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Oct 16, 2019 · The Incredible Story of the Captain of Köpenick. war/crime 16. October 2019 1 Tabea Tietz. On October 16, 1906, German shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt, just released from prison for forgery, purchased parts of used captain’s uniforms. In this masquerade of a Prussian military officer he arrested the mayor and the treasurer of Köpenick for suspicion ...
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Mar 13, 2024 · The Captain of Köpenick Strikes. One evening he went for a stroll in his military garb and was astounded at how everybody was courteous towards a man they were accustomed to kicking into the gutter when he was in his working man's clothes. He realised he could put this submissiveness to his own use. He began to put together his master plan.
Mar 4, 2020 · The Captain of Köpenick was the center of drama to the last—and well beyond. As the funeral procession was on its way to reinter Voigt’s remains at his new resting place in the Notre-Dame cemetery, it passed a platoon of French soldiers, and a member of the funeral cortège informed its commanding officer that the famous Captain of Köpenick was going on his last journey.
Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 – 3 January 1922) was a German con man and impostor.His most famous exploit was in 1906, when Voigt masqueraded as a military officer of the elite Prussian Guards, rounded up a number of Imperial German Army soldiers under his "command", arrested the Mayor of Köpenick, and "confiscated" 4002 marks from the city treasury.
The goal was, in a utilitarian spirit, to bring about the greatest possible social protection from repeat offenders. The so-called free law movement grew in part out of Liszt's celebrated seminar; it sprang up with a pamphlet from the Czernowitz professor Eugen Ehrlich in 1903, followed by works from Liszt's students Hermann Kantorowicz and Gustav Radbruch in 1906.
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Mar 1, 2003 · Most Germans still know the story. One day in October 1906, the 57-year-old ex-convict Wilhelm Voigt dressed himself in the uniform of a Prussian captain, assembled from several second-hand stores. So equipped, Voigt intercepted two squads of soldiers who were going off duty, and ordered the soldiers to accompany him to the town hall of the Berlin suburb of Köpenick. There, claiming to act on ...
