List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany

Listed below are people killed by non-military law enforcement officers in Germany, whether or not in the line of duty, irrespective of reason or method. Included, too, are cases where individuals died in police custody due to applied techniques. Inclusion in the list implies neither wrongdoing nor justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved. The listing simply documents occurrences of deaths and is not complete.

Statistics

year	number killed by use of firearms (official statistics)	number killed by any means (counted)	number of shots fired on persons
1952	at least 31 (e.g., Philipp Müller)
1963	at least 4 (North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse only)
1964	at least 2 (NRW and Hesse only)
1965	at least 6 (NRW and Hesse only)
1966	at least 4 (NRW and Hesse only)
1967	at least 2 (Benno Ohnesorg, otherwise NRW and Hesse only)
1968	at least 5 (NRW and Hesse only)
1969	at least 2 (NRW and Hesse only)
1970	at least 7 (NRW and Hesse only)
1971	at least 4 (e.g. Petra Schelm, Georg von Rauch)
1972	at least 4 (e.g. Tommy Weisbecker, Ian McLeod, Richard Epple, Duifhus)
1973	at least 5 (e.g. Erich Dobhardt)
1974	10 (e.g. Günter Jendrian)
1975	13 (e.g. Werner Sauber)
1976	8		141
1977	17 (e.g. Helmut Schlaudraff)		160
1978	8 (e.g. Willi-Peter Stoll, Michael Knoll)		111
1979	11		104
1980	16 (e.g. Manfred Perder)		111
1981	17		93
1982	11 (e.g. Jürgen Bergbauer)		125
1983	24		53
1984	6
1985	10
1986	12
1987	7		92
1988	8		114
1989	10		102
1990	10		162
1991	9		271
1992	12		315
1993	16		307
1994	11 (including Halim Dener)		268
1995	21		221
1996	9		163
1997	10		172
1998	8
1999	15
2000	6
2001	6
2002	6
2003	3
2004	9
2005	4
2006	6
2007	12		46
2008	10		37
2009	6		57
2010	8		47
2011	6		36
2012	8		36
2013	8		42
2014	7		46
2015	10
2016	11
2017	14
2018	11
2019	14	17
2020	15
2021	8
2022	11 (e.g. Mouhamed Dramé)
2023	8
Sum	529 minimum		2452

Figures before 1978 can not be compared directly to later numbers. A list of police killings was first compiled 1997; owing to a legal 20-year document retention limit, some files may have been destroyed. Additionally, the numbers here do not include suicides.

Cases

1920s

1920

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1920-01-13	42 killed		Reichstag, Berlin	Berlin	The Reichstag Bloodbath (Template:Lang-de) occurred on January 13, 1920, in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin during negotiations by the Weimar National Assembly on the Works Council Act (Template:Lang-de). The number of victims is controversial, but it is regarded as the bloodiest demonstration in modern German history. The event was overshadowed two months later by the Kapp Putsch but remained in the collective memory of Berlin's labour movement and security forces.

1922

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1922-07-17	Kern, Erwin	23	Saaleck	Provinz Sachsen	A member of the ultranationalist terrorist group Organisation Consul and one of the assassins of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau. Kern and fellow member Hermann Fischer had been hiding out in Saaleck Castle for a day when two police officers were alerted to their presence by travellers who had noticed the light on inside. During the following shootout, Kern was fatally shot, after which Fischer retreated with his compatriot's body and committed suicide by gunshot.

1923

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1923-11-09	Allfarth, Felix	22	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Bauriedl, Andreas	44	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Ehrlich, Wilhem	29	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Hechenberger, Anton	21	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Körner, Oskar	48	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Laforce, Karl	19	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Neubauer, Kurt	24	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	von Pape, Klaus	19	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	von der Pfordten, Theodor	50	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Rickmers, Johann	42	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	von Scheubner-Richter, Max Erwin	39	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Ritter von Stransky-Griffenfeld, Lorenz	34	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Wolf, Wilhelm	25	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers.
1923-11-09	Kuhn, Karl	26	München	Bayern	Beer Hall Putsch: One of fourteen people shot by Bavarian police on the Odeonsplatz during the attempted coup led by the Nazi Party in Munich. Four police officers were killed during the fire exchange. Two others (Theodor Casella and Martin Faust) were killed earlier during a shootout with Reichswehr soldiers. Unlike the other deceased, Kuhn was not a participant in the coup and was instead an onlooker who was accidentally shot in the crossfire.

1929

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1929-05-03	33 killed		Berlin	Berlin	During the Blutmai riots, an unscheduled Labour Day protest was suppressed by baton-wielding officers after which Berlin Police Chief Karl Zörgiebel deployed 13,000 officers to conduct a police raid in Wedding, a predominantly left wing-leaning voting block. In the ensuing street riots, police killed 33 people, all of them being civilians without affiliation to the left-wing rioters, of whom 1,300 were arrested. The first killed was 53-year-old plumber Max Gemeinhardt on 1 May, who was shot in the head on his balcony for not closing his apartment window on police orders. In one instance, police opened fire on a crowd without provocation, killing 26-year-old labourer Ernst Mai with a shot in the neck. The last death was 53-year old journalist and former mayor of Whanganui Charles Mackay who had been working as a correspondent for The Sunday Express after he was ousted from his homecountry of New Zealand for the attempted murder of D'Arcy Cresswell. Mackay was shot by police who had mistaken him for a rioter after he ignored commands to vacate a street. Nearly all the deceased were shot, many from behind, with one exception who was instead run over and crushed to death by an armored vehicle. A total of 10,981 gunshots were fired by police over the course of three days. The incident increased further tensions between the KPD and the SPD, as the chief of police was a member of the SPD.

1940s

1944

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1944-09-22	Lindemann, Fritz	50	Berlin	Berlin	A German Army general and co-conspirator in the failed 20 July plot. Gestapo went to arrest Lindemann in his home and shot in the leg and stomach when he tried to escape by jumping through a window, dying at a hospital later on.

1948

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1948-09-09	Scheunemann, Wolfgang	15	East Berlin	Berlin	A student leader of a youth wing branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During the Berlin Blockade, police had been instructed to keep pedestrians away from the border to West Berlin when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to push past them, injuring 12. Scheunemann was hit in the stomach by a stray shot while seeking cover.

1950s

1950

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1950-07-25	Kirsch, Paul	23	Neustadt an der Donau	Bayern	During a police operation involving a group of Romani youths outside of a pub, a Czechoslovakian Romani man was shot after grabbing an officer's gun. Two other men were given 3 and 5 month prison sentences for assault. Accounts differ on the incident that led to police intervention. Official records state that the pub owner had called police about a brawl in front of the establishment, that the attackers had been drunk and that the deceased had chambered a round and aimed at an officer. A relative interviewed in 2020 claimed that the group included teens who had played bowling on a street in front of the pub and asked the deceased to help set the pins up. A disagreement ensued between the teens, due to which the pub owner observed and called police for. When the deceased tried to leave due to not being involved, he was stopped by an officer, leading to a scuffle between them during which the deceased got a hold of the gun and was shot by another officer, Johann A., in response.

1952

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1952-05-11	Müller, Philipp	21	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a forbidden protest against West Germany's rearmament organised by leftist and pacifist groups, police opened fire on the crowd, killing a member of the NRW Free German Youth, as well as injuring another two protesters. Police defended their actions, stating that they had been pelted with stones, later also alleging that officers believed that gunshots were being fired at them, with no evidence for the latter. Despite appeals for a investigative committee into the shooting by the Communist Party of Germany, the court of Dortmund deemed the use of deadly force as self-defense.

1954

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1954-XX-XX	N.N.		Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A sports car did not stop after being signalled by a police officer due to a countrywide search for a gang of highway robbers. The officer fired a shot from his submachine gun at the fleeing vehicle, fatally striking the passenger, the wife of the driver, who later stated that he tried to avoid the traffic check because he was driving the car without the owner's knowledge.

1960s

1960

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1960-11-05	Czori, Joska	27	Hamburg	Hamburg	A fight broke out at a butcher's shop in Niendorf between Polish Romani, store staff, and other patrons after a member of the Romani had cut in line and was punched in the face by the owner. Police were called about a "brawl with gypsy involvement" and after beating some of them with nightsticks, a 47-year-old officer fired on three of the Romani, killing two and injuring one, reportedly because one had grabbed an officer's baton.
1960-11-05	Kwiek, Karol	26	Hamburg	Hamburg	A fight broke out at a butcher's shop in Niendorf between Polish Romani, store staff, and other patrons after a member of the Romani had cut in line and was punched in the face by the owner. Police were called about a "brawl with gypsy involvement" and after beating some of them with nightsticks, a 47-year-old officer fired on three of the Romani, killing two and injuring one, reportedly because one had grabbed an officer's baton.

1961

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1961-12-03	N.N.	21	Brühl	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two car thieves were incidentally stopped by a police patrol near a forest as they were driving a vehicle they had stolen three weeks earlier. The officers were shot at with a hunting rifle, leading them to return fire, during which one of the thieves was fatally shot.
1961-12-14	N.N.	20	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police caught a man in the process of stealing a car. Upon spotting the officers heading his way, he drove away, with the officers trying to stop him by shooting at the car's tires, but as they were aiming too high, the bullets struck the driver instead, causing his death.

1962

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1962-03-22	N.N.	23	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Passerby called police because a man was threatening his wife with a knife near the Aachener Weiher. Police arrived to find the man stabbing the woman, and after several verbal commands and warning shots, he was shot in the heart when he did not desist.
1962-05-23	Göring, Peter	21	East Berlin	Berlin	A soldier of the Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic, who was part of a patrol group along the border canal between East and West Berlin. On 23 May 1962, he observed a 14-year-old boy within the currents trying to hide himself from the guards. To prevent him from committing Republikflucht, several GDR-border guards shot at the boy in the river, injuring him with eight gunshots to the back. Göring left his post in the guard tower despite superior orders in an attempt to get in position for a clearer shot on the boy, also disregarding the general policy of not shooting towards at West German territory. The shots rang past a West German police patrol that had coincidentally passed by and was attempting to assist the boy, which led the officers to return fire on the guards, fatally hitting Göring and injuring another guard. Two bullets hit Göring directly, the deadly wound was caused by another bullet's ricochet.
1962-08-14	Arnstadt, Rudi	35	Wiesenfeld	Thüringen	Two soldiers of the Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic, Rudi Arnstadt and Karlheinz Roßner, encountered a West German Bundesgrenzschutz officer on East German territory and told him to leave. When the pair spotted another three BGS officers trespassing, they ambushed them with their guns drawn to put them under arrest. Roßner fired a warning shot and in reaction to this, one of the BGS officers, 23-year-old Hans Plüschke, then fatally shot Arnstadt above the right eye before returning to the West German side, telling his superiors they had been shot at. East German authorities sentenced Plüschke to 25 years imprisonment in absentia, but his extradition was not approved since Plüschke was not charged in West Germany, which deemed the shooting self-defense based on Plüschke's version of events. On 15 March 1998, 9 years after the dissolution of the SED and the reunification of Germany, Plüschke, who had now been working as a taxi driver, was found murdered on B84 near Hünfeld, around 10 km from Wiesenfeld, dead from a gunshot wound above the right eye. Plüschke had revealed his identity as the shooter in a RTL segment in 1993 and again in October 1997, due to which he had been receiving anonymous death threats. Former colleagues of Arnstadt, as well as his son and daughter were questioned, but no leads were obtained and the murder remains unsolved.

1966

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1966-08-03	Sch., Jürgen	31	Hamminkeln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called after motorists reported a man from Griesheim for "unsociable behaviour" at a rest stop. The man engaged the officers in a footchase through shrubbery and was shot when an officer's gun accidentally discharged. Ammunition was found in his car, leading investigators to believe that the man, who had only one prior recorded incident with police, had been involved in criminal activity.

1967

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1967-06-02	Ohnesorg, Benno	26	West Berlin	West Berlin	During a demonstration against the state visit of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the West-Berlin police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras shot and killed a 26-year-old civilian, Benno Ohnesorg, with a close-range pistol shot to the back of the head. The ensuing post-killing investigation suffered from missing pieces of evidence, arranged testimonies of the attending policemen, and cover-ups in the medical record of the autopsy. In 2009, it was discovered that Karl-Heinz Kurras was listed as an informal collaborator of the East German secret police Stasi, and a long-time member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the ruling East German Communist party, providing internal information of the West Berlin political police.

1968

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1968-01-30	N.N.		Homberg	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A burglar was spotted on the roof of a two-story apartment building by patrons of a nearby pub. Upon being confronted by police, the burglar disobeyed orders to stay put and broke into a flat, beating a 68-year-old man into submission before jumping from a window onto the nearby street after finding the door out locked. He was shot by a police officer when he attempted to attack him with a screwdriver, dying on the way to a hospital. He remained unidentified.

1970s

1971

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1971-07-15	Schelm, Petra	20	Hamburg	Hamburg	A member of the RAF, Schelm was shot in the face while fleeing from police, after she and Werner Hoppe had broken through a police road block.
1971-08-04	Rammelmayr, Hans Georg	31	München	Bayern	Two bank robbers, Hans Georg Rammelmayr and Dimitri Todorov, held up a Deutsche Bank location. Police had complied with their demands for two million mark and a getaway vehicle, but once Rammelmayr entered the car as the last one, police marksmen opened fire, striking him and one of the hostages, killing both. Police initially assumed that Rammelmayr had shot the hostage in his dying moments, but the attending medical team, which included the incumbent mayor of Munich Hans Steinkohl, and the pathologist found that the caliber she had been shot with did not belong to the PPSh-41 he had been carrying.
1971-08-04	Reppel, Ingrid	20	München	Bayern	Two bank robbers, Hans Georg Rammelmayr and Dimitri Todorov, held up a Deutsche Bank location. Police had complied with their demands for two million mark and a getaway vehicle, but once Rammelmayr entered the car as the last one, police marksmen opened fire, striking him and one of the hostages, killing both. Police initially assumed that Rammelmayr had shot the hostage in his dying moments, but the attending medical team, which included the incumbent mayor of Munich Hans Steinkohl, and the pathologist found that the caliber she had been shot with did not belong to the PPSh-41 he had been carrying.
1971-12-04	von Rauch, Georg	24	West Berlin	Berlin	A member of the militant anarchist 2 June Movement opened fire during a traffic check and was shot by police while his fellow anarchist, 24-year-old Bommi Baumann, escaped.

1972

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1972-02-04	Duifhus	N.N.	Duisburg	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A police patrol attempted to stop Duifhus for a traffic violation, causing him to flee. When he was eventually stopped and ordered to raise his hands, he took his hand from a pocket and was shot, because the officer felt threatened.
1972-03-01	Epple, Richard	17	Herrenberg	Baden-Württemberg	Epple fled in a car from the police and broke through two road blocks. Police presumed him to be a wanted RAF terrorist and ordered officers to stop the car by all means. Epple, drunk and without a driver's license, died from a shot through the rear window.
1972-03-02	Weisbecker, Thomas	23	Augsburg	Bayern	Member of the 2 June Movement. Weisbecker was shot by police officers during an arrest attempt. The incident's details are unclear.
1972-09-06	Hamid, Afif Ahmed	N.N.	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-06	Thaa, Ahmed Chic	N.N.	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-06	Afif, Luttif	27 or 35	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-06	Jawad, Kahlid	18	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-06	Nazzal, Yusuf	35	Fürstenfeldbruck	Bayern	Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by pursuant police officers when he tried to escape at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972.
1972-09-25	McLeod, Ian	34	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	A British citizen, McLeod was shot through a closed door during a raid of his apartment, which the police mistakenly believed to be a RAF safehouse.

1973

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1973-02-12	Stülper, Manfred	24	Radevormwald	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During an attempted arrest of a serial burglar in Hagen, the suspect opened fire on the two dispatched policemen with a revolver, hitting 34-year-old police officer Manfred Tophoven in the upper arm, grazing the chest of 22-year-old officer Wolfgang Ritz as well as injuring his own mother. The offender escaped in his car over B229, taking Tophoven with him as a hostage at gunpoint. Despite Tophoven telling his partner to not pursue them, police surrounded the vehicle at a red light. As Tophoven attempted to dissuade his colleagues from approaching, the burglar fatally shot his hostage four times in the back. The kidnapper died at a hospital after being struck by two shots in the chest and throat by police.
1973-05-31	Lehmann, Anton	53	Heidelberg	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called over a dispute between a pub owner and customer who had come to buy a crate of beer for his mother's birthday, but didn't want to pay for bottle deposit. The owner's mother then threatened the customer and his son with a pizzle whip. The father-son pair damaged the interior and beat both women up in response. Five officers were sent to the family home, wielding batons at the ready, and fought with the man and three of his sons, all armed with wooden boards or spades, who shouted insults at them. A bystander reportedly fired a gas pistol at the scuffle to assist the officers. The fight ended when 8 shots were fired by a 23-year-old injured police officer, striking the father 4 times while the others struck his sons. The shooting was deemed self-defense and the sons were given sentences of up to 2 years imprisonment for assault. An investigation in 2020 showed that the family was regularly discriminated against by locals due to their Romani heritage and had regular run-ins with the law for defamation and assault. The deceased, who had survived internment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, had called the police officers "Nazi swine", apparently because the pub owner's mother had previously told him, "Ihr dreckigen Zigeuner gehört vergast" ("You filthy gypsies should be gassed").
1973-08-21	Dobhardt, Erich	17	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A homeless teenager who had previously evaded arrest for multiple thefts was shot in the back by 31-year-old police officer Rolf Diehl while he ran from police for stealing a stereo. Diehl was charged with negligent homicide and sentenced to six months imprisonment and probation in May 1975. On 2 November 1973, members of the Red Army Faction named the first building they illegally occupied in Dortmund after the victim.

1974

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1974-01-06	N.N.		Olpe	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A woman called police because her husband was threatening her with a pistol. The man injured one of the officers with a gunshot during the confrontation and was fatally shot in return.
1974-04-18	Martin-Gonzales, Emilio Humberto	28	Hamburg	Hamburg	A young Colombian student was robbing a bank in the city of Hamburg, took hostages and shot a police officer. After negotiations, he attempted to escape in a car given to him by the police. When exiting the bank with a hostage, a knife pressed to their throat, a police officer shot the robber in the head from behind at close range.
1974-05-21	Jendrian, Günther	24	München	Bayern	In search of a wanted felon, plain-clothed masked police officers raided an apartment. Police shot through Jendiran's apartment door and walls before entering. It is reported that Jendrian had reached for his smallbore rifle and was shot because of this. It turned out he was mistaken for a serial bankrobber. Whether he recognized the intruders as police officers is unclear.
1974-06-18	Routhier, Günter	45	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Routhier, an early retired man, was a visitor at a court hearing. After disturbances, the room was cleared by police officers, carrying Routhier down a stair hall. During this, his head hit the wall and floor. He died two weeks later from intercranial bleedings.
1974-08-30	N.N.		Minden	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A robber was killed by two shots in the torso after he had non-fatally shot a female clerk and a police officer.

1975

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1975-05-09	Sauber, Werner	29	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Member of the 2 June Movement. When he and two other terrorists got into a police control, they opened fire on the police, killing officer Walter Pauli. During the shootout, he was hit and later died on the way to the hospital.

1976

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1976-01-02	Breyer, Stephan	19	Hamburg	Hamburg	An armed bank robber was shot during a gunfight with responding police.
1976-03-19	N.N.	36	Mosbach-Neckar	Baden-Württemberg	A mentally ill woman was threatening her parents with an axe at the family home. Responding medical and police services were similarly threatened and after tear gas failed, the woman was shot.
1976-03-24	N.N.	35	Münchhausen	Hessen	Police attempted to arrest a wanted man convicted of assault and unlawful possession of firearms at his parents' house. He was shot after pointing a gun at the officers.
1976-04-22	N.N.	29	Friedrichshafen	Baden-Württemberg	A man was threatening to kill his wife and child with a knife at a camping site. While police surrounded his tent, officers fired on the man after he non-fatally stabbed his child.
1976-05-07	Sippel, Fritz	22	Dreieich	Hessen	A girl wrongly identified a man in a group of five at a lake in Sprendlingen as an exhibitionist in a police call. During an attempted arrest of the man, two of his friends started a shootout with six police officers which ended with one officer dead from shots in the neck and stomach and the group, later linked to the RAF, on the run. Two known criminals were arrested two weeks later, one of whom admitted to being a RAF affiliate and acknowledged having been the man being arrested, but did not identify the other arrested suspect as one of the shooters, with both being cleared of homicide charges when forensic analysis revealed that the officer had been accidentally shot by a colleague, 23-year-old Rolf Korol. His death is still counted as a killing by the RAF since his death involved their members.
1976-06-20	Damrijanovic, Stevica	26	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A man fled police when a routine traffic stop revealed that he was carrying forged documents. After being apprehended at a bar, he injured a police officer with a broken beer glass and was shot after again attempting escape.
1976-12-26	N.N.	56	Herzebrock	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A former forester threatened a group of teenagers with a gun because they were trying to stop him from driving drunk. The man then shot at arriving police and fled back home by car, where he was shot by police when he attempted to open fire again.
1976-XX-XX	N.N.				A total of eight fatal police shootings were recorded 1976, though one was not given a detailed report.

