Police murder in Holzminden
In the police murder of Holzminden on October 12, 1991, two officers from the Lower Saxony police were shot in a forest parking lot in Solling near Boffzen . After an extensive manhunt , the two perpetrators were arrested four days later. The murder of the two police officers and the lengthy trial caused a nationwide sensation.
Sequence of events
On October 12, 1991 at 2:29 a.m., the police in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, received a call from the emergency number at the Rottmündal forest car park on Landesstrasse 549 between Neuhaus im Solling and Boffzen :
"Uh well, Meier my name. I have, uh, a wildlife accident. Could you send someone over? Nobody injured, is just a little on the bumper. "
For the police officer who answered the call, the operation looked like a minor matter. He notified his colleague in Holzminden , Lower Saxony , because the alleged wildlife accident was their area of responsibility.
The two police chiefs Andreas Wilkending from Holzminden and Jörg Lorkowski from Lüchtringen , who had just driven a car driver to the hospital for a blood alcohol test, received the report a few minutes later; They drove their civilian patrol car , a chestnut-red VW Passat limousine, to the remote parking lot. Contact with the officers ended there.
About one and a half hours after the last contact, the concerned head of operations ordered another patrol car to the forest parking lot. At first the patrolmen did not find any trace of their colleagues there; When they illuminated the area, they found traces of blood, tooth and bone fragments, tissue traces and cartridge cases of the caliber 7.62 × 51 mm .
Around 10 a.m. on the same day, a hunter found the police car of the murdered burned out and with numerous bullet holes on the Senne military training area . The two policemen disappeared; one of the largest search operations in German post-war history began: up to 6,000 people from three federal states were looking for it; Divers searched the Weser near the crime scene.
Investigation and arrest
In addition to the normal search by the police, a telephone number was set up on which the call from "Mr. Meier" could be tapped. The telephone announcement prepared by the forensic institute of the Federal Criminal Police Office brought hundreds of tips from the population. A resident in the neighborhood of the perpetrators recognized the voice; the offered reward of 50,000 DM could not persuade him to inform the police due to security concerns. Most of the concurring information on the basis of the sound recording came from prisoners and prison officers of the Bielefeld-Brackwede correctional facility . They identified the caller as Dietmar Jüschke, then 29, who a few weeks earlier had been released from a ten-month prison sentence for good conduct.
Four days after the crime, on October 16, 1991 at around 9:30 p.m., a special task force of the Bielefeld police stormed a house in Bredenborn in the Höxter district where Dietmar Jüschke and his two brothers were staying. While Dietmar and the youngest of the three brothers, Ludwig, were overwhelmed without any problems, Manfred tried to take his own life by stabbing himself twice in the chest with a hunting knife and twice in the neck with a fixed boot knife.
Several types of ammunition, two submachine guns and the G3 assault rifle (212252 Bw1 / 63) including a telescopic sight were found in a cavity under the attic of the house .
About a week after the crime, Dietmar made a confession . His 25-year-old brother Ludwig had previously incriminated him in a confession. On the night of October 18, Dietmar Jüschke led the police to the hiding place in a forest in the northeast of the Senne military training area , where the bodies of the two police officers were buried at the beginning of a thickly overgrown coniferous tree protection. Immediately after their arrival in the parking lot, the two were murdered from a distance of less than seven meters with 13 shots with the G3 assault rifle. They each left a wife and two children.
The police officers' service weapons and large quantities of ammunition were later found in an earth depot near the home.
Legal proceedings and investigations into previous crimes
Legal proceedings
The case came before the jury chamber of the Hildesheim regional court for hearing. The trial spanned 180 days, during which the six defense lawyers called almost 100 police officers involved in the arrest of the perpetrators to the stand. The costs of the process are said to have amounted to over one million DM. In the process, Manfred heavily incriminated his older brother Dietmar as the main perpetrator, while Ludwig got caught up in contradictions and it was later no longer possible to prove that he was involved.
About two and a half years after the trial opened, the verdict was announced on February 21, 1995. The main defendant Dietmar Jüschke was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder . In addition, the court determined that the guilt was particularly serious and ordered a subsequent preventive detention. The perpetrator's motive was “general hatred of the police”. In 2010, the Penal Enforcement Chamber of the Lüneburg Regional Court , based in Celle, set the minimum serving time at 25 years. In 2016 it became known that Dietmar Jüschke was incarcerated in the Rosdorf prison.
Manfred Jüschke was sentenced to ten years in prison for aiding and abetting murder and aiding and abetting robbery .
Ludwig Jüschke was acquitted of the allegation of aiding and abetting murder for lack of evidence, but received a two-year suspended sentence for his involvement in the attack on the Bundeswehr barracks for aiding and abetting serious robbery .
As part of the investigation against the brothers, further crimes could be cleared up, some of which were related to the murder of the police officers. For example, ammunition was stolen during a break-in and the murder weapon was stolen during an attack.
Manfred Jüschke and Ludwig Jüschke now live under new names in the Höxter district.
More recent information about the crime
In 2016, a police officer who was investigating at the time and is now retired, commented on the case. He considers the public presentation of the crime to be wrong, since, in his opinion, the motive for the crime was not the “general hatred of police officers” that was widespread in the media. According to his knowledge, which is based on the interrogations of his younger brother Ludwig, Dietmar Jüschke developed hatred against a certain police officer who had investigated him for a number of criminal offenses and who had harassed him. Dietmar Jüschke had the plan to take revenge on him. The model for this was the television series Das A-Team . The ambush served to steal a service weapon in order to make the planned murder of the police officer appear to be suicide. This view of the background to the crime is not shared by those involved from the judiciary and authorities at the time.
