Sondershausen murder case

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The murder of the 15-year-old schoolboy Sandro Beyer in 1993 by the three former members of the band Absurd , which was later assigned to Nazi Black Metal , is referred to as the murder of Sondershausen . With headlines like Satansmord von Sondershausen , the case caused a stir across Germany. The murder caused the band to achieve cult status in the far-right part of the black metal scene .

Course of events

The Sondershausen roundabout , where the three young people met with Beyer

On April 29, 1993 the three youngsters Sebastian Schauseil, Hendrik Möbus and Andreas K. lured the 15-year-old schoolboy Sandro Beyer to a meeting at a war memorial in the forest on the Sondershausen roundabout . Sandro Beyer received the message with the invitation to this meeting from a note that a student friend of Schauseil gave him. In an unused forest hut that belonged to Möbus' parents, they tied him to a rocking chair, where he was murdered around 8 p.m. by being strangled with a power cable. They then buried the body in a pit near the hut.

On the seventh day after the missing person was reported, the body was found and excavated according to a sketch-like description made by Andreas K. On May 12th, Sandro Beyer was buried in Sondershausen .

process

When Sebastian Schauseil was confronted with the facts during interrogation, he initially confessed to the course of events, which he described in great detail and extremely calmly. Schauseil also said that there was no rationally understandable motive for the act, that Sandro Beyer was any victim and that he always wanted to kill a person to feel how it felt. In court he revoked the confession on the advice of his defense lawyers and the group decided that it had been a tragic accident and that they did not want to kill Beyer, only to scare them.

The court found that "the constant preoccupation with satanic ideas and depictions of killing in films" lowered the inhibition threshold so that such an act became possible:

“We are convinced that the act would not have been possible without this background. No matter what your motives were for, you have lost respect for people, for their dignity. "

- Judge Jürgen Schuppner

In particular, the film Tanz der Teufel was mentioned, which is said to have served as a template for the murder and the burying of the corpse, since those involved also wrap the corpse of a transformed woman in a bed sheet and bury it in the forest near the wooden hut. Hendrik Möbus also operated a brisk private trade in black-copied films, many of which were indexed. He also wrote extremely bloodthirsty short stories .

According to the perpetrators, however, the act had no satanic connection. In the ARD documentary Der Satansmord - Death of a Schoolboy , the judge Jürgen Schuppner specified his statement regarding the satanic connection eight years after the verdict was pronounced:

“In a sense it was a murder of Satan because of this background, but the execution of the deed had nothing to do with a ritual or a satanic act. [...] There is no ritual background, there is no preparation, there is no decoration ... "

- Judge Jürgen Schuppner

The public prosecutor had demanded ten years imprisonment for each of the perpetrators. Sebastian Schauseil and Hendrik Möbus were sentenced to eight years imprisonment on February 9, 1994 for jointly planned murder, deprivation of liberty and coercion as the main perpetrators in the trial before the Mühlhausen district court, while Andreas K. , who was regarded as a follower , received six years imprisonment. In the judgment, the court remained well below the permissible youth sentence , as the aim was to enable the young people to return to a normal life. All three of them came to the Erfurt correctional facility , where they were housed in the same area, although the court had advocated separate accommodation for the three.

Detention

The perpetrators caught up on their high school diploma while they were in prison. Sebastian Schauseil wrote a letter to the Sondershausen pastor Jürgen Hauskeller, who had buried Beyer at the time, to ask him for support in dealing with the murder and the consequences for him.

In prison, the perpetrators were able to continue their band under the name In Ketten . Her cassette Thuringian Pagan Madness , recorded and published at that time, shows the grave of the murdered Sandro Beyer on the cover with the addition: “The cover shows the grave of Sandro B. murdered by horde ABSURD on 04/29/93 AB.” On the inside.