1977

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1977-02-05	Linden, Hans Georg	19	Nürburg	Rheinland-Pfalz	During a biker meet-up at Nürburgring, which part of the annual Elefantentreffen motorcycle rally, a plainclothed officer tried to break up a group of around 20 people engaged in a scuffle inside a festival tent, using pepper spray on the crowd before leaving the scene. When he returned, the bikers recognised him and engaged in melee for agitating them, unaware that he was a police officer. Two shots were fired in self-defense, striking an uninvolved teenager nearby. Police initially reported that the deceased was part of the group that attacked the policeman and reported that he had been tested positively for alcohol intoxication without disclosing that the shooting had occurred during a celebration.
1977-02-11	Lichtenberg, Peter	14	Rodenbach	Hesse	A teenager was making loud noise while playing inside of an abandoned house. Neighbours alerted the police after they hear screaming. Two officers and their police dog searched the place and shot the teenager from a distance of three meters after he accidentally startled them by reaching out to close a door. His last words were reportedly "Darf denn die Polizei auf Kinder schießen?" ("Can the police shoot at children?"). The officers were acquitted of all charges.
1977-02-28	Batos, Joannis	26	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Attendees of a carnival Rosenmontag party called emergency services because a guest had approached the group and told them that he was "putting an end to it, I took 40 pills" ("Ich mache Schluss, ich habe 40 Tabletten genommen"). Despite the group asking for an ambulance and reiterating that the man had insisted that he wasn't drunk, a squad car was sent in instead, who subsequently tried to bring him to the police station. The man resisted, due to which five officers fixated him to the ground, with witnesses stating that the arrest left him with cuts and bruises. He died during the night inside a jail cell from an overdose of sleeping pills he had ingested earlier. Police initially reported that the Greek electrician had been heavily intoxicated and choked to death on his own vomit, with the station's coroner attesting that the deceased's mouth and stomach cavity smelled of alcohol, despite tests showing that his blood alcohol level were zero.
1977-04-13	Schlaudraff, Helmut	43	B49	Hessen	A sheep farmer driving on a country road from Idstein to Wetzlar was mistaken for a sheep thief by police due to overlapping, faulty intel. Unmarked patrol vehicles followed the farmer without his knowledge before forcing his truck off the road. A plainclothed officer then walked up to the vehicle, threw open the door and shot the driver in the neck, killing him instantly. The officer in question was sentenced to three months probation.
1977-04-22	Dresler/Dräsler, Eberhard	28	Solingen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two armed men carjacked a motorist and passenger. During a subsequent shootout with police, one of the kidnappers was shot and killed.
1977-05-09	Linnemann	62	Göttingen	Niedersachsen	A woman died of asphyxiation after she was exposed to pepper spray during a police operation.
1977-05-28	Nöhling, Peter	31	West Berlin	Berlin	A robbery attempt targeting a Metro office was thwarted by two passing police officers. As the robber shot at police, an employee restrained the robber. The police continued shooting, leading to the death of the robber and the employee and another officer being wounded.
1977-06-27	Al Halawani, Walid	37	West Berlin	Berlin	A man from Jordan engaged police in a high-speed car chase. When the officers tried to arrest him, the man reached for his breast pocket, causing one officer to fire. The pocket was found to contain a stiletto knife.
1977-07-05	Schlichting, Gustav		Bochum	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called after reports came in that Gustav Schlichting of Wattenscheid was damaging his mother's pub with an excavator from his construction company while under the influence of alcohol. By the time two officers arrived, the argument had been resolved by neighbours. Upon seeing the police, Schlichting became agitated and fought both officers in a fistfight inside the pub, leaving them bloodied and bruised. According to the family lawyer, after the younger officer retreated back to the squad car, the older of the pair, 38 year old Dieter Haarmann, who had responded to previous calls involving Schlichting, appeared to follow suit. Schlichting then grabbed a broom and drunkenly waved it in the officers direction in a gesture of anger and mockery. Haarmann proceeded to walk past the car, unholstered his Walther PPK and suddenly turned around, firing one round, hitting Schlichting in the chest, fatally piercing his lungs. Haarmann was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
1977-07-24	Pollaczek, Rudolf	17	Herne	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A teenage general labourer had been thrown out of the house after a drunken argument with his brother. The family called police when the teenager continued to yell at his brother from the courtyard while wielding a knife. Two officers were sent in, before another two came as backup and later testified they had tried to engage in "amicable talk" when the teenager either lunged at the officers or threatened to do so. He was fatally shot in the left eye.
1977-07-XX	N.N.		Schwerte	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A foreign migrant worker died from blunt head trauma in police custody. Police ascribed the death to an accidental fall.
1977-08-06	Kirmizi, Sadat	20	München	Bayern	A Turkish man headed for Garmisch was accidentally shot in the head at a traffic stop. Despite the ruling, the officer claimed that the man had reached for his gun and thus caused the discharge.
1977-09-26	N.N.	16	Walsrode	Niedersachsen	A teenager previously known for youth delinquency was shot while attempting to flee from authorities after a botched burglary.
1977-10-14	N.N.	18	Seesen	Niedersachsen	At a court hearing, the defendant attempted escape from the building. A judicial officer attempted to stop him, claiming that he was aiming for the defendant's legs, but he was instead fatally shot in the torso.
1977-10-28	N.N.		Kaiserslautern	Rheinland-Pfalz	A bank robber was shot nine times while fleeing from authorities after he pulled out a gun during the chase.
1977-10-18	Duaibes Yousouf, Nadja Shehadah	22	Mogadishu	Somalia	Member of the PFLP. She was shot by GSG 9 officers during the liberation of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181.
1977-10-18	Harb, Nabil	23	Mogadishu	Somalia	Member of the PFLP. He was shot by GSG 9 officers during the liberation of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181.
1977-10-18	Akache, Zohair Youssif	23	Mogadishu	Somalia	Member of the PFLP. He was shot by GSG 9 officers during the liberation of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181.
1977-11-2	Heitkämper, H.J.	33	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber was shot during a hostage situation after dousing a female employee in ethanol and threatening to set her on fire.
1977-11-02	Rescher, Udo Rolf	33	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A man was identified as a wanted burglar during a security check of his person. The man pulls out a gun and attempts to shoot the officer conducting the check, leading to a fire exchange that ends with the man fatally shot.
1977-11-04	N.N.	20	Bonn	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two GSG 9 officers posted outside the villa property of foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher mishandled their weapons by playing a game of quick draw, leading to a misfire that killed one of the officers.
1977-11-10	Kronthaler		Langweid	Bayern	During an attempt to seize several firearms from a gun collector, two officers were injured when the owner fires at them with a revolver before other officers were able to shoot him.
1977-12-10	S., Alfred	25	Königsbronn	Baden-Württemberg	A wanted man resisted arrest from a taskforce inside his apartment. After producing a handgun and firing a shot, the officers returned fire and killed the offender.

1978

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1978-01-07	Beinert, Klaus	24	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	During a physical argument inside a stairwell, 50 year old police officer Karl Eppstein, who was intoxicated at the time, shot an automechanic in Riederwald out visiting friends after feeling that his "peace had been disturbed". Eppstein later denied being drunk, instead alleging that the automechanic had been and that his death was self-defense. Further investigation was suspended.
1978-02-18	N.N.	37	Aachen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A 31 year old policeman accidentally shot an innkeeper during a taxi inspection.
1978-03-29	N.N.		Limburg	Hessen	Two burglars were caught during a kiosk break-in. During the subsequent fire exchange, one of the burglars is fatally shot along with an officer.
1978-04-08	Müller, Klaus	34	Hamburg	Hamburg	A bank robber was shot after escaping the scene with a taxi and holding a police officer hostage. It was discovered that the robber was using a gas pistol.
1978-08-15	Liebig, Heinrich	29	Darmstadt	Hessen	Police were called to a domestic incident involving a woman and her child being harassed by her separated husband. Upon their arrival, the husband threatened to kill his child with a knife, leading to an altercation between him and two officers, during which a police sidearm discharged and killed the husband.
1978-09-06	Stoll, Willy Peter	28	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Member of the RAF. Willy Peter Stoll was visiting a restaurant when he was recognized by another guest, who then informed the police. Several police units surrounded the building. Two officers in plain clothes entered the restaurant, pretending to order a meal. When they confronted him, he tried to reach for his gun and was shot four times. He died before reaching the hospital.
1978-10-08	Knoll, Michael	21	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Member of the RAF. Michael Knoll and two other RAF terrorists, Angelika Speitel and Werner Lotze who were practising shooting in a forest when staggered by the police. In the ensuing shootout, Knoll was injured and died two weeks later. Police officer Hans-Wilhelm Hansen also suffered fatal injuries.
1978-10-19	Leupold, Peter	31	Amberg	Bayern	As police attempted to arrest a man in his apartment, he began threatening the officers with a gas pistol through a locked door. Police shot through the door and killed the man.
1978-11-17	Böttrich, Ulf	33	Soltau	Niedersachsen	A truck driver unknowingly attempted to leave an area under police observation. When he exited his vehicle, an officer claimed his submachine gun accidentally discharged, hitting the truck driver, who died from his injuries in December.
1978-12-18	N.N.	23	München	Bayern	An inmate managed to grab a judicial officer's pistol and beat him to the ground with it. A firefight ensued when other judicial officers responded, eventually fatally wounding the inmate.

1979

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1979-01-31	Kontsoudopoulous, Athanasios	22	Hamburg	Hamburg	A burglar armed with a handgun was shot 16 times at the scene of the break-in. The number of shots was explained due to darkness.
1979-02-21	Hoffmann, Erwin	43	Bamberg	Bayern	Police approached two suspected thieves for an arrest when one brandished an iron bar at them. A warning shot was fired and after the thief did not desist, he was fatally shot twice.
1979-04-30	Drindl, Manfred	27	Landshut	Bayern	Police shot and killed an armed bank robber during a negotiated handoff of ransom money to end a hostage situation.
1979-05-04	von Dyck, Elisabeth	28	Nürnberg	Bayern	Member of the RAF. Elisabeth von Dyck was shot in the back when she tried to pull out her holstered gun, after encountering police officers in her apartment.
1979-05-07	Mettbach, Karl	53	Hagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A businessman from Hamburg was under police observation since they believed that he had bought a stolen car from a friend with suspected affiliation to Romani criminal gangs; the men were Sinti and Romani respectively. The man was arrested after a visit to the friend's house and had been complying with the officers orders to turn around when he was shot in the forehead when a policeman's gun went off at a range of 50 cm.
1979-05-17	Wichert, Maximilian	35	München	Bayern	During an arrest, the man in question reached into his jacket pocket, and suspecting he was pulling out a weapon, the Kripo officers fatally shot him. It was determined that the man hadn't been carrying a weapon of any kind, but the death was still ruled self-defense.
1979-08-05	Rabe, Wilfried	43	Oldenburg	Niedersachsen	A supermarket owner was mistakenly shot by police alerted to the premises about a potential break-in, as the owner had been carrying gun, later found to be a gas pistol. The owner had been the one to place the call.
1979-09-13	Probst, Peter	31	West Berlin	Berlin	Police attempted to apprehend a bank robber in a taxi on a parking lot and fired deadly shots when he allegedly reached for his gun and threw a hand grenade at the officers.
1979-12-18	Schmidt, Rainer	29	West Berlin	Berlin	A robber was shot while attempting to hold up an armored bank transporter and died of his wounds almost two months later on 8 February 1980.
1979-12-18	W., Wjazeslav	42	Neu-Ulm	Bayern	In what was described as a domestic incident, a Russian in exile known for being mentally imbalanced was fatally shot after threatening police with an axe in Ludwigsfeld.

1980s

1980

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1980-02-21	Heidtmann, Kurt	41	Buxtehud	Niedersachsen	When police approached a man they deemed suspicious, he pulled out a pistol and opened fire, being killed by the officers in self-defense.
1980-02-27	Eggebrecht, Andreas	22	West Berlin	Berlin	Two MEK officers overheard a fight happening inside a brothel and attempted to defuse the situation. They were then attacked by two men wielding broken chair legs, forcing them to use deadly force, during which both officers accidentally shot each other as well.
1980-02-27	Eggebrecht, Erwin	47	West Berlin	Berlin	Two MEK officers overheard a fight happening inside a brothel and attempted to defuse the situation. They were then attacked by two men wielding broken chair legs, forcing them to use deadly force, during which both officers accidentally shot each other as well.
1980-03-17	N.N.	19	Zweibrücken	Rheinland-Pfalz	An inmate took a hostage with a bladed weapon and was killed by police in what was deemed a "typical fatal shot", meaning the knowingly deadly usage of a firearm was used as no other means were available/had been exhausted.
1980-04-03	Perder, Manfred	43	Neuss	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A VW bus with three occupants is stopped during for a road check at a scheduled checkpoint. As the vehicle was slowing down, a 33 year old police officer fired a single shot at the car's windshield with his submachine gun, hitting the driver, an acoustic panel manufacturer from Essen, in the spine and killing him. Allegedly the driver didn't stop his vehicle fast enough and the officer reacted "in a reflex motion". The officer was sentenced to seven months probation.
1980-05-04	N.N.	51	München	Bayern	A burglar broke into the weekend house of a police officer and was shot dead by the owner after he threatened him with an iron bar.
1980-06-05	N.N.	50	Herford	Nordrhein-Westfalen	As police attempted to apprehend a burglar, the suspect used a pistol to fire twice at the officers, who return fire, killing him. The pistol turned out to be a blank gun.
1980-06-26	G., Ishan		Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A drug dealer was shot while he is arrested and died in custody four weeks later.
1980-07-01	Friebel, Peter	39	Würzburg	Bayern	A bank robber was shot by a SEK sniper as he was holding up an American Express bank within the grounds of the Leighton Barracks. He was identified as an American soldier with a German father.
1980-09-07	N.N.	46	Bremen	Bremen	A jurist with a known history of mental illness and violence was shot after he non-fatally stabbed a police officer.
1980-10-03	Moysiszik, Detlef	19	Aachen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A robber was shot by police while holding a jewelry at gunpoint. The officer who fired the fatal shots was later put on trial as it was revealed that an accomplice had informed the authorities of the crime in advance and the fact that the perpetrator would be armed with a harmless gas pistol. The officer was later cleared of all charges.
1980-10-24	Marx, Dietmar		West Berlin	Berlin	Two police officers gained entry to the home of a man who had a warrant out for his arrest and waited for him to return. The arrest was bungled when the officers shot another man who entered under unclear circumstances; the man was not the home owner they were expecting. The officer who fired the killing shots was ordered by the court to pay a fine of 4000 DM.
1980-12-22	Golombek, Werner Karl	41	Hanau	Hessen	A police officer killed the alleged lover of his unfaithful wife.
1980-12-31	Schroer, Rolf	31	Saarbrücken	Saarland	A miner's wife called the police as she felt threatened by her husband. Upon arrival, the husband attacked the officers, who then fatally shot him.

1981

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1981-01-23	Köhler, Wilfried	32	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two police officers found a man who did not return after his prison furlough helping his wife move out of her apartment. When the man threatened suicide with a knife, the police deployed tear gas, at which point the man attempted to flee and was fatally shot. The officer in question was initially charged with negligent homicide, but ended up being relieved of all charges.
1981-03-18	Schecke, Uwe	30	Bielefeld	Nordrhein-Westfalen	In a case of mistaken identity, a printer from Hamburg was falsely apprehended by police as an illegal watch dealer and during the arrest, the offending officer claimed he tripped and accidentally discharged the machine gun he was holding, killing the arrestee. The incident was labelled a "tragic case of misfortune" and the officers weren't charged.
1981-06-15	Berger, Alfons	37	Ludwigsmoos	Bayern	A man was shot by police when he exited a house that was under observation while holding a long metal object. Said object was found to be a loaded hunting rifle, but as it was wrapped in plastic, it could not have been fired in its current state.
1981-06-25	Kruggel, Ruth	52	Rosenheim	Bayern	A mentally ill housewife shot and killed a police officer and proceeded to shoot several more before she was killed by special commando forces.
1981-08-14	Stolz, Dirk	27	Saarbrücken	Saarland	A motorist tried to avoid a traffic stop and was subsequently shot by attending police. The officer in question was tried for manslaughter, but found not guilty on grounds of self-defense.
1981-09-12	N.N.	53	Troisdorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A locksmith and hobby gardener was shot five times after a patrol officer came to "see if everything was right" on the gardener's allotment. The gardener had refused the officer entry and tried to forcefully eject him from the property. The officer states that a "threat scenario" had arisen when the gardener pointed his spade at him, forcing him to use deadly force. The gardener died at a hospital and the charges against the officers were dropped due to a lack of witnesses.
1981-09-29	Neu, E.	45	West Berlin	Berlin	A motorist sped off during a traffic stop and was shot after he had brought the vehicle to a halt. The officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 6 months including probation and a fine of 6000 DM in the first instance and 1 year with probation in the second.
1981-10-20	Wolfgram, Kurt	21	München	Bayern	Five members of the neo-Nazi Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit opened fire and detonated a frag grenade as they were being arrested for planning a bank robbery, injuring one officer with shrapnel. The officers retaliated by shooting two of the gang members, during which another officer was hit by a stray bullet.
1981-10-20	Uhl, Klaus Ludwig	24	München	Bayern	Five members of the neo-Nazi Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit opened fire and detonated a frag grenade as they were being arrested for planning a bank robbery, injuring one officer with shrapnel. The officers retaliated by shooting two of the gang members, during which another officer was hit by a stray bullet.
1981-10-22	Severino, V.		Schwäbisch Gmünd	Baden-Württemberg	After prolonged observation of an occupied car suspected of containing narcotics, a special officer yanked open the passenger door and fired two shots, killing the occupant and shooting himself in the hand. He was tried for manslaughter, but cleared of all charges.
1981-10-26	Klatt, René Douglas	43	Erkelenz	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A murder suspect known for being "trigger-happy" was shot and killed after attempting to escape arresting officers. An officer fired one shot, injuring the suspect, who later died from his wounds in a hospital in Neustadt an der Weinstraße a month later on 27 November .
1981-12-06	N.N.	27	Fürth	Bayern	A bank robber was shot as he fled with the loot he had obtained with a gas pistol. The robber was given a warning shot before being gunned down.
1981-12-31	Mardini, A.	24	West Berlin	Berlin	A plainclothed officer conducting a personnel check in a local bar shot and killed a man who threatened him with a knife.

1982

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1981-04-15	Skrabo, Jandrio	31	Hofheim	Hessen	Police officers shot a Croat burglar armed with a gun after a fire exchange.
1981-04-21	N.N.	30	Wesel	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber was shot after he fired at the arriving officers.
1981-05-30	N.N.	31	Aachen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A driving instructor fled from authorities after refusing to stop his car. He was shot after he crashed into a patrol car.
1981-06-27	Jungling, G.	33	Ortenberg	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called to the supposed site of a break-in, but the home owner denied any suspicious activity and tried to forcefully usher the officers out. During the ensuing scuffle, a police firearm discharged, killing the home owner.
1981-07-28	N.N.	29	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A Gambian man was shot while holding another person at knifepoint.
1982-08-21	N.N.	36	Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A judicial officer committed a bank robbery and held three people hostage with a machine gun. One of the hostages, an off-duty police officer, manages to shoot and kill the robber.
1982-10-12	N.N.	24	Tuttlingen	Baden-Württemberg	During an attempted house search, one of the officers attempted to keep the door wedged open with his side-arm, causing it to discharge and kill the resident. The officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaugther and paid a fine of 6500 DM.
1982-11-09	Campagna, Pio	58	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A construction worker was shot and killed when police officers mistakenly believed him to be trespassing into a construction container office. The prosecutor's office launched a probe into the death but ceased their investigation shortly after.
1982-11-21	Piber, Andreas	18	West Berlin	Berlin	Responding to a case of attempted burglary, police officer Jörg Rosentreter fatally shot the student and suspected thief in the back. Rosentreter admitted that he had done this "aimlessly" as it was dark and he was convicted of negligent homicide for which he was sentenced to a total of 3 years and 6 months.
1982-12-15	Sander, Friedrich	52	Wiefelstede	Niedersachsen	A farmer is fatally shot after he threatened police with a revolver when they came to enforce a public health officer's order for involuntary commitment to a mental institution. The gun turned out to be unloaded.

1983

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1983-01-06	N.N.		Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber is killed in a shootout after police raid the location.
1983-01-23	G., Hans-Joachim	26	Hamburg	Hamburg	A burglar ran away from police while pointing a pistol at his pursuers. He is shot by MEK, who discover that his gun was non-operational. Public prosecution investigates, but no one is charged.
1983-02-17	N.N.	18	Ditzingen	Baden-Württemberg	A robbery suspect is shot dead after he shot at Kripo officers with a gas pistol at point blank range, leading to eye loss.
1983-03-05	Heins, Alfred "Alf"	18	Hamburg	Hamburg	A plainclothed police officer mistook the teenager for a car thief. Heins was shot in the head from a close distance, with the exact circumstances of the incident being unclear, though likely accidental.
1983-03-07	Kaiser, Joachim	19	Augsburg	Bayern	The teenager was drunk driving. Police officers shot at least sixteen times at his car, killing him.
1983-03-18	Wilck, Florian	63	Neuss	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A retiree who was known to police for mental issues called emergency services to request a police patrol. He is shot by the officers when he greets them holding a rifle. The weapon was later found to be an air rifle.
1983-03-20	Bergbauer, Jürgen	14	Gauting	Bayern	30 year old police officer Friedrich K. was on night patrol, because of an ongoing series of burglaries. The officer spotted a "young male figure", later identified as Jürgen Bergbauer, use a lit phone booth before entering a youth center and called for two officers as backup. When the figure passed by a window, the officer fired three shots, the last of which struck the teenager in the head, instantly killing him. Bergbauer had snuck away from home to attend a party and wanted to sleep at the center to avoid a confrontation with his mother. K. later testified he had mistaken the boy for the suspected burglar after being startled, despite having had a clear view of Bergbauer when he used the payphone and the boy standing only 150 cm (4 ft 11 in). Friedrich K. was sentenced to 6 months probation and forced to pay a fine of 3500 DM.
1983-03-22	N.N.	43	Übersee	Bayern	An innkeeper who had shot his girlfriend in a fit of jealousy, was killed in a gunfight he started with responding Kripo.
1983-03-29	N.N.	21	Ötisheim	Baden-Württemberg	A Turkish car thief was killed by police in a shootout. He was armed with a gas pistol.
1981-03-31	N.N.	50	Darmstadt	Hessen	A man threatened police officers with a submachine gun. He was fatally shot while fleeing the scene.
1983-06-04	N.N.	30	Oberhausen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two fugitives barricaded themselves in an apartment and open fire on police. During the shootout, one SEK officer is critically injured after being shot in the neck, while one of the suspects is fatally shot.
1983-06-29	F., Manfred	33	Castrop-Rauxel	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A burglar is shot by the responding officer during a break-in due to the suspect holding an unidentified object in his hand.
1983-08-03	Hahn, Michael	38	Hamburg	Hamburg	A man was shot by a police patrol that had caught him attempting to break into a building. He was armed with a gas pistol.
1983-08-07	N.N.	52	Bergisch Gladbach	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a burglary at a villa, police shot the offender when he charged at the officers with a crowbar.
1983-08-25	N.N.	22	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police are called to a dormitory after receiving reports of a knife-wielding masked man skulking around the courtyard. The man, a student, is shot dead when he attempts to flee.
1983-08-25	Freundt, Gerhard	26	Köln-Wesseling	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A drunk cyclist collided with an off-duty policeman driving his private vehicle and carrying his service weapon. A confrontation ensues, during which the officer shot the cyclist. The officer served 8 months in prison when it was determined that he had escalated the situation by immediately taking out his gun.
1983-09-28	Miller, Karl-Heinz	20	Augsburg	Bayern	A group of four men attempted a drive-by on a police officer, who was later found not to have been their intended target. Returning fire killed two of the attackers.
1983-09-28	Miller, Peter	19	Augsburg	Bayern	A group of four men attempted a drive-by on a police officer, who was later found not to have been their intended target. Returning fire killed two of the attackers.
1983-09-29	Delahaye, Karl	40	Alsdorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police responded to a bank robbery. When the two robbers left the bank with two hostages, the officers opened fire on the getaway car with several weapons, including fully automatic submachine guns. Although the robbers were wearing masks and their hostages did not, the officers failed to think of the possibility of them being hostages. In the result, hostage Mertens died at the scene, hostage Delahaye one month later, bank robber Erwin Naujoks was paralyzed, and bank robber Wolfgang Vobis was severely injured.
1983-09-29	Mertens, Alfred	25	Alsdorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police responded to a bank robbery. When the two robbers left the bank with two hostages, the officers opened fire on the getaway car with several weapons, including fully automatic submachine guns. Although the robbers were wearing masks and their hostages did not, the officers failed to think of the possibility of them being hostages. In the result, hostage Mertens died at the scene, hostage Delahaye one month later, bank robber Erwin Naujoks was paralyzed, and bank robber Wolfgang Vobis was severely injured.
1983-11-02	Behl, Peter	25	Hanau	Hessen	Police were called to break up a physical altercation between multiple drunk men in an apartment. One of the men is shot 12 times through the locked door after he threatened to shoot at the officers with a gun, later found to be a gas pistol.
1983-11-03	Sahm, Hardon	28	Bad Wildungen	Hessen	During a routine ID check, four escaped convicts were discovered, two of whom opened fire on police. One is killed in the shootout.

1984

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1984-01-09	M., Sami Salah	22	München	Bayern	Following a call reporting a bar patron threatening a female bartender with a gun, the patron was shot and killed when he threatened police with the same weapon, which was found to be a gas pistol.
1984-01-18	N., Karl-Heinz	40	Hamburg	Hamburg	Plainclothed police responded to a multiple person break-in. After being surprised by the officers, one of the burglars hit an officer in the head with a hammer and is fatally shot in return.
1984-03-28	N.N.	32	Eschlkam	Bayern	A farmer was resisting an alcohol test with a broom and was killed by two accidental discharges from an officer's gun during the struggle.
1984-04-01	R., Uwe	21	Ravensburg	Baden-Württemberg	Police responded to a domestic incident at a private residence. A drunk man aimed a gas pistol at the officers and was shot while attempting to flee the scene.
1984-05-03	Pfitzer, Siegfried	47	Marbach am Neckar	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed Pfitzer with a headshot from his service pistol and used his victim's car as a getaway-vehicle.
1984-07-01	W., Klaus Peter	39	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were led on a car chase following a traffic stop. As the authorities got the driver to stop and were making him leave his vehicle, a police firearm went off and killed the driver. The officer was given a fine and probation.
1984-07-XX	N.N.	39	Dormagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A drunk driver caused an accident and ran a red light. When approached by a police officer with a pulled gun pointing at the driver, a shot was released on accident after the officer was pushed by his partner. The driver was killed instantly. Why the gun was pulled and pointed at the driver remains unclear.
1984-10-07	F., Mike	16	Einbeck	Niedersachsen	Two teenage escapees from a juvenile detention facility in Greene were being pursued by police while driving a stolen car. One officer fired his submachine gun during the chase, hitting and killing one of the youths.
1984-12-21	Wethey, Eugene Richard	37	Großbottwar	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed Wethey, an English immigrant, with a headshot from his service pistol and used his victim's car as a getaway-vehicle.

