List of mass stabbings in Germany
Updated: 11/4/2025, 4:32:58 PM Wikipedia source
This is an incomplete list of mass stabbings in Germany. The casualty figures of mass stabbings below include violence-related deaths and injuries with a knife, hatchet and spear respectively, casualty inflicted by legal intervention (i.e., deaths caused by law enforcement and other persons with legal authority to use deadly force acting in the line of duty), as well as suicide.
Tables
· 1920s and earlier
4 September 1913
4 September 1913
Date
4 September 1913
Location
Degerloch and Mühlhausen an der Enz, German Reich
Dead
5
Injured
0
Total
5
Description
39-year-old Ernst August Wagner killed his wife and 4 children by cutting their throat and chest with a blackjack and dagger. He was a teacher with severe endogenous depression and suicidal ideation, later diagnosed with paranoia. Hours later he shot 20 people, killing nine.
6 June 1925
6 June 1925
Date
6 June 1925
Location
Hassenberg and Lindenberg, German Reich
Dead
9
Injured
1
Total
10
Description
30-year-old Wilhelm Brückner killed nine family members with an axe and a kitchen knife and afterwards himself. He suffered a lightning injury in childhood and was thought to have had intellectual disability and mental illness given auditory hallucinations.
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
| 4 September 1913 | Degerloch and Mühlhausen an der Enz, German Reich | 5 | 0 | 5 | 39-year-old Ernst August Wagner killed his wife and 4 children by cutting their throat and chest with a blackjack and dagger. He was a teacher with severe endogenous depression and suicidal ideation, later diagnosed with paranoia. Hours later he shot 20 people, killing nine. |
| 6 June 1925 | Hassenberg and Lindenberg, German Reich | 9 | 1 | 10 | 30-year-old Wilhelm Brückner killed nine family members with an axe and a kitchen knife and afterwards himself. He suffered a lightning injury in childhood and was thought to have had intellectual disability and mental illness given auditory hallucinations. |
· 1960s
11 June 1964
11 June 1964
Date
11 June 1964
Location
Volkhoven in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dead
11
Injured
22
Total
33
Description
mw- .mw- .mw- .mw- }Main article: Cologne school massacre 57-year old Walter Seifert attacked a Catholic elementary school with a home-made flamethrower and a spear, killing eight pupils and two teachers, afterwards himself. Was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1954.
14 December 1968
14 December 1968
Date
14 December 1968
Location
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Dead
2
Injured
5
Total
7
Description
A Yugoslav guest worker stabbed seven people, killing two, at his guest home. He was killed by police gunfire.
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
| 11 June 1964 | Volkhoven in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia | 11 | 22 | 33 | Main article: Cologne school massacre 57-year old Walter Seifert attacked a Catholic elementary school with a home-made flamethrower and a spear, killing eight pupils and two teachers, afterwards himself. Was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1954. |
| 14 December 1968 | Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg | 2 | 5 | 7 | A Yugoslav guest worker stabbed seven people, killing two, at his guest home. He was killed by police gunfire. |
· 1980s
8 August 1989
8 August 1989
Date
8 August 1989
Location
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Dead
2
Injured
3
Total
5
Description
A 48-year-old failed asylum seeker from Cameroon stabbed five police officers with a bayonet, killing two, before being shot dead by wounded officers.
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
| 8 August 1989 | Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg | 2 | 3 | 5 | A 48-year-old failed asylum seeker from Cameroon stabbed five police officers with a bayonet, killing two, before being shot dead by wounded officers. |
· 1990s
13 August 1999
13 August 1999
Date
13 August 1999
Location
Uelzen, Lower Saxony
Dead
2
Injured
2
Total
4
Description
A convicted murderer fatally stabbed the deputy director of a prison and a chef and wounded two other prison officials before killing himself.
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
| 13 August 1999 | Uelzen, Lower Saxony | 2 | 2 | 4 | A convicted murderer fatally stabbed the deputy director of a prison and a chef and wounded two other prison officials before killing himself. |
· 2000s
16 September 2003
16 September 2003
Date
16 September 2003
Location
Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg
Dead
1
Injured
3
Total
4
Description
A 24-year-old man killed one person and wounded three others with a sword at a mail-order company.
3 April 2005
3 April 2005
Date
3 April 2005
Location
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Dead
1
Injured
3
Total
4
Description
A 25-year-old Tamil stabbed four people with a sword, killing one, during a church service.
