List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany

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Listed below are people killed by non-military law enforcement officers in Germany, whether or not in the line of duty, irrespective of reason or method. Included, too, are cases where individuals died in police custody due to applied techniques. Inclusion in the list implies neither wrongdoing nor justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved. The listing simply documents occurrences of deaths and is not complete.

Statistics[edit]

Figures before 1978 can not be compared directly to later numbers. A list of police killings was first compiled 1997; owing to a legal 20-year document retention limit, some files may have been destroyed. Additionally, the numbers here do not include suicides.

Cases[edit]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2020)

1920s[edit]

1920

1922

1923

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1923-11-09	Allfarth, Felix [de]	22	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Bauriedl, Andreas	44	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Ehrlich, Wilhem [de]	29	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Hechenberger, Anton [de]	21	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Körner, Oskar	48	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Laforce, Karl [de]	19	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Neubauer, Kurt [de]	24	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	von Pape, Klaus [de]	19	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	von der Pfordten, Theodor [de]	50	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Rickmers, Johann [de]	42	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	von Scheubner-Richter, Max Erwin	39	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Ritter von Stransky-Griffenfeld, Lorenz	34	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Wolf, Wilhelm	25	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Kuhn, Karl [de]	26	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust [de]) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers. Unlike the other deceased, Kuhn was not a participant in the coup and was instead an onlooker who was accidentally shot in the crossfire.

1929

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1929-05-03	33 killed		Berlin	Berlin	Blutmai riots: An unscheduled Labour Day protest was suppressed by baton-wielding officers, after which Berlin Police Chief Karl Zörgiebel deployed 13,000 officers to conduct a police raid in Wedding, a predominantly left wing-leaning voting block. In the ensuing street riots, police killed 33 people, all of them being civilians without affiliation to the left-wing rioters, of whom 1,300 were arrested. The first killed was 53-year-old plumber Max Gemeinhardt on 1 May, who was shot in the head on his balcony for not closing his apartment window on police orders. In one instance, police opened fire on a crowd without provocation, killing 26-year-old labourer Ernst Mai with a shot in the neck. The last death was 53-year old journalist and former mayor of Whanganui Charles Mackay who had been working as a correspondent for The Sunday Express after he was ousted from his homecountry of New Zealand for the attempted murder of D'Arcy Cresswell. Mackay was shot by police who had mistaken him for a rioter after he ignored commands to vacate a street. Nearly all the deceased were shot, many from behind, with one exception who was instead run over and crushed to death by an armored vehicle. A total of 10,981 gunshots were fired by police over the course of three days. The incident increased further tensions between the KPD and the SPD, as the chief of police was a member of the SPD.[18][19][20][21][22]

1930s[edit]

1931

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1931-04-26	Freyburger, Karl	26	Deutsch Eylau	East Prussia	Three members of the NSDAP were causing a disturbance while wandering a street in an intoxicated state. A police patrol stopped them and attempted to perform arrests when one of them, a cattleman with the rank of SA-Sturmbannführer, physically assaulted an officer, who then pulled out his sidearm. The officer was then hit in the arm by another Nazi, causing an accidental discharge that struck the initial attacker in the head. The officer in question pleaded self-defense in his trial and was acquitted. Several streets were named after the deceased during the Third Reich as a martyr, under the false narrative that he died while "fighting for a better Germany".
1931-06-30	Sievert, August	20	Peine	Provinz Hannover	A shootout between Nazi and communist paramilitary groups was broken up by Hannover police officers, during which a gunshot injured a SA-Mann, a pastry chef by trade, who died on 2 July. A street was partially named after him in 1938.

1932

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1932-02-21	Büder, Hans	28	Berlin	Berlin	As a locale frequented by labourers was being forcefully vacated by a police force, a patron was mortally wounded by a police officer and died days later on 25 February.
1932-07-15	Kanitz, Erich [de]	32	Weißwasser	Sachsen	During a rally of the Communist International group Workers International Relief, a shootout between workers and police ensued, during which the chairman of the WIR was shot and killed.
1932-07-17	16 killed		Altona	Provinz Schleswig-Holstein	Altona Bloody Sunday: A recruitment march by the Sturmabteilung led to violent clashes between SA members, communist counter-protesters and police. A total of 18 people died, 16 of whom were killed by police fire; the remaining two were SA-Männer shot by communist militants. The deaths consisted of fifteen uninvolved residents and one visitor, 22-year-old Helene Winkler, who was the wife of a participant in the march.
1932-07-31	Schrön, Friedrich	18	Essen	Rheinprovinz	A business student and SA-Mann was fatally shot by police during a confrontation between Nazi and communist paramilitaries.
1932-10-23	Barm, Helmut	19	Bochum	Provinz Westfalen	Following a skirmish with police, a SA-Mann was shot by a 25-year-old Schutzpolizei officer, surnamed Buschenhofen, in Langendreer while on his way to the group barracks. He died of his wounds the next day. Buschenhofen, who cited his opposing Marxist views as the motive, was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment for the shooting. Several streets in NRW were named after the deceased as well as an airplane of the Luftwaffe.
1932-11-04	4 killed		Berlin	Berlin	1932 Berlin transport strike: During a labour strike by employees of the BVG, four people were killed by police sent to break up the protest after it was declared illegal. The dead included 46-year-old Kurt Repperich, a customs officer and SA-Scharführer, who was memorialised by the later Nazi government, with a customs boat, a border camp and a school being among the things named after him.
1932-11-27	Elbrächter, Eduard	41	Bielefeld	Provinz Westfalen	A SA-Truppführer got into an argument with a police recruit, surnamed Lutterklas, in a pub in Brackwede. Lutterklas left the pub and returned shortly after with his sidearm, shooting the other man twice in the abdomen, leading to his death the next day. A SA unit was named after the deceased in 1936.
1932-12-07	Bich, Ernst	26	Barmen	Rheinprovinz	Police were called to due to reports of a quarrel involving a large group in a street. One of the participants, a waiter and SA-Scharführer, attempted to escape and fired a revolver shot at the pursuing officers, who subsequently shot him in the stomach, from which the man died two days later in a hospital. The Nazi government would later instead claim that he died from an attack by social democrats and named a street in Neuss-Reuschenberg after him in December 1937.

1940s[edit]

1944

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1944-03-19	50 killed		Sagan	Silesia	Stalag Luft III murders: During the escape of 76 Allied servicemen from the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp, 73 escapees were recaptured, of whom 50 were summarily executed by Gestapo on direct order of Adolf Hitler.
1944-09-22	Lindemann, Fritz	50	Berlin	Berlin	A German Army general and co-conspirator in the failed 20 July plot. Gestapo went to arrest Lindemann at a hide-out and shot him in the leg and stomach when he tried to escape by jumping through a window, dying at a hospital later on.

1945

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1945-03-21	30 killed		Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Burgholz massacre [de]: Twelve to fifteen Gestapo officers and ten Wuppertal Kripo officers summarily executed 30 forced labourers from the Soviet Union in Burgholz forest. The victims, 24 men and six women, were all shot in the neck and buried in a mass grave in Küllenhahn. Only one body was ever identified, that being Ukrainian teacher Helena Matrosowa. A month later, one of the shooters, Peter Schäfer, a Schutzpolizei first lieutenant, was also executed at the site on the orders of Karl Gutenberger for making "dissenting statements".

1946

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1946-03-29	Danziger, Szmuel Abbe	36	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	A troop of 220 German police officers launched a raid for black market goods and counterfeit rations stamps on a displaced persons camp housing, among others, around 1800 Jewish refugees. Confiscated goods were primarily items such as cigarettes and candy, which had been handed out by the Red Cross via the UNRRA. During the search, a camp guard was injured by a gunshot from police, leading a group of refugees to hurl empty cans and pieces of wood at the officers, with some American servicemen coming to their aid until German police stated they were conducting a raid. Police opened fire on the crowd from a distance of less than 3 meters, injuring five and killing a Polish Jew, who was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and did forced labour under the Nazi administration. He had returned from France after locating his wife and child at the camp a day earlier. Arrival of American military vehicles ended up breaking up the assault, but no investigation was ever performed.[23][24][25][26][27][28]

1948

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1948-09-09	Scheunemann, Wolfgang	15	East Berlin	Berlin	A student leader of a youth wing branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During the Berlin Blockade, Volkspolizei had been instructed to keep pedestrians away from the border to West Berlin when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to push past them, injuring 12. Scheunemann was hit in the stomach by a stray shot while seeking cover.

1949

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1949-01-23	Wolf, Kurt Erwin [de]	45	East Berlin	Berlin	During the Berlin Blockade, which heavily restricted trade by the Soviet occupation sector to the other three, a truck was shot at by border police after failing to respond to a signal to stop, leading to a trucker in the passenger seat being killed by three shots to the head. The company was shipping firewood into West Berlin without a permit and the driver, who was arrested upon his return to East Berlin, had ignored the officers' command to avoid the scheme being uncovered.
1949-02-17	Ryll, Helmut [de]	40	East Berlin	Berlin	During the Berlin Blockade, two Volkspolizei officers stopped a car carrying two people on Oberbaum Bridge because he was driving towards Kreuzberg in West Berlin. The officers entered the vehicle and not realizing the driver was drunk, they ordered him to drive back towards East Berlin. When he did not turn around and ignored further commands by the officers, one of them fired two fatal shots at the driver. The car crashed just past the border and West German authorities arrested one of the officers while the other managed to flee back into East Berlin. As they were unable to prove that the arrested VP officer was the shooter, the West German police did not charge him and allowed him to return.

1950s[edit]

1950

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1950-03-24	Meyer, Hermann [de]	40	Drewitz	Brandenburg	A farmer and his companion transporting a slaughtered calf were orderd to stop by East German border police because they suspected, due to the proximity to the border, that they were trying to smuggle the meat into West Germany to sell at a higher profit. Both men fled and were pursued on foot by officers. The companion stopped after four warning shots were fired into the air, while the farmer ignored them and a further three warning shots before the officer chasing him shot him three times in the back.
1950-06-18	Wulff, Ernst [de]	63	Schildow	Brandenburg	A cattle truck attempted to pass by a East German checkpoint with the lights off in order to illegally sell the cattle in West Germany. A border police noticed this and pursued the truck in a requisitioned taxi. Several verbal warnings were issued before shots were fired at the vehicle as a warning to halt, one of the shots fatally striking the passenger of the truck in the head. The truck eventually became stuck on a dirt road and the driver was arrested.
1950-07-25	Kirsch, Paul	23	Neustadt an der Donau	Bayern	During a police operation involving a group of Roma youths outside of a pub, a Czechoslovakian Rom man was shot after grabbing an officer's gun. Two other men were given 3 and 5 month prison sentences for assault. Accounts differ on the incident that led to police intervention. Official records state that the pub owner had called police about a brawl in front of the establishment, that the attackers had been drunk and that the deceased had chambered a round and aimed at an officer. A relative interviewed in 2020 claimed that the group included teens who had played bowling on a street in front of the pub and asked the deceased to help set the pins up. A disagreement ensued between the teens, which the pub owner observed, misinterpreted as becoming physical, and called police for. When the deceased tried to leave due to not being involved, he was stopped by an officer, leading to a scuffle between them during which the deceased got a hold of the gun and was shot by another officer, Johann A., in response.[29]
1950-08-29	Blumberger, Horst [de]	20	East Berlin	Berlin	Two brothers-in-law from Lichtenrade in West Berlin unknowingly trespassed into East Berlin territory to try out what they believed to be an air rifle, but after firing it once, they found that it was a loaded .22 sports rifle. After firing another shot, nearby Volkspolizei called out to them and attempted to arrest the pair. Both men fled and as they climbed a fence to the West German side, the younger man was shot twice in the back and bled out shortly after crossing over. The surviving man contacted West German police, and upon arriving at the scene, they found that the body had been turned on his back, presumably by the East German officers who stepped over the border to check whether the deceased was injured or dead.
1950-10-13	Fräßdorf, Gerd [de]	23	Kleinmachnow	Brandenburg	An office worker from Coswig got lost while driving in East Berlin after carpooling some business associates and passed a checkpoint on a road that was often used by people who wanted to cross into West Berlin without being searched. as he did not stop, border police signalled him and subsequently fired two warning shots, both to no response, after which the worker was shot and killed by an aimed shot to the head. He presumably did not hear the officers' commands or the gunshots because of his loud engine.

1951

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1951-03-12	Heyduck, Albert [de]	50	Schöneiche	Brandenburg	A cyclist was shot in the back of the head by a border policeman who mistook him for a metal smuggler, as he was carrying several wrapped packages on his bike. He did not follow commands to stop and ignored a warning shot, presumably because he was hard of hearing, before the officer fired an aimed shot. The officer was identified after German reunification and claimed in a 1997 interview, contrary to initial reporting, that the aimed shot was directed at the mudguard, but he accidentally hit the cyclist due to having little practical experience with firearms. He was not charged because authorities were unable to prove intent to kill.
1951-04-30	Heinicke, Walter [de]	48	Potsdam	Brandenburg	Three farmers were travelling through the Babelsberg area to trade grain for goods, which was illegal in the GDR. They were spotted by four Volkspolizei officers, who ordered them to stop for a search, but the group instead accelerated to flee. One officer then fired a warning shot at the group, which struck one of the farmers in the head who died at a hospital. The other two men were able to escape to West Berlin. The officer who fired the killing shots was identified as Werner W. through contemporary reports after reunification, but he denied the charge and claimed one of his three colleagues, who were left unnamed, had instead opened fire. He was not charged because there was reasonable doubt for his claim.
1951-07-14	Pokrzywinski, Arthur [de]	45	Schönefeld	Brandenburg	A suspected smuggler was able to escape custody shortly after arrest. Two officers pursued the man as he was heading towards West Berlin, but as one of them caught up, a scuffle occurred. Because the officer believed the smuggler was about to grab his gun, he fired a shot that killed the suspect.
1951-08-14	Dunkel, Martin [de]	36	Schönefeld	Brandenburg	A farmer was arrested on suspicion of smuggling grain to West Berlin, but escaped as he was being escorted to a police station on foot. He ignored several warning shots before an officer fatally shot him from behind. Although reports gave the name of the shooter, Willi S., neither he or the others involved could not be tracked down following reunification, due to which the investigation was shut down.
1951-08-28	Stütz, Rudolf	30	East Berlin	Berlin	Shortly before the end of his shift, a West German police officer was shot in the stomach and thigh during a shootout with two border police officers and two Soviet soldiers at the Lichterfelde-Steglitz checkpoint and died a few days later on 2 September. There are conflicting accounts of the events. GDR records stated that the officer had crossed the border and shot at the guards, who returned fire. The officer claimed before his death that he had accompanied a woman who had asked for an escort to the checkpoint, where East German soldiers and police officers had tried to pull him over the turnpike into East Germany while shooting at him, to which he returned fire being let go. Fellow colleagues testified that the officer had been drinking that night, with a suspect in the shooting, a former border officer questioned in 1993, saying that he and the deceased were drinking buddies, but that he had to turn him away several times before the same night when he came over to chat. The border officer claimed he was sleeping in the checkpoint at the time and not involved in the shooting. It remains unknown whether the West German officer stepped over the border or not.

