Rosemarie Nitribitt

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Rosemarie Nitribitt's grave in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery

Maria Rosalia Auguste "Rosemarie" Nitribitt (born February 1, 1933 in Düsseldorf , † probably October 29, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German prostitute who was murdered . The police investigation revealed that she had contact with important people. Since the murder case could not be solved, some media gave the impression that certain circles from business and politics were trying to prevent the investigation.

Nitribitt, who was known as a high-class prostitute in Frankfurt during her lifetime, achieved national fame after her death. Her life inspired a novel, several films, the musical Das Mädchen Rosemarie and plays. Non-fiction and film documentaries deal with the Nitribitt case.

Life

Rosemarie Nitribitt was already known during her lifetime, especially in Frankfurt am Main, and after her death numerous media reports appeared about her. However, there are only a few reliable findings about their lives.

Rosemarie, as she later called herself, was born out of wedlock. Rosemarie probably never met her father, a worker from Düsseldorf who later refused maintenance payments. Like her two half-sisters, she grew up in poor conditions with her mother in Ratingen and Düsseldorf. The mother had to serve several sentences. Rosemarie was sent to a children's home several times , where she was considered difficult to raise and ran away several times. In the end she was placed in a foster family in Niedermendig ; There, at the age of eleven, she was raped by an 18-year-old man from the neighborhood who was drafted into the Wehrmacht shortly afterwards . The crime was never disclosed to the authorities and the perpetrator was never brought to justice, although the village knew who it was.

As an adolescent, she earned her first living in prostitution. She later moved to Koblenz , then to Frankfurt am Main, where she - still a minor - worked as a waitress and mannequin , but soon again as a prostitute. She was picked up and again sent to a correctional home, from which she soon ran away again. From April 1952 to April 1953, Rosemarie Nitribitt sat in the "Rheinische Landes-Arbeitsanstalt Brauweiler" in the Brauweiler Abbey near Pulheim . Since she was considered a serious case, she was declared of age early (i.e., before age 21) so that she could be released.

She went to great lengths to hide her simple origins. In order not to attract attention in society through a lack of education and a lack of cosmopolitanism , she learned English, French and took courses on “good behavior”. In 1954, a suitor gave her an Opel Kapitän , an unusual possession for a woman in her early twenties at the time. Other suitors invited her on vacation to the Mediterranean. According to the personal records left behind and after research by the Frankfurt criminal police, Nitribitt earned an untaxed income of around DM 90,000 in the last year of her life  . As early as mid-1956, she acquired the famous black Mercedes-Benz 190 SL with red leather seats, with which she caused a great stir in Frankfurt and which became her trademark. The whereabouts of the Mercedes is unclear.

Assassination and burial

Apartment house Stiftstrasse 36 at Eschenheimer Tor , 2010

On November 1, 1957, Nitribitt was found dead in her apartment in Frankfurt am Main at Stiftstrasse 36 am Eschenheimer Turm with a laceration on her head and a choking mark on her neck . According to the autopsy , her death had occurred twenty to thirty hours earlier.

Nitribitt was buried in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf. Her skull was previously severed and held back by the Frankfurt public prosecutor as possible evidence. It was later given to the Frankfurt police as a teaching aid for commissioner training and exhibited in the Frankfurt Crime Museum. After 50 years, in December 2007, prosecutors released Nitribitt's skull. He was buried on February 10, 2008 in her grave in the north cemetery; Donors financed an extension of the useful life.

Investigations and rumors

The officers investigated a number of suspects, some of whom were prominent, including members of the Krupp family ( Harald von Bohlen and Halbach ), Harald Quandt , Ernst Wilhelm Sachs and his younger brother Gunter Sachs . On the other hand, rumors spread over and over again in film and television about Nitribitt's high-ranking customers from Bonn's political establishment, according to which, in addition to the then Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm , the future Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger was also on the list of prostitutes' visitors, based on the relevant witness statements and interrogation protocols do not prove.

Detective Inspector Alfred Kalk, who was involved in the case, said of the notebook in which Nitribitt recorded her contacts: “There were names in the book, but they were not from the big world of the powerful and the rich, they were ordinary citizens. The highest was a bank director from Bad Homburg . ”Nitribitt had written down a total of 60 names in her pocket diary from 1957. The owner of a grocery store in Munich was shadowed and interrogated several times in December 1958 because Nitribitt had noted his name together with the keywords “Düsseldorf” and “Munich” in the pocket calendar. In January 1959, the suspect was notified that the investigation against him had been terminated. He suffered a fatal heart attack twelve hours later.

Hardly explainable investigation mishaps of the Frankfurt criminal investigation fed the suspicion of a planned cover-up. Some files disappeared without a trace, the officials made numerous mistakes. For years and decades it has been speculated that explosive files and interrogation protocols had been deliberately removed to protect prominent clients and suspects from politics and business.