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
| 16 September 2003 | Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg | 1 | 3 | 4 | A 24-year-old man killed one person and wounded three others with a sword at a mail-order company. |
| 3 April 2005 | Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg | 1 | 3 | 4 | A 25-year-old Tamil stabbed four people with a sword, killing one, during a church service. |
· 2010s
17 October 2015
17 October 2015
Date
17 October 2015
Location
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dead
0
Injured
5
Total
5
Description
A 44-year-old man stabbed mayoral candidate Henriette Reker into the neck at a political information stand in the city, injuring four others. The motive was thought in protest of the CDU's pro immigration policies on refugees.
10 May 2016
10 May 2016
Date
10 May 2016
Location
Grafing station, near Munich, Bavaria
Dead
1
Injured
3
Total
4
Description
Main article: 2016 Munich knife attack A 27-year-old mentally disturbed man stabbed four men, one of them fatally at Grafing station, some 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Munich. As he reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" while stabbing the random victims, first reactions of the German and international media as well as the general public suspected an Islamist attack. On his arrest shortly after the attack, he proved to be a mentally disturbed, unemployed carpenter with drug problems and no known ties to Islamist organizations.
24 July 2016
24 July 2016
Date
24 July 2016
Location
Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg
Dead
1
Injured
3
Total
4
Description
Main article: 2016 Reutlingen knife attack A 21-year-old refugee of the Syrian civil war attacked his girlfriend and co-worker at his Doner kebab workplace with a knife killing her, wounding two other people, before being struck accidentally by a car and arrested by police. An asylum seeker who had arrived in 2015, he had been previously arrested for causing bodily harm.
18 July 2016
18 July 2016
Date
18 July 2016
Location
between Treuchtlingen and Würzburg, Bavaria
Dead
1 (perpetrator)
Injured
5
Total
6
Description
Main article: Würzburg train attack A 17-year-old former unaccompanied child refugee from Afghanistan wanted to avenge the death of a friend in Afghanistan. He had been in contact with the Islamic State.
9 March 2017
9 March 2017
Date
9 March 2017
Location
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dead
0
Injured
10
Total
10
Description
A 36-year-old asylum seeker from Kosovo, who had arrived in Germany in 2009 and was considered mentally ill attacked nine fellow passengers with an axe aboard a train. He jumped from a nearby bridge while attempting to escape capture, injuring himself severely. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
28 July 2017
28 July 2017
Date
28 July 2017
Location
Barmbek area of Hamburg
Dead
1
Injured
6
Total
7
Description
26-year-old Ahmad Alhaw, a Palestinian failed asylum seeker took a 20 cm-long kitchen knife from a supermarket shelf to attack several people, killing one. He was known to have had contacts with Salafists, and had psychological and drug problems.
21 October 2017
21 October 2017
Date
21 October 2017
Location
Munich, Bavaria
Dead
0
Injured
8
Total
8
Description
34-year-old Patrick H., asked random passers-by if they are clairvoyant and then attacked with a 9 cm-long knife. He was labeled as schizophrenic and was placed in a closed psychiatric clinic.
20 July 2018
20 July 2018
Date
20 July 2018
Location
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein
Dead
0
Injured
10
Total
10
Description
A 34-year old German from Iran attacked 10 people in a bus in Lübeck with a kitchen knife; he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
26 August 2018
26 August 2018
Date
26 August 2018
Location
Chemnitz, Saxonia
Dead
1
Injured
3
Total
3
Description
22-year old Iraki Jussif A. and 23-year old Syrian Alaa S. were taken into custody after a stabbing in Chemnitz, after which 35-year-old Daniel H. died. A third suspect, an Iraki asylum seeker was fugitive. This led to days long 2018 Chemnitz protests.
28 September 2018
28 September 2018
Date
28 September 2018
Location
Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg
Dead
0
Injured
3
Total
3
Description
A 19-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan attacked a 19- and a 20-year-old asylum seeker from Syria and a 52-year-old German.
19 September 2019
19 September 2019
Date
19 September 2019
Location
Monheim am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg
Dead
0
Injured
3
Total
3
Description
A 20-year old under the influence of drugs injured three people with a knife and then threatened to jump out of the window of the 13 th floor.
