DE incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in DE. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 23
- Cities represented
- 17
- Latest incident date
- 23 September 2026
- Latest review
- 30 September 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20 records | — |
| 2025 | 1 record | — |
| 2024 | 1 record | — |
| 2021 | 1 record | — |
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Current judicial status
- 15Alleged
- 6Charged
- 2Convicted
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- Bremen, DE
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- Frankfurt, DE
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- Schönefeld, DE
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- Berlin, DE
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- Hamburg, DE
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- Leipzig, DE
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in coesfeld, DE
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 36-year-old woman was fatally injured in a knife attack at around 12:25 on Wednesday 23 September 2026 in a municipal accommodation facility on the Grimpingstraße in Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Witnesses found her with stab wounds to the upper body at her home address. She died at the scene despite immediate resuscitation attempts. Reporting describes her as a mother of three. Police arrested a suspect: on first findings, the victim's 43-year-old estranged husband, a Turkish national. He was detained shortly before midnight in the Achtermannstraße in Münster after a tip-off from a witness. He has so far not responded to the allegations, and the investigation into a motive is at an early stage. Münster police have taken over the investigation and set up a homicide commission. A post-mortem examination was scheduled for the following day.
- Attempted homicide in schönefeld, DE
· Charged · 2 sources
Am 6. September 2026 wurde am Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg in Schönefeld ein 48-jähriger Servicemitarbeiter im Sicherheitsbereich schwer verletzt. Zwei Fluggäste waren zu spät zum Boarding eines Fluges nach Tallinn gekommen, woraufhin ihnen am Gate A34 im Terminal 1 die Mitnahme verweigert wurde. Es kam zum Streit mit dem Mitarbeiter, der im Auftrag einer Fluggesellschaft das Boarding abwickelte. Nach den von der WELT wiedergegebenen Berichten über die Aufnahmen der Überwachungskameras schlug und trat der Angreifer nahezu drei Minuten lang auf sein Opfer ein, wiederholt auch gegen den Kopf, während ein zweiter Mann mögliche Helfer auf Abstand hielt. Der Mitarbeiter ging mehrfach zu Boden. Schließlich überwältigten Passagiere den Angreifer. Der Verletzte musste vom Rettungsdienst versorgt werden. Der 22-jährige Tatverdächtige, der nach Angaben der Polizei angetrunken war, kam am 15. September in Untersuchungshaft. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Cottbus ermittelt gegen ihn wegen versuchten Totschlags.
- Attempted homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
In der Nacht zum 6. September 2026 ist in Berlin-Tempelhof ein Autofahrer durch einen Schuss schwer verletzt worden. Gegen 3 Uhr fielen in der Gottlieb-Dunkel-Straße Schüsse auf den fahrenden Wagen; ein Projektil durchschlug die Frontscheibe des Mercedes und traf den Fahrer. Der Mann verlor die Kontrolle über das Fahrzeug, kam von der Fahrbahn ab, fuhr zwischen mehreren Bäumen hindurch und prallte gegen eine mobile Toilettenkabine, wo der Wagen zum Stehen kam. Er erlitt schwere Verletzungen und wurde in ein Krankenhaus gebracht. Der Schütze flüchtete. Einsatzkräfte sperrten den Tatort weiträumig ab und suchten in der Umgebung nach Spuren; das Fahrzeug wurde kriminaltechnisch untersucht. Die Mordkommission hat die Ermittlungen übernommen. Angaben zu einem möglichen Tatverdächtigen oder einem Motiv machte die Polizei zunächst nicht, und ob gezielt auf den Mann geschossen wurde, ist Gegenstand der laufenden Ermittlungen.
- Homicide in hamburg, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
Auf einem Fabrikgelände im Hamburger Stadtteil St. Pauli wurden zwei Männer getötet, mutmaßlich durch Schüsse. Zeugen hörten Schussgeräusche und wählten den Notruf; zahlreiche Streifenwagen rückten aus. Beide Schwerverletzten starben noch vor Ort. Die Hintergründe der Tat sind bislang unklar.
