murders of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck were a double homicide that took place in Berlin, Germany on 9 August 1931, when Berlin police captains Paul Anlauf...

takeover of Germany in 1933 and the Nazi-led investigation into his role in ordering the 1931 murder of police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, Ulbricht...

been behind the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919), and Traugott von Jagow [de], the last Berlin head of police in the old...

defense and political violence in the Weimar Republic]. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3515124676. Jones, Mark (2018). Founding Weimar: Violence and the German...

The occupation of the Ruhr (‹See Tfd›German: Ruhrbesetzung) was the period from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925 when French and Belgian troops occupied...

the Communist Party of Germany, Mielke was one of two gunmen in the 1931 murders of Berlin Police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. After learning that...

cabinet who was not at the Bürgerbräukeller: Franz Matt, the vice-premier and minister of education and culture. A staunchly conservative Roman Catholic...

Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. The murders took place in 1931 at Bülow-Platz in Berlin. Matern was later glorified as a martyr by the KPD and East Germany's...

tornado strikes the city of Lublin, Poland. August 2 – Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck: Two Berlin police officers are killed by Communists. August...

Captain Anlauf, Sergeant Willig, and Captain Franz Lenck walked toward the Babylon Cinema, which was located at the corner of Bülowplatz and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße...

scene of the murders of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, police captains who were the victims of a double homicide in 1931 at the hands of members of the KPD...

to Nazi Party activists (managed by the Chamber of Commerce), and ultimately murder of Jewish business owners. In Berlin alone, there were 50,000 Jewish-owned...

imprisonment and a fine of ten gold marks for perpetrating high treason but was given amnesty in October 1927 on the occasion of President Paul von Hindenburg's...

attempted to escape, and over 5,000 people succeeded in escaping over the Wall, with an estimated death toll of those murdered by East German authorities...

by socialists in the event of a war. Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, the SPD, like other socialist parties in Europe...

rest of Germany or from the Soviet Union, and disintegrated within a day. Around 100 people died during the Hamburg Uprising and the exact details of the...

of Germany in March and April 1920. It was triggered by the call for a general strike in response to the right-wing Kapp Putsch of 13 March 1920 and became...

major role in planning the 1931 assassination of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, both of whom were SPD members and Precinct Captains in the Berlin Police. Elected...

Republic in October 1923, amidst acute political and economic crises in the country. The Communist Party of Germany (KPD), under the United Front strategy...

group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von...

state elections of February 20, 1921, they received 197,113 votes [...].] Roth, Gary (2015). Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick. Brill...

laughable fascist gestures." The SPD newspaper Vorwärts reported SPD politician Franz Künstler's belief that the KPD was seeking to intentionally sacrifice supporters'...

1931 22 January: Haus des Rundfunks inaugurated. 9 August: Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. 31 December: Population: 4,314,466. Großsiedlung Siemensstadt...

of the Imperial German Army occurred in the latter half of 1918 and led to the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Armistice and the eventual end of World...

Austria-Hungary between January 3 and 25, 1918. The strike began in Berlin on 28 January and spread across the rest of Germany, but finally collapsed. The...

political parties the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and Communist Party of Germany (KPD) backed the workers who wanted unrestricted...

Germany in response to Cuno's policy of passive resistance against the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and the hyperinflation that resulted from...

Killer, temporary military commissioner Anton Kurth, Chairman of the USPD in Sendling Franz Lipp, People's Representative for Foreign Affairs Erich Mühsam...

9 August 1931 first degree murders of Berlin Police Captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck as well as the attempted murder of Senior Sergeant Max Willig...

"The Vampire of Düsseldorf" (2 July 1931), prior to execution by guillotine "So long...Goodbye..." ("Wiedersehen...Gruss...") — Paul Anlauf, German police...