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| Name | Age | Place | State | Summary of events |
| 1972-09-25 | McLeod, Ian | 34 | Stuttgart | | The British citizen was shot through a closed door during a house search, when his apartment was mistaken as a RAF safehouse. |
| 1972-09-06 | Hamid, Afif Ahmed | N.N. | Fürstenfeldbruck | | Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident that is known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972. |
| 1972-09-06 | Thaa, Ahmed Chic | N.N. | Fürstenfeldbruck | | Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident that is known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972. |
| 1972-09-06 | Afif, Luttif | 27 or 35 | Fürstenfeldbruck | | Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident that is known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972. |
| 1972-09-06 | Jawad, Kahlid | 18 | Fürstenfeldbruck | | Member of Black September Organization. The terrorist was shot by police marksmen at the Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in the incident that is known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972. |
| 1972-09-06 | Nazzal, Yusuf | 35 | Fürstenfeldbruck | | 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 that is known as the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games 1972. |
| 1972-03-02 | | 23 | Augsburg | | Member of the 2 June Movement. Weisbecker was shot by police officers when they tried to arrest him. The details of the incident are unclear. |
| 1972-03-01 | | 17 | Herrenberg | | The teenager fled in a car from the police and broke through two road blocks. Police presumed a wanted RAF terrorist and ordered officers to stop the car with all force needed. Epple, drunk and not possessing a drivers license, died from a shot through his cars's rear window. |
| 1972-02-04 | Duifhus | N.N. | Duisburg | | When Duifhus should be stopped, because of a traffic violation, he fled from the police. When he was stopped and ordered to raise his hands, he took his hand from the pocket and was shot, because the officer felt threatened. |
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| 1974-06-18 | | 45 | Essen | | The early retired man was a visitor at court. After disturbances the room was cleared by police officers, carrying Routhier down a stairhall. During this, his head hit the wall and floor severely. He died two weeks later on intercranial bleedings. |
| 1974-05-21 | Jendrian, Günther | 24 | München | | In search of a wanted fellon, police officers with facemasks and plainclothes raided an apartment. Police shot through Jendiran's apartment door and walls, before entering. It is reported that Jendrian was reaching for his smallbore rifle and was shot then. It turned out he was mistaken for a serial bankrobber. It is unclear whether he recognized the intruders as police officers. |
| 1974-04-18 | Martin-Gonzales, Emilio Humberto | 28 | Hamburg | | A young student was, took hostages and shot a police officer. After negotiations, he wanted to escape in a car, given by the police. When exiting the bank with a hostage, which had his knife on the neck, one police officer shot the robber in the head from a close distance behind him. |
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| Name | Age | Place | State | Summary of events |
| 1983-09-29 | Delahaye, Karl | 40 | Alsdorf | | Police responded to a bank robbery. When the two robbers left the bank together with two hostages, the officers opened fire on the getaway car from several guns, including fully automatic submachine guns. Even though the robbers were wearing masks and the hostages didn't, the officers did not think of the possibility that they were kept as hostages. In the result, hostage Mertens died at the scene, hostage Delahaye one month later, bank robber Erwin Naujoks got paralyzed, bank robber Wolfgang Vobis was severely injured. |
| 1983-09-29 | Mertens, Alfred | 25 | Alsdorf | | Police responded to a bank robbery. When the two robbers left the bank together with two hostages, the officers opened fire on the getaway car from several guns, including fully automatic submachine guns. Even though the robbers were wearing masks and the hostages didn't, the officers did not think of the possibility that they were kept as hostages. In the result, hostage Mertens died at the scene, hostage Delahaye one month later, bank robber Erwin Naujoks got paralyzed, bank robber Wolfgang Vobis was severely injured. |
| 1983-03-20 | Bergbauer, Jürgen | 14 | Gauting | | Police officers were on patrol, because of an ongoing series of burglaries. They deemed the teenager for a burglar and shot him in an unclear situation. |
