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|{{Interlanguage link|Eching and Freising shooting|de|Amoklauf von Eching und Freising}}: In a shooting spree, 22-year-old Adam Labus shot and killed three people and wounded one before committing suicide.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brinkbäumer |first=Klaus |last2=Neumann |first2=Conny |last3=Röbel |first3=Sven |last4=Ulrich |first4=Andreas |date=2002-02-24 |title=Die Rache des kleinen Rambo |language=de |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/die-rache-des-kleinen-rambo-a-50dcc7a9-0002-0001-0000-000021542114 |access-date=2022-05-16 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>
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Revision as of 17:47, 11 January 2023

This is a list of known mass shootings that have occurred in Germany. Casualty figures only include those killed or injured with firearms.

2020s

Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
24 January 2022 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg 2[n 1] 4 6 Heidelberg University shooting: 18-year-old student Nikolai G. shot and killed one person and wounded four before committing suicide.[1]
19 February 2020 Hanau, Hesse 11[n 1] 5 16 Hanau shootings: 43-year-old far-right extremist Tobias Rathjen shot and killed ten people and wounded five before committing suicide.[2]
24 January 2020 Rot am See, Baden-Württemberg 6 2 8 Rot am See shooting: 26-year-old Adrian Schurr shot and killed six people and wounded two before being apprehended by police.[3]

2010s

Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
9 October 2019 Halle, Saxony-Anhalt 2 3[n 1] 5 Halle synagogue shooting: 27-year-old neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet shot and killed two people and wounded three before being apprehended by police.[4]
22 July 2016 Munich, Bavaria 10[n 1] 4 14 2016 Munich shooting: 18-year-old David Sonboly shot and killed nine people and wounded four before committing suicide.[5]
20 August 2013 Dossenheim, Baden-Württemberg 3[n 1] 5 8 Dossenheim shooting [de]: A 71-year-old man shot and killed two people and wounded five before committing suicide.[6]
11 November 2012 Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia 1[n 1] 4 5 A man wounded four co-workers at a 3M factory before killing himself.[7]
2 March 2011 Frankfurt am Main, Hesse 2 2 4 2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting: The 21-year-old shooter, an airport employee, was arrested and charged with killing two United States Airmen and seriously wounding two others. He was convicted of murder and attempted murder and sentenced to life in prison on 10 February 2012.[8]
19 September 2010 Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg 3[n 1] 18 21 Lörrach hospital shooting: 41-year-old Sabine Radmacher shot and killed two people and wounded eighteen before being shot dead by police.[9]

2000s

Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
9 April 2009 Eislingen, Baden-Württemberg 4 0 4 Quadruple murder of Eislingen [de]: A man and his friend killed the friend's parents and two sisters. They fled the scene, but were arrested.[10]
7 April 2009 Landshut, Bavaria 2[n 1] 2 4 A man shot three people in a courthouse, one fatally, before committing suicide.[11]
11 March 2009 Winnenden and Wendlingen, Baden-Württemberg 16[n 1] 9 25 Winnenden school shooting: 17-year-old student Tim Kretschmer shot and killed fifteen people and wounded nine before committing suicide.[12]
20 November 2006 Emsdetten, North Rhine-Westphalia 1[n 1] 5 6 Emsdetten school shooting: 18-year-old Sebastian Bosse shot and wounded five people before committing suicide.[13]
24 October 2005 Lohmar, North Rhine-Westphalia 4[n 1] 0 4 A man invaded his ex-wife's house and killed her, her partner, and their son before committing suicide.[14]
26 July 2004 Munich 0 5[n 1] 5 A man fired a rifle inside his apartment building, wounding two people. After he shot a man in the neck, the victim's father fought the perpetrator, causing the gunman to accidentally shoot himself in the head. The father left the building holding the gunman's rifle and was shot in the arm by police, who confused him for the perpetrator.[15]
30 June 2003 Berlin 2[n 1] 2 4 A man killed his ex-girlfriend during a domestic dispute in a restaurant. He fled the scene to his house, wounding two people at random, and committed suicide.[16]
15 May 2003 Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate 4[n 1] 0 4 A man killed two doctors at their offices and then killed himself. The perpetrator's wife was found dead in their apartment.[17]
26 April 2002 Erfurt, Thuringia 17[n 1] 1 18 Erfurt school massacre: 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shot and killed sixteen people and wounded one before committing suicide.[18]
19 February 2002 Eching and Freising, Bavaria 4[n 1] 1 5 Eching and Freising shootings [de]: In a shooting spree, 22-year-old Adam Labus shot and killed three people and wounded one before committing suicide.[19]
26 April 2001 Neubeuern, Bavaria 2[n 1] 2 4 A man entered his wife's workplace and opened fire, killing her and wounding two others before fatally shooting himself.[20]

