Werner Pinzner

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Werner Pinzner (born April 27, 1947 in Hamburg-Bramfeld ; † July 29, 1986 in Hamburg ), also called "Mucki", was a German contract killer who became known as the "St. Pauli Killer". After a series of contract killings, he shot and killed the investigating public prosecutor , his wife and himself during an interrogation at the Hamburg police headquarters in 1986. The case led to political consequences in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg and is considered one of the most spectacular cases in the criminal history of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Werner Pinzner was born the son of a radio mechanic and a grocery chain branch manager. After dropping out of school without a degree, he went to sea for two years from 1964. In 1966 he worked as a driver for a few weeks and then went briefly to sea again. An intended engagement as a regular soldier in the Bundeswehr failed due to previous convictions . He met his first wife. In 1970 he was sentenced to a short term of imprisonment for the first time , and his daughter was born the following year. After her birth, Pinzner worked as a scaffolding builder , tiler and butcher . In August 1975 he participated in a supermarket robbery in which one of the perpetrators shot the manager of the market.

Pinzner was arrested in September 1975 and sentenced to ten years in prison. Before he was sentenced, he met his second wife. Nine years of punishment he sat in the Fuhlsbüttel correctional off, then he came as release prisoners in the prison Vierlande . During his stay in prison he got to know people who had a certain significance in the red-light district of Hamburg-St. Pauli and came into contact with drugs . Pinzner could a revolver brand Arminius from caliber .38 Special procure and store in his personal locker in prison, which offered the liberal Hamburg prison each prisoner in an open prison and was never searched.

In June 1984 he took part in a robbery on a money messenger together with two accomplices from the vicinity of the red light district and committed his first contract murder the following month before he was released. In July 1984 he was released from the open prison. Several contract killings followed within 14 months before the police arrested Pinzner in 1986.

The motive for his actions was that he wanted to participate in the prostitution business . He did not succeed in doing this, however, as he was feared as a contract killer, but not accepted as part of the red light district. In the end there were plans to have Pinzner murdered as an accomplice. A bounty of 300,000 DM to have been exposed to him when he was in custody spoke to the prosecutor. While in custody, he testified about murders he had committed. During an interrogation on July 29, 1986, he shot the investigating public prosecutor, his wife and himself.

Pinzners was commemorated in the Kiez with a car parade. He found his final resting place in the Burgtorfriedhof in Lübeck .

The Pinzner murders

As part of the verdict on life imprisonment against three other participants, Pinzner was proven to have murdered five people three years after his death. Pinzner had admitted three more murders in the red-light district when he was first questioned, and later claimed that he wanted to testify about eleven murders he had committed. After the deed of July 29, 1986, he was therefore credited with killing 13 people.

Contract killings

Red light district in Hamburg

Werner Pinzner was active as a contract killer in the red light district . He committed acts in the area of ​​the entire Federal Republic of Germany, but essentially they were those related to disputes in the red-light district of Hamburg-St. Pauli . Pinzner's client was primarily a pimp nicknamed "Wiener-Peter."

Hamburg neighborhood at the time of Pinzner's murders

The pimps in the red light district of Hamburg-St. Pauli were active nationwide and operated brothels both in Hamburg and nationwide . However, prostitution saw a significant decline in the 1980s as a result of increasing fear of contracting HIV . At the same time, in addition to the German pimps, international organizations began to spread in the German red-light districts. The pimps initially reacted with more brutal methods of exploiting the prostitutes. Increasingly, however, drug trafficking, as well as other illegal activities such as arms trafficking or receiving stolen goods , became a source of income. In addition to the expansion to other business areas, there were increased disputes over the territories for prostitution and drug trafficking. Part of these violent clashes were the contract killings committed by Pinzner.

In St. Pauli, especially along Herbertstrasse and on the Reeperbahn , two groups of pimps had formed, fighting for influence: the more established so-called GMBH and the emerging Nutella gang . The Hells Angels , who were used by both groups for henchman services, also played a certain role as debt collectors . The GMBH was eventually gradually ousted by a group around the "Wiener-Peter", who would later become Pinzner's main client.