| 1983-03-07 | Kaiser, Joachim | 19 | Augsburg | | The teenager was drunk driving in his car. Police officers shot several times at his car, killing him in an unclear situation. |
| 1983-03-05 | Heins, Alf | 18 | Hamburg | | The teenager was deemed by a plainclothed police officer for a car thief and was shot unintentionally. |
| 1983-03-XX | N.N. | 21 | Ötisheim | | A car thief was killed by police in a shootout. He was armed with a gas pistol. |
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| Name | Age | Place | State | Summary of events |
| 1985-10-20 | Wolkenstein, Klaus-Detlef | 33 | West Berlin | | In an emergency call, a presumed burglary was reported. Incoming police officers encountered the visually impaired Wolkenstein who lost his glasses and came drunk from a company party. In an unclear situation he was shot and died. |
| 1985-10-13 | Poehlke, Gabriel | 4 | Torre Canne | , 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. |
| 1985-10-13 | Poehlke, Adrian | 7 | Strümpfelbach | | 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 | | Victim of police officer, bank robber and serial killer Norbert Poehlke. Poehlke killed his wife with a headshot from his service pistol. |
| 1985-09-28 | | 36 | Frankfurt | | At a demonstration the police used water cannons to diffuse the protesting crowd. One person was hit with the water stream and injured severely when hitting the ground. Somehow he was run over by the water cannon itself later and died. |
| 1984-07-22 | Schneider, Wilfried | 26 | Ilsfeld | | 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. |
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| Name | Age | Place | State | Summary of events |
| 1999-12-28 | N.N. | 69 | Darmstadt | | 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 under unclear circumstances, whether the wound from the bullet caused his death. |
| 1999-12-22 | H., Adnan | 46 | Aachen | | A man took hostages inside a bank, demanding money. To raise pressure he killed one hostage and trapped another with a hand grenade. After intensive negotiation he was shot by a police marksman. |
| 1999-12-13 | N.N. | 45 | Siegen | | After a shooutout in front of a nightclub, police raided an 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. |
| 1999-12-10 | Dr. Nikolov Dimitrov, Zdravko | 36 | Braunschweig | | The physicist with a Bulgarian citizenship, should be transported to Bulgaria, because his application for asylum was denied. When he announced to commit suicide, police officers called for assistance by a SEK. When the specially trained officers approached Dr. Nikolov he presumely attacked them with a knife. He was shot and died in hospital ten days later. |
| 1999-12-07 | N.N. | 31 | Braunschweig | | A man injured two neighbors with a knife. When police officers tried to arrest him, he attacked them and was hit deadly by police gunshots. |
| 1999-11-24 | N.N. | 25 | Geldern | | When police encountered a presumed robber, he flew. When not responding to stop, he was shot in the head from behind. |
| 1999-10-15 | N.N. | 43 | Passau | | When police wanted to control an aggressive man, who pulls out a knife and attacked an officer. He was shot and died. |
| 1999-09-06 | N.N. | 40 | Bremen | | A person called the police due to an unknown man with a knife who was sneaking around the house. When police encountered the man, he stabbed one officer and was shot several times. He died at the scene. The reasons and background to the incident are unclear. |
| 1999-09-01 | H., André | 28 | Berlin | | Police chased a post robber when it came to a shootout. The robber was able to flew and was found dead later. |
| 1999-08-09 | N.N. | 22 | Magdeburg | | 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 deadly in the following shootout. |
| 1999-07-23 | Hammerschmidt, Udo | 41 | Hamburg | | Police raided the apartment of a presumed drug dealer. When being shot at, police shot the man in the waist. He died later in hospital. The reasons and circumstances of the police raid are unclear. |
| 1999-06-27 | | 63 | Heldrungen | | The retired Friedhelm 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 that they are robbers. Attempting to prevent them from entering the room, he was shot through the door. The case against the shooters was dropped. |
| 1999-06-29 | B., Thomas | 29 | Hamburg | | Police was called by neighbors, due to noise disturbances. A man opened the door, armed with a knife. When the man refused to lay down the knife, he was shot. |
| 1999-06-11 | Z., Saffet | 43 | Hamburg | | A man was rioting in his house. When police arrived he injured an officer with a knife and was shot by another officer. |