In 2013, however, archivists from the Frankfurt police came across the documents that were believed to be lost in their archives. The traces book and some selected documents were actively kept by the Frankfurt investigators until 1972 and then simply forgotten in the archive after the case was closed. With the files found, many of the conspiracy theories surrounding the case can be considered refuted. Parts of the 24-volume investigation files that were believed to have been lost for a long time are stored in the Frankfurt Police Archive. These include four volumes with interrogations, Rosemarie Nitribitt's notebook, further identification images of suspects, 19 love letters, postcards and poems by Harald von Bohlen and Halbach.

The repeated assertion that a tape recorder was found in Nitribitt's apartment that recorded the arrival of the last visitor can now be considered refuted. A Grundig tape recorder was found in the apartment, but it was last used to record records. The recording of voice recordings would not have been easily possible for technical reasons. At the end of the inserted tape there was actually a speech sequence that had obviously been recorded at an earlier point in time, against the direction of the other music recordings on the tape. The poor quality of the voice recording can be explained by the fact that the tape ran when the tape was first played by the Frankfurt police. If you play the speech sequence against the tape running of the music recordings, you can hear Nitribitt calling her dog to him.

Legal proceedings

The main suspect was a friend of Nitribitt, the then 34-year-old sales representative Heinz Christian Pohlmann († 1990 in Munich). He was charged, but acquitted in July 1960 for lack of evidence. Despite considerable doubts about the origin of the large amount of money that was in his possession immediately after the crime and was probably stolen from Nitribitt's apartment, it was not possible to determine with absolute certainty that Pohlmann was responsible for the murder, according to the verdict of the Frankfurt jury court .

Pohlmann's defense attorney Alfred Seidl - later the Bavarian Minister of the Interior - had questioned the time of death, which the police had assumed to be the afternoon of October 29, 1957, and was right. Among other things, the officers arriving at the scene had failed to measure the temperature of the corpse or the ambient temperature in Nitribitt's very warm, floor-heated apartment, according to the police report, which would have been essential for the exact determination of the time of death. There were also testimonies according to which Nitribitt was still running errands after the investigators suspected death (in the nearby Matthiae butcher's shop) and was seen on Grosse Eschenheimer Strasse . In the opinion of the jury, the accused had an alibi for this period. The public prosecutor's office decided against an appeal.

The documents from the legal proceedings are now in the Hessian Main State Archive in Wiesbaden.

reception

Novels, films and radio plays

Television documentaries

  • In 1986 the ARD broadcast the film report Die Nitribitt. One murder and many perpetrators , a production of the HR in the series Rück-Sichten . Direction and script: Samuel Schirmbeck . 8.07 million viewers saw the program (24% household quota).
  • In 2000, Helga Dierich's report Der Fall Rosemarie Nitribitt was broadcast in the series Die große Kriminalfälle by WDR . The film was also announced under the title Rosemarie Nitribitt - Death of a Whore .
  • In 2016 the television documentary Der Fall Nitribitt (44 min.) Appeared in the ZDFinfo series Scandal! Big affairs in Germany .

Stage works

Trivia

The contemporary vernacular joked about the name nitribitt , which is reminiscent of nitrite . For example, in the piece of gossip in the stairwell of the Ohnsorg Theater , a butcher is blasphemed that he puts “nitribitt” in the sausage (instead of “nitrite” in the sense of nitrite curing salt ).

The case of Helga Matura , another high-class prostitute who looked for customers in a Mercedes in Frankfurt and was murdered in 1966, shows similarities with the Nitribitt case . The Matura case was also never resolved.

The criminal case is still moving people today, which is why Frankfurt special city tours to Nitribitt are offered.

The business and apartment building in which Nitribitt lived at the end of her life and was also murdered has been a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act since November 2013 for historical reasons, among other things . In the justification for this, reference is expressly made to the crime and the building is referred to as the Nitribitt House .

literature

(Chronologically)

  • William Ernst Simmat: Prostitution and the public: Sociological considerations on the Nitribitt affair . Decker, forging near Stuttgart 1959.
  • Wendelin Leweke : Gretchen and Nitribitt. Frankfurt criminal cases . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-7973-0493-5 .
  • Martina Keiffenheim: Noble whore Nitribitt. Rosemarie from Mendig . Helios, Aachen 1998, ISBN 3-925087-85-0 .
  • Erich Kuby : The girl Rosemarie. Love, life and death of the call girl Rosemarie Nitribitt . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-26015-8 .
  • Helga Dierichs: Rosemarie Nitribitt - death of a whore . In: Helfried Spitra (ed.): The great criminal cases . Piper, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-492-23806-8 , pp. 36-59.
  • Christian Steiger: Rosemarie Nitribitt. Autopsy of a German scandal . Heel, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 3-89880-737-1 .
  • Dieter Wunderlich: Intrepid women. Eleven portraits . Piper Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-30267-8 , pp. 224-235.