1985

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1985-01-19/20	N.N.	37	Oberhausen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a nightly home invasion, police shot a resident after being "startled"; the burglar had fled into a neighbor's house. The killing resulted in a sentence of 10 months with probation for the offending officer.
1983-03-12	N.N.	48	Langquaid	Bayern	A farmer barricaded himself in his room when police came to fulfill a state order to have the farmer involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility and after officers forced their way in, the farmer was shot dead for charging at the officers with a hatchet.
1985-03-29	N.N.	45	Würzburg	Bayern	A bank robber fled into a restaurant to avoid detection. Police fired on the robber when he pointed a gun at them, which was found to be a plastic toy.
1985-04-06	N.N.	25	Northeim	Niedersachsen	A motorist attempted to escape the scene of a car crash in Sudheim. After a police vehicle stopped him and conducted a search of his person, the motorist was killed by an accidental gun discharge.
1985-04-18	Rieger, Helmut	33	Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	A drunk police officer shot a fellow officer when he was about to be arrested for a hit-and-run before committing suicide.
1985-05-12	N.N.	45	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A resident of an apartment complex threatened several other tenants with a gun before locking himself in his own flat. After forceful entry by police, the resident fires two shots from the gun, firing blanks, with the officer fatally shooting him in return.
1985-07-07	N.N.	28	Saarwellingen	Saarland	A man who had murdered a roofer at a restaurant was arrested by police after a footchase. He was able to get out of his restraints and pulled out a gun, leading to the attending officers fatally shooting the offender.
1985-07-22	Schneider, Wilfried	26	Ilsfeld	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed Schneider with a headshot from his service pistol and used his victim's car as a getaway-vehicle.
1985-08-04	H., Gerhard	60	Langenfeld	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During an attempt to forcefully commit a man to a psychiatric facility, the man grabbed a hatchet and a knife to drive the officers back, and was shot as a result.
1985-08-06	Minwegen, Lorenz	56	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	After a night of heavy drinking, two police officers, 27-year-old Wolfgang Liebau and 26-year-old Ralf Voigt, strangled a fellow patron to death with a necktie in a forest bordering Hilden. The officers gave their motive as robbery, saying that the victim had frequented the same bar as the officers and often bragged about his supposed wealth. They were initially tried for murder, which was reduced to robbery resulting in death, with both receiving 13 year sentences.
1985-09-28	Sare, Günter	36	Frankfurt	Hessen	At a demonstration the police used water cannons to diffuse the protesting crowd. Sare was hit by the water stream and injured severely when hitting the ground. He was later run over by the water cannon under unclear circumstances and died.
1985-10-13	Poehlke, Adrian	7	Strümpfelbach	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed his older son with a headshot from his service pistol.
1985-10-13	Poehlke, Ingeborg	47	Strümpfelbach	Baden-Württemberg	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed his wife with a headshot from his service pistol.
1985-10-13	Poehlke, Gabriel	4	Torre Canne	Apulia, Italy	Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed his younger son with a headshot from his service pistol before committing suicide.
1985-10-20	Wolkenstein, Klaus-Detlef	33	West Berlin	Berlin	In an emergency call, a suspected burglary was reported. Arriving SEK officers encountered the visually impaired Wolkenstein, who had lost his glasses and came home drunk from a company party. He was shot and killed under unclear circumstances.

1986

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1986-01-21	N.N.	20-25	Würzburg	Bayern	A young man robbed a gun store, getting away with two pistols. Upon being apprehended by two officers, the man opened fire, hitting one officer through the leg, while the other shot him dead.
1986-01-27	Kureck, Udo	26	Hemmingen	Niedersachsen	A man was vandalising the front yard of a house at night. He was confronted a home owner whose window he had broken, who shot at him as the man entered the house through the unlocked door and hid in the building's cellar, arming himself with a shotgun that was stored there. After the home owner's wife and two children were brought out, SEK surrounded the cellar entrance and after two hours of attempted communication, the man rushed the officers' position with the gun drawn, leading to him getting shot multiple times.
1986-02-12	N.N.	21	Rosenheim	Bayern	Police followed and eventually went to arrest a suspicious man at the train station. Upon their approach, the man pulled out a knife and charged one officer, leading to the other fatally shooting the attacker.
1986-05-01	Schneider, Charles	38	Singen	Baden-Württemberg	Following reports of a stabbing at a local dive bar, police arrived at the premises to find a man fleeing into the courtyard. The man then pulled out a knife and a handgun, firing at the officers until he was fatally shot.
1986-05-04	H., Herbert	19	Pfungstadt	Hessen	A repeat offender did not return after prison furlough and stole a motorhome to evade the authorities. During the car chase, a squad car drove up to the driver's side of the motorhome and shot the offender.
1986-05-16	Meck, Karl	57	München	Bayern	A neighbour called police over a possible break-in at a private residence. When police arrived and shone a light through a window, a shot was fired from within, with returning killing the owner of the house, who was found in possession of a gas pistol.
1986-07-07	E., Horst	22	Wilhelmshaven	Niedersachsen	Police were called to respond to a rape taking place at a private residence. At the location, officers are attacked by a man wielding a sabre, who was swiftly shot and killed.
1986-09-01	Obermayer, Hans	55	Rellingen	Schleswig-Holstein	Police rang the doorbell to a residence where a domestic incident between a married couple was reported. When the door was opened, the husband immediately opened fire on police, who shot him nine times in return.
1986-10-07	Soucka, Markku	27	München	Bayern	A Finnish engineer had taken a 54-year-old man hostage with a knife in broad daylight on a busy street, dragged him into a stranger's car. and threatened to kill the hostage. Police shot him when they assumed he was about to follow through on his threats. His motives remain unclear, though it was later discovered that he had a long psychiatric record and was apparently addicted to prescription medicine.
1986-10-31	Bloy, Werner	45	München	Bayern	In the evening of 29 October, an unemployed heater installer took his ex-girlfriend, 23 year old commercial clerk Petra Hofmeier, hostage with a Mauser C96 after he unsuccessfully attempted to "talk things out" about their relationship and abducted her to his apartment in Schwabing. The hostage situation lasted 39 hours with a peak of 200 police officers monitoring the flat. The kidnapper demanded 1 million DM and a getaway car with a private chaffeur. Police decided after much deliberation that they had to make use of a "fatal shot", the first of its kind to be used by Munich police, with even the Archiepiscopal Ordinariate reasoning that deadly force had to be used as the final resort. On 31 October, police placed a SEK sniper by the apartment used as a hand off spot and at midday, after the hostage fetched breakfast items requested by the kidnapper, including four cold cut and cheese rolls, two packs of Marlboro cigarettes and a Sunday copy of a local newspaper, the kidnapper became upset that a bottle of lemonade was being handed over later than expected, leading to him throwing open the curtains to see what was happening. He was immediately shot by the sniper from a distance of 40 meters.
1986-11-12	D., Andreas	25	München	Bayern	A police officer doing volunteer work at a gas station foiled a robbery by two armed young men, shooting one of them three times. Their guns were found to be gas pistols.
1986-12-21	N.N.	30	Altötting	Bayern	Two officers were called to investigate the site of a break-in where they found the burglar still present. Although unarmed, he violently resisted arrest, to the point both officers fired their weapons once, with one shot hitting and killing the burglar.

1987

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1987-02-04	M., Mustafa	25	München	Bayern	A plainclothed police officer caught a car thief in the act and fatally shot him two times when the thief attacked him with a knife.
1987-02-04	N.N.	44	Kempen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two men were seen by police attempting to break into a bar. One of the burglars fled and attempted to jump an officer who then used deadly force.
1987-06-17	N.N.	27	Nahe	Schleswig-Holstein	A student threw a duffel bag in front of the airport in Hamburg and drove away. Police were able to stop the student's vehicle in Nahe, where he was shot after again attempting escape.

1988

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1988-01-13	N.N.	23	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Police patrolling a car park attempted to conduct a search on a suspicious car when the driver accelerated and hit an officer. As the car attempted to drive off, another officer fired at the vehicle, hitting and killing the driver, a known drug addict.
1988-02-06	Wawroschek, Armin	26	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	While looking for a suspect who had robbed a gas station two hours earlier, two officers approached a man using a payphone for questioning. The man subsequently pulled out a gun and opened fire on one of the officers, who suffered a grazing injury and a shot in the abdomen. The other officer returned fire and killed the shooter. The loot of 4000 DM was found in his Bonn home, where police also found several pistols, ammunition, a NVD, a detonator, and eco-terrorist writings in which he described "waging war" on the automotive industry and "car society" to "recreate an enjoyable landscape". Another note also took responsibility for a fire bombing on A98 on 14 January 1988, which was linked to another one in Bergheim. The offender had only been previously noted for participating in riots in Krefeld in relation to the 1984 visit of U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush.
1988-03-04	Stefanovic, Slobodan	37	Dorfen	Bayern	Polizeikommissar Robert Gebler, 27, und Polizeihauptmeister Karl-Heinz Loibl, 43, confiscated a cache of seven guns and 2000 rounds of ammunition from the home of machinist Slobodan Stefanovic, a Serb Yugoslavian national and 16 year resident of the town. His firearm license, which he had obtained after joining a rifle club in his main residency in Ludwigshafen in 1984, was revoked the previous day following a psychological assessment that was made after Stefanovic reasoned in a license renewal in an eleven-page letter to a courthouse in Erding from December 30, 1987, that he needed protection from the Red Army Faction, the KGB, and American boxer Muhammad Ali. Two and a half hours later, Stefanovic drove over to the nearby police station, entered the room Gebler and Loibl were categorizing the weapons in and screamed "Give me my guns back!" before grabbing a Colt Peacemaker and .44 Magnum revolver off the table and gunning down both officers. He shot at several more police officers, as well as a responding paramedic, wounding Polizeihauptmeister Franz Klarl and fatally injuring Polizeihauptkommissar Alfred Maier, 46, who died on the doorstep of a neighbour, telling him to call the Red Cross. Stefanovic is fatally shot himself after firing on a passing police cruiser.
1988-04-13	N.N.	32	Emsdetten	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Turkish man killed two other Turks in an apparent family/love dispute and fled with his girlfriend. Police were able to fatally shoot the man during a car chase, but not before he killed his girlfriend.
1988-05-04	N.N.	50	Hamburg	Hamburg	A taxi driver called police after a passenger pointed a knife at him. Said passenger exited the taxi as soon as squad cars arrived and began threatening the officers instead. After several verbal warnings and a shot in the air, the passenger attacked an officer, who proceeded to shoot the attacker in the knee and arm. The officer then stumbled and inadvertently fired the fatal shot on the passenger.
1988-06-05	N.N.		Schramberg	Baden-Württemberg	Neighbours alerted police to a break-in at a nearby bar. Upon entering the building, the two burglars attacked the officers and when one of them pulled out a gun, the officers shot and killed him.
1988-08-18	Bischof, Silke	18	Bad Honnef	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Gladbeck hostage crisis: On 16 August, two men and a woman robbed a bank in Gladbeck and managed to escape with two hostages. The next day, the trio hijacked a bus, killing a 15 year old passenger after the female accomplice is apprehended. On 18 August, SEK raided the bus and during the shootout, one of the bus hostages was killed by police fire.
1988-11-25	N.N.	29	Lichtenfels	Bayern	Police responded to a potential break-in following a night alarm going off at a supermarket. During the sweep of the aisles, the burglar shot and critically injured one officers before he was gunned down by another.
1988-12-23	N.N.	25	Wiesbaden	Hessen	Two police officers attempted to perform an arrest on a man who did not return from his prison furlough. The man beat one of the officers down and while scuffling with the other, the second officer's gun accidentally discharged and killed the man.

1989

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1989-02-22	N.N.	43	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A physician described as a "gun hoarder" called police to respond to an emergency. Once the arriving officers stepped out of their car, the physician opened fire on them, who shot back and killed him.
1983-03-25	N.N.	31	Speyer	Rheinland-Pfalz	A hotel owner called police due to a Turkish guest rampaging through the building. Police engage the guest physically and fatally shot him when he threw a knife at the officers.
1983-5-25	N.N.	28	Straubing	Bayern	During an armed robbery at a casino hall, the robber took a male employee hostage. Police opened fire when the robber pointed his gun at the officers.
1989-06-30	C., Kemal	13	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Turkish teenager Kemal C. fled from an accident he had caused with his moped. Upon being stopped, he took a police officer's gun while wrestling with him on the ground. He continued his flight and shot at the police several times. He was eventually surrounded in an area of allotments and was shot five times while standing on the roof of a hut. He fell to the ground and bled to death. The incident caused political repercussions due to the age of the shooter and the operational tactics of the police officers.
1989-07-28	Schumaier, Johann	36	Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	Police recognized a man as a convict who had escaped custody in April. Officers fatally shot the convict as he attempted to flee.
1989-08-08	Beyida-Otomo, Frédéric	48	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	Gaisburg Bridge police stabbing [de]: An African refugee was found to be riding a tram without paying and brutally beat down an objecting ticket controller, knocking out several of his teeth, before fleeing. When found by the alerted authorities two hours later standing with his back turned by Gaisburg Bridge, they were ambushed by the refugee, who killed two police officers (Peter Quast, 28, and Harald Poppe, 27) and wounded three others with a bayonet he had hidden in a newspaper in an attack lasting around 15 seconds. He was killed with three shots by a wounded officer, Jürgen Hähnlein, as he attempted to flee the scene. It was discovered after the perpetrator's death that he had been living under a fake identity, having falsely claimed to be a 46 year old Liberian named Albert Ament, when he was really a 48 year old Cameroonian named Frédéric Beyida-Otomo from Mbassila Village, Sa’a, who had spent the last 21 years living in several countries, including France, Spain, the United States, and Luxembourg. Otomo was suspected to be mentally disturbed as he had written a letter to Hans-Dietrich Genscher in broken German, demanding compensation for a three-month stint in a deportation facility or else Genscher would be killed. A search of Otomo's apartment revealed that he celebrated his 48th birthday only two days before the murders.
1989-08-27	N.N.	38	Gersheim	Bayern	A police officer shot and killed the boyfriend of his ex-wife before committing suicide; the pair were still living together.
1989-09-09	N.N.	17	Würzburg	Bayern	Two plainclothed police officers were lying in wait when two car thieves broke open the car they were in. Upon being confronted, one of the thieves wildly gesticulated with his arms in panic before he was hit by an accidental discharge of an officer's sidearm, which he had pulled out of "safety concerns". An investigation was halted.
1989-11-19	E., Dietmar	30	B43	Hessen	After two escaped convicts from Austria shot up a restaurant in Offenbach, resulting in four deaths, and attempted to flee to Frankfurt am Main with a hostage via car, police created artificial traffic jams on B43, allowing SEK to narrow down the convicts' car and snipe one of them from afar.
1989-11-23	N.N.	22	Nürnberg	Bayern	Four burglars are caught by plainclothed police in their getaway car. After an officer approached them with his gun drawn, one of the burglars grabbed the weapon, leading to the officer firing and killing the burglar.
1989-12-26	N.N.	39	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	A man called for help following a fight at a bar. Police found several men armed with shotguns outside the building and proceeded to arrest them. One of the men began shooting wildly, leading to him being shot by an officer.

1990s

1990

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1990-01-10	W., Theo	36	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A pimp took a lawyer hostage in his office to force a meeting with his wife, who was divorcing the pimp. Armed with a gas pistol, he was shot by SEK.
1990-03-18	Dapperger, Oliver	29	München	Bayern	After escaping from Stadelheim Prison, a drug dealer was to be arrested at his hiding place in a hotel in Solln following a tip-off. Police found him in the courtyard and fatally shot him when he produced a gun and took aim at the officers.
1990-06-25	Suworow, Sergej N.	19	Burg bei Magdeburg	Sachsen-Anhalt	A deserting Soviet soldier took a married couple and their two children hostage. He was killed after exchanging fire with Diensteinheit IX.
1990-07-06	B., Cem	19	München	Bayern	Following an altercation with a businessman, four Turkish teenagers were attempting to run away from police officers. When one of the officers believed one of the youths was going to attack, he fatally shot the teenager in question.
1990-08-06	N.N.	25	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	During a security check on a person, a random, uninvolved Yugoslavian man abruptly fired five shots at police, who shot back and killed him.
1990-09-06	N.N.		Chemnitz	Sachsen	Two men attempted to rob a branch of Deutsche Bank. They were engaged in a shootout by police, during which one of the robbers was killed.
1990-10-11	N.N.	35	Bremen	Bremen	A bank robber pulled out a gas pistol after being apprehended by a squad of SEK officers, who proceeded to gun him down.
1990-10-26	N.N.	34	Erding	Bayern	While a plainclothed narcotics agent arrested a drug dealer, another suspected associate attempted to escape and was fatally shot as a result. In a confusing twist, it was found that the man was actually an undercover police investigator, with his reasons for trying to flee being a mystery.
1990-11-03	Polley, Mike	18	Leipzig	Sachsen	During riots between two rival hooligan groups and the police, one person was shot by the police. A total of 57 shots were fired. The exact circumstances and whether the use of a firearm was justified are unclear.
1990-11-07	S., Thomas	26	München	Bayern	A motorist pulled out a gas pistol at a traffic stop while driving a stolen car. An officer shot the motorist in the back of the head.
1990-11-11	Strauber, Gerd-Jürgen	45	Bad Camberg	Hessen	After killing his wife, a man opened fire at a random traffic checkpoint, heavily injuring a female police officer before he was shot and killed.
1990-12-03	N.N.	21	Seevetal	Niedersachsen	During a burglary in Hittfeld, the home invaders were surprised by police, with a Yugoslavian member of the group stabbing one of the officers 13 times with a screwdriver. He was shot and killed by one of the other officers.
1990-12-19	D., Perisor	21	Berlin	Berlin	During a routine ID check, a man shot a police officer in the face with a gas pistol at point blank range before fleeing. A second officer fatally shot the man.

1991

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1991-01-01	N.N.	19	Remseck	Baden-Württemberg	An American teenager with psychological issues heavily wounded both his parents in a sword attack at their home in the U.S. settlement of Pattonville and was shot by police when he charged at the officers while wielding two daggers.
1991-01-23	N.N.	20	Sailauf	Bayern	A police patrol called to the scene of a family argument were threatened by a knife-wielding butcher and subsequently fired two fatal shots in self-defense.
1991-06-21	N.N.	25	Leipzig	Sachsen	As a group of skinheads were being arrested by police following a traffic stop due to possession of blunt weapons, one of the suspects was killed due to an accidental weapon discharge. An investigation was ultimately halted.
1991-06-24	N.N.		Salzgitter	Niedersachsen	A police officer who was being forced into early retirement due to mental instability killed his son-in-law with a knife. The officer then threatened to kill his 18 month old grandson, leading to arriving police fatally shooting the offender after a shot in the leg proved ineffective.
1991-06-24	N.N.	50	Salzgitter	Niedersachsen	A police officer who was being forced into early retirement due to mental instability killed his son-in-law with a knife. The officer then threatened to kill his 18 month old grandson, leading to arriving police fatally shooting the offender after a shot in the leg proved ineffective.
1991-09-05	J., Herbert Henrich	38	Kassel	Hessen	A convict who had escaped custody following a hostage situation was being apprehended by police after female passerby recognized him. The convict immediately began threatening the officers with a gun and was killed in the following shootout.
1991-10-24	N.N,	20	Samtens	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	A police patrol attempted to conduct a search on three youths sleeping inside at the bar of a night club. One of the men, a security guard, took out a gas pistol and shot at the officers, being shot and killed in return.
1991-11-05	N.N.	22	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Two undercover narcotics agents attempted to arrest a group of drug dealers during sting operation. One of the men, a Yugoslavian national, fought with one of the agents and was shot in the head in the ensuing altercation.
1991-11-09	Hentschel, Roland	30	Lüdenscheid	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber was shot by SEK as he was attempting to pull back into the building with a hostage after inspecting a getaway vehicle provided by police.
1991-12-19	N.N.	50-60	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A robber who had stolen money from a bank courier was caught by police after a one-hour manhunt. As he was being arrested, the robber produced a hand grenade and was subsequently shot; the grenade did not detonate.

1992

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1992-01-19	Sund, Peter	24	Bernburg	Sachsen-Anhalt	Two police officers were called to a break-in at a sales outlet. The unarmed burglar made insulting remarks as the police attempted to catch him and as he was being arrested, the burglar resisted and kicked at the air. Due to this, one officer who had been keeping his hand on his sidearm, allegedly lost his balance and stumbled over, inadvertently pulling the trigger on his holstered Makarov, shooting the burglar in the head. He was tried, but found not guilty on 23 November 1993.
1992-02-23	N.N.		Stralsund	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Two convicts escaped from a clinic through violent means. Both are caught shortly after, but one of the convicts is shot during the arrest.
1992-04-10	N.N.	25	Kelsterbach	Hessen	A burglar was killed by a ricocheting warning shot fired by police. There were conflicting accounts on whether the killed burglar and his accomplice had engaged the officers in a shootout beforehand.
1992-04-24	N.N.	59	Bonn	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man suffering from health issues related to his alcoholism threatened other patients at a hospitals with a gun. He was killed when he fired on the arriving SEK officers, who found that his weapon had been a gas pistol.
1992-06-03	Mohamed, Osama	22	Hamburg	Hamburg	An Egyptian man was resisting his arrest for rampaging when he managed to grab the arresting officer's gun and shot at him. The officer's female partner fired several shots at the offender, killing him.
1992-07-29	N.N.		Finsterwalde	Brandenburg	Police fatally shot a man in the chest after he had injured his wife with a gas pistol.
1992-07-31	N.N.	26	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A burglar tried to escape pursuing police by climbing a rain gutter and was shot during his attempt by an officer posted in the courtyard below. An investigation was launched, but no records exist of any officers being charged in relation to the death.
1992-08-03	N.N.	52	Düren	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called to the site of a noise complaint when the man responsible for the noise suddenly lunged at the officer with two knives, forcing them to use deadly force.
1992-10-16	N.N.	c.35	Körperich	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A trio of bank robbers were received by a troop of SEK officers as they had anticipated their plan in advance. The robbers threaten the officers with revolvers and hand grenades, leading them to fire on and kill one of the robbers.
1992-10-17	N.N.	67	Kamen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two police officers were called to act as intermediaries in a dispute over rent between a tenant and landlord. During the talk, the landlord suddenly produced a gun and shot the officer, heavily wounding him. He was subsequently shot and killed by the other officer.
1992-10-22	N.N.	19	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	A serial rapist went on a joyride on A8 following his latest rape, intentionally ramming several vehicles, including a police car. He was shot when he resisted arrest.
1992-12-XX	Walz, Klaus [de]	50	München	Bayern	Klaus Walz, alias Rainer Walldorf, a teacher and car dealer from Ettlingen who had a short-lived career in Formula 1 Larrousse, was wanted for false imprisonment of a French police officer and four counts of murder in France and Italy in connection to his alleged leadership of a Desio-based car smuggling ring. Walz was shot during a gunbattle with Munich police after they surrounded the hotel he was in.