| 1999-05-28 | Ageeb, Aamir | 30 | German airspace, Flight LH588 | | The Sudanese citizen who resisted his deportation 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 considered torture by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. |
| 1999-04-24 | N.N. | N.N. | Bad Arolsen | | A burglar attacked police officers with a crowbar. He was shot in the chest and died in the ambulance. |
| 1999-04-16 | N.N. | 26 | Neuberg | | Neighbors informed police about a burglary at a kiosk. Whem officers arrived at the scene, several persons flew. One person was shot in the back under unclear circumstances. |
| 1999-04-13 | N.N. | 41 | Lamprecht | | 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 died later in hospital. |
| 1999-03-25 | N.N. | 44 | Ennigerloh | | A mentally ill person attacked a family member with an axe. When police arrived he was shot to avoid an attack on the relative. |
| 1999-01-17 | N.N. | 19 | Karlsruhe | | Due to several bank robberies, a car was stopped by the police. The driver flew and was later stopped again. One officer opened fire upon the driver, killing him. |
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| 2009-12-24 | N.N. | 19 | Leimen | | 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. |
| 2009-11-10 | N.N. | 48 | Frankfurt | | 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. |
| 2009-08-20 | N.N. | 47 | Ruppichteroth | | 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. |
| 2009-04-30 | | 24 | Regensburg | | 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. |
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| 2010-12-30 | | 49 | München | | A woman threatened a police officer with a knife. After she did not react to pepper spray, the officer fired a shot, killing her. |
| 2010-12-10 | N.N. | 40 | Karlsruhe | | 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. |
| 2010-09-19 | R., Sabine | 41 | Lörrach | | 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. |
| 2010-06-07 | N.N. | 10 | Oranienburg | | A 32-year-old female police officer killed both her children before committing suicide. |
| 2010-06-07 | N.N. | 5 | Oranienburg | | A 32-year-old female police officer killed both her children before committing suicide. |
| 2010-05-17 | N.N. | N.N. | Hanau | | A bank robber was shot by police and died later in hospital, after he hit an officer with his vehicle on his escape. |
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| 2011-12-01 | N.N. | 59 | Monheim | | 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. |
| 2011-10-26 | N.N. | 47 | Cuxhaven | | 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. |
| 2011-08-24 | H., Andrea | 53 | 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. |
| 2011-05-19 | Schwundeck, Christy | 39 | Frankfurt | | 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 machete. 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. |
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| 2012-10-06 | Conrad, André | 50 | 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. |
| 2012-08-01 | N.N. | 51 | Elsfleth | | A man claimed to be mentally ill was visited by the social-psychiatric service of the district, 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. |
| 2012-05-07 | N.N. | 47 | Aichach | | Perpetrator shot after attacking his neighbor and responding police officers with an axe. |
| 2012-02-26 | N.N. | 57 | Maintal-Bischofsheim | | A man was claimed to be throwing bottles from his flat onto the street 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. |
| 2012-01-21 | N.N. | 8 | Saarlouis | | A 49-year old police officer killed his daughter with his service pistol, before committing suicide. |
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| 2013-07-10 | N.N. | 36 | Planegg | | 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 five times, before committing suicide several minutes later. |
| 2013-06-28 | F., Manuel | 31 | Berlin | | A man claimed to be mentally ill stripped off his clothes, climbed naked into a fountain, brandished a knife and cut himself. 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. |
| 2013-06-07 | N.N. | 71 | Starnberg | | A mentally ill man drew a knife in front of a police station; he was then shot seven times by three police officers. |
| 2013-05-25 | P., Jürgen | 49 | Geltendorf | | A suspicious minivan with strange looking markings of German Military Police and a blue emergency beacon on its roof was reported to police. 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, that raided several shops and gas stations in the months before. |
