Credit: Mutter ErdeCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenTempelhof, Berlin, Germany · 2005
Hatun Sürücü, a 23-year-old Kurdish-German woman, was shot dead at a Berlin bus stop on 7 February 2005 by her youngest brother, Ayhan, in an honour killing that followed her divorce from a forced marriage and ignited nationwide debate over forced marriage and family violence in Germany's Turkish and Kurdish communities.
Credit: Regierungspräsidium KasselCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenIstha, Wolfhagen, Hesse, Germany · 2019
German regional governor Walter Lübcke was shot and killed at his home in Istha, Wolfhagen, Hesse, on the night of 1–2 June 2019. Right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst was convicted of his murder in January 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
SOLVEDListenDresden, Germany · 2009
Marwa El-Sherbini, an Egyptian pharmacist and former national handball player, was fatally stabbed inside a Dresden courtroom on 1 July 2009 by Alex Wiens, the man she had testified against in an earlier verbal-abuse case; Wiens was convicted of her murder and the attempted murder of her husband and sentenced to life imprisonment.
SOLVEDListenMunich, Germany · 1990
Bavarian stage and television actor Walter Sedlmayr was found tied up, stabbed, and beaten to death in his Munich apartment in July 1990; two half-brothers and former business associates were convicted of his murder in 1993 and later became central figures in a legal dispute over privacy and internet name removal.
SOLVEDListenNuremberg, Germany · 2000
Between 2000 and 2007, the German neo-Nazi cell National Socialist Underground murdered nine small-business owners and a police officer in cities across Germany. After two of its three identified members were found dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds in 2011, the third, Beate Zschäpe, was convicted of the killings in 2018 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
SOLVEDListenOldenburg and Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, Germany · 1999
Niels Högel, a German nurse, was convicted of murdering 85 hospital patients between 1999 and 2005 by deliberately inducing cardiac emergencies with unauthorized medication, making him the most prolific convicted serial killer in German history; investigators have said his true victim total may be far higher.
SOLVEDListenHanau, Hesse, Germany · 2020
On 19 February 2020, a gunman shot and killed nine people at bars and a kiosk in Hanau, Germany, in an attack German officials called terrorism, then killed his mother and himself; five others were wounded.
COLDListenOktoberfest Grounds (Theresienwiese), Munich · 1980
On 26 September 1980, a bomb hidden in a rubbish bin exploded at the main entrance to Munich's Oktoberfest, killing 13 people — including the person responsible, geology student Gundolf Köhler — and injuring more than 200. West German authorities closed the case in 1982 as a personally motivated, lone-actor attack; a federal investigation reopened from 2014 to 2020 revised the motive to right-wing extremism but could not prove or rule out that Köhler had accomplices.
SOLVEDListenGrünwald, Munich, Germany · 2005
German fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer was found strangled in his Munich-area mansion in January 2005; a 25-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was arrested days later and ultimately sentenced to a minimum of 15 years to life for the killing.
SOLVEDListenMykonos Greek restaurant, Prager Strasse, Berlin · 1992
Three Iranian-Kurdish opposition figures and their translator were shot dead at a Berlin restaurant in 1992, and a German court later convicted several men and found the killings had been ordered by Iranian state officials.
The files run from 1920 to 2020. The 2000s hold the most, with 7 files. The oldest is Oktoberfest Bombing (1980), from 1980.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (20), hate crime cases (6) and kidnapping and abduction cases (5).
1 file of the 24 has coverage attached: 1 video, podcast or documentary.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
Hinterkaifeck-Hof (cropped) — Credit: Andreas Biegleder. According to a letter from the City Archive of Munich from October 2…Public domainSource
File:Hatun Sürücü - Landschaftsfriedhof Berlin-Gatow .jpg — Credit: Mutter ErdeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Old Police Headquarters (Frankfurt am Main) - FREI - (FREE) - Cultural monument in Frankfurt - Here was determined by the Frankfurt police in the murder case Rosemarie Nitribitt — Credit: Lupus in SaxoniaCC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Bild Dr. Walter Lübcke.jpg — Credit: Regierungspräsidium KasselCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Brandanschlag solingen 1993.jpg — Credit: Sir JamesCC BY-SA 2.0 DESource
24. By status: 2 unsolved, 3 cold and 19 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Oktoberfest Bombing (1980), from 1980. Open the file
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 18, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