1993

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1993-01-21	Schröder, Andreas	26	Bitterfeld	Sachsen-Anhalt	Police receive report of a burglary happening at a fashion store. Upon their arrival, the three perpetrators run from the officers, who fire on them, hitting one of the burglars in the back. A trial was scheduled in relation to the death.
1993-01-22	Radu, Lorin	21	Staßfurt	Sachsen-Anhalt	A Romanian man arrested on suspicion of theft attempted to flee the police station and was shot twice in the back. The officer was fined 13.500 DM.
1993-02-10	Peischel, Martin	22	Wolfratshausen	Bayern	As police approached a suspicious vehicle for a search, the occupant attempted to drive off. When an officer broke the window on the driver's side with his sidearm, a gunshot discharged and killed the driver.
1993-02-19	N.N.	40	Bad Salzungen	Thüringen	After motorist knowingly drove away from a gas station without paying for his fuel, police set up a road stop, which the motorist broke through with his car. An officer shot at the fleeing car, fatally hitting the motorist in the back of the head.
1993-03-11	Mangaoglu, Ali	41	Hamburg	Hamburg	A Turkish diplomat, Mangaoglu shot a drunk person who attacked him with his handgun. When a police officer came along, the diplomat pointed his gun at the officer. The policeman shot the diplomat once, killing him.
1993-04-20	N.N.	32	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	The arrest of a suspected arms dealer resulted in a scuffle, during which an officer's sidearm went off and fatally struck another officer.
1993-05-31	N.N.	38	Klausdorf	Schleswig-Holstein	During the chase of a suspect, the officer accidentally fired his weapon, striking and killing the suspect.
1993-06-14	G., Walter	46	München	Bayern	Two and a half months into a police observation, officers inform SEK of two burglars breaking into a building. As they moved in for an arrest, SEK officers believed they heard gunshots and shot back at the burglars, who were wielding gas pistols, killing one.
1993-06-30	Romano, Andreas	26	Schönberg bei Thalfang	Rheinland-Pfalz	Two police officers attempted to apprehend a Rom man wanted for an attempted murder. He was shot while fleeing after not reacting to a warning shot. The officers received death threats from the deceased's family afterwards and were put under personal protection as a result.
1993-08-19	Dittrich, Klaus-Heinz	32	Marienwerder	Brandenburg	An escaped criminal engaged two police cruisers in a car chase before ditching his vehicle in an attempt to cross the Oder-Spree Canal. Police shot him in the head, causing his death by drowning. The officers were cleared of all charges by appeal of the public prosecution.
1993-10-10	N.N.	39	Hamm	Nordrhein-Westfalen	SEK responded to a report by a resident complaining about a mentally ill man in early retirement making excessive noise in his next-door apartment. Upon forcing entry, the man non-fatally stabbed one of the officers in the neck with a knife before being gunned down.
1993-10-19	Korenz, Robert	27	Hamburg	Hamburg	A Polish man occupied the general consulate of Poland in Ohlsdorf to protest a conviction made by a court against him. When SEK stormed the premises 15 hours later, the man attempted to detonate a hand grenade, but was shot before he could do so.
1993-11-16	N.N.	34	Kempten	Bayern	A varnish painter involved in an assault case was having his personal information recorded when he suddenly pulled out a dagger and tried to stab the officer, who then shot the varnisher twice with his service weapon.
1993-11-19	N.N.	28	Oberbayern	Bayern	A mentally ill man known for driving erratically into oncoming traffic tried to break through a road block.while being pursued by police on A8. During his attempt, he was about to ram a police officer, but the officer's colleague fired five shots at the driver, killing him.
1993-12-03	N.N.	c.25	Hamburg	Hamburg	Police surrounded a post office during a robbery. The robber was shot when he emerged from the office and pointed a gun at one of the officers, leading to another opening fire.

1994

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1994-02-25	P., Christian	18	Neuhardenberg	Brandenburg	Police find a car occupied by three sleeping men in a forest in Wulkow. During an attempted search, the men, all Romanian nationals, drove away from officers and after a warning shot, officers fired two direct shots at the car. The body of the gunshot victim was then tossed from the vehicle by his companions.
1994-03-10	N.N.	38	Weiden	Bayern	During the arrest of two suspected drug dealers, a female officer shot one of the dealers' associates in his car. The associate was found to be an undercover police officer.
1994-03-16	N.N.	22	Bad Endorf	Bayern	Following a car chase, the pursued vehicle crashed against a wall and during the attempted arrest of the driver, a asylum seeker from Kosova, he is killed when an officer discharged his sidearm.
1994-04-14	Müller, Jochen	28	Berlin	Berlin	A police officer foiled a burglary and had arrested two of the three suspects. While searching for the third with his weapon drawn, the missing suspect attempted to attack the officer with a knife upon being found, being shot in the head at a distance of 50 cm.
1994-06-16	D., Sebastian	19	Kyritz	Brandenburg	A plainclothed officer fired a warning shot in order to placate multiple burglars at a scene. When one of them, a Romanian national, attempted to escape, the officer beat him with his sidearm, during which a shot was fired by accident, killing the burglar. The officer was subsequently tried and sentenced to 8 months probation.
1994-06-30	Dener, Halim	16	Hannover	Lower Saxony	Halim Dener, a Kurdish refugee from Turkey, was putting up flyers around Steintor for the German branch of the PKK (which had been recently declared a terrorist organization in Germany) as part of his activism in the Kurdish independence movement. The boy was seen by two SEK officers, who restrained him when he attempted escape. An officer then dropped his service weapon and while picking it up, the gun went off, striking and killing Dener from a distance of 5–15 cm. No one was charged.
1994-07-06	Piro, Antonio	31	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Two robbers were fleeing from police after a botched hotel hold-up. One of the robbers, an Italian national, overpowered one of the pursuing officers and injured him with a gunshot. Another officer fatally shot the robber before he could finish off his colleague.
1994-07-12	N.N.	20	Wiesbaden	Hessen	Two female police officers were pursuing a knife-wielding robber fleeing the scene of a crime. The robber eventually attacked the officers, leaving one with life-threatening injuries, before the other killed him with seven shots.
1994-08-30	Bankole, Kola	30	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A Nigerian asylum seeker was slated for air deportation to Lagos and was gagged and tied to the seat of the grounded plane by four BGS officers. When a physician working for the police administered a sedative injection, Bankole died of asphyxiation due to the sedative and pressure on his chest exacerbating a pre-existing heart condition. Nigeria's then-Ambassador to Germany Akinjide Osuntokun subsequently alleged that 25 Nigerian citizens had died "in police custody or under dubious circumstances" in the country since 1991. An official investigation concluded that only three deaths (that of Bankole and two suicides) occurred in police custody, with Kola Bankole being the only one that could be directly correlated to police action.
1994-08-04	N.N.	32	Lüdenscheid	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police engaged a man in a car chase after he had threatened his girlfriend with a gun, during which he breaks through street blockades. Upon being forced to stop, an officer approached the vehicle to arrest the man and shot him when he threatened the officer's life with the gun in his possession.
1994-09-20	N.N.	37	Konstanz	Baden-Württemberg	A man slated for confinement to a mental institution violently resisted during a preceding medical examination at a hospital and escaped the building. When police found the man hiding in a nearby garden, he stabbed one of the officers in the hand and was shot when he raised the knife again.
1994-11-20	N.N.	16	Rodgau	Hessen	Police took notice of a vehicle that was reported as stolen being driven by three teenagers. When they attempted to stop the vehicle with a road block, the car tried to run down one of the officers, who was able to jump out of the way and shoot at the driver, killing him instantly.

1995

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1995-01-25	Dobrick, Henner	52	München	Bayern	Reports of an individual aiming a handgun at passerby lead police to storm the apartment of a man who had been described as "mentally unstable, but good-natured". The man approached officers holding two pistols and after ignoring multiple warning shots, he was fatally shot. The weapons in his hands were found to be toy guns.
1995-03-13	N.N.	42	Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two police officers respond to a report of a man threatening a woman, his ex-partner, with a gun. The man subsequently shot at the female officer, injuring her lightly, before her male counterpart fatally shot the attacker.
1995-03-13	N.N.		Speyer	Rheinland-Pfalz	A man was threatening his wife with a bread knife during an argument. The man then lunged at the first police officer who entered the room and was immediately shot by him.
1995-03-13	N.N.	41	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called to deal with a rowdy customer at a radio store. The customer was able to snag a policewoman's sidearm and engaged the officers in a shootout while fleeing, eventually being shot.
1995-04-04	N.N.	35	Selfkant	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A patrol car randomly passed by the scene of an active bank robbery in Süsterseel. One officer, Norbert Domnick attempted to enter the bank when one of the robbers stormed out to face him. Both were killed in the ensuing fire exchange.
1995-04-05	N.N.	30	Wolfsburg	Niedersachsen	Police were called about a man holding a gun and a gas canister. When arrived, the man threw away the weapon in his hand and covered himself in the contents of the canister. When he pulled out another gun, later found to be a detailed gas pistol, officers shot him.
1995-04-06	N.N.	24 or 26	Berlin	Berlin	Following a string of robberies targeting the same gas station in Tempelhof, five plainclothed police officers monitor the area. They were in the process of apprehending a robber who had attempted to flee the scene when he pulled out a gas pistol and began threatening one of the female officers, leading to him being shot from behind. The deceased, a Nigerian citizen, was suspected of having also been responsible for a robbery at another gas station in adjacent Schöneberg the prior day.
1995-05-11	N.N.	30	Stendal	Sachsen-Anhalt	A man gained entry to the armory of a police station and immediately shot one of the officers there in the thigh. The other officers then opened fire on the intruder who died of his wounds shortly after.
1995-07-28	Borichevski, Leonid	31	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a sight-seeing tour, a passenger walked up to the front of the bus and shot the 26-year-old bus driver Raimund G. in the back of the head with a pistol, then dressed himself in tactical gear, including a balaclava and a vest adorned with fake explosives, taking the other 26 tourists hostage, with three escaping shortly after before he could tie them up by breaking the back window and jumping through onto the street. He then aimed at an eleven year old boy who tried to follow suit, but instead shot a 53-year-old Austrian national, Heinz Buchner, leaving him in critical condition from a pierced lung; both were able to flee the bus. During the 8 hour stand-off, the gunman claimed to be a member of the Russian mafia, forced hostages to take polaroid photos of him and injured a police officer with a shot in the stomach. Late into the hijacking, the gunman walked the aisle while asking the passengers for their nationality, fatally shooting a 64-year-old woman in the neck when she responded "Germany" and taking a picture of her corpse. The hijacker was shot and killed 40 minutes later when SEK stormed the bus. He was identified as a Russian-born Israeli national with a lengthy criminal record, including murder in the Soviet Union and check fraud of over $100,000 in both the United States and Germany. He was described by neighbours in Ramat Gan as "nervous, secretive" and an "absolute sadist". Investigators considered the possibility that he was a political extremist with anti-German sentiments, noting that he frequently spoke of the Cave of the Patriachs massacre during the stand-off, but also considered mental illness, since he made no demands, even when provided with a Russian language interpreter, citing that the gunman had been previously discharged from the IDF on psychological grounds for assaulting a superior officer.
1995-08-17	Ladwiniec, Adam	54	Hanerau-Hademarschen	Schleswig-Holstein	A car with a Polish license plate is stopped for a traffic check by police. The driver, a Polish national, misunderstood the situation as a robbery, grabbed the gun of one of the officers and shot him dead. The other officer then fatally shot the driver.
1995-09-12	N.N.	36	Artern	Thüringen	Police were in the process of arresting several men who they had just caught attempting to break into a supermarket. During the arrest of one, an officer's gun discharged and killed one of the suspects. The officer was tried for the death.
1995-09-14	T., Bozkurt	25	Berlin	Berlin	A Turkish man wanted for a jewelry store robbery was stopped by police when they recognized his licence plate. The robber opened fire, endangering the lives of several passerby, and had to be gunned down by the officers.
1995-09-22	M., Manuell	19	München	Bayern	A gas station was being robbed in the early morning, during which the robber threatened a gas station attendant, a police officer working part-time there, with a gas pistol. The attendant made use of his service weapon and, after a short firefight, the robber was fatally shot in the head.
1995-10-17	E., Reinhard	40	Kamp-Lintfort	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A call was placed asking for help from police, directing them to town center. There, the two arriving officers were immediately shot at by a gunman, whom they swiftly shot and killed.
1995-10-21	N.N.	36	Hamburg	Hamburg	Two police officers responded to a call from a woman whose ex-boyfriend had broken into her apartment. Upon their arrival, they found both in the stairwell, with the woman fleeing downstairs while the man pointed a pistol at police, refusing several orders to put down the weapon and instead opening fire. He was subsequently shot by the officers.
1995-10-23	N.N.	63	Hagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	During a break-in at a warehouse, a burglar was locked in by the night-shift janitor, who then contacted police. As the officers searched the building, one of them was jumped by the burglar, the assault inadvertantly causing the officer's gun to go off, killing the attacker.
1995-12-01	N.N.	16	Speyer	Rheinland-Pfalz	After a series of robberies targeting pizza delivery workers, a police officer went undercover to deliver a suspiciously placed order. At the location, the officer was confronted by a gun-wielding teenager demanding money from him. The officer emptied his gun into the robber, who turned out to have been carrying a gas pistol.
1995-12-03	N.N.	43	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Police respond to a family dispute in Fechenheim between Serb Orthodox Christians and Serb Muslims. The presumed instigator was seen leaving the property as soon as police arrived. When officers attempted to stop him, he opened fire on them, hitting one in the calf before he was shot and killed by the other officers.
1995-12-03	N.N.		Braunschweig	Niedersachsen	Police were called when a woman reported two possible burglars entering a property through a hedge. The officers were shot at upon arriving, leading to a shootout that left one of the burglars dead and one officer with life-threatening injuries.
1995-12-07	N.N.	39	Bottrop	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were about to search a man in his parked car on a footpath, when the driver drove away with the officers in pursuit, abandoning his car at a cul-de-sac. After the officers fired a warning shot, the man pulled out a submachine gun and shot at them several timees as he attempted to escape in a truck. Police returned fire, fatally injuring the man who was later found dead in a courtyard.
1995-12-08	N.N.	36	München	Bayern	Police attempted to break up a family argument, which then escalated when the aggressor began firing wildly with a gun, killing a police dog, and ended up taking a police officer hostage. SEK stormed the premises and shot the offender.

1996

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1996-01-16	N.N.	38	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Turkish man was slashing at his wife with a butcher's knife on farm grounds. He was fatally injured by intervening police's gunfire.
1996-01-16	Odabasi, Kenan	21	Bünde	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Turkish man with mental problems was threatening his family with a knife. SEK attempted to calm him down when he lunged at one of the officers and stabbed him, with his armor preventing injury. The attacker was then shot dead by another officer.
1996-02-06	Finkl, Helmut	25	Dachau	Bayern	A suicidal man took a doctor's assistant hostage with a gun and threatened to kill her if police didn't shoot him. SEK ended up firing four shots on the man to ensure the hostage's safety; the gun turned out to be a gas pistol.
1996-02-08	N.N.		Berlin	Berlin	An inmate scheduled for surgery slipped out of his bindings and escaped his escorts. A police officer gave chase and fired a warning shot before killing the inmate as he attempted to enter an U-Bahn entrance, also injuring a passerby in her calf. An investigation into the officer was halted when it was decided that the use of his fiream had been justified.
1996-04-06	K., Deniz	25	München	Bayern	A suspected drug dealer threatened a police officer with a gas pistol as he was being arrested during a drug raid. The officer's partner stated that he fired one shot at the suspect, killing him, yet medical examination showed that the victim had two gunshot wounds, with witnesses corroborating that two shots had been fired. The details remain unclear.
1996-04-08	N.N.	51	Hürth	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A mentally ill man threatened his parents and arriving police with two sabres. Officers attempted to disarm the man by shooting him in the arms, instead resulting in his death.
1996-07-27	N.N.	18	Münster	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A car thief was shot after leading police on a high-speed chase. The circumstances around the shooting were initially unclear, until a special commission found that the car thief had been killed as a result of an accidental discharge.
1996-08-31	N.N.	25	Mühlacker	Baden-Württemberg	Two men attempted to defraud a gas station in Enzberg. During their escape from police, the men took a hostage. A fire exchange between them and the police killed one of the men and heavily injured the hostage.
1996-10-04	N.N.	28	Nürnberg	Bayern	During a routine check at Nürnberg train station, a man fled from police. A policewoman fired at the man, fatally striking him in the back. The officer had to pay a fine.
1996-11-04	N.N.	34	Burghausen	Bayern	A blackmailer was chased into some nearby woods by a police officer following a ransom hand-off. During the arrest, the officer fired three shots at the blackmailer, one fatal, when he saw him carrying a gun, later identified as a gas pistol. It is uncertain whether the officer had been ordered to pursue the blackmailer after the ransom was paid.
1996-11-14	Yaradan, Bahri	25	Fürth	Bayern	Following a car chase, a Turkish motorist was about to be arrested by police when "a shot discharged" from one of the officers' guns by accident and struck the motorist in the head.

1997

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1997-01-26	N.N.	27	Brigachtal	Baden-Württemberg	A man was killed by two shots by officers during a police operation. No more details were given and reports say that "closer circumstances were unclear".
1997-02-08	N.N.	23	Fürstenwalde	Brandenburg	Six officers responded to a burglary report, startling the three perpetrators at the scene, who attempt to make a run for it. During the foot chase, an officer's gun accidentally went off, killing one of the burglars, a Romanian national.
1997-02-11	Geiger, Thomas	29	München	Bayern	Following a bank robbery, the robber was found by two officers at a S-Bahn station. He then pulled out a gun, leading to the officers firing a total of ten shots at him, with four hitting and killing the robber. The robber was presumed to have not fired a shot himself, as no recent traces of gunpowder were found on the weapon.
1997-02-28	Warzywoda, Michael	32	Uhingen	Baden-Württemberg	A drunk driver fled from a traffic stop, managing to evade four road blocks before being apprehended at the driveway of his home. For unknown reasons, rather than simply arresting him, the officers opened fire on the driver, hitting him once in the head.
1997-04-08	N.N.	29	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	During a manhunt for a bank robber, the getaway vehicle of the robber was stopped by police as part of the search. The robber immediately fired on one of the officers with a shotgun, critically injuring him, before other officers shot the robber, who later died at a hospital of his wounds.
1997-07-24	H., Ernst	34	München	Bayern	Police were called to investigate reports of a suicide threat. Two officers were then threatened by the source of the threats, a mentally unstable man holding a butcher's knife, who then threatened the officers. The female officer shot the man in the throat, leading to his death at a hospital the same day.
1997-08-23	N.N.	35	Berlin	Berlin	Three burglars attempted to run over a police officer patrolling an industrial quarter with a delivery van. The officer fired a shot at the driver's cabin and after the truck came to a halt, two of the men fled the vehicle while the third, a Polish national, slumped out of his seat onto the street, dying at the scene.
1997-09-15	N.N.		Bremen	Bremen	A bank robber wielding a sawn-off shotgun was engaged in a shootout with pursuing police. When the robber was cornered in a back alley, he again opened fire and was killed by the officers.
1997-10-16	Geil, Herbert		Breitscheid	Hessen	A debtor in Erdbach was being made subject to eviction when he shot and killed 49 year old Bernd Dietermann, the bailiff enforcing the court order, with a sawn-off pump action shotgun. As Dietermann had been accompanied by four police officers to aid him in the eviction, the debto rwas engaged in a shootout. After reportedly tossing his gun to the side to let officers arrest him, one officer fatally shot him in the back.
1997-12-07	Rose, Hans-Jürgen	36	Dessau	Sachsen-Anhalt	A drunk machinist was held at the Dessau-Roßlau police station for drunk driving. Just under two hours after his recorded release, the man was found barely conscious and slumped over near a house entrance not far from the station and died in a hospital from internal hemorrhaging the same morning. His injuries included a ruptured lung, a broken jaw, dislodged teeth, crushed testicles, and a shattered lumbar vertebra that exposed his spinal canal and had resulted in complete paraplegia. The severity of the injurites initially led medical attendees to believe he had been involved in a car collision or a fall from several stories, but no signs of any such accidents were found in the area. When it was found that the deceased had last been seen at the local police station, the officers denied any wrongdoing and shared their theory that he had sustained his injuries from a window fall. The coroner subsequently opined that the bruises he found during his medical examination that the deceased was tied to a pillar and beaten with metal batons at the station. Investigations were ceased in October 2002 and a renewed investigation again ended in February 2014. Dessau-Roßlau police station later became embroiled in more misconduct scandals, including the 2002 death of Mario Bichtemann, who died in a cell after being booked for public intoxication, the 2005 death of Oury Jalloh and the suspected obstruction of justice by married police officers Ramone and Jörg S. regarding the investigation into the 2016 murder of Yangjie Li, in which their son Sebastian Flech was found to be the perpetrator.
1997-12-19	N.N.	39	Egelsbach	Hessen	Two police officers were responding to a call of domestic violence when the husband shot one of the officers after the other had left the room with his wife. Upon hearing the commotion, the other officer returned and killed the husband when the weapon was aimed at him. The injured officer died of his wounds in a hospital.
1997-12-20	N.N.	43	Straubing	Bayern	A man rampaging through a street while wielding a gas pistol was shot by a police officer. The report was left undetailed, but police stated that the officer acted in self-defense.
1997-12-28	N.N.	70	Ingolstadt	Bayern	Police responded to a call by a woman asking for help over her husband, who was "going on a rampage" in their home. The arriving officers were attacked by the knife-wielding husband, leading to one firing a shot in the man's thigh in "evident self-defense". The husband died of blood loss in a hospital.

1998

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1998-01-12	N.N.		Hünxe	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A police officer was shot at while conducting a traffic stop. The occupant of the car he was checking had opened fire and hit him in the legs and chest. The shooter was killed when the officer returned fire.
1998-01-25	N.N.	68	Ludwigshafen	Rheinland-Pfalz	Several passerby alert police that they had been shot at by someone inside a nearby apartment building. When officers knocked on the door of the flat in question, the man opening it immediately fired at them. One officer then fatally shot the man.
1998-01-29	N.N.	22	Florstadt	Hessen	A neighbour called police over a break-in happening at the post office by her residence in Nieder-Florstadt. Police presence caused the three attempted safecrackers to flee and during the chase, a female officer fired a shot that killed one of the burglars.
1998-04-06	Pétrovic, Mile	37	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	SEK were raiding the last known place of residence of a wanted violent offender. The offender immediately fired at them when they entered and was shot seven times in return. Police found a hand grenade within arm's length by the offender, who died in a hospital later that day.
1998-10-30	N.N.		Plaaz	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	A man fired several shots at the house of his ex-wife and fled when police arrived. He proceeded to take potshots at the pursuing squad car and was then shot by the officers.
1998-11-28	T., Robert	48	München	Bayern	A man called police as his younger brother who was suffering from paranoid persecutory delusions was threatening to kill himself. Shouts for help led officers to forcefully enter the apartment, where they found the brother stabbing the caller with a knife. The brother then charged at the officers and when tear gas proved ineffective, a policewoman fired two shots at the attacker. One bullet pierced through the target and struck the caller standing behind him in the head. The attacker died of his injuries in a hospital a few hours later.
1998-11-28	T., Leon	51	München	Bayern	A man called police as his younger brother who was suffering from paranoid persecutory delusions was threatening to kill himself. Shouts for help led officers to forcefully enter the apartment, where they found the brother stabbing the caller with a knife. The brother then charged at the officers and when tear gas proved ineffective, a policewoman fired two shots at the attacker. One bullet pierced through the target and struck the caller standing behind him in the head. The attacker died of his injuries in a hospital a few hours later.
1998-12-25	N.N.	23	Grüne	Sachsen	A woman called police over an escalating argument with her partner. The partner ended up being shot by police under unclear circumstances.

