Posted on 11/17/2022 2:01:26 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
German spree killer Fritz Angerstein was beheaded on this date in 1925.
This tuberculotic managerial type (English Wikipedia entry | German) completes an infernal trinity of notorious mass murderers of Weimar Germany, along with Fritz Haarman and Peter Kürten.
He lived a life of moderate domestic angst, with a sickly wife Käthe whom he loved and who could not carry to term any of her six pregnancies with him; once they had contemplated committing suicide together but called it off; once (seemingly no more than that) Fritz had cheated on her, but he returned to his wife willingly and didn’t actually want to discard her. Things were frostier with the meddling mother-in-law and even known to come to blows, yet still little other than a bog-standard rocky in-law relationship.
By 1924 this family was mired in debt, living in a villa owned by the mining firm who had detected Angerstein’s peculation....
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