Meier (* 3. June 1950 in Sarstedt ; † 17th September 1996 in Luebeck ) committed in 1981 in a hall of the District Court Lübeck vigilantism and shot the suspected murderer of her daughter Anna Bach Meier. She was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in 1983 for manslaughter and illicit gun possession.

Life

Youth and family

Marianne Bachmeier grew up in Sarstedt near Hildesheim , where her parents had fled from East Prussia . The couple later separated and the mother remarried.

Marianne Bachmeier became a mother at the age of 16 and pregnant again at the age of 18 by her partner at the time. Shortly before giving birth to her second daughter, she was raped . She gave up her first two children for adoption shortly after they were born . Their third daughter, Anna, was born in 1973 and grew up with her. Marianne Bachmeier ran the trendy Tipasa pub in Lübeck .

Murder of the daughter

On May 5, 1980, Anna Bachmeier, then seven years old, did not go to school with her mother's permission. She wanted to visit a friend of the same age and fell into the hands of 35-year-old butcher Klaus Grabowski. He is said to have held her at home for several hours and then strangled her with pantyhose. According to the prosecutor , he packed the girl's handcuffed body in a cardboard box and deposited it in a hollow on the bank of a canal. Later he is said to have put the body in a hole and covered it with earth. In the evening he was arrested in the restaurant Im alten Zolln after he revealed himself to his girlfriend, who then went to the police.

Klaus Grabowski was a convicted sex offender convicted of sexually abusing two girls. While in custody, he was neutered in 1976 , but two years later underwent hormonal treatment . Marianne Bachmeier and Anna's biological father Christian Berthold later filed an unsuccessful criminal complaint against the urologist, who had carried out the hormone treatment on Grabowski and thus, in their opinion, restored his dangerousness.

During the police interrogation, Grabowski confessed to killing the girl, but denied sexual abuse and claimed that the girl tried to extort a D-Mark from him with the threat of telling the mother that he had touched her immorally.

Vigilante justice in the courtroom

Marianne brook Meier smuggled on March 6, 1981, a gun of the type Beretta 70 caliber .22lr , in the courtroom of the Lübeck District Court and shot with it on the third day of the trial in the criminal trial to due murder accused to her daughter Anna Klaus Grabowski. She aimed the gun at Grabowski's back and pulled the trigger eight times. Seven of the shots hit; the 35-year-old Grabowski was dead immediately.

The most sensational case of vigilante justice in the Federal Republic to date triggered a great deal of media coverage and was discussed controversially in public. Television teams from all over the world traveled to Lübeck to report on the case. Reporters questioned numerous passers-by on the street. Part of the population showed understanding for the crime, others condemned it as incompatible with the rule of law. Marianne Bachmeier sold her life story for around 250,000 D-Marks exclusively to the news magazine Stern . She confided in the star reporter Heiko Gebhardt on which her during her detention was allowed to visit.

Her role as a mother was also controversial, since shortly before Anna's death she had intended to give the child to foster parents.

Manslaughter conviction

On November 2, 1982, Marianne Bachmeier was charged with murder before the jury chamber of the Lübeck Regional Court. The public prosecutor later dropped the murder allegation against Bachmeier. After 28 days of trial, on March 2, 1983, the sentence was six years imprisonment for manslaughter and illicit gun possession. After serving two-thirds of the sentence (taking into account pre-trial detention), the remainder of the sentence was suspended in 1985.

Moving abroad

Marianne Bachmeier married in 1985 and moved to Lagos , Nigeria with her husband, a teacher, in 1988 . There they lived in a German camp where their husband taught at the German school. She divorced him in 1990 and went to Sicily , where she cared for the dying in a hospice in the capital, Palermo . After learning that she had cancer , she returned to Germany.

Interviews

In 1994, 13 years after her act, she gave an interview on Deutschlandfunk . In the same year her autobiography was published by Schneekluth-Verlag .

On September 21, 1995, she appeared on the talk show Fliege im Erste . She admitted that after careful consideration she shot her daughter's alleged murderer in order to speak right about him and to prevent him from spreading further falsehoods about Anna.

death

The grave of Anna Bachmeier and her mother Marianne in Lübeck's Burgtorfriedhof in 2008

On September 17, 1996, Marianne Bachmeier died at the age of 46 from pancreatic cancer in a Lübeck hospital. It had actually been her wish to die in her adopted home of Palermo. Before her death, she asked the NDR reporter Lukas Maria Böhmer to accompany her with the film camera on the last phase of her life. She was buried in the grave of her daughter Anna at the Burgtorfriedhof in Lübeck. In 2014 or shortly before the grave site was leveled, but in 2017 it was given a new grave slab bearing the first names and dates of life of the mother and daughter.

Autobiography

Film adaptations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. spiegel.de: Without consideration for colleagues (accessed on May 9, 2015)
  2. Deutschlandfunk, calendar sheet: Vengeance in the courtroom , March 6, 2006
  3. Das Erste, The Great Criminal Cases : The Revenge of Marianne Bachmeier , April 17, 2006
  4. ^ Anniversary of Marianne Bachmeier's death. Archived from the original on February 22, 2015 ; accessed on March 5, 2021 .
  5. Photo of the grave on knerger.de