The individual contract killings

Yehuda Arzi

Jehuda Arzi or Hans Jenö Müller was a former brothel owner who blackmailed his former wife and daughter with the mother's past as a brothel owner. He was also involved in an unpaid cocaine deal. Arzi hid from his wife and business partners in an apartment in Kiel.

Mediated by “Wiener-Peter”, Arzi's ex-wife and daughter Pinzner initially asked Arzi to cut off a finger in order to intimidate him. He declared that he would kill Arzi for 40,000 DM. On behalf of his ex-wife and daughter, Pinzner finally went to Kiel with an accomplice and shot Arzi in his apartment on July 7, 1984. Although the former wife and daughter could be identified as suspects relatively quickly, the proceedings against the two were discontinued for the time being due to a lack of concrete evidence.

After the fact, Pinzner went back to the open prison in the Vierlande correctional facility, where he returned the weapon to his locker.

Peter Pfeilmaier

Peter Pfeilmaier, known as “Bayern-Peter”, was a partner in the “Hammer Deich” brothel and the “MB Club”. The club was used for illegal gambling, the use of cocaine by members and the organization of drug trafficking . Due to his own increasing cocaine consumption and his business-damaging behavior in the brothel, Pfeilmaier developed into an economic risk for his partner. The partner then offered the "Wiener-Peter" a share instead of Pfeilmaier.

Pinzner was charged with the murder of Pfeilmaier. He was to receive DM 15,000 from each of the two new partners and a share in a brothel. With the help of an accomplice, Pinzner played to Pfeilmaier a large drug deal that was supposed to be settled in a quiet place. He went with the accomplice and the victim on September 12, 1984 in his car in a garage complex, in which Pfeilmaier was killed with a shot in the head.

As a result, however, Pinzner did not receive the promised brothel participation, rather he was supposed to work as a housekeeper in the "Hammer Deich". His accomplice withheld part of the promised money.

Dietmar Traub

Dietmar “Lackschuh” Traub ran the “Palais d'Amour” brothel together with “Wiener-Peter”. Because of his high cocaine consumption, Traub also became a burden for his partner. In addition, he wanted to withdraw from his involvement in the brothel in exchange for a compensation payment of 100,000 DM and also ran drug deals independently of his partner. However, Traub kept away from the neighborhood more and more.

In November 1984, Traub went to Munich to check on a prostitute . Pinzner followed him with an accomplice who had just been released from prison. The two made a stopover in Heilbronn , where they obtained an alibi from a brothel known as the “Chief of Heilbronn” . After that they drove to Munich. As with Pfeilmaier, the later victim was offered a fictitious drug deal. Traub responded. The three went to the Riemerlinger Forst in a rental car . There Pinzner and his accomplice faked a car breakdown and shot Traub after he got out of the car.

Waldemar Dammer and Ralf Kühne

Waldemar Dammer, known as "Neger-Waldi", ran two brothels in competition with the "Wiener-Peter". Shortly before Easter 1985, Dammer had "Wiener-Peter" beaten up by two of his thugs in his brothel "Palais d'Amour" and publicly humiliated him. Together with an accomplice, Pinzner received the order to kill Dammer and his two thugs for a flat rate of DM 60,000.

Pinzner assumed that Dammer would meet with the thugs for a meeting in his house in the middle-class Hamburg-Schnelsen . So he went to Dammers house with his accomplice on Easter Monday and was let in. Dammer and his landlord Ralf Kühne were shot there, but not the thugs.

Pinzner later confessed to these murders, but the weapons showed that it was not he but his accomplice who shot the two men.