1952

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1952-04-26	Gerbholz, Heinrich [de]	41	Großziehten	Brandenburg	A farmer was supposed to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling, as he was known to associate with the border police and traded with them, also taking them out to West Berlin, both against their regulations. The farmer attempted to flee and was shot in the stomach, apparently by a warning shot. The officers involved were transferred and after reunification, although their names were known, they could not be tracked down, thus the investigation was halted
1952-05-11	Müller, Philipp [de]	21	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a forbidden protest against West Germany's rearmament organised by leftist and pacifist groups, police opened fire on the crowd, killing a member of the NRW Free German Youth, as well as injuring another two protesters. Police defended their actions, stating that they had been pelted with stones, later also alleging that officers believed that gunshots were being fired at them, with no evidence for the latter. Despite appeals for a investigative committee into the shooting by the Communist Party of Germany, the court of Dortmund deemed the use of deadly force as self-defense.[30]
1952-06-02	Fickelschee, Gerhard	20	Klein Glienicke	Brandenburg	A commuter refused to show his papers at a checkpoint into West Berlin, where he worked, and tried to escape border police. After a warning shot was fired, the officers fatally shot him from behind.

1953

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1953-02-19	Fraunhofer, Ludwig [de]	24	East Berlin	Berlin	Two men from West Berlin travelled to East Berlin to go on a drinking binge, as alcohol was cheaper there. They later entered a checkpoint in Treptow to return, but one of the men could not state his reason for entering and was also unable to provide documents besides a POW release certificate; the man had eloped with his girlfriend from Zeitz a month earlier and only recently applied for new ID papers. He subsequently ran past the checkpoint to the West German side, chased by a Volkspolizei officer, who ordered him to stop and fired two warning shots before shooting the man in the back. He was declared dead at a police hospital. The officers involved were praised by their superiors, with the shooter receiving a salary bonus and extra vacation days. The shooter was identified after reunifcation and sentenced to one year imprisonment for manslaughter in 1996.
1953-02-21	Grubenstein, Willy [de]	48	East Berlin	Berlin	Two trucks approaching a Friedrichshain checkpoint into West Berlin were signalled to stop for a search, but instead slowed down slightly before accelerating again. Volkspolizei fired at both vehicles, injuring the female passenger of the first truck while killing the driver of the second. It was revealed that the trucks contained the belongings of a couple from Thuringia and that the deceased man was a gift shop owner who had agreed to help the couple escape East Germany. Despite attempts to find the shooter, the investigation was halted due to a lack of leads.
1953-06-23	Röhling, Wolfgang [de]	15	East Berlin	Berlin	A group of teenage boys were trying to gain access to the Berlin–Spandau Ship Canal for bathing, but were denied by the two guarding Volkspolizei officers, due to orders to temporarily block any possible way into West Berlin in the aftermath of the East German uprising of June 1953. Due to this, the teenagers began throwing stones from a distance and shouting insults at the officers. A troop of Kasernierte Volkspolizei from a neighbouring post saw this and threatened the group, most of whom took cover behind a stone wall, safe for one, who continued to stand by the riverside. A KVP officer then shot the remaining boy in the head, before another shot to the back of the head killed him as he tried to leave. A total of 21 shots were fired. The shooter was never identified.
1953-08-18	Schulz, Theodor [de]	51	East Berlin	Berlin	A man who was wanted for participating in protests against the SED was shot twice in the head by three KVP officers in Wedding. There are conflicting reports about the preceding events, with GDR records stating that he had assaulted officers with a briefcase after being asked to provide ID, while West Berlin police stated that he ran away from a search while trying to cross into West Berlin with several others.
1953-12-18	Prey, Richard [de]	45	East Berlin	Berlin	A man from West Berlin ran away from customs control at a checkpoint; he had bought cheaper groceries in East Berlin and was trying to bring them back over the border, which constituted as smuggling by East German authorities. After failing to respond to verbal commands and a warning shot, a Volkspolizei officer shot the man twice in the lower torso. He died the same night at a hospital despite emergency surgery. After reunification, the shooter, Alfred F., could not be tracked down and the investigation was halted.

1954

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1954-11-21	Minckwitz, Alfred Hans	47	East Berlin	Berlin	A man tried to escape border police after being unable to provide identifying papers and after several warning shots, he was shot in the back, later dying at Charité hospital.
1954-08-10	Doebbecke, Conrad [de]	65	East Berlin	Berlin	A man from Wannsee in West Berlin drove into East German territory near the checkpoint Dreilinden, where he observed traffic for several minutes before driving back towards the highway. Although city commandant Pyotr Dibrova [de] had ordered a cessation of searches following backlash over the death of Joachim Wozniak [de] through drunk Soviet soldiers, two border policemen still tried to order the car to stop due to the suspicious incident, which instead accelerated. After a warning shot, four aimed gunshots were fired, three of which hit the driver in the left shoulder, left thigh and the hip. He was subsequently bandaged and brought to a hospital in Potsdam by the officers. Despite successful emergency surgery and a good prognosis, he died on 8 September from his wounds. The deceased had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease and was driving without a licence, as stated by his wife. His killing was widely publicised as he was a real estate owner in Berlin and also a famed antiques salesman and art collector, who sold over a hundred paintings to the Landesmuseum Hannover. It was not widely reported that he was an early member of the Nazi Party who had worked in the legal system as a jurist and obtained most of the artwork and land through seized property from Aryanisation.[31][32] The officer who fired the killing shots was identified after reunification, but not charged as the statute of limitations had run out, since an investigation was already headed at the time of the shooting.
1954-11-15	Nettesheim, Helene	22	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A sports car did not stop after being signalled by a police officer due to a countrywide search for a gang of highway robbers. The officer fired a shot from his submachine gun at the fleeing vehicle, fatally striking the passenger, the wife of the driver, who later stated that he tried to avoid the traffic check because he was driving the car, which he was supposed to sell, without the owner's permission to attend his grandmother's 80th birthday and did not have papers for the vehicle. An article about the death inspired director Géza von Cziffra to make the 1955 film Bandits of the Autobahn.[33][34]

1955

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1955-01-29	Meier, Johannes	69	Buckow	Brandenburg	A man was found cowering by the border to West Berlin by two border police officers. After he did not respond to verbal commands, an officer shot the man in the chest from a distance of six meters. The deceased had fled the GDR in 1953 and resided in West Berlin as a tolerated refugee. He had suffered from psychosis and been released from a two month stay at mental asylum after being on suicide watch 17 days earlier.[35]
1955-04-21	Schwietzer, Wilhelm [de]	44	Kleinmachnow	Brandenburg	A man from West Berlin was arrested at Dreilinden S-Bahn by border police. He had formerly been a farmer in East German Cottbus, but moved away to avoid a fine illegal forest clearing to sell lumber in January 1950. Due to this, he was wanted and would have to serve 18 months in prison. Four police officer were escorting him to the station when he attempted to escape on foot and after a warning shot, at least two officers shot him 14 times in the back, after which he died at a hospital. Two of the officers were found after reunification, but they denied being the shooters. Since it could not be proven that they were responsible, the investigation was halted in December 1996.
1955-06-30	Bröker, Fredi [de]	29	East Berlin	Berlin	A car driving into East Berlin was stopped by a Volkspolizei officer for an ID check. Afterwards, the officer got into the passenger seat and asked the man to drive up to the checkpoint further up. Instead, the driver put the car in reverse in direction of West Berlin. The officer then shot the driver in the arm, piercing into his stomach before exiting the car via tuck and roll. Heavily injured, the man managed to maneuver his car into West Berlin, where police brought him to a hospital, where he died on 5 July. It was found that the deceased was a former GDR citizen who had escaped East Germany after being arrested during the 1953 protests and took up the false identity of "Wolfgang Pankow". Despite being unemployed, he lived a wealthy lifestyle, owning an expensive BMW and living in a large apartment with several others. A search of the home yielded a number of licence plates, photo developing equipment, and several boxes, the contents of which were not disclosed by police. It's suspected that he was a member of an anti-communist organisation or a spy of a West German government agency.
1955-09-18	Borstel, Otto	22	East Berlin	Berlin	A man was shot by a Volkspolizei officer during a car search.
1955-11-21	Runge, Wilhelm [de]	28	East Berlin	Berlin	A Volkspolizei officer was observing an abandoned property after he saw two men stealing scrap metal from there. He mistook two other men who had crossed over from West Berlin for the thieves and gave chase when they turned back to the border. The officer fired a warning shot before shooting one of the men in the back. The man died on the way to the hospital. The shooter was identified, but could not be tracked down after reunification.
1955-12-30	Tögel, Walter [de]	34	East Berlin	Berlin	Volkspolizei stopped a cyclist for a search at a checkpoint into West Berlin. Because he was trying to smuggle several pounds of sausage, ham, and butter in his backpack, the man attempted to evade the officers, but he was pushed of his bike during the struggle. The man attempted to cross the border, but an officer shot him after firing several warning shots. The man was still able to make it to West Berlin territory, where he was brought to a hospital where he died the same day.

1956

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1956-03-26	Scholz, Hans-Roland	15	East Berlin	Berlin	A teenager was shot and killed by border police while attempting to escape to West Berlin with some colleagues.

1957

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1957-04-15	Auris, Else	48	Großbeeren	Brandenburg	A woman was shot in Osdorfer Forest by border police while fleeing towards West Berlin and died at the scene from her wounds.

1960s[edit]

1960

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1960-11-05	Czori, Joska [de]	27	Hamburg	Hamburg	A fight broke out at a butcher's shop in Niendorf between Polish Roma, store staff, and other patrons after a member of the Roma had cut in line and was punched in the face by the owner. Police were called about a "brawl with gypsy involvement" and after beating some of them with nightsticks, a 47-year-old officer fired on three of the Roma, killing two and injuring one, reportedly because one had grabbed an officer's baton.[29]
1960-11-05	Kwiek, Karol	26	Hamburg	Hamburg	A fight broke out at a butcher's shop in Niendorf between Polish Roma, store staff, and other patrons after a member of the Roma had cut in line and was punched in the face by the owner. Police were called about a "brawl with gypsy involvement" and after beating some of them with nightsticks, a 47-year-old officer fired on three of the Roma, killing two and injuring one, reportedly because one had grabbed an officer's baton.[29]

1961

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1961-12-03	N.N.	21	Brühl	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two car thieves were incidentally stopped by a police patrol near a forest as they were driving a vehicle they had stolen three weeks earlier. The officers were shot at with a hunting rifle, leading them to return fire, during which one of the thieves was fatally shot.[36]
1961-12-14	N.N.	20	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police caught a man in the process of stealing a car. Upon spotting the officers heading his way, he drove away, with the officers trying to stop him by shooting at the car's tires, but as they were aiming too high, the bullets struck the driver instead, causing his death.[37]

1962

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1962-03-22	N.N.	23	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Passerby called police because a man was threatening his wife with a knife near the Aachener Weiher. Police arrived to find the man stabbing the woman, and after several verbal commands and warning shots, he was shot in the heart when he did not desist.[38]
1962-05-23	Göring, Peter [de]	21	East Berlin	Berlin	A soldier of the Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic, who was part of a patrol group along the border canal between East and West Berlin. On 23 May 1962, he observed a 14-year-old boy within the currents trying to hide himself from the guards. To prevent him from committing Republikflucht, several GDR-border guards shot at the boy in the river, injuring him with eight gunshots to the back. Göring left his post in the guard tower despite superior orders in an attempt to get in position for a clearer shot on the boy, also disregarding the general policy of not shooting towards at West German territory. The shots rang past a West German police patrol that had coincidentally passed by and was attempting to assist the boy, which led the officers to return fire on the guards, fatally hitting Göring and injuring another guard. Two bullets hit Göring directly, the deadly wound was caused by another bullet's ricochet.[39]
1962-08-14	Arnstadt, Rudi	35	Wiesenfeld	Thüringen	Two soldiers of the Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic, Rudi Arnstadt and Karlheinz Roßner, encountered a West German Bundesgrenzschutz officer on East German territory and told him to leave. When the pair spotted another three BGS officers trespassing, they ambushed them with their guns drawn to put them under arrest. Roßner fired a warning shot and in reaction to this, one of the BGS officers, 23-year-old Hans Plüschke [de], then fatally shot Arnstadt above the right eye before returning to the West German side, telling his superiors they had been shot at. East German authorities sentenced Plüschke to 25 years imprisonment in absentia, but his extradition was not approved since Plüschke was not charged in West Germany, which deemed the shooting self-defense based on Plüschke's version of events. On 15 March 1998, 9 years after the dissolution of the SED and the reunification of Germany, Plüschke, who had now been working as a taxi driver, was found murdered on B84 near Hünfeld, around 10 km from Wiesenfeld, dead from a gunshot wound above the right eye. Plüschke had revealed his identity as the shooter in a RTL segment in 1993 and again in October 1997, due to which he had been receiving anonymous death threats. Former colleagues of Arnstadt, as well as his son and daughter were questioned, but no leads were obtained and the murder remains unsolved.