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
| 17 October 2015 | Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia | 0 | 5 | 5 | A 44-year-old man stabbed mayoral candidate Henriette Reker into the neck at a political information stand in the city, injuring four others. The motive was thought in protest of the CDU's pro immigration policies on refugees. |
| 10 May 2016 | Grafing station, near Munich, Bavaria | 1 | 3 | 4 | Main article: 2016 Munich knife attack A 27-year-old mentally disturbed man stabbed four men, one of them fatally at Grafing station, some 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Munich. As he reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" while stabbing the random victims, first reactions of the German and international media as well as the general public suspected an Islamist attack. On his arrest shortly after the attack, he proved to be a mentally disturbed, unemployed carpenter with drug problems and no known ties to Islamist organizations. |
| 24 July 2016 | Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg | 1 | 3 | 4 | Main article: 2016 Reutlingen knife attack A 21-year-old refugee of the Syrian civil war attacked his girlfriend and co-worker at his Doner kebab workplace with a knife killing her, wounding two other people, before being struck accidentally by a car and arrested by police. An asylum seeker who had arrived in 2015, he had been previously arrested for causing bodily harm. |
| 18 July 2016 | between Treuchtlingen and Würzburg, Bavaria | 1 (perpetrator) | 5 | 6 | Main article: Würzburg train attack A 17-year-old former unaccompanied child refugee from Afghanistan wanted to avenge the death of a friend in Afghanistan. He had been in contact with the Islamic State. |
| 9 March 2017 | Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia | 0 | 10 | 10 | A 36-year-old asylum seeker from Kosovo, who had arrived in Germany in 2009 and was considered mentally ill attacked nine fellow passengers with an axe aboard a train. He jumped from a nearby bridge while attempting to escape capture, injuring himself severely. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. |
| 28 July 2017 | Barmbek area of Hamburg | 1 | 6 | 7 | 26-year-old Ahmad Alhaw, a Palestinian failed asylum seeker took a 20 cm-long kitchen knife from a supermarket shelf to attack several people, killing one. He was known to have had contacts with Salafists, and had psychological and drug problems. |
| 21 October 2017 | Munich, Bavaria | 0 | 8 | 8 | 34-year-old Patrick H., asked random passers-by if they are clairvoyant and then attacked with a 9 cm-long knife. He was labeled as schizophrenic and was placed in a closed psychiatric clinic. |
| 20 July 2018 | Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein | 0 | 10 | 10 | A 34-year old German from Iran attacked 10 people in a bus in Lübeck with a kitchen knife; he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. |
| 26 August 2018 | Chemnitz, Saxonia | 1 | 3 | 3 | 22-year old Iraki Jussif A. and 23-year old Syrian Alaa S. were taken into custody after a stabbing in Chemnitz, after which 35-year-old Daniel H. died. A third suspect, an Iraki asylum seeker was fugitive. This led to days long 2018 Chemnitz protests. |
| 28 September 2018 | Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg | 0 | 3 | 3 | A 19-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan attacked a 19- and a 20-year-old asylum seeker from Syria and a 52-year-old German. |
| 19 September 2019 | Monheim am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg | 0 | 3 | 3 | A 20-year old under the influence of drugs injured three people with a knife and then threatened to jump out of the window of the 13 th floor. |
· 2020s
25 June 2021
25 June 2021
Date
25 June 2021
Location
Würzburg, Bavaria
Dead
3 women
Injured
8
Total
11
Description
Main article: 2021 Würzburg stabbing 24-year-old homeless Abdirahman Jibril of Somalia killed three civilians with a kitchen knife in a Woolworth store and wounded seven others. The police shot him into his leg. He had arrived in 2015 as asylum seeker and had a history of violent altercations. He had lived in a homeless shelter since 2019. He admitted to Islamist motives. Another refugee accused him to be an al-Shabaab member. He had a questionable history of mental illness.
4 November 2021
4 November 2021
Date
4 November 2021
Location
Neumarkt, Bavaria
Dead
0
Injured
3 seriously, possibly another non-seriously.
Total
3
Description
26- or 27-year-old Abdalrahman A. of Palestine who arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2014 claiming on the basis of residency in Syria attacked four passengers on an ICE high speed passenger train with 200 passengers from Passau to Nuremberg with an 8 centimeter folding knife while the train was near the city of Neumarkt. Three passengers were "seriously injured".
25 January 2023
25 January 2023
Date
25 January 2023
Location
Brokstedt, Schleswig-Holstein
Dead
2
Injured
10
Total
12
Description
Main article: Brokstedt stabbing 33-year-old Ibrahim A. of Palestinian origin stabbed nine people on a moving passenger train, killing two. He came to Germany in 2014 and by 2018 he had been convicted for dangerous bodily harm, two fines for theft and one drug offence.
22 February 2024
22 February 2024
Date
22 February 2024
Location
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dead
0
Injured
5 (Including the perpetrator)
Total
5
Description
A 17-year-old male student at the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld secondary school went into the school armed with a knife and a pair of scissors and stabbed multiple pupils and one teacher. He was suspected of suffering from mental illness.
31 May 2024
31 May 2024
Date
31 May 2024
Location
Mannheim
Dead
1
Injured
6 (including the perpetrator)
Total
7
Description
Main article: 2024 Mannheim stabbing A 25-year-old refugee from Afghanistan was accused of fatally stabbing a police officer and wounding five other people at an anti-Islam rally.