Investigations into the contract killings

In connection with indications - which were ultimately not confirmed - that high-ranking police officers were making common cause with pimps, an investigative group against organized crime had been set up under the Interior Senator Alfons Pawelczyk at the end of the 1970s , the Specialized Directorate 65 . It was the first such agency to fight organized crime in Germany. This police unit has worked with undercover agents and monitoring methods. It was also shielded internally by the police. She succeeded in arresting a well-known brothelier who was called the "Godfather of St. Pauli" for tax evasion . In addition, the technical directorate 65 was able to achieve success against both the GMBH and the Nutella gang and the Hells Angels .

The .38 caliber used by Pinzner represents a very widespread projectile diameter, but the projectiles of the weapon used by Pinzner had a special feature: Pinzner's revolver was a weapon with "ten slides with a right-hand twist", a very rare feature. From this peculiarity and the fact that the murders of people related to the pimp milieu of St. Pauli were involved, it could very quickly be concluded that it was an independent series of murders. Only in the case of Jehuda Arzi were the references to St. Pauli initially not recognizable, and the double murder of Dammer and Kühne only had parallels in the execution, but was carried out with a different weapon.

Because of the similarities of the deaths, a special commission (SoKo) was formed under the leadership of Technical Directorate 65. The results of the undercover investigations were systematically compiled and potential witnesses were heard. When two prostitutes finally made specific statements, a mobile task force arrested Pinzner, “Wiener-Peter” and an accomplice on April 15, 1986. "The murder weapon lay on the killer’s sofa, a loaded Arminius revolver, caliber .38, ten slides, right-hand twist."

After the arrest, which was based solely on the suspicion of murder of "Bayern-Peter" Pfeilmaier, Pinzner immediately asked to speak to the investigating public prosecutor, Wolfgang Bistry . At the first interrogation, Pinzner stated that he had committed eight murders. He later told the prosecutor that he had killed a total of eleven people and was ready to testify. The condition should be that he could spend another two days (48 hours) with his wife Jutta undisturbed. The prosecutor's answer was vague and said that they would see what was possible. According to entries in his diary, Pinzner probably took this as a promise. As a result, Pinzner was asked to give specific information about five murders in several interrogations and to testify to the structures in the red-light district of St. Paulis.

Act of July 29, 1986

Building ensemble at the Berliner Tor. In the middle is the former police headquarters.

On July 29, 1986, Pinzner was brought to the Hamburg police headquarters, which was then located in a high-rise at Berliner Tor , for questioning. Pinzner, Pinzner's wife Jutta, his lawyer Isolde Oechsle-Misfeld, two police officers, a typist to record the testimony and the public prosecutor Wolfgang Bistry were present. With the help of the lawyer, Pinzner's wife had smuggled a firearm into the presidium. Pinzner seized this and shot the public prosecutor. The police officers were able to leave the room. Pinzner barricaded the door, telephoned his daughter and then shot his wife and himself. In the later trial against the lawyer, the court-appointed appraiser Herbert Maisch assumed that the lawyer would have had severe developmental disorders in childhood and adolescence Case processing got so entangled that she could no longer free herself from it.

Extensive investigations followed in order to capture the suspected perpetrators of the crime; so the police searched the attorney's office. In December 1986 around 350 police officers and several public prosecutors carried out a major raid in Hamburg, Ahrensburg , Braunschweig and Mallorca . There were three arrests and several arrests . A brothel, called "Ringo", who was suspected of being behind the murder of public prosecutor Bistry, escaped over the roofs and left Germany for Costa Rica , from where he was extradited only after considerable diplomatic efforts.

Press

The Hamburg Interior Senator Rolf Lange ( SPD ) presented the arrest of Pinzner and the other parties involved at a press conference as a great success of Department 65 in the fight against organized crime.

Already on the day of Pinzner's arrest, the lawyer Pinzner and the reporter Thomas Reinecke agreed that in return for a payment of 30,000 DM, Pinzner, his lawyer and Pinzner's wife would only communicate with the press via Reinecke. Reinecke in turn sold these rights to Stern magazine . The star thus had exclusive rights.