1966

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1966-08-03	Sch., Jürgen	31	Hamminkeln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called after motorists reported a man from Griesheim for "unsociable behaviour" at a rest stop. The man engaged the officers in a footchase through shrubbery and was shot when an officer's gun accidentally discharged. Ammunition was found in his car, leading investigators to believe that the man, who had only one prior recorded incident with police, had been involved in criminal activity.[38]

1967

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1967-06-02	Ohnesorg, Benno	26	West Berlin	West Berlin	During a demonstration against the state visit of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the West-Berlin police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras shot and killed a 26-year-old civilian, Benno Ohnesorg, with a close-range pistol shot to the back of the head. The ensuing post-killing investigation suffered from missing pieces of evidence, arranged testimonies of the attending policemen, and cover-ups in the medical record of the autopsy. In 2009, it was discovered that Karl-Heinz Kurras was listed as an informal collaborator of the East German secret police Stasi, and a long-time member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the ruling East German Communist party, providing internal information of the West Berlin political police.[40]

1968

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1968-01-30	N.N.		Homberg	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A burglar was spotted on the roof of a two-story apartment building by patrons of a nearby pub. Upon being confronted by police, the burglar disobeyed orders to stay put and broke into a flat, beating a 68-year-old man into submission before jumping from a window onto the nearby street after finding the door out locked. He was shot by a police officer when he attempted to attack him with a screwdriver, dying on the way to a hospital. He remained unidentified.[38]

1970s[edit]

1971

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1971-07-15	Schelm, Petra	20	Hamburg	Hamburg	A member of the RAF, Schelm was shot in the face while fleeing from police, after she and Werner Hoppe [de] had broken through a police road block.[41]
1971-08-04	Rammelmayr, Hans Georg [de]	31	München	Bayern	Two bank robbers, Hans Georg Rammelmayr and Dimitri Todorov [de], held up a Deutsche Bank location. Police had complied with their demands for two million mark and a getaway vehicle, but once Rammelmayr entered the car as the last one, police marksmen opened fire, striking him and one of the hostages, killing both. Police initially assumed that Rammelmayr had shot the hostage in his dying moments, but the attending medical team, which included the incumbent second mayor of Munich Hans Steinkohl, and the pathologist found that the caliber she had been shot with did not belong to the PPSh-41 he had been carrying.[42]
1971-08-04	Reppel, Ingrid	20	München	Bayern	Two bank robbers, Hans Georg Rammelmayr and Dimitri Todorov [de], held up a Deutsche Bank location. Police had complied with their demands for two million mark and a getaway vehicle, but once Rammelmayr entered the car as the last one, police marksmen opened fire, striking him and one of the hostages, killing both. Police initially assumed that Rammelmayr had shot the hostage in his dying moments, but the attending medical team, which included the incumbent second mayor of Munich Hans Steinkohl, and the pathologist found that the caliber she had been shot with did not belong to the PPSh-41 he had been carrying.[42]
1971-12-04	von Rauch, Georg	24	West Berlin	Berlin	A member of the militant anarchist 2 June Movement opened fire during a traffic check and was shot by police while his fellow anarchist, 24-year-old Bommi Baumann, escaped.

1972

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1972-02-04	Duifhus	N.N.	Duisburg	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A police patrol attempted to stop Duifhus for a traffic violation, causing him to flee. When he was eventually stopped and ordered to raise his hands, he took his hand from a pocket and was shot, because the officer felt threatened.[43]
1972-03-01	Epple, Richard [de]	17	Herrenberg	Baden-Württemberg	Epple fled in a car from the police and broke through two road blocks. Police presumed him to be a wanted RAF terrorist and ordered officers to stop the car by all means. Epple, drunk and without a driver's license, died from a shot through the rear window.[44]
1972-03-02	Weisbecker, Thomas	23	Augsburg	Bayern	Member of the 2 June Movement. Weisbecker was shot by police officers during an arrest attempt. The incident's details are unclear.[45]
1972-09-06	Hamid, Afif Ahmed	N.N.	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-06	Thaa, Ahmed Chic	N.N.	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-06	Afif, Luttif	27 or 35	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-06	Jawad, Kahlid	18	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-06	Nazzal, Yusuf	35	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by pursuant police officers when he tried to escape at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-25	McLeod, Ian	34	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	A British citizen, McLeod was shot through a closed door during a raid of his apartment, which the police mistakenly believed to be a RAF safehouse.[46]

1973

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1973-02-12	Stülper, Manfred	24	Radevormwald	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During an attempted arrest of a serial burglar in Hagen, the suspect opened fire on the two dispatched policemen with a revolver, hitting 34-year-old police officer Manfred Tophoven in the upper arm, grazing the chest of 22-year-old officer Wolfgang Ritz as well as injuring his own mother. The offender escaped in his car over B229, taking Tophoven with him as a hostage at gunpoint. Despite Tophoven telling his partner to not pursue them, police surrounded the vehicle at a red light. As Tophoven attempted to dissuade his colleagues from approaching, the burglar fatally shot his hostage four times in the back. The kidnapper died at a hospital after being struck by two shots in the chest and throat by police.[38][47]
1973-05-31	Lehmann, Anton	53	Heidelberg	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called over a dispute between a pub owner and customer who had come to buy a crate of beer for his mother's birthday, but didn't want to pay for bottle deposit. The owner's mother then threatened the customer and his son with a pizzle whip. The father-son pair damaged the interior and beat both women up in response. Five officers were sent to the family home, wielding batons at the ready, and fought with the man and three of his sons, all armed with wooden boards or spades, who shouted insults at them. A bystander reportedly fired a gas pistol at the scuffle to assist the officers. The fight ended when 8 shots were fired by a 23-year-old injured police officer, striking the father 4 times while the others struck his sons. The shooting was deemed self-defense and the sons were given sentences of up to 2 years imprisonment for assault. An investigation in 2020 showed that the family was regularly discriminated against by locals due to their Romani heritage and had regular run-ins with the law for defamation and assault. The deceased, who had survived internment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, had called the police officers "Nazi swine", apparently because the pub owner's mother had previously told him, "Ihr dreckigen Zigeuner gehört vergast" ("You filthy gypsies should be gassed").[29][48]
1973-08-21	Dobhardt, Erich	17	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A homeless teenager who had previously evaded arrest for multiple thefts was shot in the back by 31-year-old police officer Rolf Diehl while he ran from police for stealing a stereo. Diehl was charged with negligent homicide and sentenced to six months imprisonment and probation in May 1975. On 2 November 1973, members of the Red Army Faction named the first building they illegally occupied in Dortmund after the victim.[49][50]

1974

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1974-01-06	N.N.		Olpe	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A woman called police because her husband was threatening her with a pistol. The man injured one of the officers with a gunshot during the confrontation and was fatally shot in return.[38]
1974-04-18	Martin-Gonzales, Emilio Humberto	28	Hamburg	Hamburg	A young Colombian student was robbing a bank in the city of Hamburg [de], took hostages and fatally shot a police officer. After negotiations, he attempted to escape in a car given to him by the police. When exiting the bank with a hostage, a knife pressed to their throat, a police officer shot the robber in the head from behind at close range.[51]
1974-05-21	Jendrian, Günther	24	München	Bayern	In search of a wanted felon, plain-clothed masked police officers raided an apartment. Police shot through Jendrian's apartment door and walls before entering. It is reported that Jendrian had reached for his smallbore rifle and was shot because of this. It turned out he was mistaken for a serial bankrobber. Whether he recognized the intruders as police officers is unclear.[52]
1974-06-18	Routhier, Günter [de]	45	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Routhier, an early retired man, was a visitor at a court hearing. After disturbances, the room was cleared by police officers, carrying Routhier down a stair hall. During this, his head hit the wall and floor. He died two weeks later from intercranial bleedings.[53]
1974-08-30	N.N.		Minden	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A robber was killed by two shots in the torso after he had non-fatally shot a female clerk and a police officer.[38]

1975

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1975-05-09	Sauber, Werner [de]	29	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Member of the 2 June Movement. When he and two other terrorists got into a police control, they opened fire on the police, killing officer Walter Pauli [de]. During the shootout, he was hit and later died on the way to the hospital.

1976

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1976-01-02	Breyer, Stephan	19	Hamburg	Hamburg	An armed bank robber was shot during a gunfight with responding police.[54][55]
1976-03-19	N.N.	36	Mosbach-Neckar	Baden-Württemberg	A mentally ill woman was threatening her parents with an axe at the family home. Responding medical and police services were similarly threatened and after tear gas failed, the woman was shot.[54]
1976-03-24	N.N.	35	Münchhausen	Hessen	Police attempted to arrest a wanted man convicted of assault and unlawful possession of firearms at his parents' house. He was shot after pointing a gun at the officers.[54]
1976-04-22	N.N.	29	Friedrichshafen	Baden-Württemberg	A man was threatening to kill his wife and child with a knife at a camping site. While police surrounded his tent, officers fired on the man after he non-fatally stabbed his child.[54][56]
1976-05-07	Sippel, Fritz	22	Dreieich	Hessen	A girl wrongly identified a man in a group of five at a lake in Sprendlingen as an exhibitionist in a police call. During an attempted arrest of the man, two of his friends started a shootout with six police officers which ended with one officer dead from shots in the neck and stomach and the group, later linked to the RAF, on the run. Two known criminals were arrested two weeks later, one of whom admitted to being a RAF affiliate and acknowledged having been the man being arrested, but did not identify the other arrested suspect as one of the shooters, with both being cleared of homicide charges when forensic analysis revealed that the officer had been accidentally shot by a colleague, 23-year-old Rolf Korol. His death is still counted as a killing by the RAF since his death involved their members.[57][58]
1976-06-20	Damrijanovic, Stevica	26	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A man fled police when a routine traffic stop revealed that he was carrying forged documents. After being apprehended at a bar, he injured a police officer with a broken beer glass and was shot after again attempting escape.[54][59]
1976-12-26	N.N.	56	Herzebrock	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A former forester threatened a group of teenagers with a gun because they were trying to stop him from driving drunk. The man then shot at arriving police and fled back home by car, where he was shot by police when he attempted to open fire again.[60]
1976-XX-XX	N.N.				A total of eight fatal police shootings were recorded 1976, though one was not given a detailed report.

1977

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1977-02-05	Linden, Hans Georg	19	Nürburg	Rheinland-Pfalz	During a biker meet-up at Nürburgring, which part of the annual Elefantentreffen motorcycle rally, a plainclothed officer tried to break up a group of around 20 people engaged in a scuffle inside a festival tent, using pepper spray on the crowd before leaving the scene. When he returned, the bikers recognised him and engaged in melee for agitating them, unaware that he was a police officer. Two shots were fired in self-defense, striking an uninvolved teenager nearby. Police initially reported that the deceased was part of the group that attacked the policeman and reported that he had been tested positively for alcohol intoxication without disclosing that the shooting had occurred during a celebration.[61][62]
1977-02-11	Lichtenberg, Peter	14	Rodenbach	Hesse	A teenager was making loud noise while playing inside of an abandoned house. Neighbours alerted the police after they hear screaming. Two officers and their police dog searched the place and shot the teenager from a distance of three meters after he accidentally startled them by reaching out to close a door. His last words were reportedly "Darf denn die Polizei auf Kinder schießen?" ("Can the police shoot at children?"). The officers were acquitted of all charges.[63]
1977-02-28	Batos, Joannis	26	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Attendees of a carnival Rosenmontag party called emergency services because a guest had approached the group and told them that he was "putting an end to it, I took 40 pills" ("Ich mache Schluss, ich habe 40 Tabletten genommen"). Despite the group asking for an ambulance and reiterating that the man had insisted that he wasn't drunk, a squad car was sent in instead, who subsequently tried to bring him to the police station. The man resisted, due to which five officers fixated him to the ground, with witnesses stating that the arrest left him with cuts and bruises. He died during the night inside a jail cell from an overdose of sleeping pills he had ingested earlier. Police initially reported that the Greek electrician had been heavily intoxicated and choked to death on his own vomit, with the station's coroner attesting that the deceased's mouth and stomach cavity smelled of alcohol, despite tests showing that his blood alcohol level were zero.[64]
1977-04-13	Schlaudraff, Helmut	43	B49	Hessen	A sheep farmer driving on a country road from Idstein to Wetzlar was mistaken for a sheep thief by police due to overlapping, faulty intel. Unmarked patrol vehicles followed the farmer without his knowledge before forcing his truck off the road. A plainclothed officer then walked up to the vehicle, threw open the door and shot the driver in the neck, killing him instantly.[65][66] The officer in question was sentenced to three months probation.[54]
1977-04-22	Dresler/Dräsler, Eberhard	28	Solingen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two armed men carjacked a motorist and passenger. During a subsequent shootout with police, one of the kidnappers was shot and killed.[54][65][67]
1977-05-09	Linnemann	62	Göttingen	Niedersachsen	A woman died of asphyxiation after she was exposed to pepper spray during a police operation.
1977-05-28	Nöhling, Peter	31	West Berlin	Berlin	A robbery attempt targeting a Metro office was thwarted by two passing police officers. As the robber shot at police, an employee restrained the robber. The police continued shooting, leading to the death of the robber and the employee and another officer being wounded.[65]
1977-06-27	Al Halawani, Walid	37	West Berlin	Berlin	A man from Jordan engaged police in a high-speed car chase. When the officers tried to arrest him, the man reached for his breast pocket, causing one officer to fire. The pocket was found to contain a stiletto knife.[65]
1977-07-05	Schlichting, Gustav	34	Bochum	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called after reports came in that Gustav Schlichting of Wattenscheid was damaging his mother's pub with an excavator from his construction company while under the influence of alcohol. By the time two officers arrived, the argument had been resolved by neighbours. Upon seeing the police, Schlichting became agitated and fought both officers in a fistfight inside the pub, leaving them bloodied and bruised. According to the family lawyer, after the younger officer retreated back to the squad car, the older of the pair, 38 year old Dieter Haarmann, who had responded to previous calls involving Schlichting, appeared to follow suit. Schlichting then grabbed a broom and drunkenly waved it in the officers direction in a gesture of anger and mockery. Haarmann proceeded to walk past the car, unholstered his Walther PPK and suddenly turned around, firing one round, hitting Schlichting in the chest, fatally piercing his lungs. Haarmann was charged with involuntary manslaughter.[68]
1977-07-24	Pollaczek, Rudolf	17	Herne	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A teenage general labourer had been thrown out of the house after a drunken argument with his brother. The family called police when the teenager continued to yell at his brother from the courtyard while wielding a knife. Two officers were sent in, before another two came as backup and later testified they had tried to engage in "amicable talk" when the teenager either lunged at the officers or threatened to do so. He was fatally shot in the left eye.[68]
1977-07-XX	N.N.		Schwerte	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A foreign migrant worker died from blunt head trauma in police custody. Police ascribed the death to an accidental fall.
1977-08-06	Kirmizi, Sadat	20	München	Bayern	A Turkish man headed for Garmisch was accidentally shot in the head at a traffic stop. Despite the ruling, the officer claimed that the man had reached for his gun and thus caused the discharge.[65][69]
1977-09-26	N.N.	16	Walsrode	Niedersachsen	A teenager previously known for youth delinquency was shot while attempting to flee from authorities after a botched burglary.[65][70]
1977-10-14	N.N.	18	Seesen	Niedersachsen	At a court hearing, the defendant attempted escape from the building. A judicial officer attempted to stop him, claiming that he was aiming for the defendant's legs, but he was instead fatally shot in the torso.[54][71]
1977-10-28	N.N.		Kaiserslautern	Rheinland-Pfalz	A bank robber was shot nine times while fleeing from authorities after he pulled out a gun during the chase.[54][72]
1977-10-18	Duaibes Yousouf, Nadja Shehadah	22	Mogadishu	Somalia	Member of the PFLP. She was shot by GSG 9 officers during the liberation of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181.[73][74]
1977-10-18	Harb, Nabil	23	Mogadishu	Somalia	Member of the PFLP. He was shot by GSG 9 officers during the liberation of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181.[73][74]
1977-10-18	Akache, Zohair Youssif [de]	23	Mogadishu	Somalia	Member of the PFLP. He was shot by GSG 9 officers during the liberation of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181.[73][74]
1977-11-2	Heitkämper, H.J.	33	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber was shot during a hostage situation after dousing a female employee in ethanol and threatening to set her on fire.[75]
1977-11-02	Rescher, Udo Rolf	33	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A man was identified as a wanted burglar during a security check of his person. The man pulls out a gun and attempts to shoot the officer conducting the check, leading to a fire exchange that ends with the man fatally shot.[76]
1977-11-04	N.N.	20	Bonn	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two GSG 9 officers posted outside the villa property of foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher mishandled their weapons by playing a game of quick draw, leading to a misfire that killed one of the officers.[77]
1977-11-10	Kronthaler		Langweid	Bayern	During an attempt to seize several firearms from a gun collector, two officers were injured when the owner fired at them with a revolver before other officers were able to shoot him.[54][78]
1977-12-10	S., Alfred	25	Königsbronn	Baden-Württemberg	A wanted man resisted arrest from a taskforce inside his apartment. After producing a handgun and firing a shot, the officers returned fire and killed the offender.[54][79]