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| 2016-11-26 | N.N. | 37 | 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. |
| 2016-10-18 | N.N. | N.N. | Hagen | | 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 was later described as an odd person with mental problems. The employee survived. |
| 2016-10-17 | N.N. | 48 | Moers | | 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. |
| 2016-09-27 | Hussein, Hussam | 29 | Berlin | | Hussam Hussein was shot dead under suspicious circumstances by a police officer in a refugee camp. Hussein tried to get to another person in police custody, that was suspected to have sexually molested his daughter. Although several police officers reported that he was unarmed, three officers shot at him. 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. |
| 2016-08-18 | N.N. | 53 | Dortmund | | In the arrest of a presumed pimp, the SEK raided an apartment. The suspect opened fire on the officers. During the shootout the suspect was killed. |
| 2016-07-18 | Ahmadzai, Riaz Khan aka Riyad, Muhammad | 17 | Würzburg | | 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 presumed that he is from Pakistani descent and got radicalized shortly before the attack, admitting himself to the IS. |
| 2016-07-13 | N.N. | 62 | Erharting | | Police was instructed to support the transfer of a special care home resident to a psychiatric hospital. When police arrived, the resident attacked the officers with a knife, injuring both of them. He was killed by an unknown number of gunshots. |
| 2016-07-07 | N.N. | 31 | Groß Rosenburg | | 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. |
| 2016-06-23 | N.N. | N.N. | Viernheim | | A unidentified attacker, armed with a submachine gun, took hostages in a cinema. The hostage-taker was killed the SEK during the rescue operation. It was reported, that the by the attacker used submachine gun, was only blank firing. |
| 2016-05-29 | N.N. | 28 | Filderstadt | | 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. |
| 2016-05-06 | N.N. | 36 | Brachbach | | 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. |
| 2016-05-05 | N.N. | 42 | Ludwigshafen | | 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. |
| 2016-03-02 | N.N. | N.N. | Berlin | | When police wanted to arrest four suspected burglars, the getaway car driver tried to escape. Police fired a minimum of one shot, hitting the driver deadly. |
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| 2017-10-28 | N.N. | 19 | Mörfelden-Walldorf | | 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. |
| 2017-10-23 | N.N. | 54 | Alsfeld | | 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. |
| 2017-08-04 | N.N. | 23 | Mittelherwigsdorf | | 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. |
| 2017-06-19 | N.N. | 50 | Heidelberg | | A 44-year old police officer shot his brother with his service pistol, before committing suicide. |
| 2017-05-25 | N.N. | 46 | Echzell | | A 57-year old police officer shot his wife with a pistol, before committing suicide. |
| 2017-04-16 | N.N. | 35 | Braunschweig | | 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. |
| 2017-04-12 | N.N. | 64 | Beetzseeheide | | 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. |
| 2017-03-17 | N.N. | 42 | Emmendingen | | A 58-year old police officer shot his wife and dog with his service pistol, before committing suicide. |
| 2017-01-31 | N.N. | 25 | 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. |
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| 2018-12-27 | N.N. | 36 | Berlin | | A man was rioting inside a bakery. When police officers arrived, he assaulted them. He was arrested and cuffed. Inside the police car he repeatedly hit his head against the windows. When arriving at the police station he attacked the officers again, so they defended themselves with pepper spray, to which he fell unconscious. The officers performed first aid and CPR on the man and he was brought to an ICU, but died on 12 January 2019. |
| 2018-12-16 | N.N. | 74 | Bochum | | 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. |
| 2018-12-09 | N.N. | 28 | Rosa | | Police was called, because a man was threatening others with a pistol-shaped item. 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. |
| 2018-11-26 | N.N. | 23 | Bonn | | 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. |
| 2018-11-07 | N.N. | 21 | Bad Oldesloe | | 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. |
| 2018-11-04 | N.N. | 45 | Merzig | | A 49-year old police officer shot his wife with his service pistol, before committing suicide. |
