Fritz Haarmann

Fritz Haarmann
Haarmann, c. 1924
Born	Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann 25 October 1879 Hanover, German Empire
Died	15 April 1925(1925-04-15) (aged 45) Hanover Prison, Hanover, Weimar Republic
Cause of death	Execution by guillotine
Other names	The Butcher of Hanover The Wolf Man The Vampire of Hanover
Criminal status	Executed
Conviction(s)	Murder (24 counts)
Criminal penalty	Death
Details
Victims	24–27+
Span of crimes	25 September 1918  –  14 June 1924
Country	Germany
State(s)	Province of Hanover, Prussia
Date apprehended	22 June 1924

Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial rapist and serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of at least twenty-four young men and boys in the city of Hanover between 1918 and 1924.

Found guilty of twenty-four of the twenty-seven murders for which he was tried, Haarmann was sentenced to death by beheading in December 1924.^[1] He was subsequently executed by guillotine in April 1925.

Haarmann became known as the Butcher of Hanover (German: Der Schlächter von Hannover) due to the extensive mutilation and dismemberment committed upon his victims' bodies, and by such titles as the Vampire of Hanover (der Vampir von Hannover) and the Wolf Man (Wolfsmensch) because of his preferred murder method of biting into or through his victims' throats.^[2]