1978

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1978-01-07	Beinert, Klaus	24	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	During a physical argument inside a stairwell, 50 year old police officer Karl Eppstein, who was intoxicated at the time, shot an automechanic in Riederwald out visiting friends after feeling that his "peace had been disturbed". Eppstein later denied being drunk, instead alleging that the automechanic had been and that his death was self-defense. Further investigation was suspended.[54][65][80][81][82]
1978-02-18	N.N.	37	Aachen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A 31 year old policeman accidentally shot an innkeeper during a taxi inspection.[54][65]
1978-03-29	N.N.		Limburg	Hessen	Two burglars were caught during a kiosk break-in. During the subsequent fire exchange, one of the burglars is fatally shot along with an officer.[54][83]
1978-04-08	Müller, Klaus	34	Hamburg	Hamburg	A bank robber was shot after escaping the scene with a taxi and holding a police officer hostage. It was discovered that the robber was using a gas pistol.[54]
1978-08-15	Liebig, Heinrich	29	Darmstadt	Hessen	Police were called to a domestic incident involving a woman and her child being harassed by her separated husband. Upon their arrival, the husband threatened to kill his child with a knife, leading to an altercation between him and two officers, during which a police sidearm discharged and killed the husband.[54][84]
1978-09-06	Stoll, Willy Peter [de]	28	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Member of the RAF. Willy Peter Stoll was visiting a restaurant when he was recognized by another guest, who then informed the police. Several police units surrounded the building. Two officers in plain clothes entered the restaurant, pretending to order a meal. When they confronted him, he tried to reach for his gun and was shot four times. He died before reaching the hospital.[85]
1978-10-08	Knoll, Michael [de]	21	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Member of the RAF. Michael Knoll and two other RAF terrorists, Angelika Speitel and Werner Lotze [de] who were practising shooting in a forest when staggered by the police. In the ensuing shootout, Knoll was injured and died two weeks later. Police officer Hans-Wilhelm Hansen also suffered fatal injuries.[86]
1978-10-19	Leupold, Peter	31	Amberg	Bayern	As police attempted to arrest a man in his apartment, he began threatening the officers with a gas pistol through a locked door. Police shot through the door and killed the man.[54][87]
1978-11-17	Böttrich, Ulf	33	Soltau	Niedersachsen	A truck driver unknowingly attempted to leave an area under police observation. When he exited his vehicle, an officer claimed his submachine gun accidentally discharged, hitting the truck driver, who died from his injuries in December.[54][88]
1978-12-18	N.N.	23	München	Bayern	An inmate managed to grab a judicial officer's pistol and beat him to the ground with it. A firefight ensued when other judicial officers responded, eventually fatally wounding the inmate.[54][89]

1979

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1979-01-31	Kontsoudopoulous, Athanasios	22	Hamburg	Hamburg	A burglar armed with a handgun was shot 16 times at the scene of the break-in. The number of shots was explained due to darkness.[54][90]
1979-02-21	Hoffmann, Erwin	43	Bamberg	Bayern	Police approached two suspected thieves for an arrest when one brandished an iron bar at them. A warning shot was fired and after the thief did not desist, he was fatally shot twice.[54][91]
1979-04-30	Drindl, Manfred	27	Landshut	Bayern	Police shot and killed an armed bank robber during a negotiated handoff of ransom money to end a hostage situation.[54][92]
1979-05-04	von Dyck, Elisabeth [de]	28	Nürnberg	Bayern	Member of the RAF. Elisabeth von Dyck was shot in the back when she tried to pull out her holstered gun, after encountering police officers in her apartment.[93]
1979-05-07	Mettbach, Karl	53	Hagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A businessman from Hamburg was under police observation since they believed that he had bought a stolen car from a friend with suspected affiliation to Romani criminal gangs; the men were Sinti and Roma respectively. Plainclothed officers had tailed the man to a visit to his friend's house, and decided to put him under arrest when he returned to the property upon realizing he was being followed. During the arrest an officer trained his gun on him to "keep him in check" and as the man was being ordered to turn around, he was shot in the forehead when the gun discharged by accident. The deceased's daughter, who was in the car during the arrest, his friend, and police officers testified that he had been compliant during the entire arrest and that the shot occurred at a distance of around 50 cm.[29][54][94]
1979-05-17	Wichert, Maximilian	35	München	Bayern	During an arrest, the man in question reached into his jacket pocket, and suspecting he was pulling out a weapon, the Kripo officers fatally shot him. It was determined that the man hadn't been carrying a weapon of any kind, but the death was still ruled self-defense.[54][95]
1979-08-05	Rabe, Wilfried	43	Oldenburg	Niedersachsen	A supermarket owner was mistakenly shot by police alerted to the premises about a potential break-in, as the owner had been carrying gun, later found to be a gas pistol. The owner had been the one to place the call.[54][96]
1979-09-13	Probst, Peter	31	West Berlin	Berlin	Police attempted to apprehend a bank robber in a taxi on a parking lot and fired deadly shots when he allegedly reached for his gun and threw a hand grenade at the officers.[54][97]
1979-12-18	Schmidt, Rainer	29	West Berlin	Berlin	A robber was shot while attempting to hold up an armored bank transporter and died of his wounds almost two months later on 8 February 1980.[54][98]
1979-12-18	W., Wjazeslav	42	Neu-Ulm	Bayern	In what was described as a domestic incident, a Russian in exile known for being mentally imbalanced was fatally shot after threatening police with an axe in Ludwigsfeld.[54][99]

1980s[edit]

1980

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1980-02-21	Heidtmann, Kurt	41	Buxtehud	Niedersachsen	When police approached a man they deemed suspicious, he pulled out a pistol and opened fire, being killed by the officers in self-defense.[100][101]
1980-02-27	Eggebrecht, Andreas	22	West Berlin	Berlin	Two MEK officers overheard a fight happening inside a brothel and found two customers, a father-son pair, kicking the owner on the ground with heavy boots. The officers were then beaten by the men with metal chair legs, knocking one of them unconscious, forcing the remaining officer to use deadly force, with a stray shot injuring his downed colleague as well. The officer reportedly received death threats from friends of the deceased and went on permanent sick leave as a result.[100][102][103]
1980-02-27	Eggebrecht, Erwin	47	West Berlin	Berlin	Two MEK officers overheard a fight happening inside a brothel and found two customers, a father-son pair, kicking the owner on the ground with heavy boots. The officers were then beaten by the men with metal chair legs, knocking one of them unconscious, forcing the remaining officer to use deadly force, with a stray shot injuring his downed colleague as well. The officer reportedly received death threats from friends of the deceased and went on permanent sick leave as a result.[100][102][103]
1980-03-17	N.N.	19	Zweibrücken	Rheinland-Pfalz	An inmate took a hostage with a bladed weapon and was killed by police in what was deemed a "typical fatal shot", meaning the knowingly deadly usage of a firearm was used as no other means were available/had been exhausted.[100][104]
1980-04-03	Perder, Manfred	43	Neuss	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A VW bus with three occupants was stopped during for a road check at a scheduled checkpoint. As the vehicle was slowing down, a 33 year old police officer fired a single shot at the car's windshield with his submachine gun, hitting the driver, an acoustic panel manufacturer from Essen, in the spine and killing him. Allegedly the driver didn't stop his vehicle fast enough and the officer reacted "in a reflex motion". The officer was sentenced to seven months probation.[100][105][106]
1980-05-04	N.N.	51	München	Bayern	A burglar broke into the weekend house of a police officer and was shot dead by the owner after he threatened him with an iron bar.[100]
1980-06-05	N.N.	50	Herford	Nordrhein-Westfalen	As police attempted to apprehend a burglar, the suspect used a pistol to fire twice at the officers, who return fire, killing him. The pistol turned out to be a blank gun.[105]
1980-06-26	G., Ishan		Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A drug dealer was shot while he is arrested and died in custody four weeks later.[100]
1980-07-01	Friebel, Peter	39	Würzburg	Bayern	On 30 June, a man walked into an American Express bank within the grounds of the Leighton Barracks with a concealed gun and took two hostages, 49-year-old loan officer Melvin L. Cochran and 35-year-old SFC Buddy Davis, both American nationals. A cleaning lady who had been in the basement at the time of the stick-up was able to escape. The hostage-taker, who identified himself as "Sergeant Willi Plett", was an American soldier with a German father, demanded 1.4 million U.S. dollars, a getaway vehicle and a flight to an undisclosed country from police for the hostages' safety. After 16 hours of negotiations with German police and U.S. Army officials, the robber was shot by a SEK sniper. Both hostages were left unharmed, with Cochran, an Ozark, Alabama native, remaining in Würzburg and Davis returning to Salt Lake City. Major General Sam Wetzel had given the go-ahead for the marksman to fire on the robber.[100][107][108][109]
1980-09-07	N.N.	46	Bremen	Bremen	A jurist with a known history of mental illness and violence was shot after he non-fatally stabbed a police officer.[100]
1980-10-03	Moysiszik, Detlef	19	Aachen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A robber was shot by police while holding a jewelry at gunpoint. The officer who fired the fatal shots was later put on trial as it was revealed that an accomplice had informed the authorities of the crime in advance and the fact that the perpetrator would be armed with a harmless gas pistol. The officer was later cleared of all charges.[105]
1980-10-24	Marx, Dietmar		West Berlin	Berlin	Two police officers gained entry to the home of a man who had a warrant out for his arrest and waited for him to return. The arrest was bungled when the officers shot another man who entered under unclear circumstances; the man was not the home owner they were expecting. The officer who fired the killing shots was ordered by the court to pay a fine of 4000 DM.[100]
1980-12-22	Golombek, Werner Karl	41	Hanau	Hessen	A police officer killed the alleged lover of his unfaithful wife.[110]
1980-12-31	Schroer, Rolf	31	Saarbrücken	Saarland	A miner's wife called the police as she felt threatened by her husband. Upon arrival, the husband attacked the officers, who then fatally shot him.[100]

1981

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1981-01-23	Köhler, Wilfried	32	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two police officers found a man who did not return after his prison furlough helping his wife move out of her apartment. When the man threatened suicide with a knife, the police deployed tear gas, at which point the man attempted to flee and was fatally shot. The officer in question was initially charged with negligent homicide, but ended up being relieved of all charges.[105]
1981-03-18	Schecke, Uwe	30	Bielefeld	Nordrhein-Westfalen	In a case of mistaken identity, a printer from Hamburg was falsely apprehended by police as an illegal watch dealer and during the arrest, the offending officer claimed he tripped and accidentally discharged the machine gun he was holding, killing the arrestee. The incident was labelled a "tragic case of misfortune" and the officers weren't charged.[105]
1981-06-15	Berger, Alfons	37	Ludwigsmoos	Bayern	A man was shot by police when he exited a house that was under observation while holding a long metal object. Said object was found to be a loaded hunting rifle, but as it was wrapped in plastic, it could not have been fired in its current state.[100][111]
1981-06-25	Kruggel, Ruth	52	Rosenheim	Bayern	A mentally ill housewife shot and killed a police officer and proceeded to shoot several more before she was killed by special commando forces.[100][112]
1981-08-14	Stolz, Dirk	27	Saarbrücken	Saarland	A motorist tried to avoid a traffic stop and was subsequently shot by attending police. The officer in question was tried for manslaughter, but found not guilty on grounds of self-defense.[100][113]
1981-09-12	N.N.	53	Troisdorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A locksmith and hobby gardener was shot five times after a patrol officer came to "see if everything was right" on the gardener's allotment. The gardener had refused the officer entry and tried to forcefully eject him from the property. The officer states that a "threat scenario" had arisen when the gardener pointed his spade at him, forcing him to use deadly force. The gardener died at a hospital and the charges against the officers were dropped due to a lack of witnesses.[105]
1981-09-29	Neu, E.	45	West Berlin	Berlin	A motorist sped off during a traffic stop and was shot after he had brought the vehicle to a halt. The officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 6 months including probation and a fine of 6000 DM in the first instance and 1 year with probation in the second.[100]
1981-10-20	Wolfgram, Kurt	21	München	Bayern	Five members of the neo-Nazi Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit opened fire and detonated a frag grenade as they were being arrested for planning a bank robbery, injuring one officer with shrapnel. The officers retaliated by shooting two of the gang members, during which another officer was hit by a stray bullet.[100][114]
1981-10-20	Uhl, Klaus Ludwig	24	München	Bayern	Five members of the neo-Nazi Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit opened fire and detonated a frag grenade as they were being arrested for planning a bank robbery, injuring one officer with shrapnel. The officers retaliated by shooting two of the gang members, during which another officer was hit by a stray bullet.[100][114]
1981-10-22	Severino, V.		Schwäbisch Gmünd	Baden-Württemberg	After prolonged observation of an occupied car suspected of containing narcotics, a special officer yanked open the passenger door and fired two shots, killing the occupant and shooting himself in the hand. He was tried for manslaughter, but cleared of all charges.[100]
1981-10-26	Klatt, René Douglas	43	Erkelenz	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A murder suspect known for being "trigger-happy" was shot and killed after attempting to escape arresting officers. An officer fired one shot, injuring the suspect, who later died from his wounds in a hospital in Neustadt an der Weinstraße a month later on 27 November .[100][105]
1981-12-06	N.N.	27	Fürth	Bayern	A bank robber was shot as he fled with the loot he had obtained with a gas pistol. The robber was given a warning shot before being gunned down.[100]
1981-12-31	Mardini, A.	24	West Berlin	Berlin	A plainclothed officer conducting a personnel check in a local bar shot and killed a man who threatened him with a knife.[100]

