Moritz Brand
Moritz Brand (born April 5, 1844 in Pfaffroda , † May 5, 1927 in Oederan ) was a Saxon state executioner .
Brand came from a Saxon executioner dynasty. He lived in Neuhohelinde near Oederan . The Oederan Local History Museum has numerous exhibits that are reminiscent of Moritz Brand.
Probably the best-known delinquent who executed Brand was Grete Beier . The execution carried out in Freiberg on July 23, 1908 with the guillotine caused an unusual stir. This was not least due to the fact that the Saxon King Friedrich August III. had refused the pardon .
Brand was the last Saxon state executioner, but not the last executioner to execute in Saxony. He had taken over the office from his younger brother Otto Oswald Brand, who died in an accident in 1885. Moritz Brand executed 104 people, 57 of them in Saxony. He carried out other executions in the Grand Duchy of Hesse .
After Brand's death, the Saxon and Thuringian justice ministries decided to commission the Magdeburg executioners Alwin Engelhardt and Carl Gröpler with upcoming executions if necessary .
literature
- Gotthold Leistner: Saxony and the guillotine. A contribution to the story of a killing monster . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 48th vol. (2002), pp. 130–149.
- Eckhard G. Franz: Darmstädter Calendar - dates for the history of our city , 1994, p. 149.
- Archive for history and Hessian antiquity, 1999, p. 515.
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brand, Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon state executioner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pfaffroda |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1927 |
| Place of death | Oederan |