- Attempted homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
Ein 26-jähriger Mann wurde am Abend des 1. September 2026 gegen 20.18 Uhr in der Feurigstraße in Berlin-Schöneberg aus einer größeren Personengruppe heraus mit mehreren Schüssen attackiert. Er erlitt Schussverletzungen am Oberkörper sowie an den Extremitäten und wurde von Rettungskräften in ein Krankenhaus gebracht, wo er notoperiert wurde. Nach Angaben der Polizei besteht inzwischen keine akute Lebensgefahr mehr. Die Beteiligten entfernten sich anschließend teilweise zu Fuß, teilweise mit Fahrzeugen; die Polizei fahndet nach den Tätern. Beamte des Landeskriminalamtes sicherten Spuren am Tatort. Der Verletzte macht bislang keine Angaben zu den Hintergründen der Schüsse. Mehrere Zeugen haben der Polizei Fotos, Videos und Personenbeschreibungen übergeben.
- Homicide in gosen-neu-zittau, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
Two people were killed in a knife attack at the Docemus school in Gosen-Neu Zittau, in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg, on the afternoon of 27 August 2026. Police confirmed the deaths and treated the incident as a violent crime. One victim was an 18-year-old female pupil. The second is reported to have been the school caretaker, who may have intervened. Both died at the scene of their injuries despite immediate medical treatment. A 19-year-old German man was arrested at the scene, and forensic work continued into the night. Police said that on their findings so far investigators were working on the assumption of a relationship-motivated act rather than a rampage, and that there were no indications of a rampage killing. The investigation into the motive is ongoing, and a tip-off portal was opened for witnesses. Emergency counsellors attended the school to support pupils, teachers and relatives. About 100 children and adults gathered that evening with flowers and candles for a commemoration, and a village festival planned for the following week was cancelled.
- Homicide in dortmund, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
A 49-year-old man was found dead in his flat in the Hörde district of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, on the morning of Saturday 22 August 2026. Police and prosecutors said early enquiries produced indications of a homicide. His 15-year-old son is the suspect and was provisionally arrested. Investigators declined to give further details, citing the suspect's age.
- Homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
The body of a 46-year-old woman was found in bushes in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, not far from the Zeiss Major Planetarium, by a passer-by on the morning of Friday 21 August 2026. "Initial examinations of the body, which must have lain there for some time, point to a homicide," police and the public prosecutor's office said. A murder investigation team of the Landeskriminalamt took over the case. The date of the killing has not been established. It cannot have been later than 21 August 2026, the morning the body was found, and was probably earlier, since the body had lain at the scene for some time before it was discovered. The victim's identity has been established, but nothing is known so far about the background to the case or about a possible perpetrator. On Sunday 23 August investigators issued a public appeal for witnesses, with a photograph of the victim and a description: about 1.70 metres tall and slim, wearing a brown sweat jacket, a brown T-shirt and striped fabric shorts when she was found. Investigators asked who had seen her in the area of the park, alone or in company, and who could say where she was last seen.
- Homicide in hohen neuendorf, DE
· Alleged · 2 sources
The body of a 19-year-old woman was found in the Bergfelde district of Hohen Neuendorf, north of Berlin in Brandenburg, and was reported on 14 August 2026. "Based on initial findings, a homicide must be assumed," a police spokesperson said. Forensic officers examined the scene and a murder investigation team took over the case. Police were also examining a possible connection to a death a few days earlier, when a person was struck by a long-distance train at a level crossing in Schönfließ on the afternoon of Wednesday 12 August. At that stage formal identification had not been completed and no further details, including the nature of the injuries, were released. Reporting on 17 August set out the post-mortem results. The victim was killed by sharp force in the apartment of her boyfriend, a 19-year-old man of the same age as her. He is the person who was struck by the train at Schönfließ, and police treat his death as suicide following the killing. The autopsies produced no indication of the involvement of any third party in the homicide. The date of the killing has not been established. It cannot have been later than 12 August 2026, the day the suspect died.
- Homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 5 sources
A 30-year-old man was shot dead on the Hardenbergplatz, in front of Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, at about 11.50pm on Sunday 9 August 2026. Shots were fired after a dispute involving several people in the street, and the victim died at the scene despite attempts to resuscitate him. A homicide squad is investigating on behalf of the Berlin public prosecutor's office. The suspect or suspects left the scene by vehicle after the shooting and no arrest had been reported at the time of the cited coverage. The prosecution service gave no details of the people involved or of the background to the dispute, saying only that the investigation was continuing.