1982

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1981-04-15	Skrabo, Jandrio	31	Hofheim	Hessen	Police officers shot a Croat burglar armed with a gun after a fire exchange.[100]
1981-04-21	N.N.	30	Wesel	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber was shot after he fired at the arriving officers.[100]
1981-05-30	N.N.	31	Aachen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A driving instructor fled from authorities after refusing to stop his car. He was shot after he crashed into a patrol car.[100]
1981-06-27	Jungling, G.	33	Ortenberg	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called to the supposed site of a break-in, but the home owner denied any suspicious activity and tried to forcefully usher the officers out. During the ensuing scuffle, a police firearm discharged, killing the home owner.[100]
1981-07-28	N.N.	29	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A Gambian man was shot while holding another person at knifepoint.[100]
1982-08-21	N.N.	36	Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A judicial officer committed a bank robbery and held three people hostage with a machine gun. One of the hostages, an off-duty police officer, manages to shoot and kill the robber.[105]
1982-10-12	N.N.	24	Tuttlingen	Baden-Württemberg	During an attempted house search, one of the officers attempted to keep the door wedged open with his side-arm, causing it to discharge and kill the resident. The officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaugther and paid a fine of 6500 DM.[100]
1982-11-09	Campagna, Pio	58	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A construction worker was shot and killed when police officers mistakenly believed him to be trespassing into a construction container office. The prosecutor's office launched a probe into the death but ceased their investigation shortly after.[100]
1982-11-21	Piber, Andreas	18	West Berlin	Berlin	Responding to a case of attempted burglary, police officer Jörg Rosentreter fatally shot the student and suspected thief in the back. Rosentreter admitted that he had done this "aimlessly" as it was dark and he was convicted of negligent homicide for which he was sentenced to a total of 3 years and 6 months.[115]
1982-12-15	Sander, Friedrich	52	Wiefelstede	Niedersachsen	A farmer is fatally shot after he threatened police with a revolver when they came to enforce a public health officer's order for involuntary commitment to a mental institution. The gun turned out to be unloaded.[100][116]

1983

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1983-01-06	N.N.		Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber is killed in a shootout after police raid the location.[105]
1983-01-23	G., Hans-Joachim	26	Hamburg	Hamburg	A burglar ran away from police while pointing a pistol at his pursuers. He is shot by MEK, who discover that his gun was non-operational. Public prosecution investigates, but no one is charged.[100]
1983-02-17	N.N.	18	Ditzingen	Baden-Württemberg	A robbery suspect is shot dead after he shot at Kripo officers with a gas pistol at point blank range, leading to eye loss.[100]
1983-03-05	Heins, Alfred "Alf"	18	Hamburg	Hamburg	A plainclothed police officer mistook the teenager for a car thief. Heins was shot in the head from a close distance, with the exact circumstances of the incident being unclear, though likely accidental.[117]
1983-03-07	Kaiser, Joachim	19	Augsburg	Bayern	The teenager was drunk driving. Police officers shot at least sixteen times at his car, killing him.[117]
1983-03-18	Wilck, Florian	63	Neuss	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A retiree who was known to police for mental issues called emergency services to request a police patrol, a common occurrence. He was shot by the officers when he greeted them holding a rifle. The weapon was later found to be an air rifle.[105]
1983-03-20	Bergbauer, Jürgen	14	Gauting	Bayern	30 year old police officer Friedrich K. was on night patrol, because of an ongoing series of burglaries. The officer spotted a "young male figure", later identified as Jürgen Bergbauer, use a lit phone booth before entering a youth center and called for two officers as backup. When the figure passed by a window, the officer fired three shots, the last of which struck the teenager in the head, instantly killing him. Bergbauer had snuck away from home to attend a party and wanted to sleep at the center to avoid a confrontation with his mother. K. later testified he had mistaken the boy for the suspected burglar after being startled, despite having had a clear view of Bergbauer when he used the payphone and the boy standing only 150 cm (4 ft 11 in). Friedrich K. was sentenced to 6 months probation and forced to pay a fine of 3500 DM.[117]
1983-03-22	N.N.	43	Übersee	Bayern	An innkeeper who had shot his girlfriend in a fit of jealousy, was killed in a gunfight he started with responding Kripo.[100]
1983-03-29	N.N.	21	Ötisheim	Baden-Württemberg	A Turkish car thief from Schwäbisch Hall was killed by police in a shootout. He was armed with a gas pistol.[118]
1981-03-31	N.N.	50	Darmstadt	Hessen	A man threatened police officers with a submachine gun. He was fatally shot while fleeing the scene.[119]
1983-06-04	N.N.	30	Oberhausen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two fugitives barricaded themselves in an apartment and open fire on police. During the shootout, one SEK officer is critically injured after being shot in the neck, while one of the suspects is fatally shot.[105]
1983-06-29	F., Manfred	33	Castrop-Rauxel	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A burglar is shot by the responding officer during a break-in due to the suspect holding an unidentified object in his hand.[105]
1983-08-03	Hahn, Michael	38	Hamburg	Hamburg	A man was shot by a police patrol that had caught him attempting to break into a building. He was armed with a gas pistol.[120]
1983-08-07	N.N.	52	Bergisch Gladbach	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a burglary at a villa, police shot the offender when he charged at the officers with a crowbar.[105]
1983-08-25	N.N.	22	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police are called to a dormitory after receiving reports of a knife-wielding masked man skulking around the courtyard. The man, a student, is shot dead when he attempts to flee.[105]
1983-08-25	Freundt, Gerhard	26	Köln-Wesseling	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A drunk cyclist collided with an off-duty policeman driving his private vehicle and carrying his service weapon. A confrontation ensues, during which the officer shot the cyclist. The officer served 8 months in prison when it was determined that he had escalated the situation by immediately taking out his gun.[121]
1983-09-28	Miller, Karl-Heinz	20	Augsburg	Bayern	A group of four men attempted a drive-by on a police officer, who was later found not to have been their intended target. Returning fire killed two of the attackers.[122]
1983-09-28	Miller, Peter	19	Augsburg	Bayern	A group of four men attempted a drive-by on a police officer, who was later found not to have been their intended target. Returning fire killed two of the attackers.[123]
1983-09-29	Delahaye, Karl	40	Alsdorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police responded to a bank robbery. When the two robbers left the bank with two hostages, the officers opened fire on the getaway car with several weapons, including fully automatic submachine guns. Although the robbers were wearing masks and their hostages did not, the officers failed to think of the possibility of them being hostages. In the result, hostage Mertens died at the scene, hostage Delahaye one month later, bank robber Erwin Naujoks was paralyzed, and bank robber Wolfgang Vobis was severely injured.[124]
1983-09-29	Mertens, Alfred	25	Alsdorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police responded to a bank robbery. When the two robbers left the bank with two hostages, the officers opened fire on the getaway car with several weapons, including fully automatic submachine guns. Although the robbers were wearing masks and their hostages did not, the officers failed to think of the possibility of them being hostages. In the result, hostage Mertens died at the scene, hostage Delahaye one month later, bank robber Erwin Naujoks was paralyzed, and bank robber Wolfgang Vobis was severely injured.[124]
1983-11-02	Behl, Peter	25	Hanau	Hessen	Police were called to break up a physical altercation between multiple drunk men in an apartment. One of the men is shot 12 times through the locked door after he threatened to shoot at the officers with a gun, later found to be a gas pistol.[125]
1983-11-03	Sahm, Hardon	28	Bad Wildungen	Hessen	During a routine ID check, four escaped convicts were discovered, two of whom opened fire on police. One is killed in the shootout.[126]

1984

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1984-01-09	M., Sami Salah	22	München	Bayern	Following a call reporting a bar patron threatening a female bartender with a gun, the patron was shot and killed when he threatened police with the same weapon, which was found to be a gas pistol.[127]
1984-01-18	N., Karl-Heinz	40	Hamburg	Hamburg	Plainclothed police responded to a multiple person break-in. After being surprised by the officers, one of the burglars hit an officer in the head with a hammer and is fatally shot in return.[127]
1984-03-28	N.N.	32	Eschlkam	Bayern	A farmer was resisting an alcohol test with a broom and was killed by two accidental discharges from an officer's gun during the struggle.[127]
1984-04-01	R., Uwe	21	Ravensburg	Baden-Württemberg	Police responded to a domestic incident at a private residence. A drunk man aimed a gas pistol at the officers and was shot while attempting to flee the scene.[127]
1984-05-03	Pfitzer, Siegfried	47	Marbach am Neckar	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed Pfitzer with a headshot from his service pistol and used his victim's car as a getaway-vehicle.[128][129]
1984-07-01	W., Klaus Peter	39	Dormagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A drunk driver caused an accident and ran a red light in Köln. As the authorities got the driver to stop and were making him leave his vehicle, an officer's firearm went off after he was pushed by his partner. The driver was hit and killed instantly. The officer was given a fine and probation. Why the gun was pulled and pointed at the driver remains unclear.[115][127]
1984-10-07	F., Mike	16	Einbeck	Niedersachsen	Two teenage escapees from a juvenile detention facility in Greene were being pursued by police while driving a stolen car. One officer fired his submachine gun during the chase, hitting and killing one of the youths.[127]
1984-12-21	Wethey, Eugene Richard	37	Großbottwar	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed Wethey, an English immigrant, with a headshot from his service pistol and used his victim's car as a getaway-vehicle.[128][129]

1985

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1985-01-19/20	N.N.	37	Oberhausen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a nightly home invasion, police shot a resident after being "startled"; the burglar had fled into a neighbor's house. The killing resulted in a sentence of 10 months with probation for the offending officer.[98]
1983-03-12	N.N.	48	Langquaid	Bayern	A farmer barricaded himself in his room when police came to fulfill a state order to have the farmer involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility and after officers forced their way in, the farmer was shot dead for charging at the officers with a hatchet.[130]
1985-03-29	N.N.	45	Würzburg	Bayern	A bank robber fled into a restaurant to avoid detection. Police fired on the robber when he pointed a gun at them, which was found to be a plastic toy.[98]
1985-04-06	N.N.	25	Northeim	Niedersachsen	A motorist attempted to escape the scene of a car crash in Sudheim. After a police vehicle stopped him and conducted a search of his person, the motorist was killed by an accidental gun discharge.[98]
1985-04-18	Rieger, Helmut	33	Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	A drunk police officer shot a fellow officer when he was about to be arrested for a hit-and-run before committing suicide.[98]
1985-05-12	N.N.	45	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A resident of an apartment complex threatened several other tenants with a gun before locking himself in his own flat. After forceful entry by police, the resident fired two shots from the gun, firing blanks, with the officer fatally shooting him in return.[131]
1985-07-07	N.N.	28	Saarwellingen	Saarland	A man who had murdered a roofer at a restaurant was arrested by police after a footchase. He was able to get out of his restraints and pulled out a gun, leading to the attending officers fatally shooting the offender.[98]
1985-07-22	Schneider, Wilfried	26	Ilsfeld	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed Schneider with a headshot from his service pistol and used his victim's car as a getaway-vehicle.[128][129]
1985-08-04	H., Gerhard	60	Langenfeld	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During an attempt to forcefully commit a man to a psychiatric facility, the man grabbed a hatchet and a knife to drive the officers back, and was shot as a result.[98]
1985-08-06	Minwegen, Lorenz	56	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	After a night of heavy drinking, two police officers, 27-year-old Wolfgang Liebau and 26-year-old Ralf Voigt, strangled a fellow patron to death with a necktie in a forest bordering Hilden. The officers gave their motive as robbery, saying that the victim had frequented the same bar as the officers and often bragged about his supposed wealth. They were initially tried for murder, which was reduced to robbery resulting in death, with both receiving 13 year sentences.[105][132][133][134]
1985-09-28	Sare, Günter [de]	36	Frankfurt	Hessen	At a demonstration the police used water cannons to diffuse the protesting crowd. Sare was hit by the water stream and injured severely when hitting the ground. He was later run over by the water cannon under unclear circumstances and died.[135]
1985-10-13	Poehlke, Adrian	7	Strümpfelbach	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed his older son with a headshot from his service pistol.[128][129]
1985-10-13	Poehlke, Ingeborg	47	Strümpfelbach	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed his wife with a headshot from his service pistol.[128][129]
1985-10-13	Poehlke, Gabriel	4	Torre Canne	Apulia, Italy	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed his younger son with a headshot from his service pistol before committing suicide.[128][129]
1985-10-20	Wolkenstein, Klaus-Detlef	33	West Berlin	Berlin	In an emergency call, a suspected burglary was reported. Arriving SEK officers encountered the visually impaired Wolkenstein, who had lost his glasses and came home drunk from a company party. He was shot and killed under unclear circumstances.[115]

