Thomas Lemke (serial killer)

Thomas Lemke (* 1969 ) is a right-wing German serial killer who was convicted of three murders.

He was a member of various right-wing extremist organizations, including the Wiking Youth and the Freedom German Workers' Party (FAP). He was also a mercenary in the HOS militia in the Croatian war . The police also found so-called anti-antifa enemy lists with the names and addresses of political opponents in his apartment .

Crime series

Thomas Lemke, with a criminal record for arson , assault , sedition and illegal possession of weapons, drove to Altena on July 18, 1995 with his girlfriend Bianka W. and their mutual acquaintance Dagmar K. , where he and his girlfriend tied up and gagged the acquaintance in a forest brought and choked with a rope. When the victim gasped, Lemke hit her several times on the head with a folding spade and buried the dead woman in a hole in the ground. Prosecutors suspect that he forced his girlfriend into the act in order to "have her in hand" as he was often violent towards her and feared that she might report him.

On February 2, 1996 Lemke went to Oberhausen and visited his friend Marcel M. Together they drove to Bergisch Gladbach to the apartment of Patricia W. Lemke had met her at the train station in Hagen and because of a sticker "Nazis out" on her clothes as " Left ”classified. The innocent woman opened the door, was tied up, undressed, raped by Lemke, strangled with a shoelace, hit on the head with a plaster figure and killed with 91 stab wounds.

On March 15, 1996 Lemke shot the 26-year-old Martin K. in a stairwell in Dorsten-Rhade . In Lemke's eyes, he was considered a traitor because, as a dropout from the right-wing scene, he had reported him for threat and testified against him.

Condemnation

It was established in March 1997 by the Essen jury trial for triple murder and rape to life imprisonment , followed by placement in psychiatry and preventive detention condemned. With the determination of the particular gravity of the guilt, the court imposed the maximum penalty. Bianka W. was sentenced to six years in prison for murder and Marcel M. to five years in prison for aiding and abetting and rape.

literature

• Hans-Werner Loose: He seduced his friends to murder . In: The world . February 13, 1997
• Gisela Friedrichsen : Criminal Justice: Refuge with the Nazis . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1997, pp. 84 ff . ( online ).

Web links

• Uwe Ruprecht: The serial killer who shouldn't be a neo-Nazi