The journalist Thomas Osterkorn was able to obtain private photos and notes from Pinzner: Pinzner's neighbors had found them in Pinzner's warehouse, which had not been searched by the police, and offered them Osterkorn. Osterkorn began his career at Stern on the basis of this material . The Bunte printed letters from Pinzner to his wife, the magazine Quick Briefe from his wife to Pinzner. The Bild newspaper was initially unable to keep up with this information, but "returned the favor" with a headline defaming the lawyer.

After Pinzner's death, a news blackout was imposed for the first time since the Schleyer kidnapping , but this only fueled speculation in the press. The judicial scandal intensified when it was finally revealed that Pinzner's heroin , cocaine, and puncture sites had been found in Pinzner's cell .

consequences

The contract killings and the double murder with subsequent suicide attracted considerable public attention. Because of the awareness of the case, his documentation became an important part of an exhibition of the best-known criminal cases in Hamburg's criminal history, Pinzner was part of an NDR series on major criminal cases in the Hanseatic city, and ARD dealt with the case in the series " The major criminal cases" in 2002. Even the ZDF addressed the series of murders in 2016 in the documentation murder without conscience: The St. Pauli-killer in the series Clarified - Spectacular criminal cases . The Pinzner case was accordingly presented in the exhibition A Police Museum for Hamburg 2007 alongside other Hamburg criminal cases - such as the serial murders of Fritz Honka or the department store blackmailer " Dagobert " - and in the Hamburg Police Museum . It is also the subject of tourist tours through St. Pauli. In 2011, the North German Broadcasting Corporation took the 25th anniversary of the crime in police headquarters on July 29, 1986 as an occasion for a new documentation.

politics

In connection with the Pinzner case, there was a judicial scandal because of the inadequate security precautions in the Hamburg prisons, but also because the investigative authorities were too accommodating towards Pinzner. Werner Pinzner had also been supplied with drugs, which also indicated significant safety deficiencies. The Senators for Home Affairs and Justice were politically battered regardless of Pinzner's actions. Eva Leithäuser ( SPD ), the Senator for Justice, was in public criticism because of the liberal penal system she represented , the Interior Senator Rolf Lange (SPD) for the so-called Hamburg cauldron , but both also because of the population's concern about rising crime. In addition, given the imminent elections for the Hamburg citizenship on November 9, 1986, the previously ruling social democratic government threatened to lose the election as a result of the scandal. Because of the criminal case, the two Senators of the Hanseatic City for the Interior and Justice drew political consequences and resigned on August 6, 1986. While the polls in June 1986 had indicated a clear victory for the SPD , the debate about internal security triggered by the crime in the police headquarters led to a strong loss of votes in the election for the SPD. The SPD (41.7%) was only the second strongest force behind the CDU (41.9%). Since no coalition agreement was subsequently reached, the so-called “Hamburg conditions” with an SPD minority senate with changing majorities came into play.

The case brought the issue of organized crime into the political debate in the Federal Republic.

To prevent incidents like the one on July 29, 1986, security gates were installed at the entrances to police headquarters, which are still in place. The general control of the Hamburg judicial authorities, initially directed against all criminal defense attorneys, after Bistry's murder met with considerable resistance from the Hamburg Bar Association, the Hamburg Defense Lawyers Association and the Republican Bar Association.

Follow-up processes

Charges were brought against Pinzner's lawyer and three of his clients. These processes also met with great media interest. The lawyer finally received six and a half years' imprisonment for complicity in murder and lost her license for five years. In 1989 two accomplices of Pinzner and his client Wiener-Peter got lifelong. The latter was expelled to Austria in February 2000 after serving 14 years .

In addition to the criminal proceedings, the judiciary also dealt with the consequences of Pinzner's acts several times under press law . For example, Der Spiegel had to print a half-page counter - representation after reports about an alleged man behind the murders . The journalist Dagobert Lindlau was forbidden by the Hamburg Regional Court in 1994 for reasons of social rehabilitation from mentioning the name of the lawyer Pinzner in his book Der Lohnkiller .