1986

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1986-01-21	N.N.	20-25	Würzburg	Bayern	A young man robbed a gun store, getting away with two pistols. Upon being apprehended by two officers, the man opened fire, hitting one officer through the leg, while the other shot him dead.[136]
1986-01-27	Kureck, Udo	26	Hemmingen	Niedersachsen	A man was vandalising the front yard of a house at night. When the armed home owner confronted him for breaking a window, he ran past him through the unlocked door and hid in the building's cellar, arming himself with a shotgun that was stored there. After the home owner's wife and two children were brought out, SEK surrounded the cellar entrance and after two hours of attempted communication, the man rushed the officers' position with the gun drawn, leading to him getting shot multiple times.[136][137]
1986-02-12	N.N.	21	Rosenheim	Bayern	Police followed and eventually went to arrest a suspicious man at the train station. Upon their approach, the man pulled out a knife and charged one officer, leading to the other fatally shooting the attacker.[136]
1986-05-01	Schneider, Charles	38	Singen	Baden-Württemberg	Following reports of a stabbing at a local dive bar, police arrived at the premises to find a man fleeing into the courtyard. The man then pulled out a knife and a handgun, firing at the officers until he was fatally shot.[136]
1986-05-04	H., Herbert	19	Pfungstadt	Hessen	A repeat offender did not return after prison furlough and stole a motorhome to evade the authorities. During the car chase, a squad car drove up to the driver's side of the motorhome and shot the offender.[136]
1986-05-16	Meck, Karl	57	München	Bayern	A neighbour called police over a possible break-in at a private residence. When police arrived and shone a light through a window, a shot was fired from within, with returning killing the owner of the house, who was found in possession of a gas pistol.[136]
1986-07-07	E., Horst	22	Wilhelmshaven	Niedersachsen	Police were called to respond to a rape taking place at a private residence. At the location, officers are attacked by a man wielding a sabre, who was swiftly shot and killed.[136]
1986-09-01	Obermayer, Hans	55	Rellingen	Schleswig-Holstein	Police rang the doorbell to a residence where a domestic incident between a married couple was reported. When the door was opened, the husband immediately opened fire on police, who shot him nine times in return.[136]
1986-10-07	Soucka, Markku	27	München	Bayern	A Finnish engineer had taken a 54-year-old man hostage with a knife in broad daylight on a busy street, dragged him into a stranger's car. and threatened to kill the hostage. Police shot him when they assumed he was about to follow through on his threats. His motives remain unclear, though it was later discovered that he had a long psychiatric record and was apparently addicted to prescription medicine.[136]
1986-10-31	Bloy, Werner	45	München	Bayern	In the evening of 29 October, an unemployed heater installer took his ex-girlfriend, 23 year old commercial clerk Petra Hofmeier, hostage with a Mauser C96 after he unsuccessfully attempted to "talk things out" about their relationship and abducted her to his apartment in Schwabing. The hostage situation lasted 39 hours with a peak of 200 police officers monitoring the flat. The kidnapper demanded 1 million DM and a getaway car with a private chaffeur. Police decided after much deliberation that they had to make use of a "fatal shot", the first of its kind to be used by Munich police, with even the Archiepiscopal Ordinariate reasoning that deadly force had to be used as the final resort. On 31 October, police placed a SEK sniper by the apartment used as a hand off spot and at midday, after the hostage fetched breakfast items requested by the kidnapper, including four cold cut and cheese rolls, two packs of Marlboro cigarettes and a Sunday copy of a local newspaper, the kidnapper became upset that a bottle of lemonade was being handed over later than expected, leading to him throwing open the curtains to see what was happening. He was immediately shot by the sniper from a distance of 40 meters.[118][136]
1986-11-12	D., Andreas	25	München	Bayern	A police officer doing volunteer work at a gas station foiled a robbery by two armed young men, shooting one of them three times. Their guns were found to be gas pistols.[136]
1986-12-21	N.N.	30	Altötting	Bayern	Two officers were called to investigate the site of a break-in where they found the burglar still present. Although unarmed, he violently resisted arrest, to the point both officers fired their weapons once, with one shot hitting and killing the burglar.[136]

1987

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1987-02-04	M., Mustafa	25	München	Bayern	A plainclothed police officer caught a car thief in the act and fatally shot him two times when the thief attacked him with a knife.[138]
1987-02-04	N.N.	44	Kempen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two men were seen by police attempting to break into a bar. One of the burglars fled and attempted to jump an officer who then used deadly force.[138]
1987-06-17	N.N.	27	Nahe	Schleswig-Holstein	A student threw a duffel bag in front of the airport in Hamburg and drove away. Police were able to stop the student's vehicle in Nahe, where he was shot after again attempting escape.[138]

1988

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1988-01-13	N.N.	23	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Police patrolling a car park attempted to conduct a search on a suspicious car when the driver accelerated and hit an officer. As the car attempted to drive off, another officer fired at the vehicle, hitting and killing the driver, a known drug addict.[139]
1988-02-06	Wawroschek, Armin	26	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	While looking for a suspect who had robbed a gas station two hours earlier, two officers approached a man using a payphone for questioning. The man subsequently pulled out a gun and opened fire on one of the officers, who suffered a grazing injury and a shot in the abdomen. The other officer returned fire and killed the shooter. The loot of 4000 DM was found in his Bonn home, where police also found several pistols, ammunition, a NVD, a detonator, and eco-terrorist writings in which he described "waging war" on the automotive industry and "car society" to "recreate an enjoyable landscape". Another note also took responsibility for a fire bombing on A98 on 14 January 1988, which was linked to another one in Bergheim. The offender had only been previously noted for participating in riots in Krefeld in relation to the 1984 visit of U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush.[139][140]
1988-03-04	Stefanovic, Slobodan	37	Dorfen	Bayern	Polizeikommissar Robert Gebler, 27, und Polizeihauptmeister Karl-Heinz Loibl, 43, confiscated a cache of seven guns and 2000 rounds of ammunition from the home of machinist Slobodan Stefanovic, a Serb Yugoslavian national and 16 year resident of the town. His firearm license, which he had obtained after joining a rifle club in his main residency in Ludwigshafen in 1984, was revoked the previous day following a psychological assessment that was made after Stefanovic reasoned in a license renewal in an eleven-page letter to a courthouse in Erding from December 30, 1987, that he needed protection from the Red Army Faction, the KGB, and American boxer Muhammad Ali. Two and a half hours later, Stefanovic drove over to the nearby police station, entered the room Gebler and Loibl were categorizing the weapons in and screamed "Give me my guns back!" before grabbing a Colt Peacemaker and .44 Magnum revolver off the table and gunning down both officers. He shot at several more police officers, as well as a responding paramedic, wounding Polizeihauptmeister Franz Klarl and fatally injuring Polizeihauptkommissar Alfred Maier, 46, who died on the doorstep of a neighbour, telling him to call the Red Cross. Stefanovic is fatally shot himself after firing on a passing police cruiser.[139][141][142][143]
1988-04-13	N.N.	32	Emsdetten	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Turkish man killed two other Turks in an apparent family/love dispute and fled with his girlfriend. Police were able to fatally shoot the man during a car chase, but not before he killed his girlfriend.[139]
1988-05-04	N.N.	50	Hamburg	Hamburg	A taxi driver called police after a passenger pointed a knife at him. Said passenger exited the taxi as soon as squad cars arrived and began threatening the officers instead. After several verbal warnings and a shot in the air, the passenger attacked an officer, who proceeded to shoot the attacker in the knee and arm. The officer then stumbled and inadvertently fired the fatal shot on the passenger.[139]
1988-06-05	N.N.		Schramberg	Baden-Württemberg	Neighbours alerted police to a break-in at a nearby bar. Upon entering the building, the two burglars attacked the officers and when one of them pulled out a gun, the officers shot and killed him.[139]
1988-08-18	Bischoff, Silke	18	Bad Honnef	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Gladbeck hostage crisis: On 16 August, two men and a woman robbed a bank in Gladbeck and managed to escape with two hostages. The next day, the trio hijacked a bus, killing a 15 year old passenger after the female accomplice is apprehended. On 18 August, SEK raided the bus and during the shootout, one of the bus hostages was killed by police fire.[139]
1988-11-25	N.N.	29	Lichtenfels	Bayern	Police responded to a potential break-in following a night alarm going off at a supermarket. During the sweep of the aisles, the burglar shot and critically injured one officers before he was gunned down by another.[139]
1988-12-23	N.N.	25	Wiesbaden	Hessen	Two police officers attempted to perform an arrest on a man who did not return from his prison furlough. The man beat one of the officers down and while scuffling with the other, the second officer's gun accidentally discharged and killed the man.[139]

1989

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1989-02-22	N.N.	43	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A physician described as a "gun hoarder" called police to respond to an emergency. Once the arriving officers stepped out of their car, the physician opened fire on them, who shot back and killed him.[144]
1983-03-25	N.N.	31	Speyer	Rheinland-Pfalz	A hotel owner called police due to a Turkish guest rampaging through the building. Police engage the guest physically and fatally shot him when he threw a knife at the officers.[144]
1983-5-25	N.N.	28	Straubing	Bayern	During an armed robbery at a casino hall, the robber took a male employee hostage. Police opened fire when the robber pointed his gun at the officers.[144]
1989-06-30	Cipiloglu, Kemal [de]	13	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two Turkish teenagers caused a traffic accident when they crashed the moped they were driving into a car. Although the damage was minor and they offered to pay for the repair on the spot, the younger of the pair fled on the moped when the motorist and his wife went to call police, likely because he had borrowed the uninsured bike from a neighbor. Upon being stopped, he took a police officer's gun while wrestling with him on the ground. He continued his flight and shot at the police several times. He was eventually surrounded in an area of allotments and was shot five times while standing on the roof of a hut. He fell to the ground and bled to death. The incident caused political repercussions due to the age of the shooter and the operational tactics of the police officers.[145]
1989-07-28	Schumaier, Johann	36	Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	Police recognized a man as a convict who had escaped custody in April. Officers fatally shot the convict as he attempted to flee.[144]
1989-08-08	Beyida-Otomo, Frédéric	48	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	Gaisburg Bridge police stabbing [de]: A refugee was found to be riding a tram without paying and brutally beat down an objecting ticket controller, knocking out several of his teeth, before fleeing. When found by the alerted authorities two hours later standing with his back turned by Gaisburg Bridge, they were ambushed by the refugee, who killed two police officers (Peter Quast, 28, and Harald Poppe, 27) and wounded three others with a bayonet he had hidden in a newspaper in an attack lasting around 15 seconds. He was killed with three shots by a wounded officer, Jürgen Hähnlein, as he attempted to flee the scene. It was discovered after the perpetrator's death that he had been living under a fake identity, having falsely claimed to be a 46 year old Liberian named Albert Ament, when he was really a 48 year old Cameroonian named Frédéric Beyida-Otomo from Mbassila Village, Sa’a, who had spent the last 21 years living in several countries, including France, Spain, the United States, and Luxembourg. Otomo was suspected to be mentally disturbed as he had written a letter to Hans-Dietrich Genscher in broken German, demanding compensation for a three-month stint in a deportation facility or else Genscher would be killed. A search of Otomo's apartment revealed that he celebrated his 48th birthday only two days before the murders. The 1999 film Otomo depicts a dramatized recreation of the incident.[146]
1989-08-27	N.N.	38	Gersheim	Bayern	A police officer shot and killed the boyfriend of his ex-wife before committing suicide; the pair were still living together.[144]
1989-09-09	N.N.	17	Würzburg	Bayern	Two plainclothed police officers were lying in wait when two car thieves broke open the car they were in. Upon being confronted, one of the thieves wildly gesticulated with his arms in panic before he was hit by an accidental discharge of an officer's sidearm, which he had pulled out of "safety concerns". An investigation was halted.[144]
1989-11-19	Em, Dietmar	30	Offenbach	Hessen	Laaber murders [de]: On 13 November, two Austrian convicts escaped from prison in Steyr, stole two pistols, ammunition and a car in Linz and crossed the border into Bavaria with plans to rob a bank in Frankfurt am Main in order to go into hiding overseas. The pair stopped in Laaber to commit a robbery for gas money, settling on a pub with only five regulars and a single waitress inside, and took the place at gunpoint after ordering cola. When one of the regulars asked them to reconsider, the convicts opened fire, killing four (aged 34 to 48) and heavily injuring two before fleeing in their car. Two teenagers reported the shooting shortly after, leading to a 24 hour manhunt for the suspects. In Neumarkt, the convicts picked up two teenage boys hitchhiking and left them with the car in a parking garage as a lure for police to find while they burgled a house. On their return, they carjacked two mothers with children at gunpoint, taking one of the women, the 26-year-old wife of a policeman, and continued their drive, stopping in Erlangen where they raped the hostage. Police identified the vehicle in Würzburg and had a squad car follow it while creating artificial traffic jams on B43, allowing SEK to narrow down the convicts' car and snipe one of them from afar. The hostage was rescued with light injuries and the other convict, 25-year-old Helmut Bergmayer, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Straubing prison, where he died in 2020.[144][147][148][149]
1989-11-23	N.N.	22	Nürnberg	Bayern	Four burglars are caught by plainclothed police in their getaway car. After an officer approached them with his gun drawn, one of the burglars grabbed the weapon, leading to the officer firing and killing the burglar.[144]
1989-12-26	N.N.	39	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	A man called for help following a fight at a bar. Police found several men armed with shotguns outside the building and proceeded to arrest them. One of the men began shooting wildly, leading to him being shot by an officer.[144]

1990s[edit]

1990

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1990-01-10	W., Theo	36	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A pimp took a lawyer hostage in his office to force a meeting with his wife, who was divorcing the pimp. Armed with a gas pistol, he was shot by SEK.[150]
1990-03-18	Dapperger, Oliver	29	München	Bayern	After escaping from Stadelheim Prison, a drug dealer was to be arrested at his hiding place in a hotel in Solln following a tip-off. Police found him in the courtyard and fatally shot him when he produced a gun and took aim at the officers.[150]
1990-06-25	Suworow, Sergej N.	19	Burg bei Magdeburg	Sachsen-Anhalt	A deserting Soviet soldier took a married couple and their two children hostage in an attempt to force his return to Russia. He was killed after exchanging fire with Diensteinheit IX.[151]
1990-07-06	B., Cem	19	München	Bayern	Following an altercation with a businessman, four Turkish teenagers were attempting to run away from police officers. When one of the officers believed one of the youths was going to attack, he fatally shot the teenager in question.[151]
1990-08-06	N.N.	25	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	During a security check on a person, a random, uninvolved Yugoslavian man abruptly fired five shots at police, who shot back and killed him.[151]
1990-09-06	N.N.		Chemnitz	Sachsen	Two men attempted to rob a branch of Deutsche Bank. They were engaged in a shootout by police, during which one of the robbers was killed.[151]
1990-10-11	N.N.	35	Bremen	Bremen	A bank robber pulled out a gas pistol after being apprehended by a squad of SEK officers, who proceeded to gun him down.[151]
1990-10-26	N.N.	34	Erding	Bayern	While a plainclothed narcotics agent arrested a drug dealer, another suspected associate attempted to escape and was fatally shot as a result. In a confusing twist, it was found that the man was actually an undercover police investigator, with his reasons for trying to flee being a mystery.[151]
1990-11-03	Polley, Mike [de]	18	Leipzig	Sachsen	During riots between two rival hooligan groups and the police, one person was shot by the police. A total of 57 shots were fired. The exact circumstances and whether the use of a firearm was justified are unclear.[152]
1990-11-07	S., Thomas	26	München	Bayern	A motorist pulled out a gas pistol at a traffic stop while driving a stolen car. An officer shot the motorist in the back of the head.[151]
1990-11-11	Strauber, Gerd-Jürgen	45	Bad Camberg	Hessen	After killing his wife, a man opened fire at a random traffic checkpoint, heavily injuring a female police officer before he was shot and killed.[151]
1990-12-03	N.N.	21	Seevetal	Niedersachsen	During a burglary in Hittfeld, the home invaders were surprised by police, with a Yugoslavian member of the group stabbing one of the officers 13 times with a screwdriver. He was shot and killed by one of the other officers.[151]
1990-12-19	D., Perisor	21	Berlin	Berlin	During a routine ID check, a man shot a police officer in the face with a gas pistol at point blank range before fleeing. A second officer fatally shot the man.[151]