The band members were released on parole in 1998. Hendrik Möbus was the last to be released on August 25, 1998 after allegedly regretting the murder. But just a month later he showed the Hitler salute at an absurd concert . Möbus was then sentenced to eight months in prison. After it became known that he mocked his victim as a " pest " in an interview for the book Lords of Chaos , his probation was finally revoked. He fled to the USA and went into hiding with a neo-Nazi friend who was the founder of the National Alliance, William Pierce . There he was picked up on August 26, 2000 by the United States Marshals Service . Möbus applied for asylum and at the same time a solidarity campaign was set up on a website under the motto “Free Hendrik Möbus”, claiming that Möbus was a political prisoner . Möbus tried to portray the case in such a way that his human rights would be violated. In 2001, after a failed asylum application, Möbus was returned to a German prison to serve his remaining three-year sentence.

Reporting in the press

The fact that the act had a satanic background was rumored in the mass media, especially in the years shortly after the crime and the condemnation of the perpetrators, up to the term "Satan murder of Sondershausen". In May 1993, Der Spiegel ranked the act in a row with further acts and suicides with allegedly satanic backgrounds and reported in January 1994 on the ongoing proceedings. In October 1994, the magazine picked up on the reception of the crime in the black metal scene at the time and made connections to the murder of Øystein Aarseth and right-wing groups.

When Manuela and Daniel Ruda from the Ruhr area murdered the 33-year-old Frank H. in 2001, it was described in the press as a “new murder of Satan” (see the murder of von Witten ). The perpetrators u. a. found an "enemy list" containing the name of Sandro Beyer's mother.

Speculation about the motive

According to the ARD documentary Der Satansmord - Death of a Schoolboy, Sandro Beyer probably had to die because he sought contact with the group, but they refused. In the school newspaper Möbus had previously said in relation to his band Absurd that Sandro Beyer was not one of them, with the addition “So take my words to heart and you might live a little longer. Perhaps. ”The assumption that Beyer's murder was not a spontaneous act is supported by the statement by Möbus' former girlfriend that she had heard reports of murder against Sandro several times, but always considered them to be a joke. Another possible reason for the act would be that Beyer knew about Möbus' illegal black copying of films.

In his correspondence with Michael Moynihan , from which the interview for his book Lords of Chaos arose, Hendrik Möbus claimed that Beyer had actually been murdered because he told the then seventeen-year-old actor about the relationship with a married catechist who was pregnant by him I wanted to bring public.

In an interview, Möbus later stated that he had no feelings of guilt about the murder and that the victim meant nothing to him and "basically didn't care".

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Landgericht Mühlhausen, judgment in the criminal case against Andreas K., Hendrik M., Sebastian S., February 9, 1994, file number 280 Js 52177/93, p. 23; quoted from: Dornbusch / Killguss: Unholy Alliances . Unrast Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , pp. 53, 298.
  3. ↑ quoted from: Liane von Billerbeck, Frank Nordhausen : Satanskinder . The murder of Sondershausen and the right scene , 3rd exp. Edition, Berlin, 2001, ISBN 978-3-86153-232-3 , p. 256.
  4. ↑ Interview as part of the series The Great Criminal Cases from 2001.
  5. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 148 .
  6. ↑ styles . Rechtsrock continued to develop and opened up for other styles  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Brandenburg State Center for Political Education.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de  
  7. ^ Christian Dornbusch, Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 156 f .
  8. ↑ Black paw . In: Der Spiegel , 20/1993, pp. 128f.
  9. ↑ The Trio from Totenberg . In: Der Spiegel , 3/1994, p. 72f.
  10. ↑ Infernus and Sacrificial Blood . In: Der Spiegel , 41/1994, p. 91f.
  11. ^ Klaus Miehling : Violent music, violent music: popular music and the consequences. Königshausen & Neumann, 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3394-9 , p. 236. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  12. ↑ quoted from the documentary Der Satansmord - Death of a Student .
  13. ↑ Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos , First Edition, Feral House 1998, ISBN 0-922915-48-2 , p. 256.
  14. ↑ Report on Absurd in Spiegel-TV, accessed on Youtube