1990s

Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
1 November 1999 Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria 5[n 1] 7 12 Bad Reichenhall shooting: 16-year-old student Martin Peyerl shot and killed four people and wounded seven before committing suicide.[21]
16 May 1999 Dillingen, Saarland 4 9 13 Dillingen shooting: 36-year-old Günter Hermann Ewen shot and killed four people and wounded nine. He killed another person and wounded two in France before committing suicide in Luxembourg.[22]
9 March 1994 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia 6 8 14 Euskirchen court shooting: 39-year-old Erwin Mikolajczyk shot and killed six people and wounded eight before committing suicide with a homemade bomb.[23]
24 August 1992 Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate 1 7 8 A man stole his father's pistol and opened fire in the city center, killing one person and wounding seven before being arrested.[24]

1980s

Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
April 1987 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 6[n 1] 0 6 Cologne shootings: In a shooting spree, a 54-year-old man shot and killed five members of his family before committing suicide.[25]
28 March 1987 Hamburg 3[n 1] 1 4 A man shot three people in a prostitutes' lodging house in the St. Pauli district, two fatally, before killing himself.[26]
29 August 1985 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg 5 5 10 Karlsruhe shootings [de]: In a shooting spree, a 32-year-old man shot and killed five people and wounded five before being apprehended by police.[27][28]
3 June 1983 Eppstein, Hesse 6[n 1] 14 20 Eppstein school shooting: 34-year-old Karel Charva shot and killed five people and wounded fourteen before committing suicide.[29]
24 June 1982 Nuremberg, Bavaria 4[n 1] 3 7 Nuremburg shooting [de]: 26-year-old neo-Nazi Helmut Oxner shot and killed three people and wounded three before committing suicide.[30]
24 December 1980 Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia 5[n 1] 1 6 Bonn shooting: 48-year-old Klaus-Dieter Fischer shot and killed four members of his family and wounded his son before committing suicide.[31]

1970s

Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
5 September 1977 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 4 0 4 Kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer: Members of the Red Army Faction shot and killed four people in an ambush.[32]
3 October 1976 Heide, Schleswig-Holstein 4[n 1] 3 7 A man ran through the streets shooting indiscriminately, killing three people and wounding three others before killing himself.[33]
28 May 1972 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia 5 1[n 1] 6 Essen shooting [de]: 29-year-old Udo Schwulera shot and killed five people, including his wife and two children, before being apprehended by police.[34]
20 April 1970 Fahrdorf, Schleswig-Holstein 9[n 1] 0 9 Fahrdorf familicide: 44-year-old Harry Kecinski shot and killed his wife and seven children before committing suicide.[35]
10 February 1970 Munich, Bavaria 1 23 24 1970 Munich bus attack: Members of the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine shot and killed one person and wounded twenty-three.[36]

1910s

Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
4 September 1913 Mühlhausen an der Enz, Baden-Württemberg 9 11 20 Mühlhausen an der Enz shooting: 38-year-old Ernst August Wagner shot and killed nine people and wounded eleven before being severely beaten by a mob and apprehended by police.[37]
20 June 1913 Bremen 4 21 25 Bremen school shooting: 29-year-old Heinz Schmidt shot and killed four people and wounded twenty-one before being subdued and apprehended by police.[38]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Including the perpetrator

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