1991 Holzminden ambush

Part of Terrorism in Germany
Crime in Germany
Location|  Holzminden, Germany
Date| 12 October 1991
0230 (UTC+1)
Target| Holzminden police officers

Attack type

| Ambush, shooting
Deaths| 2
Injured| 0
Perpetrators| Action Group for the Destruction of the Police State

On October 12, 1991 two Lower Saxony police officers were ambushed at a forest parking lot in Solling near Boffzenstenmord von Holzminden. After an extensive search, the two perpetrators were arrested four days later. The murder of the two police officers and the long-lasting court case attracted nationwide attention.[1][2]

## Attack

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On 12 October 1991 at 2:29 a.m., the police in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, received a call from the emergency call box at the Rottmündetal forest car park on State Road 549 between Neuhaus im Solling and Boffzen:

> "Uh, good day, my name is Meier. I had an, uh, accident with a wildlife. Could you send someone over? Nobody was hurt, it's just a little bit on the bumper."

For the police officer who took the call, the operation seemed like a small matter. He informed his colleague in Holzminden, Lower Saxony, because the location of the alleged wildlife accident fell within their area of ​​responsibility.[1]

The two police sergeants Andreas Wilkending from Holzminden and Jörg Lorkowski from Lüchtringen[3] who had just taken a driver to the hospital for a blood alcohol test, received the report a few minutes later; they drove to the remote parking lot in their civilian patrol car, a maroon Volkswagen Passat. Contact with the officers ended there.[1]

Around one and a half hours after the last contact, the concerned operations manager ordered another patrol car to the forest parking lot. The patrol officers initially found no their colleagues there; when they illuminated the area, they found traces of blood, tooth and bone fragments, tissue traces and cartridge cases of the caliber7,62 × 51 mm.[2][4]

At around 10 a.m. on the same day, a hunter found the murdered woman's patrol car burned out and riddled with bullet holes on the Sennelager Training Area. The two police officers remained missing; one of the largest search operations in post-war German history began: up to 6,000 people from three federal states searched for them; divers searched the Weser near the crime scene.[4]

Covered Emergency phone call box, 2014

## Investigation and arrest

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## References

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### Bibliography

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* Dem Verbrechen auf der Spur: Die spektakulärsten Kriminalfälle Niedersachsens. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft. 2006. ISBN 3-89993-717-1.

1. ^ a b c "Der „Notruf" von Dietmar J". NDR. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
2. ^ a b "Sie waren gekommen, um zu helfen". Westfalen Blatt (in German). Retrieved 2024-08-16.
3. ^ "Corsipo mit Daten zu den Polizisten". corsipo.de. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
4. ^ a b "In Gedenken an den Polizistenmord von Holzminden". Gewerkschaft der Polizei. Retrieved 2024-08-16.