1991

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1991-01-01	N.N.	19	Remseck	Baden-Württemberg	An American teenager with psychological issues heavily wounded both his parents in a sword attack at their home in the U.S. settlement of Pattonville and was shot by police when he charged at the officers while wielding two daggers.[153]
1991-01-23	N.N.	20	Sailauf	Bayern	A police patrol called to the scene of a family argument were threatened by a knife-wielding butcher and subsequently fired two fatal shots in self-defense.[153]
1991-06-21	N.N.	25	Leipzig	Sachsen	As a group of skinheads were being arrested by police following a traffic stop due to possession of blunt weapons, one of the suspects was killed due to an accidental weapon discharge. An investigation was ultimately halted.[153]
1991-06-24	N.N.		Salzgitter	Niedersachsen	A police officer who was being forced into early retirement due to mental instability killed his son-in-law with a knife. The officer then threatened to kill his 18 month old grandson, leading to arriving police fatally shooting the offender after a shot in the leg proved ineffective.[153]
1991-06-24	N.N.	50	Salzgitter	Niedersachsen	A police officer who was being forced into early retirement due to mental instability killed his son-in-law with a knife. The officer then threatened to kill his 18 month old grandson, leading to arriving police fatally shooting the offender after a shot in the leg proved ineffective.[153]
1991-09-05	Henrich, Herbert	38	Kassel	Hessen	A convict who had escaped custody following a hostage situation was being apprehended by police after female passerby recognized him. The convict immediately began threatening the officers with a gun and was killed in the following shootout.[153]
1991-10-24	N.N,	20	Samtens	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	A police patrol attempted to conduct a search on three youths sleeping inside at the bar of a night club. One of the men, a security guard, took out a gas pistol and shot at the officers, being shot and killed in return.
1991-11-05	N.N.	22	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Two undercover narcotics agents attempted to arrest a group of drug dealers during sting operation. One of the men, a Yugoslavian national, fought with one of the agents and was shot in the head in the ensuing altercation.[153]
1991-11-09	Hentschel, Roland	30	Lüdenscheid	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber was shot by SEK as he was attempting to pull back into the building with a hostage after inspecting a getaway vehicle provided by police.[153]
1991-12-19	N.N.	50-60	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A robber who had stolen money from a bank courier was caught by police after a one-hour manhunt. As he was being arrested, the robber produced a hand grenade and was subsequently shot; the grenade did not detonate.[153]

1992

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1992-01-19	Sund, Peter	24	Bernburg	Sachsen-Anhalt	Two police officers were called to a break-in at a sales outlet. The unarmed burglar made insulting remarks as the police attempted to catch him and as he was being arrested, the burglar resisted and kicked at the air. Due to this, one officer who had been keeping his hand on his sidearm, allegedly lost his balance and stumbled over, inadvertently pulling the trigger on his holstered Makarov, shooting the burglar in the head. He was tried, but found not guilty on 23 November 1993.[154]
1992-02-23	N.N.		Stralsund	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Two convicts escaped from a clinic through violent means. Both are caught shortly after, but one of the convicts is shot during the arrest.[155]
1992-04-10	N.N.	25	Kelsterbach	Hessen	A burglar was killed by a ricocheting warning shot fired by police. There were conflicting accounts on whether the killed burglar and his accomplice had engaged the officers in a shootout beforehand.[155]
1992-04-24	N.N.	59	Bonn	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man suffering from health issues related to his alcoholism threatened other patients at a hospitals with a gun. He was killed when he fired on the arriving SEK officers, who found that his weapon had been a gas pistol.[155]
1992-06-03	Mohamed, Osama	22	Hamburg	Hamburg	An Egyptian man was resisting his arrest for rampaging when he managed to grab the arresting officer's gun and shot at him. The officer's female partner fired several shots at the offender, killing him.[155]
1992-07-29	N.N.		Finsterwalde	Brandenburg	Police fatally shot a man in the chest after he had injured his wife with a gas pistol.[150]
1992-07-31	N.N.	26	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A burglar tried to escape pursuing police by climbing a rain gutter and was shot during his attempt by an officer posted in the courtyard below. An investigation was launched, but no records exist of any officers being charged in relation to the death.[155]
1992-08-03	N.N.	52	Düren	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called to the site of a noise complaint when the man responsible for the noise suddenly lunged at the officer with two knives, forcing them to use deadly force.[155]
1992-10-16	N.N.	c.35	Körperich	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A trio of bank robbers were received by a troop of SEK officers as they had anticipated their plan in advance. The robbers threaten the officers with revolvers and hand grenades, leading them to fire on and kill one of the robbers.[155]
1992-10-17	N.N.	67	Kamen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two police officers were called to act as intermediaries in a dispute over rent between a tenant and landlord. During the talk, the landlord suddenly produced a gun and shot the officer, heavily wounding him. He was subsequently shot and killed by the other officer.[155]
1992-10-22	N.N.	19	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	A serial rapist went on a joyride on A8 following his latest rape, intentionally ramming several vehicles, including a police car. He was shot when he resisted arrest.[155] A news report indicates that the officer who fired the killings shots was 22 years old and sentenced to 16 months probation on 21 August 1998 for manslaughter.[156]
1992-12-XX	Walz, Klaus [de]	50	München	Bayern	Klaus Walz, alias Rainer Walldorf, a teacher and car dealer from Ettlingen who had a short-lived career in Formula 1 Larrousse, was wanted for false imprisonment of a French police officer and four counts of murder in France and Italy in connection to his alleged leadership of a Desio-based car smuggling ring. Walz was shot during a gunbattle with Munich police after they surrounded the hotel he was in.[157]

1993

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1993-01-21	Schröder, Andreas	26	Bitterfeld	Sachsen-Anhalt	Police receive report of a burglary happening at a fashion store. Upon their arrival, the three perpetrators run from the officers, who fire on them, hitting one of the burglars in the back. A trial was scheduled in relation to the death.[158]
1993-01-22	Radu, Lorin	21	Staßfurt	Sachsen-Anhalt	A Romanian man arrested on suspicion of theft attempted to flee the police station and was shot twice in the back. The officer was fined 13.500 DM.[158]
1993-02-10	Peischel, Martin	22	Wolfratshausen	Bayern	As police approached a suspicious vehicle for a search, the occupant attempted to drive off. When an officer broke the window on the driver's side with his sidearm, a gunshot discharged and killed the driver.[158]
1993-02-19	N.N.	40	Bad Salzungen	Thüringen	After a motorist knowingly drove away from a gas station without paying for his fuel, police set up a road stop, which the motorist broke through with his car. An officer shot at the fleeing car, fatally hitting the motorist in the back of the head.[158]
1993-03-11	Mangaoglu, Ali	41	Hamburg	Hamburg	A diplomat with the Turkish consulate's attaché for Social and Religious Affairs was in St. Georg to visit Muslim locals for Ramadan when he got into an argument with a drunk man, 24-year-old Thorsten Jarling. A witness stated that the diplomat punched and kicked his opponent before shooting him twice with a .38 caliber revolver; Turkish diplomats in Germany were all required to carry firearms due to concerns over possible attacks by German-based members of the PKK. Two policemen arrived at the scene after hearing the shots and found the diplomat kneeling over the other man. Upon noticing the officers, the diplomat pointed his gun at them, which prompted 26-year-old officer Peter Meyer to shoot the diplomat once in the chest, mortally wounding him. When the diplomat raised the gun again, the other officer fired two warning shots, rousing the other shot man, who stood up, stumbled two steps and collapsed dead just off the side walk. The diplomat died at a hospital from his injuries. The shooting led to outrage in Turkey, with news outlets comparing it to the murder of Mehmet Kaymakçı [de] and the murder of Ramazan Avcı [de] by Hamburg neo-Nazi gangs in 1985. Investigators initially suspected that the cause for the initial shooting had been a mugging and the diplomat had shot in self-defense, but also considered a possible drug deal gone wrong, as employees of the Turkish consulate were long suspected of narcotics trafficking under guidance of the MIT. The diplomat's family criticised police action, accusing them of misconduct, and in December 2023, his son publicly asked for witnesses to the shooting to come forwards with statements countering the official narrative.[159][160][161][162]
1993-04-20	N.N.	32	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	The arrest of a suspected arms dealer resulted in a scuffle, during which an officer's sidearm went off and fatally struck another officer.[158]
1993-05-31	N.N.	38	Klausdorf	Schleswig-Holstein	During the chase of a suspect, the officer accidentally fired his weapon, striking and killing the suspect.[158]
1993-06-14	G., Walter	46	München	Bayern	Two and a half months into a police observation, officers inform SEK of two burglars breaking into a building. As they moved in for an arrest, SEK officers believed they heard gunshots and shot back at the burglars, who were wielding gas pistols, killing one.[158]
1993-06-30	Romano, Andreas	26	Schönberg bei Thalfang	Rheinland-Pfalz	Two police officers attempted to apprehend a Rom man wanted for an attempted murder. He was shot while fleeing after not reacting to a warning shot. The officers received death threats from the deceased's family afterwards and were put under personal protection as a result.[158][163]
1993-08-19	Dittrich, Klaus-Heinz	32	Marienwerder	Brandenburg	An escaped criminal engaged two police cruisers in a car chase before ditching his vehicle in an attempt to cross the Oder-Spree Canal. Police shot him in the head, causing his death by drowning. The officers were cleared of all charges by appeal of the public prosecution.[158]
1993-10-10	N.N.	39	Hamm	Nordrhein-Westfalen	SEK responded to a report by a resident complaining about a mentally ill man in early retirement making excessive noise in his next-door apartment. Upon forcing entry, the man non-fatally stabbed one of the officers in the neck with a knife before being gunned down.[158]
1993-10-19	Korcz, Robert	27	Hamburg	Hamburg	A Polish man occupied the Polish general consulate in Steilshoop to protest a conviction made by a court against him, claiming it was showed Poland's "lack of democracy". As it was 2:30 in the morning, the building was mostly empty and fully evacuated shortly after he entered, but SEK were called as he was threatening to detonate a WWII-era grenade. SEK attempted to negotiate with the intoxicated man for nearly 15 hours and attempted to incapacitate him by siccing a police dog through a window while he was drinking more alcohol. The dog was injured by glass shards during entry, with its yelps alerting the man who reached for his grenade, causing the officers to fire five shots, one striking him through the hand and fatally hitting his heart.[158][164][165][166][167][168]
1993-11-16	N.N.	34	Kempten	Bayern	A varnish painter involved in an assault case was having his personal information recorded when he suddenly pulled out a dagger and tried to stab the officer, who then shot the varnisher twice with his service weapon.[158]
1993-11-19	N.N.	28	Oberbayern	Bayern	A mentally ill man known for driving erratically into oncoming traffic tried to break through a road block.while being pursued by police on A8. During his attempt, he was about to ram a police officer, but the officer's colleague fired five shots at the driver, killing him.[158]
1993-12-03	N.N.	c.25	Hamburg	Hamburg	Police surrounded a post office during a robbery. The robber was shot when he emerged from the office and pointed a gun at one of the officers, leading to another opening fire.[158]

1994

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1994-02-02	N.N.		Wolfhagen	Hessen	An 18-year-old police recruit shot his father in his sleep with his service weapon.[156]
1994-02-25	P., Christian	18	Neuhardenberg	Brandenburg	Police find a car occupied by three sleeping men in a forest in Wulkow. During an attempted search, the men, all Romanian nationals, drove away from officers and after a warning shot, officers fired two direct shots at the car. The body of the gunshot victim was then tossed from the vehicle by his companions.[169]
1994-03-10	N.N.	38	Weiden	Bayern	During the arrest of two suspected drug dealers, a female officer shot one of the dealers' associates in his car. The associate was found to be an undercover police officer.[169]
1994-03-16	N.N.	22	Bad Endorf	Bayern	Following a car chase, the pursued vehicle crashed against a wall and during the attempted arrest of the driver, a asylum seeker from Kosova, he was killed when a 29-year-old officer discharged his sidearm.[150]
1994-04-14	Müller, Jochen	28	Berlin	Berlin	A police officer foiled a burglary and had arrested two of the three suspects. While searching for the third with his weapon drawn, the missing suspect attempted to attack the officer with a knife upon being found, being shot in the head at a distance of 50 cm.[169][170]
1994-06-16	D., Sebastian	19	Kyritz	Brandenburg	35-year-old plainclothed officer Gerald K. fired a warning shot in order to placate five Romanian burglars at a scene and alert his colleagues. When one of them attempted to escape, the officer beat him with his sidearm, during which a shot was fired by accident, killing the burglar. The officer was subsequently tried and sentenced to 8 months probation.[169][171][172]
1994-06-30	Dener, Halim	16	Hannover	Lower Saxony	Halim Dener, a Kurdish refugee from Turkey, was putting up flyers around Steintor for the German branch of the PKK (which had been recently declared a terrorist organization in Germany) as part of his activism in the Kurdish independence movement. The boy was seen by two SEK officers, who restrained him when he attempted escape. An officer then dropped his service weapon and while picking it up, the gun went off, striking and killing Dener from a distance of 5–15 cm. No one was charged.[173]
1994-07-06	Piro, Antonio	31	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Two robbers were fleeing from police after a botched hotel hold-up. One of the robbers, an Italian national, overpowered one of the pursuing officers and injured him with a gunshot. Another officer fatally shot the robber before he could finish off his colleague.[169]
1994-07-12	N.N.	20	Wiesbaden	Hessen	Two female police officers were pursuing a knife-wielding robber fleeing the scene of a crime. The robber eventually attacked the officers, leaving one with life-threatening injuries, before the other killed him with seven shots.[169]
1994-08-30	Bankole, Kola [de]	30	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A Nigerian asylum seeker was slated for air deportation to Lagos and was gagged and tied to the seat of the grounded plane by four BGS officers. When a physician working for the police administered a sedative injection, Bankole died of asphyxiation due to the sedative and pressure on his chest exacerbating a pre-existing heart condition. Nigeria's then-Ambassador to Germany Akinjide Osuntokun subsequently alleged that 25 Nigerian citizens had died "in police custody or under dubious circumstances" in the country since 1991. An official investigation concluded that only three deaths (that of Bankole and two suicides) occurred in police custody, with Kola Bankole being the only one that could be directly correlated to police action.[174][175][176]
1994-08-04	N.N.	32	Lüdenscheid	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police engaged a man in a car chase after he had threatened his girlfriend with a gun, during which he breaks through street blockades. Upon being forced to stop, an officer approached the vehicle to arrest the man and shot him when he threatened the officer's life with the gun in his possession.[169]
1994-09-20	N.N.	37	Konstanz	Baden-Württemberg	A man slated for confinement to a mental institution violently resisted during a preceding medical examination at a hospital and escaped the building. When police found the man hiding in a nearby garden, he stabbed one of the officers in the hand and was shot when he raised the knife again.[150]
1994-11-20	N.N.	16	Rodgau	Hessen	Police took notice of a vehicle that was reported as stolen being driven by three teenagers. When they attempted to stop the vehicle with a road block, the car tried to run down one of the officers, who was able to jump out of the way and shoot at the driver, killing him instantly.[169]

