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词条 Draft:Johann Eichhorn (murderer)
释义

  1. Life

      Youth    First murder    More murders    Last offense and conviction  

  2. External links

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| death_place = Munich, Germany
| cause = Guillotined
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| beginyear = 1934
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Johann Eichhorn (born October 8, 1906 in Aubing - December 1, 1939 in Munich), nicknamed the "Beast of Aubing", was a German serial killer. He was sentenced to death for five murders and ninety rapes and subsequently guillotined.

Life

Youth

Johann Eichhorn was born as the eldest of eight children in Aubing. His parents Johann and Magdalena Eichhorn earned as day laborer, although little money, but worried about their family as well as possible. After graduating from elementary school, he had an apprenticeship as a locksmith and then got a job at the Deutsche Reichsbahn as a shunter, where he was considered helpful and reliable.

First murder

Eichhorn knew early on that his relationships with women were disturbed. For example, it did not excite him when women kissed him, and his sex life did not develop until violence was involved. His first rape victims were probably his two sisters. In 1931, he met 16-year-old Katharina Schätzl at the Oktoberfest. A few days later he went on a bike ride with her, where he tore his victim from her bike, then raped and strangled her, throwing the body in the Isar river.

More murders

After the rape-murder of Schätzl, Eichhorn saw himself as a "wild animal" and from then preferred to hunt on cyclists in the dusk. In the spring of 1934, he dragged the newlywed Anna Geltl from her bike and shot her with a pistol in the back of the head because she fought back. Then he dragged her into a shrubbery and separated various body parts with an eighteen inch-long knife. Only a few months later in autumn, Berta Sauerbeck was shot by him in the back of the head, but survived. Eichhorn then buried her in a garbage pit, where she later died.

In 1935, Eichhorn married a woman named Josefa, with whom he had two children in the following years. But even this did not end the rape series, even though all the victims got away with their lives. According to statements by Eichhorn his wife loved violence in bed, so his marriage was reasonably stable.

In the summer of 1937, Rosa Eglein became his fourth murder victim. Once again, he mutilated the victim after shooting her in the head. Another year later in the fall, the 23-year-old Maria Jörg was his last murder victim, following the same pattern.

Last offense and conviction

On January 29, 1939, Eichhorn wanted to attack and abuse a 12-year-old. He was watched by passers-by and they were able to overwhelm the 1.73-meter-tall, slender man. During the period of pre-trial detention, he then hesitantly confessed to the individual murders during several months of investigation. Eichhorn was then examined by doctors and psychologists. According to their report, Eichhorn is an "intellectually not under-rated" human being, but he is an "ethically and morally profound, baseless, weak-willed, sexually exceptionally instinctual psychopath (...)" who "prepares his crimes according to plan" and "expediently". When asked why five of his numerous were murdered, he answered, "If the girls resisted, I resorted to the gun because I did not know how to help". When they lay dead before him, he could fully take possession of them. The Munich Sondergericht sentenced Eichhorn to death by the guillotine for five murders and ninety rapes. His wife Josefa divorced, changed the family name and moved to another location. At the end of November 1939 Eichhorn made a farewell letter to his former wife and two children. "After I have committed grave injustice, I must also expect terrible consequences. (...) I myself expressed the desire to see you no longer." The verdict of the "Beast of Aubing" was enforced on December 1, 1939 in the Munich-Stadelheim penal colony.

Even today, Eichhorn is considered to be one of the cruellest murderers in German crime history. Nevertheless, his name remained relatively unknown. One explanation is probably that Eichhorn was a NDSAP member, and censorship at the time covered up the story. The novel "Kalteis" caused a sensation in 2007, in which the author Andrea Maria Schenkel examined his deeds.

External links

  • [https://www.merkur.de/lokales/muenchen/west/johann-eichhorn-bestie-aubing-751796.html Johann Eichhorn: The beast from Aubing]
  • [https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Kriminalf%C3%A4lle_(19./20._Jahrhundert) Historical Encyclopedia of Bavaria (19th/20th century)]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eichhorn, Johann}}Category:1906 birthsCategory:1939 deathsCategory:People executed by guillotine by Nazi GermanyCategory:20th-century crimesCategory:Nazi Party membersCategory:German serial killersCategory:Male serial killersCategory:Murder in GermanyCategory:Executed serial killers
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