- Homicide in augsburg, DE
· Charged · 1 source
Two men were killed in the south of Augsburg on the evening of Monday 3 August 2026. Their bodies were found near an asylum accommodation. The victims were a 39-year-old man of Syrian and Saudi Arabian nationality and a 54-year-old Iraqi man. Police detained a 29-year-old man of Syrian and Saudi Arabian nationality on suspicion of two counts of manslaughter. An investigating judge subsequently issued an arrest warrant and he was remanded in custody. Officers searched the scene on the Tuesday morning. Police declined, citing the ongoing investigation, to say whether the suspect and the victims were residents of the nearby asylum accommodation. There is currently no indication of further suspects, and the background to the killings is under investigation.
- Homicide in rees, DE
· Charged · 3 sources
A 35-year-old Dutch man from Enschede was found dead in a hotel room in Rees, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at midday on Sunday 26 July 2026. He had checked into the hotel the previous day and did not leave his room on time; hotel staff found him lifeless inside. The circumstances of the discovery led police to suspect a violent crime, and the Kleve public prosecutor's office together with the Krefeld and Kleve police opened an investigation and set up a murder commission. The victim had a muscle disease, used a wheelchair and depended on help for many daily activities. His wallet and his car were missing. A 42-year-old Dutch man was provisionally arrested near his home in the Netherlands during the night of Tuesday 28 July 2026; the victim's car was recovered at his address. On the application of the Kleve public prosecutor's office, a judge at Kleve district court issued an arrest warrant for murder in conjunction with robbery resulting in death, and a European arrest warrant was issued on that basis. Extradition proceedings are under way.
- Homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 2 sources
A van was driven into a crowd of people shortly after 22:00 on 25 July 2026 in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, on the fringes of the Christopher Street Day gathering that had taken place in the city that day. A woman was killed and 29 other people were injured, several of them seriously. The remainder of the CSD programme was called off. Berlin police issued a public wanted notice for the driver, who fled the scene and was described as armed and dangerous, and set up a witness hotline and an online reporting portal. No arrest or charge had been reported at the time of the cited sources, and the investigation into the motive was continuing.
- Homicide in kelkheim, DE
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 58-year-old woman, was killed with a machete by the suspect, her 60-year-old husband, in a public area of Kelkheim on the evening of July 14, in view of witnesses. She suffered fatal injuries to the head, neck, and torso at the scene. According to the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office, the couple had been married since 1991 and had lived separately for about three years; the victim had asked for a divorce in 2025, which the suspect reportedly refused to accept. An investigating judge at the Frankfurt district court issued an arrest warrant against the suspect on suspicion of murder.
- Homicide in hamburg, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
A missing 15-year-old girl was found dead with multiple injuries in an apartment in Hamburg-Bramfeld. Police provisionally arrested the victim's 43-year-old mother, who did not have custody.
- Homicide in berlin, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
Patient in einer Klinik in Berlin-Neukölln getötet
- Homicide in stade, DE
· Alleged · 4 sources
Der 45 Jahre alte Mann, der am Montag in Stade sechs Menschen erschossen haben soll, hat die Tat offenbar vorbereitet. Nach NDR-Recherchen kaufte der Verdächtige eine Woche zuvor die Tatwaffe in Berlin.
- Homicide in kassel, DE
· Alleged · 1 source
Ein Mann wurde in Kassel getötet. Nach Angaben der Quelle wurde nach dem jüngeren Bruder gefahndet.
- Homicide in leipzig, DE
· Charged · 2 sources
Two people were killed and six injured on 4 May 2026 when a man drove a car several hundred metres through the pedestrian zone in the centre of Leipzig, striking a number of people. A 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man died. The six injured were aged between 21 and 87, two of them seriously. The driver brought the car to a stop himself and allowed himself to be arrested without resistance. He was initially placed in a psychiatric hospital. On 28 August 2026, nearly four months after the attack, the public prosecutor's office charged the 33-year-old German with two counts of murder and 85 counts of attempted murder, together with 91 counts of serious dangerous interference with road traffic. The higher number of attempted-murder counts reflects everyone the car was driven at along the route, not only those it struck. The Regional Court in Leipzig has still to decide whether to admit the indictment and when any trial might begin. Because a provisional written forensic-psychiatric opinion found no indication of diminished criminal responsibility, the prosecution applied to lift the psychiatric placement and for an arrest warrant. Investigators reported that the accused had been a voluntary psychiatric inpatient until his discharge at the end of April, days before the attack, and that he was already known to police in connection with threats and offences against personal honour in his social circle. No information was given about the background or motive. Investigators had previously said there was no indication of a political or religious motive.