1999

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
1999-01-17	N.N.	19	Karlsruhe	Baden-Württemberg	Being on high alert following a string of bank robberies, a car was stopped by the police. The driver attempted to escape but was later stopped again. One officer opened fire, killing the driver.
1999-03-25	N.N.	44	Ennigerloh	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A mentally ill person attacked his sister with an axe. When police arrived he was shot to protect the relative's life.
1999-04-13	N.N.	41	Lamprecht	Rheinland-Pfalz	A drunk man rioted inside his apartment and started a fire. When police arrived, he attacked them with a metal rod. He was shot and later died in hospital.
1999-04-16	N.N.	26	Neuberg	Hessen	Neighbors informed police about a burglary at a kiosk. When officers arrived at the scene, several persons fled. One man was shot in the back under unclear circumstances.
1999-04-24	N.N.	22	Bad Arolsen	Hessen	A burglar who was being arrested by police officers grabbed a crowbar and attacked police. He was shot in the chest and died in the ambulance.
1999-05-28	Ageeb, Aamir	30	German airspace, Flight LH588	Deutschland	A Sudanese citizen who resisted his deportation, Ageeb was killed due to positional asphyxia caused by fixation. Three Bundesgrenzschutz officers were charged with voluntary manslaughter, but remained in office due to a reduced sentence. In the aftermath, the fixation techniques that were used, have been declared to be torture by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture.
1999-06-11	Z., Saffet	43	Hamburg	Hamburg	A man was rioting in his house. When police arrived he injured an officer with a knife and was shot by another officer.
1999-06-29	B., Thomas	29	Hamburg	Hamburg	Due to noise disturbances, neighbours of called the police. A man opened the door, armed with a knife. When the man refused to lay down the knife, he was shot.
1999-06-27	Beate, Friedhelm	62	Heldrungen	Thüringen	The retired Beate was visiting Heldrungen as a tourist and was mistaken by hotel guests for the fugitive felon Dieter Zurwehme. As armed plain-clothes officers attempted to gain access to his room, he assumed them to be robbers. While attempting to prevent them from entering the room, he was shot through the door. The case against the shooters was dropped.
1999-07-23	Hammerschmidt, Udo	41	Hamburg	Hamburg	MEK raided the apartment of a presumed drug dealer. When being shot at by Hammerschmidt, police shot him in the waist. He died later in hospital. The concrete circumstances of the police raid are unclear.
1999-08-09	N.N.	22	Magdeburg	Sachsen-Anhalt	Police raided the apartment of a robber and murderer. Even though the police officers used stun grenades, they were shot at. The attacker was hit and mortally wounded in the ensuing shootout.
1999-09-01	H., André	28	Berlin	Berlin	Police chased a post robber when it came to a shootout. The robber was able to escape and was later found dead, presumably having died from injuries sustained in the firefight.
1999-09-06	N.N.	40	Bremen	Bremen	A person called the police on an unknown man with a knife who was sneaking around their house. When police encountered the man, he stabbed one officer and was shot several times. He died at the scene. The background of the incident are unclear.
1999-09-26	N.N.	29	Hamburg	Hamburg	A woman called police over the sound of thumping and screaming coming from the neighbouring flat. When officers rang the doorbell, the door was opened by a man with a switchblade in his hand, who immediately shut the door on them. While the officers attempted to kick it down, the man suddenly flung the door open and attacked. After ignoring several warnings to drop the weapon, two of the officers fatally shot the attacker.
1999-10-15	N.N.	43	Passau	Bayern	When police attempted to bring an aggressive man under control, he pulled out a knife and attacked an officer. He was shot and died.
1999-11-24	N.N.	25	Geldern	Nordrhein-Westfalen	When police encountered a presumed robber, he flew. When not responding to calls for him to stop, he was shot in the head from behind.
1999-12-07	N.N.	31	Braunschweig	Niedersachsen	A man injured two neighbors with a knife. When police officers tried to arrest him, he attacked them and was hit by police gunshots.
1999-12-10	Dimitrov, Zdravko Nikolov	36	Braunschweig	Niedersachsen	A physicist with Bulgarian citizenship, Zdravko Nikolov Dimitrov was to be transported to Bulgaria after his application for asylum was denied. When he announced to commit suicide, police officers called for assistance by the SEK. When the specially trained officers approached Dr. Dimitrov, he presumably attacked them with a knife. He was shot and died in hospital ten days later.
1999-12-13	N.N.	45	Siegen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	After a shootout in front of a nightclub, police raided the apartment of a suspect. In a melee with the suspect's father, a shot discharged from an officer's service pistol, hitting the man in the head.
1999-12-22	Hodzic, Adnan	46	Aachen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	On 20 December, a Bosnian national with a prior record for false imprisonment, robbery and jailbreak robbed a bank at gunpoint and wielding hand grenades, but because he found the money inside the vault insufficient, he took three employees, the head of an armored car company, one of their drivers and a secretary, demanding 1 million mark. Over the course of the 50 hour hostage crisis, he repeatedly shot at police and to raise pressure, he critically injured the 30-year-old driver with three gunshots. On the second night, the robber accidentally detonated one of the grenades after experiencing micro sleep due to staying awake for over a day, injuring the 30-year-old secretary with shrapnel. After intensive negotiation he was shot by a police marksman.
1999-12-28	N.N.	69	Darmstadt	Hessen	A retired man threatened people in the city center with a gun. When police officers arrived, he shot at them and was injured by a police bullet. He died two weeks later in a hospital. It is unclear whether the wound from the bullet caused his death.

2000s

2000

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2000-01-24	N.N.	52	Schleiden	Nordrhein-Westfalen	In a state of confusion, a farmer and hunter in Dreiborn shot at a man and then at arriving police officers with a shotgun. An officer shot the farmer in the pelvis area, severing several arteries and his lungs. Despite several successful surgeries, the farmer died as a result of the wound at a hospital on 20 February.
2000-01-27	N.N.	40	Mengen	Baden-Württemberg	A robber fled a supermarket with 10,000 DM and was arrested by police shortly after. He pointed his gun at the officers, who proceeded to shoot him two times.
2000-03-06	N.N.	24	Nürnberg	Bayern	A man who had been previously convicted of several crimes and recently released from prison attempted to leave a gas station without paying the bill. He led five squad cars on a high-speed chase for over 90 km across A9 and rammed one before crashing into a guardrail. The man brandished a repainted toy gun at the officers when he exited and did not desist after several warnings, instead threatening two officers individually. One officer fired a shot, followed by a second firing two from his submachine gun, hitting the man in the back of the head.
2000-04-04	N.N.	22	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	A Turkish man stabbed his mother and a neighbour, leaving the former with life-threatening injuries, during a family argument. When police arrived, he fired at them through a window in their home with a gas pistol. Officers shot back and hit the man three times in the torso.
2000-05-03	N.N.	28	Sigmaringen	Baden-Württemberg	During a footchase, the pursued suspect threw a store sign on the ground, causing the officer behind him to trip. As he fell to the ground, a shot discharged from the officer's weapon, which fatally struck the suspect.
2000-09-19	Bui, Khan	28	Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	A woman called police after she saw a man cradling a rifle on a path in the woods. Police confronted the man at the path and ordered him to drop the weapon, but this only made him walk towards the officers, who then shot the man 22 times - 9 of the rounds hit their target, who died of a single bullet to the chest. It was later found that the man, a Vietnamese national, had been reported missing from a care facility, revealing that he was mentally handicapped due to childhood meninigits and had actually been holding an airsoft rifle, which officers did not recognize in the dark.

2001

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2001-01-26	Amadi, John	19	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Nigerian asylum seeker was kicked and beaten by six narcotics agents during a drug raid. He subsequently stopped breathing and was declared dead at the scene. Police initially claimed that the man had swallowed small drug packages to hide evidence and died when one spontaneously ruptured without outside force, but an autopsy showed that no drugs were in his system.
2001-01-29	L., Mike	23	Berlin	Berlin	Police learnt through a tapped telephone line of the planning of a supermarket robbery at Anton Saefkow-Platz. SEK placed officers around the location and waited for the robbers to show themselves. Three armed men eventually approached the market, but were confronted by SEK in the entry hall. The ringleader managed to escape and gun in hand, he charged towards two officers, with another officer firing at the robber three times, hitting him once in the side and once in the back. The gun was found to be a gas pistol.
2001-03-07	C., Ali	25	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	As a convoy of police vehicles was driving to respond to a call, a private vehicle integrated itself into the column and abruptly stepped on the brakes, stopping the entire line. The Turkish driver then stepped out of the car and threatened a bus of police officers behind him with a gun. He fled when police from the other vehicles intervened and shot five times at the fleeing driver, hitting him in the thigh, chin, shoulder, and neck, which proved fatal. The weapon turned out to have been a gas pistol, leading investigators to believe that the death was a case of suicide by cop.
2001-06-12	N.N.	27	Olpe	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man wielding a screwdriver announced his intention to commit suicide on a public street. Three police officers were able to convince the man to reconsider and instead visit a doctor. He agreed and as he was being escorted by one of the officers, the other two following closely behind, the man stabbed the officer accompanying him in the head without warning, causing life-threatening injuries. Another officer used pepper spray on the man and then shot him in the arm, both to no effect, ending with him fatally shooting the man in the neck.
2001-07-14	Sarr Wegener, N'deye Mareame	26	Aschaffenburg	Bayern	Police were alerted to the scene of an early hours custody dispute between a separated couple over their two-year-old child in which the husband requested full guardianship without his Senegalese wife's knowledge, after the husband called police when his wife confronted him about this at his apartment. The situation escalated when the wife refused to leave and instead grabbed a bread knife, stabbing one of the officers, cutting his hand. A second officer fired at her after a warning when she raised the knife to the first officer again, with reports conflicting on whether the shot struck her in the arm or her collar bone. Either way, bone shards hit the wife in the aorta, leading to her death from internal bleeding in a hospital just hours later. German African activist organizations blamed racism for the shooting, saying that lethal force would not have been used had the attacker been an ethnic German. It was also alleged that the recent change to hollow-point bullets made the usage of Bavarian police firearms more deadly than necessary. Both arguments were refuted in official police statements.
2001-08-05	N.N.	40	Gruibingen	Baden-Württemberg	Two police officers searched a furniture factory after an alarm was triggered. After finding no trace of a break-in, both officers left the building and shortly after, the submachine gun of one of the officer discharged and killed his colleague.
2001-12-08	John, Achidi	19	Hamburg	Hamburg	Police officers arrested Nigerian asylum seeker Michael Paul Nwabuisi, alias Achidi John, because they assumend he was selling drugs and was a bodypacker. He was brought to a hospital, where a physician applied an emetic forcefully by a nasal tube. After the procedure he fell to the ground and died three days later from a combination of heart defect, the stress of the procedure, and the effects of cocaine, with a total of 45 pellets containing powdered and crack cocaine being recovered from his gastrointestinal track.
2001-12-24	N.N.	44	Leinburg	Bayern	A man with a long record for violent crime broke into the apartment of his ex-girlfriend and threatened her and her boyfriend who were both able to escape him. He then set the apartment on fire and attempted to attack two police officers arriving on the floor, being shot six times in the stomach, chest, and shoulder from a range of 1,50 meters.

2002

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2002-03-24	N.N.	63	Kreuzwertheim	Bayern	A man known for his violent tendencies was supposed to be brought to a mental hospital by police, but stabbed one of the officers with a knife while resisting. The officer's partner then shot and killed the man.
2002-04-05	N.N.	40	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber who made off with 5000 euro was discovered hiding in a garden by police. Two officers unsuccessfully attempted to restrain him and when he pulled out a gun, another officer fired a warning shot before shooting twice at the robber, fatally hitting him in the head.
2002-05-11	Neisius, Stephan	30	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	The incident known as Cologne police scandal was a case of police brutality, torture and misdemeanor, that led to the death of Stephan Neisius († 2002-05-24). Neisius, a known psychiatric patient that also suffered from thrombosis, was arrested in suspicion of domestic violence. From the beginning of the arrestation, heavily force was needed to handcuff Neisius and transport him to the police station. There he was beaten and kicked while his hands and feet were cuffed. Witnesses said he was lying in a puddle of blood when paramedics brought him to a hospital, where he suffered from a cardiac arrest and fell into a coma from which he did not awake anymore. Six officers were charged with common bodily harm with fatal consequences and were removed from police service.
2002-05-28	N.N.	22	Wiesbaden	Hessen	A man held his girlfriend hostage at a doctor's office following a relationship drama. After repeated threats of a bloodbath, with three hours of negotiations yielding nothing, police attempted to take down the hostage taker by shooting him in the side, The bullet ends up traveling through the arm into the hip, leading to his death at a hospital.
2002-07-14	N.N.	36	Hamburg	Hamburg	A drunk driver drove through a police checkpoint and continued to evade police until he drove into the side of a house. He then fled to the roof of a multi-storey car park in Altona, where police surrounded him with guns drawn. According to the officer, his gun accidentally discharged, hitting the driver, who proceeded to stumble backwards and die after a 10-meter fall.
2002-07-28	B., René	30	Nordhausen	Thüringen	Two men were caught breaking open vending machines and attempted to escape police. One man was caught while the other escaped despite the use of pepper spray. The remaining man began throwing rocks at officers and after repeated warnings, he was fatally shot while bending down for another rock, the bullet having gone through his back and become stuck in his collar bone.
2002-11-22	N.N.	45	Bad Nauheim	Hessen	A man shot his wife while out afternoon shopping with her after an argument. The man then called the police, but refused to either exit the supermarket or let emergency services take his injured wife. SEK stormed the market to secure the hostage, leading to a shootout that left the husband mortally injured and an officer lightly wounded. The shooter died before midnight at a hospital.
2002-12-01	Syrokowski, Robert	18	Lübeck	Schleswig-Holstein	A couple in St. Jürgen called police because a drunk teenager had ringed their doorbell in the middle of night and claimed to live at the house. Two police officers, 40-year-old Alexander M. and 52-year-old Hans Joachim G., arrived to take the teenager away, supposedly to a drunk tank at the police station, but instead dropped him off at a country road at 3 degrees celsius with the nearest town (Bliestorf) being 7 kilometers away. He walked for two kilometers before he was fatally struck by a car. The officers were charged with negligent homicide and sentenced to one and a half years and nine months imprisonment respectively.
2002-12-24	N.N.	25	Hamburg	Hamburg	Police were called after neighbors reported intruders inside a flat across the hall. Officers encountered three men wielding tools attempting to leave via the stairway and engaged them in a scuffle. A 43 year old officer fired a shot in what he described as "self-defense", hitting one of the burglars in the back. The wounded man was able to jump out of a window on the first floor a few meters off the ground and run about 50 meters before collapsing from blood loss.

2003

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2003-05-04	N.N.	31	Saarlouis	Saarland	A burglar was caught during a break-in at an electronics store and attempted to escape by car. When his car was stopped at A620 during a routine traffic stop, the burglar opened fire on police, heavily injuring one officer. He was subsequently shot himself and died at the scene.
2003-05-22	S., Steffen	14	Vöhl	Hessen	The 51-year old police officer Edmund S. killed his wife and two sons with his service pistol, before committing suicide. A found suicide note revealed, that S. was suffering from depression and fear about the future.
2003-05-22	S., Dominik	19	Vöhl	Hessen	The 51-year old police officer Edmund S. killed his wife and two sons with his service pistol, before committing suicide. A found suicide note revealed, that S. was suffering from depression and fear about the future.
2003-05-22	S., Waltraud	48	Vöhl	Hessen	The 51-year old police officer Edmund S. killed his wife and two sons with his service pistol, before committing suicide. A found suicide note revealed, that S. was suffering from depression and fear about the future.
2003-09-24	O., Oliver	40	Wedemark	Niedersachsen	Following an argument with his wife, a man purposely crashed his car into a tree in Mellendorf. When a passerby tried to check up on him, the man, standing at 1.98 meters and weighing over 100 kilograms, beat, bit, and choked her, nearly severing a finger before her dog fended him off. He then began damaging nearby parked cars while shouting nonsensical phrases. When people at a house party confronted the man about the disturbance, he rushed into the house, beating several more people and using a bottle to hit a car. When a passing police car stopped to check on the situation, the man bludgeoned one officer's head with his bare hands and grabbed his heavy-duty flashlight as a makeshift weapon while the other officer retreated to call for backup. Having put around 100 meter distance between himself and the attacker, the injured officer fired a warning shot before shooting the man in the knee, to no effect, as the man continued advancing towards him, shouting "Du kannst mir gar nichts, ich bin nämlich unsterblich" ("You can't harm me, for I am invincible"). The officer fired another four shots, hitting him in the abdomen, but even so, the man was able to make a dash into the open police car, apparently to attempt escape. The officers were able to lock him inside, with the man breaking a window and attempting to crawl out before being restrained. He was subsequently brought to a hospital, but did not receive treatment as he kept attacking the doctors, dying from his injuries hours later.
2003-12-11	N.N.	32	Rheurdt	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called by a neighbour after she had dispute with the man in the apartment next door. The man turned out to be mentally ill and first refused to let officers in before attacking them with a knife. The officers fired ten shots at the man, with eight of those hitting him, with two shots in the chest and one in the head being determined to have caused his death.

2004

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2004-01-27	N.N.	31	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Two men opened fire from their car during a routine documents check by police. One officer was hit in the shoulder and in the shootout, the driver was killed while the passenger was heavily injured and died at a hospital. Large amounts of money were found inside the vehicle.
2004-01-27	N.N.	22	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Two men opened fire from their car during a routine documents check by police. One officer was hit in the shoulder and in the shootout, the driver was killed while the passenger was heavily injured and died at a hospital. Large amounts of money were found inside the vehicle.
2004-02-03	N.N.	32	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Three SEK officers were practising how to overpower offenders during a training exercise when an officer's gun went off and killed one of them.
2004-02-05	N.N.	36	Düren	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were supposed to transport a man to be committed at a psychiatric clinic, but the man began shooting at the officers from his apartment. Police shot back and killed the man, but were unable to determine whether he was shooting with live ammo or blanks.
2004-03-01	N.N.	35	Schweinfurt	Bayern	A woman requested police to fetch her as she was afraid of her life partner. When officers arrived, the partner pointed a gun at them and told them to leave. After failing to listen to repeated warnings, the man was shot and his weapon was discovered to be a gas pistol.
2004-04-30	N.N.	35	Göppingen	Baden-Württemberg	A resident caught a tire slasher in the act and was immediately threatened. The resident then called police, who attempted to calm the knifeman down, but were forced to use deadly force when he did not put away his weapon.
2004-06-02	N.N.	62	Schöneck	Hessen	A bank robber was spotted by a police patrol and opened fire on the officers. Returning fire fatally hit the robber in the chest.
2004-09-23	N.N.	21	Neuss	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man beat and kidnapped his former girlfriend over an ongoing custody battle, doused her in gasoline, and threatened to kill her and himself. He was shot by police during the rescue operation.
2004-09-27	N.N.	77	Gießen	Hessen	A tenant attempted to prevent his eviction by locking himself in his apartment and alternately threatening to shoot the bailiff or to commit suicide. SEK raided the location, leading to a shootout that left the tenant.
2004-11-25	N.N.	43	Ratingen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two armed men disguised in Santa Claus outfits robbed 140 000 euro from a Sparkasse bank in Lintorf. Two police officers saw the robbery occurring and attempted to arrest the robbers once they stepped outside, but in the ensuing firefight, both officers were injured while one of the robbers was killed. The last robber managed to escape to his girlfriend's place, who took him to a hospital, where both were then arrested.
2004-12-27	Condé, Laye-Alama	35	Bremen	Bremen	Police officers arrested Condé, because they assumed he was selling drugs. He was brought to a police station where a doctor applied an emetic forcefully through a stomach tube. Condé vomited and suffered from a lack of oxygen, went comatose and died from cerebral hypoxia on the 2005-01-07 without regaining consciousness.

2005

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2005-01-07	Jalloh, Oury	37	Dessau	Saxony-Anhalt	Oury Jalloh, a Sierra Leonean refugee living in Germany, died in a fire in a holding cell in the police station in Dessau. The hands and feet of Jalloh, who was alone in the cell, were tied to a mattress. A fire alarm went off, but was initially turned off without further action by an officer. The case caused national and international outrage. The circumstances and their investigation are still contested.
2005-02-03	N.N.	34	Karlskron	Bayern	Police were trying to stop a car with a broken headlight, but the vehicle sped off. The car got stuck after crashing into a fence when it swerved to avoid a road block and during the arrest, the man, who had a warrant for fraud, was fatally shot by officers.
2005-02-11	N.N.	43	Bielefeld	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Moroccan informant was meeting with two police officers at a fast food restaurant when he suddenly attempted to attack with a knife. One of the officers shot the informant in the chest; he later died at a hospital.
2005-04-05	F., Jens	34	Rudolstadt	Thüringen	A man shot a random passerby after an argument with his girlfriend over a custody dispute over their one-year-old son. He then attempted to ram arriving police with the car that still contained his girlfriend and son. While one officer is injured, two others fired 16 shots on the car, fatally striking the driver in the neck, lightly injuring the girlfriend and leaving the baby unharmed.
2005-04-13	N.N.	18	Lübeck	Schleswig-Holstein	A 44-year-old man fled to a neighbour's apartment in after his son injured him with a knife in an argument. The neighbour called police to deal with the youth, who attacked both officers with two knives as soon as they entered through the door. He was shot in the stomach and died at the scene.
2005-05-06	N.N.	45	Großenhain	Sachsen	A 71-year-old man was being threatened by his son with two knives. Officers were rushed shortly after they entered the apartment and were forced to fatally shoot the attacker.

2006

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2006-04-14	Koumadio, Dominique	23	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Congolese asylum seeker was shot in the heart by a police officer from a distance of a few metres after threatening a kiosk employee with a butcher's knife and attacking a police car. According to witnesses, the man, who had been living in Germany since he was 14, had been arguing with the well-acquainted employee when he produced the knife. Human rights groups were outraged and claimed that despite the circumstances that his death was partially motivated or at least compounded by his skin color, also questioning the distance at which he was shot and the placement of the bullets.
2006-05-06	N.N.	41	Lage	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called to the scene of a nightly noise complaint. Officers encountered a man wielding a gun in the courtyard of the building and fired at him. The gun was found to be a gas pistol.
2006-05-10	N.N.	30	Hanau	Hessen	A bank robber ditched his loot and attempted escape on a stolen moped. He ran over a police officer who tried to stop him, suffering heavy injuries, before the officer's colleague shot the robber in the back, piercing his lungs. The robber subsequently choked on his own blood.
2006-08-06	N.N.	28	Gersfeld	Hessen	MEK were storming the apartment of a man wanted for armed robbery. They were greeted by a gun through the door, at which point one officer fired two shots, hitting the gunman in the chest and aorta, causing his death.
2006-08-06	N.N.	55	Fürth	Hessen	A man responsible for a noise complaint at a construction site was found swinging around an axe. Police ordered him to put the weapon down and shot him at least four times by a female officer, two grazing shots and two that hit the man in the lungs and aorta, killing him. It was reported that the man had been retired after being left with slight mental disabilites following a work accident and that he had apparently been attempting to build a house at the site by himself, leading to several run-ins with the law, though no physical incidents were known to either police or family.
2006-12-01	N.N.	36	Würzburg	Bayern	A mentally ill man was breaking the windshields of several parked cars with an iron bar in Zell am Main, at the Oberzell Abbey. He was briefly confronted by the 45-year-old technical director of the monastery, but he retreated after being hit, after which two passerby intervened. One of them, a 71-year-old man, managed to strike the attacker in the head with a shovel before tripping and being severely beaten with a hammer by him, causing life-threatening injuries to his skull. Arriving police peppersprayed the attacker to no effect and after repeated warnings to stop his assault, a 27-year-old officer fired two shots when he saw him lifting his arm to beat one of the injured men on the ground. The attacker died in a hospital. He was identified as a Lebanese citizen and had already been noted for a previous incident in March 2005 when he fractured a woman's skull with a meat tenderizer.

