Hans-Christian Ströbele was a German politician and lawyer. He was a member of Alliance 90/The Greens, the German green party.
Alfred Kerr was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the Kulturpapst.
Ruth Drexel was a German actress, director, and theatre director/manager. Her best-known role was as "Resi Berghammer" in the German television series, Der Bulle von Tölz, in which she played the mother of the eponymous cop. As of January 2006, she played the role in 58 episodes.
Hilde Benjamin was an East German judge and Minister of Justice of the German Democratic Republic. She is most notorious for presiding over the East German show trials of the 1950s, which drew comparisons to the Nazi Party's Volksgericht show trials under Judge Roland Freisler. Hilde Benjamin is particularly known for being responsible for the politically motivated prosecution of Erna Dorn and Ernst Jennrich. In his 1994 inauguration speech German President Roman Herzog cited Hilde Benjamin as a symbol of totalitarianism and injustice, and called both her name and legacy incompatible with the German Constitution and with the rule of law.
Ylenia Lenhard was a five-year-old girl from Appenzell, Switzerland who was abducted while riding her bike to the local pool on 31 July 2007. Her body was found more than a month later in Bürerwald, a wooded area outside of Oberbüren, approximately 30 kilometres (30,000 m) away from Appenzell. The suspect was identified by DNA as Urs Hans von Aesch, a Swiss man living in Benimantell, Spain. He was found dead from suicide by firearm the day after the abduction. No prior connection was found between the Lenhard family and von Aesch.
The far-right in Germany slowly reorganised itself after the fall of Nazi Germany and the dissolution of the Nazi Party in 1945. Denazification was carried out in Germany from 1945 to 1949 by the Allied forces of World War II, with an attempt of eliminating Nazism from the country. However, various far-right parties emerged in the post-war period, with varying success. Most parties only lasted a few years before either dissolving or being banned, and explicitly far-right parties have never gained seats in the Bundestag post-WWII.
Kirsten Heisig was a German juvenile magistrate. Heisig was criticized by parts of the political left and parts of the Arabic community for her statements and for her view that some foreign cultures neglect education and encourage juvenile delinquency. As a juvenile magistrate for Neukölln, an area with a crime rate 40% above the average of Berlin, she initiated the Neukölln model that streamlined procedures and targeted an appearance before court within 3–5 weeks after the deed had been committed for deeds punishable by a maximum imprisonment of 4 weeks. Other key elements were encounters between delinquent and victim and community service and a cooperation between legal organs and social workers. This model was extended to the entire city of Berlin in June 2010 and caught attention on a national level.
In the alleged criminal case of Lisa F., a 13 year old Russian-German girl was reported missing for over a day in Berlin in January 2016 and, after returning, she first claimed that she had been kidnapped and raped by three strangers. The case was promptly used by Russian officials and media to accuse Germany of tolerating and covering up child abuse. These accusations provoked demonstrations of Russian Germans in several cities in Germany. The kidnapping story was shortly after proven to be false by police after analysis of mobile phone logs and Lisa admitted she went into hiding voluntarily and wasn't raped.
The 2016 Hamburg stabbing attack, also referred to as Murder at the Alster or Alster Murder, was an attack on 16 October 2016 in the city of Hamburg, Germany. A 23- to 25-year-old man "of southern appearance" was named as the suspect. On 30 October 2016, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack, though police later said a terrorist background or motive for the attack was "unlikely".
On 2 April 2017, a young woman was raped by a stranger at the Siegaue nature reserve in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The case received a lot of media coverage because of the perpetrator's status as an illegal immigrant and failed asylum seeker.
Kurt-Werner Wichmann was a German serial killer who was possibly linked to the Göhrde Murders.
Sophia Lösche, a 28-year-old female student and pro-migration activist who went missing while travelling from Leipzig to her hometown Amberg in the Upper Palatinate where she never arrived.
Youth Resistance was a Maoist youth group in Germany.
Khubaib-Ali Mohammed is a German criminal defense lawyer with Pakistani roots.
Margarete Koppers is a German lawyer and currently Attorney General in Berlin. She is the first woman in the office. Before that she was Vice President of the Berlin Police, also the first woman in the office.
The Death of Sonja Engelbrecht is an unsolved criminal case from Munich, Germany. Engelbrecht went missing on the night of April 10–11, 1995. Her death was announced on 23 November 2021, after her remains were discovered in a forest near Kipfenberg. Police have not determined a manner of death, but assume that she was killed in a sexually motivated attack.
Yolanda Klug was a German woman who disappeared on 25 September 2019 and whose disappearance had been linked to Scientology. A walker discovered her remains on February 25, 2023 in the forest area Rödel near Freyburg. The cause of death is currently unclear.
Amadeu Antonio Kiowa was an Angolan man who resided in Germany as a foreign worker. He became one of the first known victims of far-right racist violence in reunified Germany. The verdicts reached during the course of the trial of the murderers were widely criticised as being too lax, as the court had sentenced them to four years in prison for bodily injury that resulted in death. Much of public opinion and the media had called for homicide charges to be filed. The Amadeu Antonio Foundation was founded in his memory in 1998.