- Homicide in mannheim, DE
· Charged · 1 source
A 19-year-old woman was beaten to death in the Käfertaler Wald near Mannheim in the early hours of 11 March 2026. Her body was found by a walker later that day, and a 17-year-old was arrested the same day and remanded in custody. In August 2026 the Mannheim public prosecutor's office charged him with her murder, alleging that he killed her out of jealousy. According to the charge, the suspect struck the victim in the face and head more than a dozen times with his fist in a wooded area near Mannheim, then struck her at least forty times with tree branches as she lay on the ground. The prosecution says he had come to suspect her of infidelity and considered himself dishonoured by remarks she had made, and that he decided to kill her after she repeatedly told him she wanted to end the relationship.
- Homicide in bremen, DE
· Convicted · 1 source
A 30-year-old woman was stabbed to death outside her home in Bremen in October 2025 by her former partner, the father of one of her children. Masked, he lay in wait for her, having waited about three hours in a car until she left the building with two of her three children to go to a playground. He approached her from behind and stabbed her eight times, wounding her in the head, neck and upper body. She died at the scene. Immediately after the attack he pushed one of the children to the ground as the child tried to flee and stabbed the child in the back. The child was injured and survived. On 30 September 2026 the Landgericht Bremen convicted the man, then 33, of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The court additionally established the particular gravity of guilt, which largely rules out early release after fifteen years. It convicted him of causing bodily harm in respect of the attack on the child. The presiding judge described the killing as a kind of execution, and the court found that he had acted with treachery and from base motives. According to the court there had been custody disputes over the couple's two-year-old daughter after their separation, and in carrying out the attack he was concerned not with the child's welfare but with asserting his authority as a man and a father. The verdict followed the prosecution's submissions; the defence had argued for acquittal.
- Attempted homicide in frankfurt, DE
· Convicted · 1 source
Three young men were convicted of attempted murder by the Frankfurt regional court on 24 September 2026 over an attack on a police car and the officers inside it on New Year's Eve 2024. That evening a group of ten to fifteen people was out in the Nordwestzentrum district of Frankfurt. The court found that their aim was to use the noise and activity of New Year's Eve as cover for attacking police officers. The group first gathered in a park, where they made Molotov cocktails and set off fireworks, then moved shortly after 23:00 to a square in the Nordwestzentrum. From a footbridge they threw fireworks and other incendiary devices at a passing police car. At 23:16 the group moved to a nearby pedestrian crossing, where an electric scooter 120cm long and weighing 29.25kg was standing. The court found that they agreed to drop it only once a car was close to the bridge, wanting to cause the greatest possible damage. When they heard sirens, a car carrying five officers approached at 85km/h. On a command two of the group threw bottles, and moments later a third threw the scooter. The scooter struck the car beside the interior mirror. The windscreen shattered but was held together by a safety film. The driver suffered a head injury and, despite poor visibility, managed to brake and bring the car to a stop at a bus stop. Two of the officers were injured. The judge called the outcome the best case that could have occurred, and said tests and calculations had shown the driver would have been killed had the scooter been released two milliseconds earlier. The court imposed seven years' imprisonment on the man who threw the scooter, six years on another defendant and four years and ten months on the one it found had coordinated the group at the scene. The sentences went beyond what the prosecution had sought. All three were sentenced under juvenile criminal law, having been 16, 17 and 19 at the time of the offence.
- Homicide in kronberg im taunus, DE
· Charged · 2 sources
A four-year-old girl died on 18 September 2021 at a dental practice in Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse, after being anaesthetised for dental treatment. The anaesthetist had drawn propofol contaminated with fungi and bacteria from a single vial and administered it to an adult patient and then to four children over the course of the day, working without the required assistance and in serious breach of hygiene rules. The girl, the last patient of the day, died that night of multi-organ failure; the three other children fell severely ill, and when their parents telephoned the following day the doctor told them the symptoms were normal and that no ambulance was needed. In November 2024 the regional court convicted him of manslaughter by omission and three counts of attempted manslaughter by omission, sentencing him to ten years and six months' imprisonment. In January 2026 the Federal Court of Justice overturned central parts of that verdict, finding that the regional court had set the threshold for a murder conviction too high, and ordered a fresh examination of whether he had acted to conceal his own errors. The retrial opened before the Frankfurt regional court on 19 August 2026, with prosecutors alleging murder on the grounds that he deliberately delayed emergency care. A verdict is expected in early October 2026.