List of mass stabbings in Germany
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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 ., 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. As there is no single, widely accepted definition for how many casualties consitutes a mass stabbing, this article follows the general trend of attacks requiring four or more victims being stabbed.
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
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. |