Wednesday 22nd of September 1515 (+) — Fourth wife of Henry VIII Anna von Kleve is born
Wednesday 13th of December 1797 (+) — Poet Heinrich Heine is born
Saturday 28th of April 1906 (+) — Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Adolf Hannappel is born
Wednesday 16th of January 1907 (x) — Serial killer Peter Kürten tries to commit suicide by lacerating the skin over a main artery
He was sentenced to three years imprisonment for 34 burglaries and thefts in 1905.
Wednesday 3rd of April 1929 (x) — Victim of Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf Frau Flake is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf
The next day Frau Flake was not able to swallow properly. On her neck she had a large red swelling 70mm long by 7,5mm wide, on the left a painful reddish mark 50mm long and 30mm wide. The skin of the whole face was covered with contusions in size from a pin point to a pea. The conjuntivae of both eyes were partly congested. In the mucuous membrane of the mouth were numerous abrasions.
Wednesday 14th of May 1930 (x) — Victim of Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf Maria Budlick is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf
She survived.
Friday 16th of May 1930 (x) — Victim of Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf Gertrud Bell is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf
Kürten reasoned that she had not attempted to fight him, and because she could not remember where he lived, he took her to the train station and walked away. The woman wrote a letter to a friend to tell her of the horrible incident, but since it was undeliverable, the letter was opened by a postal worker. The police were notified immediately. They questioned the young woman and then she led them to Kurten’s home, and then he was arrested on 24 May 1930.
Monday 13th of April 1931 (x) — Start of the trial against Serial killer Peter Kürten
Wednesday 1st of February 1933 (+) — Luxury call girl Rosemarie Nitribitt is born
Tuesday 14th of August 1945 (+) — Film director Wim Wenders is born
Saturday 14th of December 1968 (x) — Artist and pedagogue Joseph Beuys performs 'Ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee'
Thursday 22nd of October 1970 (x) — SS commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps Franz Stangl is convicted for the murder of over 400.000 jews and sentenced to life imprisonment
After the war Stangl had been living in Syria and Brazil until his arrest on 28 February 1967.
Monday 28th of June 1971 (-) — SS commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps Franz Stangl dies of heart failure
Wednesday 20th of July 1977 (x) — Members of die Rote Armee Fraktion Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Hanna Krabbe, Bernd Rössner and Lutz Taufer are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm
Friday 4th of December 1981 (x) — Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Stefan Wisniewski is sentenced to two life sentences for murder, kidnapping, coercion of a constitutional body, and membership in a terrorist organization
Wisniewski commented on the verdict by saying that he did not care. In 1999 Wisniewski was released on parole.
Friday 15th of October 1982 (x) — 24-year-old Ralf Erb is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder committed by Serial killer Kurt-Friedhelm Steinwegs
Tuesday 29th of January 1985 (-) — Kidnapper Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his cell
Engelbrecht and his 29-year-old wife Helma were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment the day before for torturing and sexually abusing 16-year-old Silvia Hantke in their basement from 10 February 1982 until 23 May 1983.
Thursday 23rd of January 1986 (-) — Artist and pedagogue Joseph Beuys dies of heart failure
Wednesday 13th of February 1991 (-) — Sculptor Arno Breker dies of natural causes
Sunday 9th of January 2005 — The Eyes Had it: A window in a museum
Monday 28th of May 2007 (-) — Artist Jörg Immendorff dies of Lou Gehrig's disease
