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The death penalty in Switzerland 1800 -
1944. |
With special thanks
to Christian Schrepper for researching and writing this unique insight into the
death penalty in Switzerland.
Switzerland was traditionally
a confederacy of cantons, each with its own laws, based on the Constitutio
Criminalis Carolina (CCC). After French troops occupied most of Switzerland in
1798, the cantons for the first time had a uniform government and law. The New
Criminal Code was based on the French Code Penal and abolished all methods of
executions except beheading. The guillotine, however, was not introduced and
was only applied in Genève (Geneva), which had become a part of France at the
time and remained so until 1813. When French troops left Switzerland in 1803,
it became a kind of satellite state of France by the Act of Mediation.
Most cantons
abolished the New Criminal Code and returned to their old laws according the
CCC, which were mainly unwritten laws. It was only in the 19th century that the
cantons wrote their own penal codes. The cantons retained their independent
penal codes even after the forming of the Federal State in 1848, which included
a federal government and parliament for the first time. It was not until 1937
that a uniform Penal Code was passed by the federal parliament, which was
approved by popular vote on 3 July 1938 and came into force on 1 January 1942.
Abolishing capital
punishment was a question widely debated in Switzerland in the 19th century and
as early as 1807 it was hotly debated in Glarus, and next in 1836 in Zürich,
1838 in St. Gallen, when abolishment was narrowly defeated with 65 to 53 votes
of the Councillors.
Capital punishment
for political crimes was indeed abolished by the Federal Constitution in 1848.
In February 1848, the first canton, Fribourg, abolished the death penalty
altogether, but repealed that law in 1868. Neuchâtel followed in 1864, Zürich
in 1869, Ticino and Genève in 1871, Basel-Stadt in 1872, Basel-Land in 1873 and
Solothurn in 1874. In a constitutional vote, capital punishment was abolished
in all Swiss cantons in 1874 via Art. 65 of the Swiss Constitution. However, it
took only five years to repeal this article, and after a constitutional popular
vote of 18 May 1879 cantons were allowed to reintroduce the death penalty into
their Penal Codes. The majority of the cantons remained abolitionists, seven
having abolished the death penalty through 1874, five others having struck it
out of their law books between 1874 and 1876 (Schaffhausen 21 May 1874,
Fribourg 19 Aug 1874, Bern 30 Dec 1874, Vaud 20 Jan 1875 and Aargau 3 Dec
1876), but 11 reintroduced the death penalty in the following years, namely:
Appenzell-Innerrhoden 25 April 1880, Uri 2 May 1880, Zug and Obwalden in 1880,
Schwyz in 1881, St. Gallen in 1882, Wallis and Luzern in 1883, Schaffhausen in
1893 and finally Fribourg on 24 Nov 1894. Graubünden in 1879 simply revived the
old penal law without an official vote. Two cantons renounced reintroducing of
the death penalty, namely: Glarus in 1884, Zürich on 5 July 1885.
Military law
abolished the death penalty in 1992. There were 17 executions during World War
II.
All executions were
public until capital punishment was abolished by constitutional referendum in 1874.
Héli Freymond was the last person publicly beheaded at Moudon, canton de Vaud,
on 10 January 1868.
When cantons
reintroduced capital punishment in the years after 1879, they made sure that
the execution took place behind doors. Nobody was able to witness an execution
without permission, and only a few were permitted to come into the execution
chamber where the guillotine was erected. The guillotine became the sole
instrument of execution after 1879, whereas in the years before 1874, it was
only applied in Genève from 1798 and Zürich from 1836.
Cruel methods of execution, such as breaking by the wheel or burning at the
stake, were gradually abolished in the early 19th century. Where applied,
prisoners were first strangled to death, before being crushed by the wheel, or
the faggots round the stake set afire. The last persons to be executed by the
wheel were brothers Hans and Christen Wandfluh, executed on 13 February 1823 at
Frutigen, Bern. The last person executed by burning was Susanna Elisabeth Weyeneth,
executed at Nidau, Bern, on 10 December 1829. Fribourg and Bern were the only
cantons to execute some of their prisoners by the wheel or burning. Hanging was
generally used to execute thieves, burglars and robbers, and instances of
hanging could be found in Bern, Fribourg, Zürich, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and
Schaffhausen through 1822. The last man hanged in Switzerland was Baptist Wild,
hanged on 18 February 1822 in Schaffhausen.
The following list
includes 345 known executed persons, 292 men and 53 women. 193 were executed
for murder, 1 for attempted murder, 12 for manslaughter, 24 for arson, 41 for
larceny, 15 for burglary, 6 for robbery, 22 for rebellion or treason, 2 for
incest, 1 for instigation of perjury, 1 for poisoning. In 27 cases the crimes are
unknown.
262 were executed by
beheading, 21 by guillotine, 4 by burning, 10 by wheel, 13 by hanging, 19 by
shooting, 16 are unknown.
The list is not
complete through the 1830s, there were at least 10 more in Schwyz (1815-38), 10
in Fribourg (1803-31), 33 in Genève (1798-1813) and possibly others in various
cantons.
Very little detail
of the precise method of execution remains.
There is no description of hanging, and I suppose that the gallows was
an old-fashioned construction on which the prisoner was slowly strangled to
death. Beheading was always carried out with a heavy sword, with the prisoner
seated in a chair. Breaking with the
wheel meant that the person was first strangled and then crushed by a heavy
wheel, all bones were to be crushed, so pieces of wood were placed under the
body.