Film and literature

The events surrounding Werner Pinzner were seen as material for a script soon after the suicide:

In the following decade murders attacked detective story and -film the substance of the "St. Pauli Killers" on: Sun dealt Frank Göhre in his St. Pauli trilogy with the case. The film Der große Abgang was made in 1995 under the direction of Nico Hofmann , which was based on the case and was awarded the German Academy of Performing Arts' television film award.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f St.-Pauli-Killer Pinzner: Client expelled to Austria . In: Die Welt from April 11, 2000.
  3. ↑ When the killers came to the neighborhood. NDR, 2012, recorded on Youtube. Retrieved April 6, 2014. 37:38.
  4. ↑ a b c d Viola Roggenkamp: Pinzner's crushing legacy . In: Die Zeit No. 11, 1988, p. 23.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g The steering hands from the neighborhood . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1986, pp. 82-92 ( Online - Aug. 18, 1986 ).
  6. ↑ Pompous tombs and modest tombs . In: Lübecker Stadtzeitung from April 6, 1999.
  7. ↑ a b c d "Everyone is God ... I am God" . In: Die Zeit No. 35 of August 22, 1986, p. 9 f.
  8. ↑ a b c d Well or yes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1987, pp. 98-100 ( Online - Aug. 31, 1987 ).
  9. ^ A b c Thomas Hirschbiegel: "Wiener-Peter" sent Luden Killer into the house . In: Hamburger Morgenpost from December 8, 2005 ( Memento from April 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ A b Danuta Harrich-Zandberg: The St. Pauli killer . In: Helfried Spitra (ed.): The great criminal cases. The St. Pauli killer, the escape king and nine other famous crimes . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37438-2 , pp. 11–34.
  11. ↑ Thomas Hirschbiegel: Again and again war for money and power . In: Hamburger Morgenpost from November 21, 2005 ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
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  14. ^ A b c d Hans Jakob Ginsburg: Politics, pistols and police officers . In: Die Zeit No. 33, 1986.
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  16. ↑ Dagobert Lindlau: The wage killer. An organized crime figure . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-77095-4 , p. 24 ff.
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  22. ↑ Sex shops on the pig farm . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1987 ( online - June 22, 1987 ).
  23. ↑ Under power . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1987, pp. 89 f . ( Online - Dec. 14, 1987 ).
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  27. ↑ Hamburg's most spectacular criminal cases . ( Memento of October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) On: NDR 90.3 , 2009.
  28. ^ A b Danuta Harrich-Zandberg / Walter Harrich: The St. Pauli-Killer (NDR) . See: Review: Broadcast on Monday, September 30, 2002 . On: DasErste.de .
  29. ^ "Dagobert's" submarine and Pinzner's pistol , Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 4, 2007
  30. ↑ Tours through the great St. Pauli . In: Die Welt from May 17, 2008.
  31. ↑ Ada von der Betten, When the killers came to the Kiez , NDR online from July 20, 2011.
  32. ↑ July 29, 1986 . In: Die Welt of December 18, 1999.
  33. ↑ Under the tea towel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1986 ( online - 4 August 1986 ).
  34. ↑ Katrin Kramet: You were up and away . In: Die Zeit No. 39 of September 21, 1984.
  35. ↑ Three evaporators . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1984 ( online - 15 October 1984 ).
  36. ↑ Michael thresholds: 800 plaintiffs . In: Die Zeit No. 35 of August 26, 1988.
  37. ↑ a b As in a dime novel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1986 ( online - Aug. 11, 1986 ).
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  39. ↑ Schadenfreude . In: Die Zeit of August 22, 1986.
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  43. ↑ Gerhard Mauz : The lawyer must also avoid any nakedness . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1986, pp. 93 f . ( Online - August 18, 1986 ).
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personal data
SURNAME Pinzner, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mucki; St. Pauli killer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German contract killer
BIRTH DATE April 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1986
PLACE OF DEATH Hamburg