Previous offenses on military facilities
Burglary into an ammunition depot in the Rommel barracks in Augustdorf 1986
The brothers were also charged with an attack on the Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne (Augustdorf) on Sunday, December 21, 1986. There they gained access to an ammunition depot and stole two wooden boxes with a total of 3600 rounds of ammunition, including 800 rounds of rifle ammunition caliber 7.62 × 51 mm and 2500 rounds of DM11 9 × 19 mm cartridges for submachine guns.
Theft at the Senne military training area in 1987
On Sunday, April 5, 1987, soldiers of a Dutch tank company who were in the bivouac were attacked at the Senne military training area used by British soldiers . In a ten-man tent, the nearby Uzi submachine gun was stolen from a sleeping soldier . In a parked military jeep, the perpetrators also stole two duffel bags with various items of equipment, including the steel helmet of the Dutch soldier Hamersma.
Robbery on a Bundeswehr patrol in the Rommel barracks in Augustdorf in 1987
On Sunday, April 19, 1987, two Bundeswehr soldiers were on patrol near the site administration (StOV) in Augustdorf. At 2 a.m. two perpetrators broke into the military area and lay in wait for the two patrols at the transition between the site administration and the barracks area. There was a firefight in which the two perpetrators also used an Uzi type submachine gun. Despite targeted shots by the guards, the two perpetrators were able to escape. When comparing the projectiles in 1988, it was found that the same Uzi was fired during the attack on the Yorck barracks.
Attack on the Yorck barracks in Stadtoldendorf in 1988
The murder weapon was captured in the nightly attack on Sunday, May 15, 1988, on a Bundeswehr patrol in the Yorck barracks in Stadtoldendorf . A metal fence was cut, a guard knocked down with a club and then his service weapon was snatched from him. The second guard of the 15 Panzer Artillery Battalion fired a warning shot, whereupon the perpetrators fired back with an Uzi type submachine gun. This led to further investigations into previous crimes at military bases, in which in one case the Uzi submachine gun used was also fired at soldiers in April 1987.
The Kripo Holzminden and Kripo Detmold under the direction of chief detective Udo Golabeck investigated and the ZDF television program Aktenzeichen XY… unsolved showed the criminal case on February 10, 1989. A claim of 5000 DM for clues about the apprehension of the perpetrators did not lead to any success.
Conflict between the brothers
In June 2003 Dietmar, who was in prison, sued the youngest brother Ludwig for the compulsory portion from the father's estate . Dietmar Jüschke was disinherited from his father after his act . As Manfred voluntarily renounced his inheritance ( Erbausschlagung ), was Ludwig sole heir . The Paderborn Regional Court upheld the lawsuit.
Remembrance for the victims
A memorial stone was set up at the crime scene to commemorate the two victims. In the Holzminden police building, a stone plaque commemorates what happened and the officers killed. On the 25th anniversary of the crime in 2016, police and family members of the two murdered police officers in Holzminden celebrated their murdered colleagues and relatives with a private celebration. On the day of national mourning in 2019, strangers smeared the memorial stone with white paint.
literature
- NDR (Ed.): On the trail of crime: The most spectacular criminal cases in Lower Saxony , Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft 2006, ISBN 3-89993-717-1
Web links
- 25 years ago: Fatal ambush in Solling with audio The “emergency call” by Dietmar J. on ndr.de on October 12, 2016
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 12 ″ N , 9 ° 24 ′ 52 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gisela Friedrichsen : Guden Tach, Meier mein Name ... Spiegel, August 31, 1992, accessed on October 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Corsipo with data on the police officers. In: corsipo.de. Retrieved March 15, 2012 .
- ↑ CRIME: What the voice reveals. In: focus.de. Retrieved March 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Kathrin Pagendarm: On the trail of crime: The most spectacular criminal cases in Lower Saxony, page 146, ISBN 3-89993-717-1
- ↑ Zombies . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1992, pp. 87 ( Online - Aug. 31, 1992 ).
- ↑ Heinrich Thies: Police murder process. The image of the three dissimilar brothers takes shape: no one gives the other a glance. In: Zeit issue 42/1992. Retrieved March 15, 2012 .
- ↑ 100 trial days of puppet theater. The trial of the police murders in Holzminden turns into a farce. In: focus.de. Retrieved March 15, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Police murder 25 years ago: A detective looks back in: Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung of October 8, 2016
- ↑ The third did not have to die in Schaumburger Nachrichten of October 11, 2016
- ↑ "It is an event that you will not forget for a lifetime" - double murder of Holzminden police officers 25 years ago ( memento of the original from October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at einbeck-news from October 5, 2016
- ↑ Police murder 25 years ago: memorial event and wreath-laying ceremony at the crime scene ( memento of the original from October 12, 2016 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. at einbeck-news from October 12, 2016
- ↑ POL-HOL: Holzminden / Boffzen police murder not forgotten even after 25 years - officials of the Holzminden Police Department commemorate their colleagues who were murdered 25 years ago. Press release of the Hameln-Pyrmont / Holzminden police station on October 12, 2016. Accessed on June 7, 2017.
- ↑ Unidentified people smear the memorial stone for murdered police officers in Dewezet on November 19, 2019
