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It has been suggested that this article should be split into articles titled List of killings by law enforcement officers in pre-reunification Germany and List of killings by law enforcement officers in post-reunification Germany. (discuss) (October 2024) |
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.
year | number killed by use of firearms | number killed by any means
(counted)[clarification needed] |
number of shots fired on persons[3] |
---|---|---|---|
1929 | at least 46[4] | ||
1930 | at least 33[5] | 35 | |
1931 | at least 12 | ||
1952 | at least 31 (e.g., Philipp Müller ) | ||
1963 | at least 4 (North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse only) | ||
1964 | at least 2 (NRW and Hesse only) | ||
1965 | at least 6 (NRW and Hesse only) | ||
1966 | at least 6 (Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, NRW and Hesse only) | ||
1967 | at least 5 (Benno Ohnesorg, otherwise Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, NRW and Hesse only) | ||
1968 | at least 10 (Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, NRW and Hesse only)[6] | ||
1969 | at least 6 (Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, NRW and Hesse only)[6] | ||
1970 | at least 11[6] | ||
1971 | at least 8 (e.g. Petra Schelm, Georg von Rauch )[6] | ||
1972 | at least 4 (e.g. Tommy Weisbecker, Ian McLeod, Richard Epple , Theo Duifhus) | ||
1973 | at least 5 (e.g. Erich Dobhardt) | ||
1974 | 10 (e.g. Günter Jendrian) | ||
1975 | 13 (e.g. Werner Sauber ) | ||
1976 | 8 | 141 | |
1977 | 17 (e.g. Helmut Schlaudraff) | 160 | |
1978 | 8 (e.g. Willi-Peter Stoll , Michael Knoll ) | 111 | |
1979 | 11 | 104 | |
1980 | 16 (e.g. Manfred Perder) | 111 | |
1981 | 17 | 93 | |
1982 | 11 (e.g. Jürgen Bergbauer) | 125 | |
1983 | 24 | 53 | |
1984 | 6 | ||
1985 | 10 | ||
1986 | 12 | ||
1987 | 7 | 92 | |
1988 | 8 | 114 | |
1989 | 10 | 102 | |
1990 | 10 | 162 | |
1991 | 9 | 271 | |
1992 | 12 | 315 | |
1993 | 16 | 307 | |
1994 | 11 (including Halim Dener) | 268 | |
1995 | 21 | 221 | |
1996 | 9 | 163 | |
1997 | 10 | 172 | |
1998 | 8 | ||
1999 | 19 | At least 57[7][8] | |
2000 | 6 | 52[8] | |
2001 | 6 | 68[9] | |
2002 | 6 | 42[10] | |
2003 | 3 | 44[11] | |
2004 | 9 | 63[11] | |
2005 | 4 | 37[12] | |
2006 | 6 | At least 27[13] | |
2007[14] | 12[15] | 46 | |
2008[16] | 10 | 37 | |
2009[17] | 6 | 57[18] | |
2010[19] | 8 | 36[20] (+109)[21] | |
2011[22][23] | 6 | 36[24] | |
2012[25] | 8 | 36[26] | |
2013[1] | 8 | 42 | |
2014[27] | 7 | 51[28] | |
2015[29] | 10 | 12 | 41[30] |
2016[29] | 11 | 52[31] | |
2017[29] | 14 | 75[31] | |
2018 | 11 | 56[31] | |
2019[32] | 14 | 19 | 62 |
2020[33] | 15 | 20 | 75 |
2021[34] | 8 | 15 | 51 |
2022[34] | 11 (e.g. Mouhamed Dramé ) | 18 | 60 |
2023[34] | 10 | 14 | 65[35] |
Sum | 529 minimum | 2452 |
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.
List of killings by law enforcement officers in pre-reunification Germany This list has been split for improved performance. |
List of killings by law enforcement officers in post-reunification Germany This list has been split for improved performance. |