2007

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2007-01-31	G., Sven	28	Nauen	Brandenburg	A 24 year old Berlin police officer on his way home attempted to arrest three drunk men he had spotted using glass breakers they had stolen from the train cart he was in to destroy the windows of phone booths and bus stops. The vandals fled, but two of them came back to threaten the officer when he called for backup. The call recorded as the officer yelled warnings at the men and fired a warning shot. The officer claimed one tried to lunge at him, at which point he fired three shots that fatally hit the attacker in vital arteries in the head and thigh. The other two vandals, aged 20 and 24, gave themselves up without resistance. A criminal charge was considered, as there was no indication that he had acted in self-defense, but it did not go to court.
2007-05-14	N.N.	35	Hagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A French national was checked into a hospital for psychosis by three police officers, who had staff administer sedatives and then tied his arms, legs and chin down. He lost consciousness hours later and suffered brain death due to cardiac arrest while the officers were present. His death only became public knowledge a year later after a similar death in police custody in March 2008. Police did not specify the reason or manner in which the man was tied down and also never explained why the foreign citizen was in their custody
2007-06-15	N.N.	19	Speyer	Rheinland-Pfalz	A driver and two passengers were being pursued by a police car after taking off during a traffic check. The vehicle stopped in the middle of the road and when an officer walked up to the car, it backed up without warning, pinning him against his own cruiser. Another officer then shot at the car's tires, then at the driver's side, striking the driver with two deadly shot.
2007-06-26	C., Tibor Istvan	27	Hamburg	Hamburg	After seven plainclothed police officers stopped the car of two suspected ATM robbers they had been observing, a 50 year old officer approached the vehicle with his gun drawn. A shot then discharged from the weapon and killed the Romanian driver. The officer was suspended and faced involuntary manslaughter charges.
2007-07-01	N.N.	23	Bonn	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two burglars were being arrested by police when one attempted to attack a female officer with a baton. Her colleague then shot him, leaving him with injuries that lead to his death at a hospital.
2007-07-27	N.N.	37	Eichstätt	Bayern	Police were called by a Turkish resident who stated that the former partner of his girlfriend had broken into his apartment and was threatening them with a butterfly knife. The intruder. also a Turk, attacked police upon arrival and was fatally shot in the chest.
2007-08-09	H., Sebastian	22	Berlin	Berlin	A mugger who had robbed a young woman in a street was caught by two police officers. The mugger was shot twice in the chest when he aimed a gas pistol at the officers.
2007-08-22	N.N.	35	Worms	Rheinland-Pfalz	Police responded to a call from a neighbour about a man threatening his wife with a knife in their apartment. The man then got into a fight with one of the arriving officers, who shot him in the chest when he felt threatened.
2007-09-25	N.N.	30	Bückeberg	Niedersachsen	After a motorist didn't pay at a gas station, a check of his licence plate showed that the car he was driving had been reported as stolen. The motorist crashed after a lengthy car chase, but when officers approached the wreck, the occupant suddenly jumped out with a gun in his hands, forcing officers to fire three shots, with one in the chest killing him instantly.
2007-09-30	N.N.	25	Plauen	Sachsen	A man called police to announce his intent to "throw out" his wife and child and then kill himself; it is unclear whether he meant that he would expel them from the apartment or defenestrate them. Arriving police shot the man after he pointed at them with a gun, which was found to be a gas pistol.
2007-10-02	N.N.	33	Löhne	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A patient at a psychiatric facility was behaving aggressively and refusing to take his medication. When SEK attempted to overpower the patient, he attacked officers with a knife. He was fatally shot after taser usage failed.
2007-11-26	N.N.	37	Brake	Niedersachsen	Police were called over a man threatening his wife and two of their children inside their house. Officers were immediately attacked by the man when he rushed them at the stairwell with a knife. When he did not react to pepper spray, the man was shot four times in the chest, shoulder and neck, dying of blood loss in the front garden.
2007-12-02	B., Jürgen	52	Neumünster	Schleswig-Holstein	The 47-year old police officer Jörg L. killed his ex-wife and her new partner with his service pistol. He committed suicide in the city of Kiel, several hours later.
2007-12-02	L., Marita	44	Neumünster	Schleswig-Holstein	The 47-year old police officer Jörg L. killed his ex-wife and her new partner with his service pistol. He committed suicide in the city of Kiel, several hours later.
2007-12-24	N.N.	66	Heppenheim	Hessen	Police officers were called by the family of a man who had made suicide statements. He barricaded himself in his kitchen when officers came and threatened to jump out the window. After the man said he would go on a killing spree, SEK broke through the door and were attacked by the man wielding two knives. A taser was first tried, but when it malfunctioned, another officer fatally shot the man.

2008

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2008-03-11	N.N.	43	Ratingen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A mentally ill man forcefully entered a neighbouring flat and took the two tenants hostage. When police arrived, the man attacked an officer with two kitchen knives, causing another officer to fire three shots, killing the man who died at the scene shortly after.
2008-02-17	Özdamar, Adem	26	Hagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man called police while suffering from cocaine-induced paranoia and asked to be brought to the station for safety, where he began acting out. Officers used pepper spray, handcuffed him and put him in a prone position on the floor for 15 minutes as they waited for an ambulance to take the man to a hospital. The arriving doctor found that he was no longer breathing and after police removed the man's bindings, taking several minutes to do so, she was able to resuscitate him for transport. The man died at a hospital on 5 March after spending a month in a coma. His death was attributed to fluid build-up in his brain.
2008-03-13	Carmack, Jeremiah Wade	30	Altershausen	Bayern	An American soldier stationed at the U.S. Army Heidelberg Garrison broke into the apartment of his ex-girlfriend in Königsberg, tied her up and threatened her with an assault rifle. After she escaped and alerted a SEK unit, the soldier fled, but was tracked down to a nearby field via thermal camera. The soldier was shot twice after he pointed his rifle at SEK who had been ordering him in English to drop it. He later died at a hospital.
2008-05-21	M., Sultan	24	Hamburg	Hamburg	A resident in Billstedt called police because the Afghan couple next door was arguing very loudly. As police arrived, the wife barged out of the apartment to escape her husband, who was wielding a gun. The husband opened fire, hitting his wife in the stomach and shoulder, as well as grazing two officers in the neck and leg respectively; all three survived. One officer shot back as the husband retreated. MEK later found him dead from the wound in a stairwell, though it was initially claimed that he died from two self-inflicted gunshots to the head before rescinding their statement. The husband was found to have been a domestic abuser, having frequently beaten his wife, once even at her workplace at a cosmetics shop, and planted a listening device in her phone.
2008-05-25	N.N.	53	Bayreuth	Bayern	A schizophrenic man from Berlin was spotted by two police officers fiddling around with a parked bicycle. Officers called out to the man, who fled, pulled out a gun and began firing at them, heavily injuring one officer. The other then shot the man, five times in the chest and once in the buttocks. The man collapsed dead after running a few meters. Police briefly argued that the man had not died from the several shots that pierced his heart, but from a self-inflicted shot in the mouth, which an autopsy did not find. The gun was identified as having been stolen during a 1985 burglary in Itzehoe by the man, who had also been carrying a home-made shotgun.
2008-05-30	N.N.	38	Hamburg	Hamburg	Police responded to a call about a mentally ill man attacking multiple people inside a building in Langenhorn. The man immediately fought with the officers, beating several of them severely before he wrestled a gun from a female officer's hands. Another policewoman shot the man when he attempted to flee into an apartment, where he was found dead by MEK.
2008-06-07	N.N.	29	Dattenberg	Rheinland-Pfalz	Police were sent to prevent a man from violating a restraining order filed by his ex-girlfriend when he attempted to enter her apartment. He was able to grab an officer's baton and proceeded to bludgeon him with it until another officer shot him twice, killing him. A search of the man's home uncovered the body of 33 year old acquaintance from Erpel, whom the deceased had brutally beaten and drowned in the bath tub he was found in.
2008-06-24	N.N.	34	Langenhagen	Niedersachsen	A 22-year-old woman called police because her ex-boyfriend was standing in front of her apartment with two knives in his hands and trying to kick down her door. Officers attempts to subdue the attacker with pepper spray were unsuccessfully and when he charged at two arriving officers, the others shot the man three times in the torso; a fourth shot an officer in the foot. The man died at a hospital in Hannover later that day.
2008-11-29	H., Joachim	50	Weißenhorn	Niedersachsen	Police conducted a wellness check at a man's residence after his estranged wife became worried over his prolonged isolation. The man threatened officers with a gun and after a standoff and negotiations lasting several hours, SEK stormed the premises. The man was shot and killed when he opened fire on the unit.
2008-12-08	N.N.	28	Neuwied	Rheinland-Pfalz	A man was to be arrested in his home for suspected drug dealing, assault and unlawfully discharging a firearm. Police found the man in his bed, but upon getting closer he aimed a revolver at the officers, who shot and killed him at the scene.
2008-12-31	J., Dennis	26	Schönfließ	Brandenburg	During an attempted arrest a police officer shot multiple times at the unarmed Dennis J., killing him. Police stated that he had attempted to flee and struck a police officer while fleeing in his car, but an autopsy showed that he had been dead before entering the vehicle. The shooter was given a suspended sentence, the other accusees were sentenced to monetary penalties.

2009

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2009-03-05	B., Sven	24	Hamburg	Hamburg	Police headed to the address of a mentally ill man in St. Pauli who had threatened to commit suicide. Knocking elicited no response and while officers were conversing with floor neighbours, the door was suddenly flung open and the resident charged at police with a 40 cm long blade. He was shot multiple times by an officer and died at the scene.
2009-04-30	Eisenberg, Tennessee	24	Regensburg	Bayern	A flatmate of student Tennessee Eisenberg called police about him acting madly and making stabbing motions towards his flatmates. Four police cars showed up, with several officers confronting Eisenberg, who threatened them with a knife. The exact events following have been subject to much scrutiny, as claims by police officers are inconsistent with the nature of the wounds inflicted; it has been established that the fatal shots were fired after Eisenberg had been subdued by warning shots and pepper spray, several shots even hitting him in the back. No officers had to appear in court.
2009-06-25	N.N,	33	Berlin	Berlin	A patron at a casino at Zoo train station was discovered carrying two different foreign passports (Croatian and Dutch) on him. After being brought to a police car, a scuffle occurred during which the patron was able to grab an officer's gun and fired at him, barely missing his head. Another officer then fired twice on the attacker, who died in a hospital after being fatally hit in the torso. He was identified as a Croatian national and was wanted in connection to the 2008 contract killing of millionaire Friedhelm Sodenkamp for supplying the hitman with the pistol used in the murder.
2009-08-20	N.N.	47	Ruppichteroth	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A bank robber shot a police officer during a pursuit in the chest. At the following shootout, the robber was hit in the head and died. The police officer was severely injured, but survived.
2009-11-06	N.N.	48	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Police were called when a man was acting violent at the doorstep of his 44 year old ex-wife's apartment. The man shot at an arriving squad car, heavily injuring an officer, and was killed in the following shootout shortly after.
2009-11-10	N.N.	48	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Police officers stopped a car to control the driver after an emergency call. The driver instantly opened fire upon the officers and was killed in the following firefight, one officer was severely injured by gunshots.
2009-12-24	N.N.	19	Leimen	Baden-Württemberg	Three masked men robbed a gas station and ran into a random passing police patrol unit. One robber opened fire with his gas pistol on the police officers and was shot in the following.
2009-12-26	P., Dirk	38	Hamburg	Hamburg	A mentally ill man was trashing his apartment and had the police called on him after his mother was unable to call him down. The man attacked officers with a knife after they broke down his front door and when pepper spray did not stop him from advancing, he was shot in the torso, bleeding to death within the hour.

2010s

2010

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2010-01-26	C., Alexander	28	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Police responded to a call about a man arguing with a woman in front of a hospital while holding a peeling knife. The man had tried to check himself in for treatment and refused to leave the premises. Officers were reportedly attacked by the man who was then shot at least three times and died at the hospital despite immediate treatment. An investigation revealed in December 2010 that video surveillance at the scene had apparently been tampered with, as it was missing several frames essential to the case, as these depicted the confrontation between the officers and the attacker. It was also found that a police radio conversation contained information that contradicted later statements by the same officers. Furthermore, witnesses stated that that officers had kicked the man in the head as he was on the ground, with a medical examination confirming injuries consisting with "head trauma by kicking". The prosecutor's office halted their investigation in November 2011, with the deceased's family lodging a complaint in response. The legal proceedings ended in September 2013.
2010-02-28	Hamade, Slieman	32	Berlin	Berlin	A couple called police to calm down their son who had become upset at his neighbours for playing loud music. In response to the man's heavy resistance, officers made use of batons and pepper spray. He eventually became unconscious and died at a hospital from circulatory failure, which was ascribed to an allergic reaction due to inhalation of the pepper spray.
2010-03-15	S., Wladimir	37	Berlin	Berlin	A man was threatening his 72-year-old mother with a knife. She called the police and was able to flee the apartment. The son fled before officers' arrival, but returned two hours later holding an unspecified implement. Officers opened fire as they felt threatened by the unknown object.
2010-05-13	J., Manfred	44	Hennef	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two police officers were pursuing two men from Mönchengladbach suspected of having started a fight at a night club. The men had been ignoring commands to stop in their tracks and put up their hands when one suddenly turned around, put his hand to a holster on his belt and yelled "Komm her, ich knall euch alle ab!" ("Come here, I'll blow you all away!"). As the officers had been informed by witnesses that one of the men was armed, though without specifying what kind of weapon, he was shot immediately. It was discovered that he had actually been unarmed, with staff members of the club revealing that the man had been previously carrying a retractable baton in the holster and used it to beat someone during the brawl he was involved in; the club bouncers had confiscated the baton just before police arrived. The officer responsible for the shots was cleared of all charges at a trial on 15 April 2011.
2010-05-17	N.N.	N.N.	Hanau	Hessen	A bank robber was shot by police and died later in hospital, after he hit an officer with his vehicle on his escape.
2010-06-07	N.N.	5	Oranienburg	Brandenburg	A 32-year-old female police officer killed both her children before committing suicide.
2010-06-07	N.N.	10	Oranienburg	Brandenburg	A 32-year-old female police officer killed both her children before committing suicide.
2010-07-10	N.N.	38	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A resident at a homeless shelter called police, claiming that he was armed and had taken a hostage, whom he would kill unless stopped. Police arriving at the scene quickly discovered that the resident, although armed with a katana, did not have a hostage and openly stated his plan to commit suicide by cop. After a lengthy talk, the man initially agreed to desist and went back inside, but as police were requesting backup for a potential psychiatric case, the man returned and charged at them, forcing the officers to shoot and kill him. His criminal record revealed that he had made a similar attempt in 2006, when he took a 63 year old neighbour in Königstein im Taunus hostage, which ended in him getting shot in the shoulder by SEK.
2010-08-30	L., Engelbert	42	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	After robbing a pharmacy, a robber armed with a gas pistol was surrounded by several police officers. It is unclear what exactly occurred, but one warning shot was fired followed by multiple shots directed at the robber who was hit four times in the legs and once in the neck, killing him.
2010-09-19	R., Sabine	41	Lörrach	Baden-Württemberg	During the 2010 Lörrach hospital shooting 41-year-old lawyer Sabine R. killed her husband, son, a male nurse and injured 18 people. She was shot by the police.
2010-12-10	B., Jaroslav	40	Karlsruhe	Baden-Württemberg	After a successful bank robbery at a Volksbank the so-called "gentlemen robbers" opened fire on the arriving police. During the following shoot-out with the police, the male robber from Czech Republic was killed by the police while his 38 years old wife shot herself.
2010-12-30	N.N.	49	München	Bayern	A mental health clinic called police informing them that a former patient was threatening to kill her daughter with a knife. She then similarly threatened a police officer with the same weapon. After she did not react to pepper spray, the officer fired a shot, killing her.

2011

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2011-05-19	Schwundeck, Christy	39	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	Christy Schwundeck, a Nigerian-born, German-naturalized woman whose marriage had broken up and who had a history of depression, was rejected monetary assistance in Frankfurt Jobcenter and was requested to leave. She refused and the police was called in. Two officers, a 30-year-old male and a 28-year-old female, were confronted by the woman, who injured the male officer with a steak knife. The female officer pointed her service pistol at Christy Schwundeck and, after several verbal warnings and a threatening movement by the suspect towards the officer, the latter shot her. Christy Schwundeck died later in hospital. The case against the female officer has been dropped in spite of a formal request by Christy Schwundeck's relatives to re-open it.
2011-08-24	H., Andrea	53	Berlin	Berlin	Andrea H., who was claimed to be mentally ill, was supposed to be compulsorily committed to a psychiatric hospital. It is claimed that she fought against this using a knife and injuring an officer, after which a colleague of the injured officer shot her.
2011-09-07	N.N.	37	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	A mentally ill man was scheduled for transport to the district medical office by police. He proceeded to lock himself in his apartment and attacked arriving officers with molotov cocktails from a window, heavily injuring one. Police began firing at the man from the street, hitting him at least once in the chest, with SEK who breached his apartment later on finding him dead from the gunshot.
2011-09-18	N.N.	31	Mönchengladbach	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A car thief attempted to break into a vehicle parked on the parking lot of a supermarket. A police patrol spotted him in the act and when they approached to arrest him, the thief pulled out a gun and began shooting at the officers. He was shot three times during the subsequent firefight and died at a hospital the same evening.
2011-10-26	N.N.	47	Cuxhaven	Niedersachsen	A man who was claimed to have "rampaged", attacked and threatened people in an administration building in the District of Cuxhaven was shot by one of the responding officers. The killed person is claimed to have approached the police with an iron bar. The prosecutor dropped the investigations against the 25-year-old police officer.
2011-12-01	K., Joachim	59	Monheim	Nordrhein-Westfalen	When a man was being taken from his apartment to a special care residency, he attacked police officers with a knife. He was hit by bullets and bled to death, before paramedics arrived.

2012

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2012-01-21	N.N.	8	Saarlouis	Saarland	A 49-year old police officer killed his daughter with his service pistol, before committing suicide.
2012-02-26	N.N.	57	Maintal	Hessen	A man with known psychological issues was claimed to be loudly yelling while throwing bottles from his flat in Maintal-Bischofsheim onto the street below and causing a disturbance. Police forced entry into the apartment of the man, who is said to have threatened the officers with knives. Police fired several shots, killing the man. The investigation by the prosecutor against the officers was dropped.
2012-05-07	A., Djordo	47	Aichach	Bayern	An argument between two neighbours about a parking spot escalated when one armed himself with an axe and took swings at the other. After chasing his neighbor up to his apartment building, the attacker was shot by responding police officers.
2012-07-04	N.N.	43	Wiesloch	Baden-Württemberg	A man randomly tried to attack two young Turkish women outside of a café with a chair and after fleeing, he began slashing at passerby with a bowie knife. Police officers made an arrest attempt and ordered him to drop the knife while he advanced towards the officers. After a warning shot, police fired at the man from close range, killing him.
2012-08-01	N.N.	51	Elsfleth	Niedersachsen	A man claimed to be mentally ill was visited by the social-psychiatric service of the district (German: Sozialpsychiatrischer Dienst), which requested police support. It is claimed that when the door was opened, the man immediately attacked one of the two police officers. The other officer is said to have fired multiple shots, mortally wounding the man. Investigations against the shooter are pending.
2012-09-26	R., Daniel	38	Bitterfeld	Sachsen-Anhalt	A police patrol found a 27-year-old woman bleeding from several stab wounds lying on a street. From her testimony, officers launch a search for her boyfriend whose motorcycle is found parked outside a tattoo studio. After several hours of observation, the boyfriend rushed out of fthe building and immediately attacked officers with a sharp object, heavily injuring one after stabbing him in the head repeatedly. He was then shot by another officer.
2012-10-06	Conrad, André	50	Berlin	Berlin	A man had been reported to walk around with a knife and an axe. He has been claimed to have attacked police officers. According to the police, he ignored all commands and did not respond to mace. He was then shot multiple times, and died two weeks later.
2012-12-02	N.N.	64	Singen	Baden-Württemberg	Police were sent to serve a warrant at a man's home. The resident was lying drunk on his sofa and began threatening the officer's with a revolver, not listening to any commands to put the weapon away. He was subsequently shot and killed, with it later being found that the revolver was a gas pistol.
2012-12-07	N.N.	31	Lindenfels	Hessen	A man driving on B47 made several calls to police that he was planning a spree killing. The man's girlfriend separately called in to inform officers that her boyfriend was "losing his mind" after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was flagged down by police officers, but refused to put down the gun he was holding, even after several warnings were made, and was fatally shot. The gun turned out to be a gas pistol.

2013

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2013-03-18	N., Wolfgang	62	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A drunk man got into an argument with neighbours, which ended with him stabbing two of them with a knife. He was fatally shot when he tried to attack arriving police officers in the staircase.
2013-05-25	P., Jürgen	49	Geltendorf	Bayern	A suspicious minivan with strange looking markings of German Military Police and a blue emergency beacon on its roof was reported to police by forest workers. As two policemen arrived on the scene, the driver immediately opened fire on the officers which they returned. The attacker was hit deadly by police, one officer was wounded by a shot being stopped from his bulletproof vest. Investigations turned out that the attacker was a wanted serial robber known as "Der Waldläufer" ("The Woodland Ranger"), named for his tendency to escape into nearby forest after robberies, that raided several shops and gas stations in Oberbayern since February 2010 during which 5000 euro were stolen in total.
2013-06-07	W., Heinrich	73	Starnberg	Bayern	A mentally ill retiree entered the lobby of a police station and drew a knife in front of the reception; he then rushed at three officers who were approaching him in the hallway and was shot seven times by in return, succumbing to a single gunshot to the head.
2013-06-28	F., Manuel	31	Berlin	Berlin	A recently laid-off accountant and diagnosed schizophrenic assaulted a neighbour after locking himself out of his apartment. Officers did not find him until the next morning, when passerby reported seeing a man strip off his clothes before climbing naked into the fountain in front of the Rotes Rathaus, brandishing a knife and repeatedly cutting himself while declaring that he was the messiah. After police arrived at the scene to arrest the man, he walked towards one of the officers with the knife drawn. When the man did not stop after being requested to, the officer fired one shot, killing him. The incident was filmed on phone by witnesses.
2013-07-10	N.N.	36	Planegg	Bayern	A 38-year old police officer killed his former life partner with a pistol. He waited for the woman to leave the building she was working in, followed her and shot her several times, before committing suicide several minutes later.
2013-08-15	W., Torsten	34	Merching	Bayern	A man texted his former girlfriend that he would come to her house, call the police and have the officers shoot him at her door step. Arriving police found him rampaging around his girlfriend's front door and upon being approached, the man shot at them with a gun. Police fired back, hitting the man who died at the scene.
2013-11-12	R., Martin	36	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	A drunk man with psychiatric issues called police at midnight, saying that he would be going out onto the street with a pistol, which was later identified as a blank gun. He had previously told acquaintances that he planned to commit suicide by cop. He fired two shot when police officers arrived and ignored all commands as well as a warning shot. An officer shot at the man when he tried to run around a car, which would have led him right to another officer. Although the shot was aimed at the left thigh, it hit the man in the abdomen, leading to his death at a hospital.
2013-12-12	N.N.	27	Hürth	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A mentally ill man heavily injured his wife with a machete during a domestic incident. A police officer shot him when he attacked arriving officers as well.
2013-12-20	Kara, Emrah	29	Holzminden	Lower Saxony	A Turkish man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia had stopped taking his medication and locked himself in his room with a knife. The family contacted their doctor, who in turn called police. The SEK sent in a police dog in hopes that it would disarm or calm the man. After the man stabbed the dog to death, he was shot by police.

