Fritz von Weizsäcker’s murderer is dead. Georg S. was found dead in his room in a psychiatric hospital on April 18th. This was confirmed by the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office Süddeutsche Zeitung. Accordingly, there is no evidence of third-party negligence, the exact cause of death is still unclear, an investigation has been initiated. At first she had picturenewspaper reported about it.
It has been almost two years since the Berlin Regional Court sentenced the man to twelve years in prison in July 2020 and ordered his placement in a psychiatric hospital. Georg S. had killed Fritz von Weizsäcker, the youngest son of the former Federal President and then chief physician of the Berlin Schlosspark Clinic, with a knife at the end of a medical lecture. He also stabbed a police officer who was at the event privately and wanted to help.
The man, who lived in Andernach in Rhineland-Palatinate and worked as a packer at Amazon, stated as a motive in the trial that he had hated the von Weizsäcker family for decades. “It is a senseless act by a mentally disturbed man,” said the prosecutor at the time in court.