Cologne school massacre

Cologne school massacre
Cologne school massacre

Commemorative plaque
Location Cologne, Germany
Date June 11, 1964 (1964-06-11)
Attack type Mass murder, school shooting, murder-suicide, massacre
Weapon(s) Flamethrower, lance, homemade mace
Death(s) 11 (including the perpetrator)
Injured 22
Perpetrator Walter Seifert

The Cologne school massacre occurred in a Catholic elementary school located at Volkhovener Weg 209 in the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne, Germany on June 11, 1964. Walter Seifert, born on June 11, 1922, killed eight students and two teachers.

Seifert reportedly fell apart when his wife died in childbirth in 1961; his tuberculosis worsened and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He felt he was being treated unfairly by the government which he claimed was cheating him out of his war pension for his service in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

On June 11, the day of his 42nd birthday, Seifert took a self-made flamethrower, lance and mace and entered the schoolyard. After blocking off the main gate with a wooden wedge, he proceeded to kill eight students and two teachers and injure twenty two others, mostly students. He smashed in the windows of the buildings and pointed his flamethrower in the classrooms, setting the classroom on fire, effectively killing nine people. He was then confronted by a teacher, Ursula Kuhr, 24, whom he stabbed with the lance.

After he left the schoolyard, he swallowed a poisonous insecticide E605 in hopes of committing suicide before police could catch him. He was soon apprehended by police, but died in the hospital the next day from the poison.

Contents

Victims

Gravestone for Ursula Kuhr on Cologne Südfriedhof

Teachers:

  • Gertrud Bollenrath, aged 62
  • Ursula Kuhr, aged 24

Students:

  • Dorothea Binner
  • Renate Fühlen
  • Ingeborg Hahn
  • Ruth Hoffmann
  • Klara Kröger
  • Stephan Lischka
  • Karin Reinhold
  • Rosel Röhrig

Notes

  • Both teachers who died had a school named after them.
  • Anna Langohr, one of the surviving teachers, was presented with the Medal Cross by Pope Paul VI as well as other decorations from the city.

See also

  • Bremen school shooting
  • Eppstein school shooting
  • Erfurt massacre
  • Winnenden school shooting
  • Emsdetten school shooting
  • Ansbach school attack

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