2014

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2014-06-12	N.N.	75	Heinsberg	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called by a woman after her neighbour shouted at her through the door to be let in while holding a metal bar. Shortly after police arrived to deal with the situation, the neighbour's father suddenly appeared and attacked the officers with a knife, the attacker's son joining in with his own knife. Four officers were injured in the stabbing, which ended when one officer shot the neighbour's father in the thigh, causing him to bleed to death in the hallway.
2014-07-11	B., Stephan	46	Asbach-Bäumenheim	Bayern	A police officer was shooting inside and around his house. When a SEK raided the house after negotiations failed, they were shot at, returned fire and killed their colleague. The police officer was presumably suffering from personal problems and in emotional distress.
2014-07-25	B., André	33	Burghausen	Bayern	Two plain clothes police officers tried to arrest a convicted cannabis dealer near his flat. The man attempted to flee from the policemen and was shot in the back of the head.
2014-08-01	Haberstroh, Klaus	55	Freiburg	Baden-Württemberg	A police officer caused a hit-and-run accident under the influence of alcohol, in which the driver of a motorcycle died. The police officer fled the scene on foot and hid in a colleagues house to wait until he was sober again. The policeman was charged with negligent homicide and sentenced to two years in prison.
2014-08-11	D., Robert	37	Goch	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man was running through a public park while swinging around a knife. Witnesses alerted police and when they confronted the man, he ignored all attempts at conversation, instead becoming aggressive and threateningly approaching the officers with his knife. The man was shot three times and died at the scene in spite of reanimation attempts by an ambulance.
2014-10-20	M., Walter	77	Stadland	Niedersachsen	Police were called when a retiree called police over an argument with her husband. As police officers were questioning the wife and a caretaker, the man came down the stairs with two handguns and fired one shot at the officers. He refused to lay down his weapons and was shot once in the chest when he fired one of the guns again. The weapons turned out to be gas pistols and though the officer was not held responsible for the death.
2014-11-06	N.N.	23	Kassel	Hessen	Police officers were trying to de-escalate an argument between a couple at their apartment when the boyfriend grabbed an officer's gun and shot him and another officer, heavily injuring them. A third officer subsequently shot and killed him.
2014-12-04	N.N.	24	Husum	Schleswig-Holstein	A man slashed a married couple during an argument between Somalian asylum seekers at a refugee accommodation. Police were called after the couple managed to flee and shot the attacker when he stormed out of the home armed with several knives.

2015

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2015-01-13	B., Michael	45	Gelsenkirchen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Neighbours reported a tenant walking around the hallway with a gun in his hands. By the time police arrived, he had barricaded himself in his apartment, necessitating the usage of SEK. The tenant was shot and killed with two shots when he aimed the gun, a gas pistol, at the officers who broke down his front door. An investigation found that the man was a "sympathizer" for local biker gangs and had voiced suicidal intentions shortly before the incident.
2015-02-01	N.N.	31	Bad Zwischenahn	Niedersachsen	A naked man was throwing objects out of his window on the streets and attacked police officers immediately when they arrived at his door. When he tried to stab a policeman who had lain on the ground, after pepper spray usage failed, another officer shot and killed him .
2015-03-11	S., Grigorij	48	Memmingen	Bayern	A Kazakhstani man was supposed to be fetched from his home to serve a year sentence in prison. When officers arrived, the man drew a knife and backed away from them down the street before officers gave chase. After being cornered in an alley, he charged at an officer who shot him three times as a result. It later became public that the previously convicted man had been sentenced for slander and defamation when he insulted a police officer who had come to take away his son to a foster family after his wife won custody over their daughter. The same officer was amongst the six officers sent to take him to prison as well as the one to be attacked and fire the killing shots.
2015-04-28	N.N.	40	Grünstadt	Rheinland-Pfalz	Police was called to negotiate in a dispute between a married couple. When the officers arrived at the apartment, the husband tried to attack them with a knife. He was shot in the stomach and died later in hospital.
2015-05-17	N.N.	74	Rodgau	Hessen	A retired man should be accompanied to a clinic. He refused to be brought there and shot at the paramedics and police officers, who responded fire, killing him. Due to the fact that he was a legal gun owner and the police was expecting resistance, a SEK was already present at the scene.
2015-07-11	N.N:	29	Holzgerlingen	Baden-Württemberg	A man took the family of his ex-girlfriend hostage at gunpoint. After SEK were able to secure the hostages, they attempted to arrest the man, who was shot and killed when he pointed the gun at the officers.
2015-08-05	N.N.	39	Oberhausen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man stabbed another man in the vestibule of a police station. When he refused to put away his knife, police officers fired several shots, killing him.
2015-09-17	Yousef, Rafik Mohamad	41	Spandau	Berlin	An Iraqi Kurdish man was reported for threatening people with a knife. As the first police officer to arrive at the scene emerged from her vehicle, the man attacked, stabbing her in the neck just above her protective vest. Her partner immediately drew his gun and shot the knife-wielding man four times, also heavily injuring the female officer. The man was a member of the jihadist terrorist group Ansar al-Islam and had been previously convicted in 2004 for planning to assassinate Prime Minister of Iraq Ayad Allawi during his visit to Germany. He had removed the ankle bracelet he was required to wear since his release in 2013 only hours before his death.
2015-10-29	N.N.	27	Naumburg	Sachsen-Anhalt	Police was called to a video arcade, because a man under the influence of drugs was threatening an employee with a knife in an attempted robbery. The man ended up non-fatally stabbing the employee and attempted to take another woman hostage when police arrived. Two intervening officers were injured, one critically, before the man was shot by one of the officers.
2015-11-02	N.N.	46	Gronau	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police was called, because a dispute between two families got out of control. One of the participants had a knife, which he used to stab towards the officers. He was shot twice and died. A ricochet also injured an uninvolced teenage passerby.
2015-12-01	N.N.	48	Erfurt	Thüringen	In the case of the eviction of an apartment, the resident attacked police and firefighters with an axe. As the apartment was stormed, the resident injured an officer with the axe and was shot. He later died in hospital.
2015-12-10	N.N.	29	Jever	Niedersachsen	A 30-year old police officer killed his wife with his service pistol, before committing suicide.

2016

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2016-03-02	N.N.	26	Berlin	Berlin	When police wanted to arrest four suspected burglars, supposed members of an organized crime syndicate operating out of the Balkans, the getaway car driver tried to escape. Police fired a minimum of one shot, hitting the driver deadly.
2016-05-05	N.N.	42	Ludwigshafen	Rheinland-Pfalz	A police patrol in the city center of Ludwigshafen was attacked by a homeless person with a knife. While one officer was wounded, the other was able to stop attacker with the use of his service pistol.
2016-05-06	N.N.	36	Brachbach	Rheinland-Pfalz	Police was called by neighbors, informing that a man was rioting and screaming inside an apartment. He was armed with knives and did not follow orders to leave the house. When police raided the apartment the man attacked police officers. After the use of pepper spray to which he showed no reaction. In the following police shot the man, causing his death.
2016-05-29	N.N.	28	Filderstadt	Baden-Württemberg	A man was waving around with a machete in a public area. When alerted police units arrived, the man attacked the officers. He was hit by gunshots, dying at the scene.
2016-06-23	Moriello, Sabino	19	Viernheim	Hessen	A man clad in special forces fatigues and armed with a submachine gun and a pistol took 18 people hostage in a cinema screening the children's movie Zoomania. The hostage-taker was killed by the SEK during the rescue operation. It was reported, that the weapons used by the attacker were gas-based firearms and fake handgrenades. The attacker was identfied as an unemployed man from Mannheim who had been living with his boyfriend in Gifhorn. is suspected to have been mentally ill and instigated the hostage situation as an elaborate suicide by cop. A possible right-wing ideology was also suspected when anti-Turkish text messages surfaced, but not officially investigated by state authorities.
2016-07-07	N.N.	31	Groß Rosenburg	Sachsen-Anhalt	Police responded to an emergency call. A family of hunters had a serious argument, a member was threatening others with a handgun. Thus it was known, that several firearms are stored inside the house, a SEK took over control, killing the family's son that was armed with a revolver.
2016-07-13	Thomas, Amos	62	Erharting	Bayern	Police was instructed to support the transfer of a special care home resident to a psychiatric hospital due to the Liberian national being a diagnosed schizophrenic. When police arrived, the resident attacked the officers with a knife, injuring both of them. He was killed by at least three gunshots.
2016-07-18	Ahmadzai, Riaz Khan	17	Würzburg	Bayern	The Würzburg train attack was a terroristic attack inside a train, when an underage asylum-seeker from Afghanistan injured several passengers with a hatchet. During his escape he was shot by a SEK. The investigation showed doubts in the terrorist's identity, origin and age. It is assumed that he was a Pashtun from Pakistan and got radicalized shortly before the attack, admitting himself to the IS, who referred to him as "Muhammad Riyad" during a report on Amaq.
2016-08-18	N.N.	53	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	SEK raided an apartment to arrest its tenant, a suspected pimp wanted for child abuse and other violent crimes. The suspect opened fire on the officers, injuring at least one. During the shootout the suspect was killed.
2016-09-27	Fadl Hussein, Hussam	29	Berlin	Berlin	Hussam Fadl Hussein, an Iraqi refugee, was fatally shot by police outside of a refugee housing unit in Berlin-Moabit. Hussein, an electrician and former police officer, and his wife Zaman Gate had come to Germany in 2014 with their three children from Baghdad. Hussein called police to arrest another refugee, 27 year old Pakistani Tayyab M., who, according to the family and other residents, had pulled their six-year-old daughter behind a bush and tried to molest her. Once Tayyab M. was placed inside a squad car, Hussein sprinted towards the vehicle, at which point three officers shot at him. It is unclear due to several conflicting accounts whether Hussein was armed, with multiple police officers and eyewitnesses reporting that he was unarmed, while one of the shooters later presented a knife that allegedly belonged to Hussein, even though it was not seen or found at the scene, nor matching fingerprints or DNA were determined. Some newspapers stated that Hussein had yelled "You will not survive this!" while running towards the car, but police reports do not mention this. Tayyab M. admitted to molesting Hussein's daughter, stating "it was spontaneous, an opportunity presented itself - girl or woman, I didn't care", and was given six months probation before he was deported. The prosecutor's office quit their investigation in 2021, but Hussein's widow filed a constitutional complaint, which was granted in August 2023, but denied in April 2024.
2016-10-17	N.N.	48	Moers	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police was called to a traffic accident. When one of the involved persons tried to flee, police chased him. When the officers were able to confront hin, he attacked them with a knife. He was shot and died later in hospital, even though the officers did successfully a CPR on him.
2016-10-18	N.N.	34	Hagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man entered an insurance bureau and got into an argument with one of the insurance agents working there. The man stabbed the employee several times with a knife and hit him with a machete. After the severely injured was fleeing outside and hiding in a nearby snack bar, the arriving police shot the man after he tried to attack the officers. The attacker, who had immigrated from Russia before the collapse of the Soviet Union as a child, was later described as an odd person with mental problems and a prior record for injuring a person in a stabbing. The employee survived.
2016-11-26	N.N.	37	Hamburg	Hamburg	Police was called to an apartment building. When the officers encountered a man armed with a knife they used pepper spray on him, to which he didn't react. When being attacked, at least one officer fired upon the perpetrator, who died later in hospital.

2017

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2017-01-31	N.N.	25	Berlin	Berlin	Emergency responders called the police in assistance to a case of a man, who threatened to hurt others and commit suicide. He also threatened to shoot through his apartment door, while the paramedics were talking to the man. Police broke into the apartment through the door. When the man was not reacting to police orders to put a knife down, he was shot.
2017-03-17	N.N.	42	Emmendingen	Baden-Württemberg	A 58-year old police officer shot his wife and dog with his service pistol, before committing suicide.
2017-04-12	N.N.	64	Beetzseeheide	Brandenburg	In the case of a missing person, police found the man they were searching for. When being approached, the man threatened the officers with a gun. In the following events the man was hit by a shot in the upper leg, but was able to escape. A SEK tracked the person down and tried to arrest him. As he threatened the officers with his gun, he was shot.
2017-04-16	N.N.	35	Braunschweig	Niedersachsen	After rioting in a brothel a man was pepper sprayed by police officers and arrested. Later he died in police custody due to heart failure.
2017-04-27	Haile, Michael	22	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A resident called in a noise complaint because a neighbour, an Eritrean refugee, was singing loudly. When police knocked on the tenant's door, he opened with a knife in his hand. After ignoring repeated commands to put down the weapon, he was shot once in the heart.
2017-05-25	N.N.	46	Echzell	Hessen	A 57-year old police officer shot his wife with a pistol, before committing suicide.
2017-06-19	N.N.	50	Heidelberg	Baden-Württemberg	A 44-year old police officer shot his brother with his service pistol, before committing suicide.
2017-08-04	N.N.	23	Mittelherwigsdorf	Sachsen	Police was called to a house in a case of domestic violence. The 23-year-old son was suspected to have attacked his mother. In the following events the police shot the son. Details of the incident are unclear.
2017-10-23	N.N.	54	Alsfeld	Hessen	Police was called to a house where gunshots were heard. When the arriving police officers identified that the shots were live rounds, the SEK was called to handle the situation. When the shooter - a drunk man - was shooting at the police officers, he was shot and hit deadly.
2017-10-28	N.N.	19	Mörfelden-Walldorf	Hessen	When two young men got into an argument, one took out a knife, injured the other and stole his backpack. When police arrived and tried to arrest the knifer, he attacked the officers. The three officers shot 25 times in total, hitting him several times in arms, legs and one fatal shot to the chest. He died during medical care of an emergency physician at the scene.

2018

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2018-01-13	N.N.	63	Fulda	Hessen	A man was threatening his family with a pistol, firing at least one shot and repeatedly pointing the weapon at his 66-year-old brother. SEK were called in and subdued the man with a taser shot. He subsequently collapsed and was brought to a hospital, where he died.
2018-01-22	N.N.	41	Darmstadt	Hessen	Police was called to a case of domestic violence at the home of a Kazakhstani family. Two officers arrived to find a man, the husband of the caller, armed with two knives waiting for them at the front door. He attacked them and died after both officers shot at him.
2018-02-09	P., Hamid	43	Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	To fulfill an arrest warrant against the former president of an outlawed criminal boxing club, the SEK raided an apartment. The wanted person was shot by an officer. The circumstances that led to the death were investigated by police and the persecutions office. In January 2019 it was concluded that the death of Hamid P. was a tragic accident. The officer interpreted the flash and blast of a stun grenade that was used as a gunshot and the cellphone in the victim's hand as a pistol.
2018-03-01	B., Bekir	27	Neubrandenburg	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	A female passerby reported an ongoing robbery occurring at a kiosk. Police were able to apprehend the suspects by drawing their guns, but one of them pepper sprayed an officer, who shot the man in the torso. He died at a hospital the same day. The deceased and one of the accomplices were later linked to the Lebanese Miri-Clan
2018-04-13	Jabarkhil, Matiullah	19	Fulda	Hessen	An Afghan man was attacking a bakery's employee and was rioting outside the store. Arriving police was also attacked with stones and a baton he took from one of the officers. After the attacker was hit by several shots he bled to death. Criticism was raised upon the number of shots fired by police. 12 shots were fired, but only four hit the body, two were considered deadly.
2018-04-19	N.N.	38	Langenfeld	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police responded to an emergency call, that a man was firing a pistol from his balcony. The police decided to storm the apartment. When the SEK officers were being shot at while entering the apartment, they returned fire. The man later died in hospital. The gun was identified as gas pistol.
2018-05-30	J., Mahmood	24	Flensburg	Schleswig-Holstein	During a train ride, an argument broke out between two passengers. A train conductor requested police assistance over intercom, to which a 22-year-old off-duty officer responded. When she arrived at the train cart, one of the men had stabbed the other with a knife and proceeded to attack the officer as well as another woman. Both the officer and the other passenger were severely injured before the former fatally shot the attacker. The deceased was identified as an Eritrean refugee who had suspected psychiatric issues, having previously been put under supervision for assaulting another refugee by biting him in 6 April.
2018-09-17	Ahmad, Amad	26	Kleve	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Syrian Kurdish refugee was arrested in Geldern on 8 July on suspicion of sexual harassment and while being booked, police wrongly identified him as a wanted thief, a Malian refugee named Amedy Guira, who used a number of aliases including variations of "Ahmad Amed". Although there were several discrepancies such as height, place of origin, skin colour and age, the officer responsible did not compare the arrestee with the file photo they had and put him in detention. A police psychologist similarly claimed that her sessions with the refugee, in which he adamantly denied being Guira, were indicative that he was untrustworthy. Two months later, under unclear circumstances, a fire broke out in his cell. When the prison staff recognized the situation and acted, he was heavily injured and died five days later in hospital. It was later found that Amedy Guira had already been deported in January.
2018-10-19	N.N.	25	Kirchheim an der Weinstraße	Rheinland-Pfalz	A mother was calling the police, stating that her son was under the influence of drugs and attacking her. Two arriving officers were also attacked and severely injured by the young man with scissors. The man then was shot by the police. His mother later died due to several stab wounds and head injuries, but was not wounded by shots from the police.
2018-10-22	N.N.	43	Nürnberg	Bayern	A man under the influence of drugs was trashing his apartment and when SEK arrived, he threatened to jump from his balcony while breaking neighbours' flower pots. He was shot with a taser and then administered a sedative by a paramedic. The man then lost consciousness and died at a hospital the same night.
2018-10-27	N.N.	39	Braunschweig	Niedersachsen	Police was called to an apartment building, where two unknown intruders were yelling loudly and disturbing neighbors. When the two persons were fleeing, a third person came out of a neighboring house and walked towards the officers, armed with a handgun. When ignoring orders to put the gun down, police shot the man. The handgun later was identified as a gas pistol. The police officers who wore plain clothes, but it is unclear if they identified themselves properly and/or if the victim did recognized them as police officers.
2018-11-04	N.N.	45	Merzig	Saarland	A 49-year old police officer shot his wife with his service pistol, before committing suicide.
2018-11-07	L., Robin	21	Bad Oldesloe	Schleswig-Holstein	Police responded to an emergency call, reporting a man with a knife. The described man was identified as a known homeless person, that was suffering from mental illness. Although he had committed minor crimes before, he was considered peaceful and no threat to the public. The man was ordered to put the knife down. Despite a warning shot and the use of pepper spray the man refused to follow the order and started stabbing in the direction of police officers. An officer shot twice, hitting the 21-year old in the chest. He died on the scene.
2018-11-26	N.N.	23	Bonn	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two police officers were in preparation to go to a shooting training, when one shot from his partner's pistol hit a police officer's neck. He fell into a coma and died two weeks later. It is still unclear why and under which circumstances he was shot. It was leaked that investigators suspect that his partner accidentally mistook his real life gun with a training dummy pistol and wanted to scare his colleague.
2018-12-09	N.N.	28	Rosa	Thüringen	A woman called police because her friend was being stalked by her ex-boyfriend from nearby Bad Liebenstein and had been seen holding a pistol. When the officers arrived at the scene, they were shot at from the man. He was hit and severely injured by return fire and died later in hospital.
2018-12-16	N., Rolf	74	Bochum	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police who was called due to calls about someone disturbing the peace. When the man was stopped by two officers, he pulled a lighter in the shape of a revolver from his pants. The officers ordered the man to drop the weapon after which several shots were fired at him. He died on the scene.
2018-12-27	L., Aristeidis	36	Berlin	Berlin	A Greek tourist with a history of mental illness had started a fight inside a bakery in Tempelhof. Police officers encountered him shirtless and vandalising the store's interior. He was arrested after heavily resisting and inside the police car, he repeatedly hit his head against the windows. At the station, despite being in hand and foot restrains, the man continued to resist officers, leading them to use pepper spray before four officers held him down in a prone position. The man subsequently lost consciousness and after receiving first aid and CPR, he was brought to an ICU, where he died on 12 January 2019 from the aftereffects of "positional asphyxiation".

2019

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2019-01-18	N.N.	56	Pirmasens	Rheinland-Pfalz	A man was severely resisting to be brought to a psychiatric hospital. A police officer used his taser against the man, who suffered a heart attack and died shortly after being transferred to the emergency room.
2019-02-28	N.N.	20	Würzburg	Bayern	A police cadet accidentally shot another fellow cadet inside police barracks. The unintentional discharge of the handgun occurred when the two cadets were alone in a room, shortly before going on guard duty. Even though investigations were not finished yet, the Minister of the Interior of the state of Bavaria Joachim Herrmann referred to the cause of the incident as a wrongly unloaded weapon.
2019-02-28	N.N.	46	Solingen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police was called to help in a family conflict that escalated. When an officer was attacked with a knife, he shot the attacker who died later that night.
2019-04-11	K., Peter	28	Salzgitter	Niedersachsen	An emergency call was received which reported a man with a gunshot wound inside an apartment. When police and ambulance units arrived, a man inside the apartment barricaded himself. During negotiations he threatened SEK units with a gun. He was shot and died from a bullet piercing his spine. Inside the apartment the body of another man was found. The gun turned out to be a toy gun.
2019-04-18	W., Dieter	77	Bochum	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A witness called the police, because he saw a man on the local cemetery, armed with a rifle. Police officers felt threatened by the man and shot him three times in the chest. He died later in hospital. Investigations revealed that the man was a hunter, ordered to control the rabbit population. The hunter's wife, who was also present at the scene, claimed her husband lay down his rifle immediately when the officers arrived and the shots were fired while the hunter was kneeling on the ground.
2019-04-29	N.N.	27	Hamburg	Hamburg	Police was called to help in an emergency situation where a man was acting aggressively and hitting colleagues at work. When officers arrived, the man attacked them with a knife. He was disarmed and brought to the police station. There he had to be fixated, due to his aggressive behavior. After calming down, the fixation was freed. When being transferred to a cell he became aggressive again, so that enchaining was necessary. Shortly after his resistance he suffered from cardiac arrest and died in hospital on 6 May 2019. Investigations were announced.
2019-04-30	N.N.	49	Frankfurt	Hessen	A physician called the police as backup by transferring a patient to a psychiatric hospital. When the discussion with the heavily overweight patient, who also suffered from diabetes, became aggressive, a taser was used against the man, who collapsed and vomited. He was brought to a hospital and died there four days later. The death was caused by pneumonia, as a long-term consequence of getting vomit to the lungs.
2019-05-22	Osborn, Oisín	34	Hamburg	Hamburg	An Airbus engineer with dual British/Irish citizenship was fatally shot after his wife called police, saying her husband was wielding a knife and acting erratically. Police opened fire when they encountered him in a stairwell, dressed only in a loincloth and wearing a saucepan on his head. His mother later stated that her son suffered from rapid mood swings since birth, but had no history of mental illness.
2019-06-18	B., Adel	32	Essen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man was shot dead by the police after he called them and threatened to commit suicide. The police stated that when officers arrived, he rushed with a knife towards them and was shot. After a few weeks two smartphone videos were published on YouTube that contradict this version: Police rush towards a house entrance and then shoot B. through the closed (glass panel) door. Nevertheless, the local prosecutors' office closed the case against the policeman after two months, citing self-defence.
2019-07-21	N.N.	28	Karlsruhe	Baden-Württemberg	A man died in hospital, after police officers fixated him several times in custody and transport to jail. The circumstances that led to the man's death are unclear.
2019-08-17	Alizada, Aman	19	Stade	Niedersachsen	Police responded to an emergency call about an argument between two men. One of the men, an Afghan Hazara, attacked the officers with a barbell. He was shot and died at the scene.
2019-09-11	L., Pawel	25	Hellersdorf	Brandenburg	Police officers stopped a car on the highway, that was searched in a case of murder in Poland. The driver threatened the officers with a gun, who shot and killed the Polish citizen.
2019-10-30	N.N.	45	Recklinghausen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	When a man did not follow orders to put a knife down, he was shot in the leg by the police. The bullet hit an artery, to which he died in hospital later.
2019-11-01	N.N.	55	Ahrensburg	Schleswig-Holstein	Police arrested a car driver, who resisted heavily. Through the fixation, he suffered from a heart attack, that led to his death.
2019-11-02	N.N.	26	Hoppstädten	Rheinland-Pfalz	A homeless man from Eritrea attacked a member of a tennis club with an axe after an argument, also damaging his car as he drove off. Police confronted him, but he fled after being pepper sprayed, later being found crouching near a storage shed on the tennis club grounds. As officers approached the man, he suddenly jumped at them and he was shot in the head as a result.
2019-11-02	N.N.	52	Lübeck	Schleswig-Holstein	Police officers shot a fugitive robber, who attacked them with a gas pistol before. It is presumed to be a suicide by police incident.
2019-12-07	M., Max	25	Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man was using a hammer to break car mirrors and threaten passerby. He was shot six times in the torso after he attacked called-in police officers.
2019-12-15	N.N.	44	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	Police was called to help with a self-harming man. When the officers arrived, the man attacked them with a knife and was shot.
2019-12-28	N.N.	32	Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called after a car drove the wrong way in a roundabout and crashed into an advertising column. When officers arrived, the driver and his passenger, both Serbian nationals, attempted to escape on foot. Two officers chased after them and when they caught up to the driver, he attacked them with a sword. After pepper spray proved ineffective, they shot the driver multiple times. He died later in hospital. Questioning of the passenger, who was the driver's 69-year-old mother, as well as the search of their apartment in Balingen indicated that the deceased had been mentally ill and hoarded weapons, including a crossbow, another sword and multiple gas pistols.