1995

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1995-01-25	Dobrick, Henner	52	München	Bayern	Reports of an individual aiming a handgun at passerby lead police to storm the apartment of a man who had been described as "mentally unstable, but good-natured". The man approached officers holding two pistols and after ignoring multiple warning shots, he was fatally shot. The weapons in his hands were found to be toy guns.[177]
1995-02-11	N., Sammy	26	München	Bayern	A Liberian asylum seeker was severely beaten by police officers while he resisted arrest until he stopped moving and died at the scene. Police denied eyewitness reports that the man had been beaten bloody and stated that he had instead died after swallowing an unknown substance.[178]
1995-03-13	N.N.	42	Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two police officers respond to a report of a man threatening a woman, his ex-partner, with a gun. The man subsequently shot at the female officer, injuring her lightly, before her male counterpart fatally shot the attacker.[177]
1995-03-13	N.N.		Speyer	Rheinland-Pfalz	A man was threatening his wife with a bread knife during an argument. The man then lunged at the first police officer who entered the room and was immediately shot by him.[177]
1995-03-13	N.N.	41	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called to deal with a rowdy customer at a radio store. The customer was able to snag a policewoman's sidearm and engaged the officers in a shootout while fleeing, eventually being shot.[177]
1995-04-04	N.N.	35	Selfkant	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A patrol car randomly passed by the scene of an active bank robbery in Süsterseel. One officer, Norbert Domnick attempted to enter the bank when one of the robbers stormed out to face him. Both were killed in the ensuing fire exchange.[150][177]
1995-04-05	N.N.	30	Wolfsburg	Niedersachsen	Police were called about a man holding a gun and a gas canister. When arrived, the man threw away the weapon in his hand and covered himself in the contents of the canister. When he pulled out another gun, later found to be a detailed gas pistol, officers shot him.[150]
1995-04-06	N.N.	24 or 26	Berlin	Berlin	Following a string of robberies targeting the same gas station in Tempelhof, five plainclothed police officers monitor the area. They were in the process of apprehending a robber who had attempted to flee the scene when he pulled out a gas pistol and began threatening one of the female officers, leading to him being shot from behind. The deceased, a Nigerian citizen, was suspected of having also been responsible for a robbery at another gas station in adjacent Schöneberg the prior day.[177][179][180][181]
1995-05-11	N.N.	30	Stendal	Sachsen-Anhalt	A man gained entry to the armory of a police station and immediately shot one of the officers there in the thigh. The other officers then opened fire on the intruder who died of his wounds shortly after.[177]
1995-07-28	Borichevski, Leonid	31	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a sight-seeing tour, a passenger walked up to the front of the bus and shot the 26-year-old bus driver Raimund G. in the back of the head with a pistol, then dressed himself in tactical gear, including a balaclava and a vest adorned with fake explosives, taking the other 26 tourists hostage, with three escaping shortly after before he could tie them up by breaking the back window and jumping through onto the street. He then aimed at an eleven year old boy who tried to follow suit, but instead shot a 53-year-old Austrian national, Heinz Buchner, who yelled as a distraction, leaving him in critical condition from a pierced lung; both were able to flee the bus. During the 8 hour stand-off, the gunman claimed to be a member of the Russian mafia, forced hostages to take polaroid photos of him and injured a police officer with a shot in the stomach. Late into the hijacking, the gunman walked the aisle while asking the passengers for their nationality, fatally shooting a 64-year-old woman in the neck when she responded "Germany" and taking a picture of her corpse. The hijacker was shot and killed 40 minutes later when SEK stormed the bus. He was identified as a Russian-born Israeli national with a lengthy criminal record, including murder in the Soviet Union and check fraud of over $100,000 in both the United States and Germany. He was described by neighbours in Ramat Gan as "nervous, secretive" and an "absolute sadist". Investigators considered the possibility that he was a political extremist with anti-German sentiments, noting that he frequently spoke of the Cave of the Patriachs massacre during the stand-off, but also considered mental illness, since he made no demands, even when provided with a Russian language interpreter, citing that the gunman had been previously discharged from the IDF on psychological grounds for assaulting a superior officer.[150][182][183][184][185]
1995-08-17	Ladwiniec, Adam	54	Hanerau-Hademarschen	Schleswig-Holstein	A car with a Polish license plate is stopped for a traffic check by police. The driver, a Polish national, misunderstood the situation as a robbery, grabbed the gun of one of the officers and shot him dead. The other officer then fatally shot the driver.[177]
1995-09-12	N.N.	36	Artern	Thüringen	Police were in the process of arresting several men who they had just caught attempting to break into a supermarket. During the arrest of one, an officer's gun discharged and killed one of the suspects. The officer was tried for the death.[177]
1995-09-14	T., Bozkurt	25	Berlin	Berlin	A Turkish man wanted for a jewelry store robbery was stopped by police when they recognized his licence plate. The robber opened fire, endangering the lives of several passerby, and had to be gunned down by the officers.[177]
1995-09-22	M., Manuell	19	München	Bayern	A gas station was being robbed in the early morning, during which the robber threatened a gas station attendant, a police officer working part-time there, with a gas pistol. The attendant made use of his service weapon and, after a short firefight, the robber was fatally shot in the head.[177]
1995-10-17	E., Reinhard	40	Kamp-Lintfort	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A call was placed asking for help from police, directing them to town center. There, the two arriving officers were immediately shot at by a gunman, whom they swiftly shot and killed.[177]
1995-10-21	N.N.	36	Hamburg	Hamburg	Two police officers responded to a call from a woman whose ex-boyfriend had broken into her apartment. Upon their arrival, they found both in the stairwell, with the woman fleeing downstairs while the man pointed a pistol at police, refusing several orders to put down the weapon and instead opening fire. He was subsequently shot by the officers.[150]
1995-10-23	N.N.	63	Hagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a break-in at a warehouse, a burglar was locked in by the night-shift janitor, who then contacted police. As the officers searched the building, one of them was jumped by the burglar, the assault inadvertently causing the officer's gun to go off, killing the attacker.[150]
1995-12-01	N.N.	16	Speyer	Rheinland-Pfalz	After a series of robberies targeting pizza delivery workers, a police officer went undercover to deliver a suspiciously placed order. At the location, the officer was confronted by a gun-wielding teenager demanding money from him. The officer emptied his gun into the robber, who turned out to have been carrying a gas pistol.[150]
1995-12-03	N.N.	43	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Police respond to a family dispute in Fechenheim between Serb Orthodox Christians and Serb Muslims. The presumed instigator was seen leaving the property as soon as police arrived. When officers attempted to stop him, he opened fire on them, hitting one in the calf before he was shot and killed by the other officers.[177]
1995-12-03	N.N.		Braunschweig	Niedersachsen	Police were called when a woman reported two possible burglars entering a toolshed on a neighbouring property. The officers were shot at upon arriving, leading to a shootout that left one of the burglars dead and one officer with life-threatening injuries.[150]
1995-12-07	N.N.	39	Bottrop	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were about to search a man in his parked car on a footpath, when the driver drove away with the officers in pursuit, abandoning his car at a cul-de-sac. After the officers fired a warning shot, the man pulled out a submachine gun and shot at them several timees as he attempted to escape in a truck. Police returned fire, fatally injuring the man who was later found dead in a courtyard.[150]
1995-12-08	N.N.	36	München	Bayern	Police attempted to break up a family argument, which then escalated when the aggressor began firing wildly with a gun, killing a police dog, and ended up taking a police officer hostage. SEK stormed the premises and shot the offender.[177]

1996

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1996-01-16	N.N.	38	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Turkish man was slashing at his wife with a butcher's knife on farm grounds. He was fatally injured by intervening police's gunfire.[186]
1996-01-16	Odabasi, Kenan	21	Bünde	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Turkish man with mental problems was threatening his family with a knife. SEK attempted to calm him down when he lunged at one of the officers and stabbed him, with his armor preventing injury. The attacker was then shot dead by another officer.[186]
1996-02-06	Finkl, Helmut	25	Dachau	Bayern	A suicidal man wearing tactical gear took 12 people hostage at a dentist's office with a gun and a fake handgrenade. During the phone negotiations via employees, the hostage-taker only demanded that a sniper be positioned outside the building. Around eight hours later, he released all but one of the hostages, a doctor's assistant and threatened to kill her if police didn't shoot him. SEK attempted to covertly secure the hostage from a room as the hostage-taker was distracted, but a noise gave them away and the two officers ended up firing four shots on the man to ensure their own safety; the gun turned out to be a gas pistol.[186][187][188]
1996-02-08	N.N.		Berlin	Berlin	An inmate scheduled for surgery slipped out of his bindings and escaped his escorts. A police officer gave chase and fired a warning shot before killing the inmate as he attempted to enter an U-Bahn entrance, also injuring a passerby in her calf. An investigation into the officer was halted when it was decided that the use of his fiream had been justified.[189]
1996-04-06	K., Deniz	25	München	Bayern	A suspected drug dealer threatened a police officer with a gas pistol as he was being arrested during a drug raid. The officer's partner stated that he fired one shot at the suspect, killing him, yet medical examination showed that the victim had two gunshot wounds, with witnesses corroborating that two shots had been fired. The details remain unclear.[186]
1996-04-08	N.N.	51	Hürth	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A mentally ill man threatened his parents and arriving police with two sabres. Officers attempted to disarm the man by shooting him in the arms, instead resulting in his death.[186]
1996-06-11	Laurisch, Gabriele	46	Hebertshausen	Bayern	36-year-old police officer Peter Roth killed his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. He convinced her to let him drive her to a stockbroker he knew for a lucrative investement. Roth forced her to drink roofied cocoa at gunpoint, then drove out to the woods, where he decapitated the unconscious woman, cut off her hands with an axe to delay identification and stole 130,000 DM she brought for the investement from her. Knowing that she had told her boyfriend about her whereabouts, Roth then drove to his house, claiming that she was at the hospital for a car accident and was going to drive him over. The boyfriend was also forced to drink the sedative and dismembered in the same woods, where he buried the body parts. The bodies were found on 11 July and Roth was apprehended eight days later. In July 1997, he was found guilty of two charges of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.[190][191]
1996-06-11	Keil, Thilo	28	Hebertshausen	Bayern	36-year-old police officer Peter Roth killed his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. He convinced her to let him drive her to a stockbroker he knew for a lucrative investement. Roth forced her to drink roofied cocoa at gunpoint, then drove out to the woods, where he decapitated the unconscious woman, cut off her hands with an axe to delay identification and stole 130,000 DM she brought for the investement from her. Knowing that she had told her boyfriend about her whereabouts, Roth then drove to his house, claiming that she was at the hospital for a car accident and was going to drive him over. The boyfriend was also forced to drink the sedative and dismembered in the same woods, where he buried the body parts. The bodies were found on 11 July and Roth was apprehended eight days later. In July 1997, he was found guilty of two charges of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.[190][191]
1996-07-27	N.N.	18	Münster	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A car thief was shot after leading police on a high-speed chase. The circumstances around the shooting were initially unclear, until a special commission found that the car thief had been killed as a result of an accidental discharge.[186]
1996-08-31	N.N.	25	Mühlacker	Baden-Württemberg	Two men attempted to defraud a gas station in Enzberg. During their escape from police, the men took a hostage. A fire exchange between them and the police killed one of the men and heavily injured the hostage.[186]
1996-10-04	N.N.	28	Nürnberg	Bayern	During a routine check at Nürnberg train station, a Greek man fled from police. A 20-year-old policewoman fired at the man, fatally striking him in the back. On 24 January 1997, the officer was sentenced to pay a fine.[186][156]
1996-11-04	N.N.	34	Burghausen	Bayern	A blackmailer who had demanded 450,000 DM from his former employer was chased into some nearby woods by a police officer following a ransom hand-off. During the arrest, the officer fired three shots at the blackmailer, one fatal, when he saw him carrying a gun, later identified as a gas pistol. It is uncertain whether the officer had been ordered to pursue the blackmailer after the ransom was paid.[150][186][156]
1996-11-14	Yaradan, Bahri	25	Fürth	Bayern	Police drove after a motorist that made a sudden U-turn upon seeing the officers' car. After a lengthy chase, police went to arrest the driver, a Turkish national, when "a shot discharged" from one of the officers' guns by accident and struck the motorist in the head.[186]

1997

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1997-01-26	N.N.	27	Brigachtal	Baden-Württemberg	A man was killed by two shots by officers during a police operation. No more details were given and reports say that "closer circumstances were unclear".[192]
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