Web links

Commons : Rosemarie Nitribitt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ death certificate 1177/1957 of the registry office I Frankfurt. In: arcinsys.de. November 12, 1957, accessed August 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Kirn: She could not have become more famous. In: FAZ.net . October 31, 2007, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Norbert F. Pötzl: Beitz. Heyne Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-641-06811-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Tanja Treser: The Nitribitt Files. In: Focus Online . September 25, 2013, p. 5 , accessed on August 16, 2016 : "Time of offense between October 28 and 31, 1957"
  5. ↑ Nina Jauker: The last picture of the "blond Rosi". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . dated October 31, 2007 (accessed October 23, 2009)
  6. ↑ Guido Golla: Rosemarie Nitribitt: Research and Theories. Books on Demand, 2014 ( book preview on Amazon ), p. 14.
  7. ↑ a b The death of a Lebedame General-Anzeiger , December 31, 1999.
  8. ↑ a b c d "Rosemarie Nitribitt - Death of a Whore" (actually: "The case of Rosemarie Nitribitt"), TV report of the WDR from the series The big criminal cases (2000)
  9. ↑ a b The eternal riddle of Rosemarie Nitribitt welt.de, October 29, 2007
  10. ^ Portrait on the 80th anniversary of the birth of Rosemarie Nitribitt wdr.de, February 1, 2013.
  11. ↑ Martina Keiffenheim: Noble whore Nitribitt. Rosemarie from Mendig . Pp. 121, 126.
  12. ↑ Phoenix: Scandal! The big affairs in Germany - The Nitribitt caseTV.ico.png
  13. ^ Christian Steiger: Rosemarie Nitribitt. Autopsy of a German scandal. P. 98.
  14. ↑ Photo: Nitribitt and Mercedes 190 SL
  15. ^ Christian Steiger: Rosemarie Nitribitt. Autopsy of a German scandal. P. 101.
  16. ↑ The Mercedes of Nitribitt ( Memento from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Formerly on wdr.de , from August 14, 2009
  17. ↑ Norbert Schneider: Das Mädchen Rosemarie , published in: 190 SL Revue , 1st quarter 2005 edition ( Memento from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.57 MB)
  18. ↑ Axel Petermann: The fascination of evil. The murder case of Rosemarie Nitribitt , archiv Nachrichten aus Hessen, 16/2 2016 ( Memento from February 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), pp. 65-69
  19. ↑ Nitribitt skull buried in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, February 12, 2008.
  20. ^ The Nitribitt Files , Focus, September 25, 2013
  21. ↑ Kristian Buchna (Univ. Augsburg): Do not provoke society. Essay on film stories from the 19th / 20th centuries Century .
  22. ↑ Guido Golla: Rosemarie Nitribitt. Research and theories. Books on Demand, 2014, p. 53 ff.
  23. ↑ Legends about the blonde Rosi Berliner Zeitung , December 13, 1996.
  24. ↑ Guido Golla: Rosemarie Nitribitt. Research and theories. Books on Demand, 2014, p. 98.
  25. ↑ Guido Golla: Rosemarie Nitribitt. Research and theories . Books on Demand, 2014, p. 77 f.
  26. ↑ Tanja Treser: The Nitribitt Files. focus.de, September 16, 2013, accessed November 16, 2013 .
  27. ↑ Guido Golla: Rosemarie Nitribitt. Research and theories . Books on Demand, 2014, pp. 160–165.
  28. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The murder of the prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  29. ↑ According to a more recent author's opinion, after processing the facts and evidence on which the murder case is based, Pohlmann's perpetration can nevertheless be viewed as very likely. Guido Golla: Rosemarie Nitribitt. Research and theories . Books on Demand, 2014, p. 194 ff.
  30. ^ Filmography by Horst Königstein
  31. ^ Gallery exhibition Everything about Rosemarie deutsches-filminstitut.de
  32. ↑ ZDFinfo documentary: Scandal! The Nitribitt case , video on YouTube
  33. ^ "The girl Rosemarie" - another world premiere in the Düsseldorf Capitol Theater
  34. ↑ spiegel.de: Theater experiment in Frankfurt: I love you, I love you (accessed on July 30, 2014)
  35. ^ "The girl Rosemarie" - Hanover theater shows the case of Nitribitt
  36. ↑ Amusing gossiped wormser-zeitung.de 19 January 2016th
  37. ^ Kai Hermann : Epilogue to the Matura case. In: Die Zeit , February 18, 1966 No. 08.
  38. ↑ Strasse des Lebens - The guided tour through Rosemarie Nitribitt - The original at: kultours-frankfurt.de , accessed on September 26, 2013.
  39. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Stiftstrasse 34: Nitribitt House In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
  40. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Stiftstrasse 36: Nitribitt House In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
  41. ^ A "lost child without a hold" ( memento from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz) , October 29, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Nitribitt, Rosemary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nitribitt, Maria Rosalia Auguste (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prostitutes in Frankfurt
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: October 29, 1957
Place of death Frankfurt am Main