| 2018-10-27 | N.N. | 39 | Braunschweig | | 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. |
| 2018-10-19 | N.N. | 25 | Kirchheim an der Weinstraße | | 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. |
| 2018-09-17 | Ahmed, Ahmed | 26 | Kleve | | The Syrian refugee was held in prison due to an identity mistake with a wanted thief. 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. |
| 2018-05-30 | N.N. | 24 | Flensburg | | During a train ride, the conductor was asking via loudspeaker if any police was present in the train to help in a fight. An off-duty officer rushed to the scene. When she and another passenger were injured by an attacker with a knife she shot him. Both the officer and the other passenger were severely injured. |
| 2018-04-19 | N.N. | 38 | Langenfeld | | 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. |
| 2018-04-13 | N.N. | 19 | Fulda | | A 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. |
| 2018-02-09 | P., Hamid | 43 | Wuppertal | | 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. |
| 2018-01-22 | N.N. | 41 | Darmstadt | | Police was called to a case of domestic violence. When arriving a man attacked the officers with two knives. He died after both officers shot at him. |
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| 2019-12-28 | N.N. | 32 | Stuttgart | | Police was informed about a car driver who acted insecure and dangerous in traffic. Police found the car crashed into an advertising column. The driver then attacked the officers with a sword. When the use of pepper spray was ineffective they shot at the driver. He died later in hospital. |
| 2019-12-15 | N.N. | 44 | Mannheim | | Police was called to help with a self-harming man. When the officers arrived, the man attacked them with a knife and was shot. |
| 2019-11-02 | N.N. | 52 | Lübeck | | Police officers shot a fugitive robber, who attacked them with a gas pistol before. It is presumed to be a suicide by police incident. |
| 2019-11-01 | N.N. | 55 | Ahrensburg | | Police arrested a car driver, who resisted heavily. Through the fixation, he suffered from a heart attack, that led to his death. |
| 2019-10-30 | N.N. | 45 | Recklinghausen | | 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. |
| 2019-09-11 | N.N. | 25 | Hellersdorf | | 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. |
| 2019-08-17 | N.N. | 20 | Stade | | Police responded to an emergency call about an argument between two men. One of the men attacked the officers with a metal bar. He was shot and died at the scene. |
| 2019-07-21 | N.N. | 28 | Karlsruhe | | 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. |
| 2019-06-18 | Adel B. | 32 | Essen | | 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 door. Nevertheless, the local prosecutors' office closed the case against the policeman after two months, citing self-defence. |
| 2019-05-22 | N.N. | 34 | Hamburg | | A British man was shot by police officers after attacking them with a knife. Police was called by his wife, because he threatened her and their mutual child. |
| 2019-04-30 | N.N. | 49 | Frankfurt | | 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. |
| 2019-04-29 | N.N. | 27 | 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. |
| 2019-04-18 | N.N. | 77 | Bochum | | 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. |
| 2019-04-11 | N.N. | 28 | Salzgitter | | 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. |
| 2019-02-28 | N.N. | 46 | Solingen | | 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. |
| 2019-02-28 | N.N. | 20 | Würzburg | | 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 referred to the cause of the incident as a wrongly unloaded weapon. |
| 2019-01-18 | N.N. | 56 | Pirmasens | | 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. |
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| Name | Age | Place | State | Summary of events |
| 2020-04-03 | N.N. | 10 | Vogtareuth | | A 36-year old police officer killed both of her daughters with her service pistol, before committing suicide. |
| 2020-04-03 | N.N. | 12 | Vogtareuth | | A 36-year old police officer killed both of her daughters with her service pistol, before committing suicide. |
| 2020-02-03 | N.N. | 66 | Vellmar | | 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. |
| 2020-01-24 | N.N. | 33 | Berlin | | Police was called to an apartment, where a female threatened her roommate. When she tried to attack police officers with a knife, she was shot. |
| 2020-01-06 | N.N. | 37 | Gelsenkirchen | | A Turkish citizen was shot by police, when he attacked a patrol car with a club. Investigations presumed mental problems for a cause. |