15 June 2024
15 June 2024
Date
15 June 2024
Location
Wolmirstedt, Saxony-Anhalt
Dead
2 (including the perpetrator)
Injured
3
Total
4
Description
An Afghan man stabbed a man to death, then ran into an UEFA Euro 2024 watch party and injured three people before being shot and killed by police.
23 August 2024
23 August 2024
Date
23 August 2024
Location
Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dead
3
Injured
8
Total
11
Description
Main article: 2024 Solingen stabbing A 26-year-old refugee from Syria confessed to stabbing 11 people (three of whom died) during a festival. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
31 August 2024
31 August 2024
Date
31 August 2024
Location
Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dead
0
Injured
6
Total
6
Description
A 32-year-old German woman stabbed and injured six people on a bus. No clear motive was reported.
22 January 2025
22 January 2025
Date
22 January 2025
Location
Aschaffenburg, Bavaria
Dead
2
Injured
3
Total
5
Description
Main article: 2025 Aschaffenburg stabbing A 28-year-old Afghan man attacked people in Bavaria Park, killing a man and a toddler. Two adults were injured when they tried to stop the attacker. A two-year-old girl was also injured in the attack.
23 May 2025
23 May 2025
Date
23 May 2025
Location
Altstadt, Hamburg
Dead
0
Injured
17
Total
17
Description
Main article: 2025 Hamburg stabbing attack On 23 May 2025, a mass stabbing took place at the central train station of Hamburg, Germany. Seventeen people were wounded, with six having life-threatening injuries and another three having heavy injuries. Hamburg Police arrested a female suspect of German nationality at the scene.
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
| 25 June 2021 | Würzburg, Bavaria | 3 women | 8 | 11 | Main article: 2021 Würzburg stabbing 24-year-old homeless Abdirahman Jibril of Somalia killed three civilians with a kitchen knife in a Woolworth store and wounded seven others. The police shot him into his leg. He had arrived in 2015 as asylum seeker and had a history of violent altercations. He had lived in a homeless shelter since 2019. He admitted to Islamist motives. Another refugee accused him to be an al-Shabaab member. He had a questionable history of mental illness. |
| 4 November 2021 | Neumarkt, Bavaria | 0 | 3 seriously, possibly another non-seriously. | 3 | 26- or 27-year-old Abdalrahman A. of Palestine who arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2014 claiming on the basis of residency in Syria attacked four passengers on an ICE high speed passenger train with 200 passengers from Passau to Nuremberg with an 8 centimeter folding knife while the train was near the city of Neumarkt. Three passengers were "seriously injured". |
| 25 January 2023 | Brokstedt, Schleswig-Holstein | 2 | 10 | 12 | Main article: Brokstedt stabbing 33-year-old Ibrahim A. of Palestinian origin stabbed nine people on a moving passenger train, killing two. He came to Germany in 2014 and by 2018 he had been convicted for dangerous bodily harm, two fines for theft and one drug offence. |
| 22 February 2024 | Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia | 0 | 5 (Including the perpetrator) | 5 | A 17-year-old male student at the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld secondary school went into the school armed with a knife and a pair of scissors and stabbed multiple pupils and one teacher. He was suspected of suffering from mental illness. |
| 31 May 2024 | Mannheim | 1 | 6 (including the perpetrator) | 7 | Main article: 2024 Mannheim stabbing A 25-year-old refugee from Afghanistan was accused of fatally stabbing a police officer and wounding five other people at an anti-Islam rally. |
| 15 June 2024 | Wolmirstedt, Saxony-Anhalt | 2 (including the perpetrator) | 3 | 4 | An Afghan man stabbed a man to death, then ran into an UEFA Euro 2024 watch party and injured three people before being shot and killed by police. |
| 23 August 2024 | Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia | 3 | 8 | 11 | Main article: 2024 Solingen stabbing A 26-year-old refugee from Syria confessed to stabbing 11 people (three of whom died) during a festival. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. |
| 31 August 2024 | Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia | 0 | 6 | 6 | A 32-year-old German woman stabbed and injured six people on a bus. No clear motive was reported. |
| 22 January 2025 | Aschaffenburg, Bavaria | 2 | 3 | 5 | Main article: 2025 Aschaffenburg stabbing A 28-year-old Afghan man attacked people in Bavaria Park, killing a man and a toddler. Two adults were injured when they tried to stop the attacker. A two-year-old girl was also injured in the attack. |
| 23 May 2025 | Altstadt, Hamburg | 0 | 17 | 17 | Main article: 2025 Hamburg stabbing attack On 23 May 2025, a mass stabbing took place at the central train station of Hamburg, Germany. Seventeen people were wounded, with six having life-threatening injuries and another three having heavy injuries. Hamburg Police arrested a female suspect of German nationality at the scene. |
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