Paul Ogorzov

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Paul Ogorzow (born September 29, 1912 in Muntowen , Sensburg district , † July 25, 1941 in Berlin-Plötzensee , executed by guillotine ) was a German serial criminal and was best known as a Berlin S-Bahn murderer . The nearly two-year investigation Ogorzows crime series with a total of 32  Notzuchtverbrechen , eight murders and six attempted murders represent one of the largest manhunts is across the Berlin criminal history.

Private and professional life

Ogorzow, an employee of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , was an auxiliary switch attendant at the Rummelsburg depot . He was considered ambitious and conscientious, had a good marriage, and was the father of two children. He was perceived as a kind and loving family man who liked to play with the railroad, grow fruits and vegetables in his garden and was a valued neighbor. Paul Ogorzow was seen as a completely normal citizen who no one trusted to lead a double life or even to be a murderer of women. A former neighbor of Ogorzow in Berlin-Karlshorst said:

"I would have gone with him too, I knew, not - without further ado. I saw him as a completely normal citizen, as a father with two children, very nice and kind to his family. That's how I perceived him.

And then I know another story that my father just turned on the poster and he was standing next to him and my father said like this: 'You put on a poster and then maybe he lives here', that he then says: ' They can be right. '"

- Ingeborg Heidenreich
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Another picture of Ogorzov's person, which ultimately led to his capture, was painted by a former work colleague (p.). In his eyes, Ogortsov was reluctant to carry out his activities. Ogorzow also said that he did not always perform the route inspection services assigned to him, but instead drove around privately. He seemed to him like someone who might have committed an atrocity in the occupied territories and therefore now had to work in Rummelsburg.

The sexual violence

Between 1939 and 1941 he assaulted 31 women in Berlin, raped them and murdered eight of them between October 4, 1940 and July 2, 1941. Of his eight victims, he threw five out of the moving S-Bahn in the Rummelsburg - Rahnsdorf section , while Ogorzow killed the other women in an arbor colony near the S-Bahn line. Before that, he had been responsible for six murder attempts on August 13, 1939. He also confessed to about 20 cases of attempted and completed rape .

He made use of the general darkening obligation imposed in Berlin during the Second World War to protect against bombing attacks . In train uniform, he sat down with unsuspecting passengers in otherwise empty S-Bahn compartments. Seven women fell victim to him on the S-Bahn at night; He knocked them down with a heavy lead cable, then attacked them and then threw them off the moving train. Two of the victims survived seriously injured and were able to provide initial information about the perpetrator. In particular, they remembered that the perpetrator was wearing a uniform. Although the victims could not provide any more detailed information about the type of uniform, this was still an important indication, as the search could now concentrate on perpetrators in the area of ​​railway employees.

In a Laubenviertel near the S-Bahn, Ogorzow lay in wait for seven other victims, four of whom survived seriously injured.

Arrest and confession

Paul Ogorzow, NSDAP member and SA-Scharführer , was determined by the Berlin police as a moral criminal and arrested on July 17, 1941 at the Rummelsburg depot .

He cited hatred of women and a fascination with killing as reasons for his killing. In order to avoid his execution , he claimed that he had been treated incorrectly by a Jewish doctor for a venereal disease. Among other things, his handwritten confession reads:

“The crimes that I have committed and that have also been recorded are all to be found in this unhealed disease. I regretfully acknowledge that I was not allowed to do it. But an instinct arose in me and in the act I suddenly became numb because of the unhealed illness. I ask for placement in a [sic] mental hospital .

Pg. Paul Ogorzow "

In the criminal investigation summary of the case of July 17, 1940, the motives mentioned were an excessive sex drive , sexual stimulus in the victims' resistance and general hatred of women because he had contracted sexually transmitted diseases from them two or three times .

Condemnation

Ogorzow was on 24 July 1941 by a special court in summary proceedings as violent criminals and antisocial parasites sentenced to death and the criminal prison Berlin-Plötzensee on 25 July 1941 by guillotine executed.

The search for Ogorzow was a success for Reich Criminal Director Arthur Nebe and the Berlin Criminal Police Office .

Ogortsov's victim

According to entries in the morgue's archive books, Ogortsov's murder victims were:

  • Gerda Ditter (20 years; * July 27, 1920; † October 4, 1940)
  • Elfriede Franke (26 years; * July 27, 1914; † December 3, 1940)
  • Irmgard Freese (19 years; * April 13, 1921; † December 4, 1940)
  • Elisabeth Büngener (30 years; * October 25, 1910; † December 22, 1940)
  • Gertrud Siewert (46 years; * January 29, 1894; † December 29, 1940)
  • Hedwig Ebauer (27 years; * July 16, 1913; † January 5, 1941)
  • Johanna Voigt (38 years; * April 13, 1902; † February 12, 1941)
  • Frieda Koziol (34 years; * July 15, 1906; † July 1 or 2, 1941)

Gerda Ditter, Irmgard Freese and Frieda Koziol were killed in the arbor colony, Elfriede Franke, Elisabeth Büngener, Gertrud Siewert, Hedwig Ebauer and Johanna Voigt were killed with a lead cable and thrown from the moving S-Bahn.

literature

  • Axel Alt : Death was on the train . Retold the files of the criminal police. Hermann Hillger publishing house, Berlin-Grunewald and Leipzig 1944.
  • Horst Bosetzky : Like an animal. The S-Bahn killer . Documentary novel. Argon Verlag 1995 / Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-20021-9 .
  • A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer , Scott Andrew Selby, Berkley Books, 2014.
  • Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, Roger Moorhouse, Bodley Head, 2010.

Cinematic reception

  • In 1974, directed by Peter Schulze-Rohr, a documentary was produced with the title Darkening - The Railway Murderer, which was broadcast on May 31, 1976; In addition to Rudolf Brand, who played the main actor, many Berlin actors such as Joachim Kemmer , Eva-Maria Werth (as Ogorzow's wife) and Claus Jurichs were seen.
  • In 2012, the TV documentary Tatort Berlin - Der S-Bahnmorder von Rummelsburg , by Gabi Schlag and Benno Wenz was created on behalf of the RBB .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gabi Schlag, Benno Wenz: Tatort Berlin - Der S-Bahnmorder von Rummelsburg , TV documentary, RBB, 2012.
  2. ↑ Ronald Rathert: Crimes and Conspiracies: Arthur Nebe - Der Kripochef des Third Reiches , Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5353-5 , p. 86.
  3. ↑ Gunther Geserick, Klaus Vendura, Ingo Wirth: contemporary witness death. Spectacular cases in Berlin forensic medicine , Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 978-3-86189-628-9 , pp. 73f.
  4. ↑ Gunther Geserick, Klaus Vendura, Ingo Wirth: contemporary witness death. Spectacular cases in Berlin forensic medicine , Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 978-3-86189-628-9 , p. 83.
  5. ↑ Cf. Barbara Korte, Sylvia Paletschek (ed.): Geschichte im Krimi: Contributions from the cultural studies , Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20253-8 , p. 126.
  6. ↑ International Archives for the Social History of German Literature , Max Niemeyer Verlag , Tübingen 2003, p. 195.
  7. ↑ Gunther Geserick, Klaus Vendura, Ingo Wirth: contemporary witness death. Spectacular cases in Berlin forensic medicine , Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 978-3-86189-628-9 , p. 69, p. 75.
  8. ^ Ingo Wirth, Hansjürg Strauch, Klaus Vendura: The Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin 1833-2003 , Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-82671-238-8 , p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Ogortsov, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES S-Bahn murderer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Muntowen, Sensburg district
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1941
Place of death Berlin-Plötzensee