What the records say
- When
- 9 Aug 1931
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 4
- Coordinates
- 52.53° N, 13.41° E
- Description
- Assassination by KPD supporters on police officers in Berlin on August 9, 1931
- Injured
- 2
Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck
1932 Communist murders of German police
On 9 August 1931 a double homicide took place in Berlin, Weimar Germany, when Berlin police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck were assassinated by two members of the Parteiselbstschutz, the paramilitary wing of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), on the orders of Walter Ulbricht, the regional KPD leader. The two murderers were Erich Mielke and Erich Ziemer.
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