2020s

2020

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2020-01-06	B., Mehmet	37	Gelsenkirchen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Turkish citizen was damaging a patrol car with a club outside of a police station. Multiple shots were fired when he attacked two officers that confronted him, striking the man at least once and killing him. Although the man had yelled "Allahu Akbar" and previously claimed allegiance to the Islamic State, an investigation concluded that he was mentally ill and had no verifiable ties to terrorist cells.
2020-01-24	B., Maria	33	Berlin	Berlin	A man called police because his roommate, who had suspected mental problems, was threatening him with a knife. She refused to leave her room when officers arrived and attacked them when they opened the door. After issuing several warnings, a 28-year-old officer then fatally shot her once in the torso.
2020-02-03	N.N.	66	Vellmar	Hessen	Police stopped a drunk driver suspicious of a hit and run accident. When he resisted heavily with a knife, he was shot by police officers.
2020-04-03	N.N.	10	Vogtareuth	Bayern	A 36-year old police officer killed both of her daughters with her service pistol, before committing suicide.
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2020-04-16	N.N.	32	Düsseldorf	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Following a family dispute, a man threatened his parents with a crossbow and a gun, firing several gunshots from a window. When SEK arrived, the man was seen handling a makeshift explosive before he shot a police dog with a bolt and shot at the officers with his firearm. He was fatally wounded when police returned fire and died at the scene.
2020-04-25	N.N.	40	Dormagen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A "possible violent crime in a familial setting" was called in to police. At the scene, officers were met with a "suspicious individual", who was died despite immediate resuscitation attempts after being fatally shot once when two shots were fired police under unclear circumstances. A search of the house revealed that the deceased had murdered his 74-year-old father.
2020-04-28	N.N.	26	Harsum	Niedersachsen	A couple in Hüddessum called police because their son was trying to kick down their front door. The son attacked the two responding officer with a pitchfork, heavily injuring them, before he was shot twice in the legs by a 58-year-old officer, later dying at a hospital.
2020-05-08	N.N.	67	Osnabrück	Niedersachsen	A man was supposed to be involuntarily committed to a mental institution when he attacked the workers sent to fetch him. Three police officers were sent to assist and were attacked by the man with a knife. He was then shot twice and was found dead after he retreated back to his flat.
2020-05-26	Bündgens, Peter	37	Aachen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Two mental patients with convictions for robbery escaped a psychiatric hospital after threatening two nurses with a knife. They engaged police in a car chase before one of them took a woman hostage at a school playground. After ignoring several warnings, the hostage-taker was fatally shot by two officers. The other man, 47-year-old Stefan Kümmel, who had been threatening a young mother from a distance, then surrendered and was arrested without incident.
2020-06-18	Idrissi, Mohamed	54	Bremen	Bremen	Police were called to assist a landlady and housing staff in Gröpelingen during the inspection of an apartment, as the resident, who was due to be evicted for causing water damage, had known mental issues; he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was known to compulsively flood his apartment for "cleaning". Although the man was cooperative during the inspection, officers wanted to bring him to the police station to evaluate his state of mind as they found the landlady's request unusual, suspecting he might be a danger to others since the water damage could have caused electrical accidents. The man refused and pulled out a knife after being confronted in the courtyard by the two officers, who had called two plainclothed officers as backup. Cell phone video by a neighbour showed that the officers talked to the man for several minutes, attempting to convince him to lay down the knife. He was eventually startled by an officer's movement, adopting a "boxer pose", causing a 23-year-old officer to use pepper spray on the man, who the charged at him. After taking several steps backwards, the officer shot his attacker twice, leading to his death at a hospital. As the deceased was originally from Morocco, a racial debate ensued in regards to the police's seemingly unorganised actions, including that the officers had failed to wait for medical professionals with a background in psychology to show up before informing the man about an evaluation.
2020-06-18	Diallo, Mamadou Alpha	23	Twist	Niedersachsen	An asylum seeker from Guinea threatened several persons inside a doctor's office and the nearby apartment building he lived in with a knife. He was shot in the leg by a police officer. He died in a hospital the next morning.
2020-07-07	N.N.	57	Mainz	Rheinland-Pfalz	A Russian man attacked a 76-year-old neighbour with a knife in a senior citizen community, injuring him in the face and arm. He barricaded himself in his apartment afterwards and as police were waiting for SEK to arrive, the man opened the door and walked towards the officers with his knife drawn. After pepper spray and a taser shot didn't stop him, police fired four gunshots, with three fatally hitting the man, who died at the scene.
2020-07-15	N.N.	29	Bad Schussenried	Baden-Württemberg	Two mental patients escaped from a psychiatric facility where they had both been involuntarily committed for numerous years. When they were caught by three police officers, the pair, both armed with knives, threatened the officers, with the male patient chasing after one of them while the female patient kept the other two at bay. The officer eventually shot his pursuer in the hip, while the other two shot the woman in the thigh. The woman survived with critical injuries while the man died at a hospital.
2020-10-05	N.N.	54	Leichlingen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police officers were called to help in a case of a family dispute. A man was in a fight with his sister. To stop the martial artists heavy resistance, he was fixated on the ground where he suffered a cardiac arrest.
2020-10-16	N.N.	40	Münster	Nordrhein-Westfalen	An inmate took a guard-in-training hostage with a toothbrush shiv and demanded a getaway helicopter. As the inmate was noted to be "unpredictable", police fatally shot him to save the guard's life.
2020-11-10	N.N.	36	Tegernsee	Bayern	An Italian man had taken his long-time girlfriend, a 25-year-old Romanian national, and their infant son hostage. He refused to listen to police and demanded to speak to his adult son. After the son was unable to convince his father to surrender, officers stormed the premises and fatally shot the man after he stabbed his girlfriend. Both died of their injuries at the scene.
2020-11-12	N.N.	58	Erligheim	Baden-Württemberg	A bank employee reported a pair of suspicious men lurking outside her workplace. One of the robbers was shot after he attacked police with a screwdriver. He and 29-year-old accomplice had attempted to break open an ATM with explosives. The deceased robber was found to have been wanted throughout Europe for similar crimes and was most recently linked to a bank heist on 20 October, when he and his new partner blew up several ATMs in Besigheim and stole 135,000 euro.

2021

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2021-01-06	N.N.	65	Mülheim	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police was called to a house, because of loud noise. There a man shot at police officers with a rifle and was killed by these.
2021-03-06	Khalaf, Quosay Sadam	19	Delmenhorst	Niedersachsen	An Afghan Yazidi man was beaten and peppersprayed after he attempted to escape police during a drug raid. He had been denied medical attention by both the police officers and attending paramedics. The man died at a hospital the next day, with his cause of death being listed as circulatory failure due to oxygen deprivation compounded by "blunt trauma to the head, torso, and extremities". An investigation into the death was ceased in June 2021.
2021-05-28	K., Omar	36	Hamburg	Hamburg	A Lebanese refugee was threatening passerby in Winterhude with a knife while shouting "Allahu Akbar". Arriving police unsuccessfully attempted to incapacitate him with pepper spray and taser usage before an officer shot and killed the man with multiple gunshots when he ignored further commands to put down the knife. The deceased had previously been convicted in 2019 for attempted rape in Ellerbek, which was highly publicised because the victim, a 23-year- Russian au-pair, had bit of part of his finger, which contributed to his arrest.
2021-06-13	N.N.	35	Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A woman called police after her neighbour rang her doorbell at midnight and accused her of stealing from his room. Officers were unable to receive a response despite repeated knocking and verbal commands and as they discussed whether they should force open the locked door to the neighbour's apartment, the tenant opened the door and threw a knife. He was shot when he approached the officers while holding a club and a bladed object.
2021-06-22	Atasoy, Soner	41	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A woman called police to report "strange noises" coming from a neighbouring flat. The call was treated as a potential hazardous situation and three police officers were dispatched to respond. After knocking on the door, the tenant opened the door, wearing a bullet-proof vest with a knife attachment and after an "aggressive exchange", the man pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the officers, who then shot him multiple times. As he was able to lock the door on the officers, SEK was called to force open the apartment, where they found the man dead from a gunshot wound. The gun was identified as a gas pistol. The man already had a criminal record for multiple counts of assault, as well as a psychiatric history. Two officers were tried in court after the deceased's family claimed that the official report conflicted with the man's character, but neither were charged.
2021-06-24	N.N.	45	Freudenstadt	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called when a woman reported that her husband had beaten her. As they were trying to defuse the argument between the couple, the husband pulled out a knife and attacked the officers, being shot multiple times by one in response and dying at the scene.
2021-08-25	I., Abdul	39	Groß-Gerau	Hessen	A man who injured his wife, mother-in-law and two neighbours with a knife was shot five times by police.
2021-10-03	N.N.	39	Garbsen	Niedersachsen	A man called police and made "incoherent statements", leading to officers being dispatched to check on a possible psychiatic situation. SEK was called when the man threatened the officers with a knife and incapacitated him with a taser shot. He died 15 hours later at a hospital from multiple organ failure, a compounding factor being that the recovering alcoholic was suffering from withdrawal.
2021-10-03	Ibrahim, Kamal	40	Stade	Niedersachsen	A Sudanese man with psychiatric issues was threatening people while intoxicated, leading to the police being called three separate times. The first two incidents were resolved through talking, with the man voluntarily entering custody and spending five hours in a drunk tank. When police responded a third time at the man's residence at a refugee accommodation, he was found threatening other residents with a knife before charging at the officers and was shot 13 times.
2021-10-06	N.N.	53	Neustadt an der Weinstraße	Rheinland-Pfalz	Residents called police because a man was screaming on the street below and blocking people from entering the building. He attacked arriving police, injuring a 26-year-old policewoman with a kick in the head, before he was pepper sprayed and tasered. He lost consciousness and died at a hospital from cardiac arrest.
2021-11-01	Zantiotis, Giórgios	24	Wuppertal	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called by a taxi driver because he believed an argument between his two passengers was escalating. Officers arrived at the scene to find a man "behaving aggressively" towards his sister and arrested him by putting him in a prone position while one officer held him down with a knee on his back. During an attempted blood test at the station two hours later, the man collapsed and could not be resuscitated. His cause of death was attributed to heart failure due to weight-related cardiomegaly and amphetamine usage, as shown by both the official autopsy and a second one ordered by the deceased's family.
2021-12-26	N.N.	35	Herford	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man injured his girlfriend with a knife. After she called police, the man threatened officers with a gas pistol. He was shot and died at a hospital in Bielefeld on December 28.

2022

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2022-02-25	M., Petar	47	Gunzenhausen	Bayern	A man set his house on fire after previously causing a disturbance by throwing things on the boardwalk. While the fire department were extinguishing the flames, the man attacked police first responders with a knife, who, after pepper spray proved ineffective, shot him two times, causing his death at a hospital the same night.
2022-04-12	N.N.	50	Neukirchen-Vluyn	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A police patrol was sent to a flat where a tenant was reportedly throwing objects out of the window while shouting incoherently. The man then threatened the officers with a butcher's knife. SEK was called in, who shot the man when he attacked them as well.
2022-05-02	Paponja, Ante	47	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	Police were called by a psychologist of the ZI, who was concerned for the wellbeing of an outpatient diagnosed with schizophrenia and anxiety disorder and asked for assistance in finding him. Two officers accompanied the doctor in looking for the man, eventually finding him walking in an inner city street. The officers then attempted to perform a search of his person, to which the man resisted, leading to a struggle during which he collapsed. He was resucitated by the doctor and brought to the University Hospital Mannheim, where he died, never regaining consciousness. Video footage filmed by bystanders showed the incident, in which one officer could be seen seemingly striking the man in the head, leading to allegations of police brutality and discrimination, as the victim was a Croat immigrant.
2022-05-10	N.N.	31	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	A man threatened to commit suicide during an argument with his mother, who called police while her son repeatedly cut himself with a knife. Police attempted to incapacitate the man with tear gas, but when this did not work, they decided to shoot him in the leg. The man was brought to a hospital where he died of the gunshot wound.
2022-08-02	F., Amin	23	Frankfurt	Hessen	A hotel informed police, that a man was armed with a knife and threatening other guests. It was later found that the man had met with two prostitutes he hired in one of the hotel rooms and tried to force them to use drugs. When they declined, he pulled out a knife and after they fled, the man continued to act erratically. SEK arrived and shot the man in the head when the offender stabbed a police dog, heavily injuring the animal. The man later succumbed to his wounds. He was identified as a homeless person, an ethnic Somali originally from Jijiga, Ethiopia, with an intensive criminal record of violence and drugs. The officer who fired the killing shots was investigated, but no charges were brought up.
2022-08-03	Berditchevski, Jozef	48	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Russian busker known for performing outside the Kölner Philharmonie attempted to attack a bailiff and her police escort serving a court-ordered eviction with a knife. Officers used pepper spray on the man and then shot him twice. He had been drunk and was noted to have a psychiatric record, most recently having made a suicide threat in June when the eviction was announced. The investigation into the killing was stopped six months later.
2022-08-07	Dramé, Mouhamed Lamine	16	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A social worker at a youth home for unaccompanied minors called police about a Senegalese teenager, who had voiced suicidal intentions while pointing a knife at his stomach. He ended up being shot five times in the stomach, jaw and arm during a confrontation with five police officers. The exact circumstances were initially unclear and it was claimed by the NRW's ministry of home affairs that the boy had attacked the officers. In November, however, it came to light that the officers had knowingly left their bodycams off and during their trials for negligent homicide and, they admitted to lying about the chain of events. The teenager had never pointed the weapon away from himself, having remained in a squatting position with his head in his knees, and only became roused when he was pepper sprayed without warning, at which point three officers simultaneously opened fire, two with tasers and another with his sidearm.
2022-08-07	H., Sascha	39	Oer-Erkenschwick	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man under the influence of drugs was rampaging in an apartment following what was suspected to have been a domestic argument with a woman. He heavily resisted as police were attempting to arrest the man in front of the building and after pepper spray didn't affect him, he was fixated on the ground in a prone position. The man lost consciousness and died the same night at a hospital. Around 150 people witnessed the arrest, some attesting that the man made complaints about being unable to breathe, and it is alleged that those who had filmed the incident had their phone confiscated and the videos deleted by the officers. Police put the officers under investigation for assault and tampering with evidence and have contracted an IT firm to restore the footage for analysis.
2022-09-04	N.N.	23	Berlin	Berlin	Police shot and killed a man from Kosovo at an apartment after he allegedly killed a 27 year old Ukrainian woman with an axe following an argument.
2022-09-07	W., René	36	Leipzig	Sachsen	After he was caught shoplifting beer and potatoes at a supermarket, a man returned to the store to threaten the employees with a knife. Police came to arrest the man at his home and was shot twice when he tried to stab the officers. He died of his injuries at a hospital.
2022-09-08	N.N.	30	Ansbach	Bayern	An Afghan refugee attacked a 17-year-old at the main train station, strangling and stabbing him as well as a 20-year-old man who managed to disarm him. The man then charged at arriving police officers who shot and killed him. Although islam extremism was considered a motive due to the attacker yelling "Allahu Akbar", police did not label the stabbing a terrorist incident, but rather attributed it to the fact that he was about to face deportation due to convictions for a sex crime and possession of drugs, also noting that he had apparently been abusing anti-depressants.
2022-09-14	Medard Mutombo, Kupa Ilunga	64	Berlin	Berlin	A Congolese man with schizophrenia was supposed to be transported from a care center in Spandau to a psychiatric hospital. After medical attendants had failed to convince the man to come with them, three police officers attempted to forcefully remove him from his room. The man's caretaker said that the officers had repeatedly punched his patient in the head while they kept him fixated on the ground, with one officer kneeing on his neck, which police justified because the elderly man had attempted to hit, kick and bite them. The man fell into a coma and died three weeks later on 6 October.
2022-10-19	N.N.	44	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A homeless man was damaging cars while yelling for help in a street. He attacked arriving police, punching one officer and attempting to drive away in a squad car before he was shot with a taser, immediately collapsing. Officers performed CPR until an ambulance arrived to take him to a hospital, where he died as a result of a heart attack. An autopsy showed that the man was a heavy alcoholic and had severe tachyarrhythmia.
2022-10-24	R., Timo	31	Zülpich	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man attempted to break down the door to his parents' house and damaged the car outside. He then attacked police with a knife and was fatally shot once.
2022-12-10	W., David	40	Dresden	Sachsen	A man shot and killed his 62-year-old mother in Prohlis and after failing to gain entry to a local radio station, he entered the Altstadt-Galerie mall where he took a female employee and the nine-year-old child of an acquaintance hostage. The situation was resolved when a SEK sniper shot him, leading to his death at a hospital the next day.

2023

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2023-01-12	B., Robert	46	Mosbach	Baden-Württemberg	A knife-wielding man with a record for domestic violence was reported walking towards the residence of his ex-partner. He attacked responding police, who used tear gas to no effect before shooting him.
2023-03-07	M., Markus	34	Senftenberg	Brandenburg	A woman called police about loud noise coming from her neighbour's flat. Two police officers forced the door open after receiving no response to knocking, finding the tenant damaging furniture and walls with an axe. He was then charged at the officers and was fatally shot. Although police initially reported that two shots were fired, at least eleven bullet holes were counted at the scene.
2023-03-17	N.N.	32	Jarmen	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Three police officers were sent to serve an arrest warrant for a man with known mental issues. On their arrival at his residence, they were attacked by the man with a bladed weapon, heavily injuring one before he was fatally shot.
2023-06-06	N.N.	35	Ingolstadt	Bayern	A police patrol encountered a naked man near a railway, who ran away after spotting the officers. He eventually stopped at a bridge and threatened to commit suicide by jumping, leading to a five hours stand-off during which SEK was called in to help negotiate and an attempt at arrest failed despite the use of pepper spray. The man then fled again into some nearby woods and during the search, the man, holding a large branch, reportedly charged at a SEK officer after hiding in a bush. He was subsequently shot and died at a hospital. It was later found that the deceased was a Czech national with a lengthy criminal record for burglary.
2023-08-18	D., Rainer	56	Duisburg	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A mentally ill man was supposed to be taken into psychiatric treatment, but heavily resisted against the paramedics. When police were called to aid the situation, they were attacked by the man in the stairwell. After taser usage failed due to malfunction, the attacker was shot three times, dying at the scene despite immediate resucitation attempts.
2023-10-11	N.N.	30	Delbrück	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Police were called about a missing person case, a psychologically unstable man who had previously voiced suicidal intention. A police officer eventually found the man and upon calling out to him, the man pulled out a knife and approached the officer, who then shot him four times, fatally hitting him in the head.
2023-11-05	N.N.	41	Köln	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A Croatian national was rampaging inside an apartment building and was shot with a taser by SEK. A paramedic sedated the man during the ambulance ride, after which he lost consciousness and died at a hospital.
2023-11-20	N.N.	25	Delmenhorst	Niedersachsen	A resident called police after seeing a man damaging a car with an axe in a nearby parking lot. The man then tried to attack the responding officers and was shot as a result, dying of his injuries at a hospital six days later. It was found that the attacker had injured a 32-year-old man in the same apartment building with the same weapon during an argument just minutes before.
2023-12-01	N.N.	37	Bad Schwalbach	Hessen	A woman called police to report her husband for domestic violence. During the response, an officer shot the unarmed man in the leg, leading to his death at a hospital the next day. No details have been given as to why the firearm was used.
2023-12-23	Özkan, Ertekin	49	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	A Turkish man with suspected mental issues called police to report that he had committed a crime, saying that he had cut himself with a knife and falsely claiming that there was a dead body in his flat. Three police officers were sent to investigate and encountered the man, shirtless, bloodied, and holding a knife, in front of the apartment building. Phone video showed police squad cars cordoning off the scene to numerous bystanders as the officers repeatedly ordered the man to put down the weapon and when he began walking towards police, the man was shot four times in the torso. He was then handcuffed before first aid was applied. The man's 18-year-old daughter later alleged that police had prevented close relatives who wanted to talk her father down from nearing the scene.

2024

Date (YYYY-MM-TT)	Name	Age	Place	State	Summary of events
2024-01-06	Barry, Ibrahima Kalil	26	Mülheim	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A man from Guinea was causing a disturbance in his room in a refugee accommodation, reportedly because he was about to face deportation for aggressive behaviour and due to doubts about his background. Police fired two taser shots at him, but as this did not seem to incapacitate him, the officers physically wrestled him to the ground, after which he lost consciousness. Despite being reanimated in an ambulance, he later died at a hospital.
2024-01-30	N.N.	40	Frankfurt am Main	Hessen	A mentally ill man with dual Spanish/Argentinian citizenship stabbed two women in an open street, injuring both in the face and neck. He was shot at least four times and died at the scene, with a ricocheting bullet also injuring an uninvolved 21-year-old man.
2024-03-30	Touray, Lamin	46	Nienburg	Lower Saxony	A man from the Gambia threatened his girlfriend with a knife, who then called the emergency line, requesting medical help for an immediate psychiatric issue. Police were sent in instead and while the officers attempted to calm the man, he stabbed a police dog and then attacked a female police officer. He was initially shot twice before another six shots were fired, with a passing bullet injuring an officer. The officer was airlifted to a hospital after police shot the man dead. Two days earlier, the man had injured three police officers with a knife after he was booked for driving without a licence in Harburg, reportedly shouting "Allahu Akbar" during the attack. An arrest warrant from the prosecutor's office had been denied by the district court because he didn't have a prior criminal record.
2024-04-03	N.N.	52	Dortmund	Nordrhein-Westfalen	A homeless man was seen attacking another vagrant with a 2.5 meter metal bar before he began hitting the entrance door to the St. Reinold's Church. Arriving police used multiple taser shots on him, to no effect. The man then attacked an officer, and as they were struggling for the weapon, another fired a single shot that struck the attacker, who died at a hospital. The incident was captured on video by bystanders.
2024-04-23	N.N.	31	Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	A man from Saarbrücken who had been barred from entering the library of the University of Mannheim was reported after he was seen wielding a machete and physically assaulting a female employee. He died at a hospital after police shot him.
2024-04-30	N.N.	38	Landstuhl	Rheinland-Pfalz	A man was rampaging in his apartment and cutting himself with a knife. When police were called, they were attacked by the man, who was shot with a taser. He lost consciousness afterwards and died at a hospital a day later.

See also

• Lists of killings by law enforcement officers
• Use of firearms by police in Germany

References

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