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06 Jan 1801 |
Bern (Bern) |
Hans Jakob Klaus |
Sword? |
crime unknown |
|
01 Jul 1801 |
Basel (Basel-Stadt) |
Maria Anna Wardt |
Sword |
murder of her child |
|
1802 |
St. Gallen (Säntis) |
Barbara Eugsten (or Aeugster) |
Sword |
murder of her child |
|
Sep 1802 |
Bern (Bern) |
Herzog (m) Kühn (m) |
Sword? |
murder |
|
1803 |
Schaffhausen (Schaffh.) |
unidentified person (m?) |
Sword? |
robbery |
|
13 Jan 1803 |
Glarus (Glarus) |
unidentified person |
Sword? |
crime unknown |
|
Feb 1803 |
St. Gallen (Säntis) |
Sebastian Graf |
Sword |
murder of his wife |
|
27 Apr 1803 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Leonzius Regulon |
Sword |
murder of his lover, larceny and
forgery |
|
29 Dec 1803 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Hans Ulrich Hochstrasser |
Sword |
murder of his wife |
|
1804 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
Frutschy (m) |
Hanging |
crime unknown |
|
19 Apr 1804 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Rudolf Schütz |
Sword |
burglary |
|
25 Apr 1804 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Heinrich Häberling (39) Jakob Schneebeli (48) Johan Jakob Will (32) |
Shooting Sword Sword |
rebellion (so called Bockenkrieg),
sentenced to death by court martial |
|
17 May 1804 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Jakob Kleinert (38) |
Sword |
rebellion (so called Bockenkrieg),
sentenced to death by regular court |
|
30 Aug 1804 |
Glarus (Glarus) |
August Meinrad Kirchmeier Heinrich Leuzinger |
Sword Sword |
larceny (repeated cases) same |
|
01 Nov 1804 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Wilhelm Hausheer (20) |
Sword |
murder of a young woman |
|
08 Dec 1804 |
Elgg (Zürich) |
Jakob Büchi (20) |
Sword |
murder of his master; Büchi was
beheaded, his body burnt |
|
1805 |
Schaffhausen (Schaffh.) |
Löhninger (m) |
Sword |
murder |
|
23 Jan 1805 |
Zug (Zug) |
Bonifaz Röllin |
Sword? |
unknown crime |
|
07 Mar 1805 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Andreas Zweifel |
Sword |
larceny |
|
07 May 1805 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Konrad Graf Hans Konrad Nänny |
Sword Sword |
larceny larceny |
|
10 May 1805 |
Lausanne (Vaud) |
Jacques-Olivier Détraz (57) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of François
Rossier on 1 April 1805 |
|
09 Jul 1805 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Viktor Lorenz Hueber |
Sword |
unknown crime |
|
24 Jul 1805 |
Zofingen (Aargau) |
Magdalena Köhli (24) |
Sword |
murder of her new-born child on 29
April 1805 |
|
15 Sep 1805 |
Laufenburg (Aargau) |
Magdalena Dreier |
Sword |
murder of her child |
|
30 Sep 1805 |
Lausanne (Vaud) |
François-Samuel Pingoud (26) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of François Rochat
on 31 July 1805 |
|
01 Oct 1805 |
Bern (Bern) |
Anna Mosimann née Lüdi |
Burning |
arson; she was first strangled,
then burnt at the stake |
|
06 Nov 1805 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Johannes Meyer |
Sword |
larceny (9 cases) |
|
1806 |
Schaffhausen (Schaffh.) |
Ursula Kuster mother Kuster |
Sword Sword |
murder of Ursula's child |
|
13 May 1806 |
Lausanne (Vaud) |
Jean-François Baudraz (21) |
Sword |
robbery and wounding of François
Chaudet on 3 Feb 1806 |
|
14 Jun 1806 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Johann Fischer Anton Lörch |
Sword Sword |
crimes unknown |
|
17 Jul 1806 |
Brugg (Aargau) |
Barbara Obrist |
Sword |
murder of her husband with poison |
|
24 Sep 1806 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Joseph Anton Fuchs (34) |
Sword |
burglary and larceny |
|
03 Oct 1806 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Johann Baptist Buob |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant lover, Rosa
Schildknecht, in 1799 |
|
30 Oct 1806 |
Laufenburg (Aargau) |
Johann Grenacher |
Sword |
larceny |
|
07 Mar 1807 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Johann Büöchler Elisabetha Meyer |
Sword |
murder of Johann's wife Anna Maria
with poison on 2 Sept 1806 |
|
12 Mar 1807 |
Zug (Zug) |
Leonz Lüthart |
Sword? |
crime unknown |
|
17 May 1807 |
Glarus (Glarus) |
Bartholomäus Stauffacher |
Sword |
burglary and larceny |
|
18 Aug 1807 |
Bern (Bern) |
Hans Burri (49) |
Hanging |
burglary and larceny |
|
12 Dec 1807 |
Luzer (Luzern) |
Jakob Waser |
Sword |
crime unknown |
|
1808 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
unidentified person |
Sword |
murder |
|
12 Jan 1808 |
Bern (Bern) |
Jacob Häuselmann (31) |
Hanging |
qualified larceny |
|
10 Mar 1808 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Elisabeth Schüle (48) |
Sword |
larceny (valued 8800 guilders) |
|
15 Mar 1808 |
Bern (Bern) |
Niklaus Gehring (24) Jakob Haffner (25) |
Sword |
manslaughter on a street |
|
05 May 1808 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Kaspar Lier |
Sword |
larceny (several cases9 |
|
15 May 1808 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Jakob Holderegger (19) |
Sword |
arson with homicide |
|
07 Jul 1808 |
Bern (Bern) |
Johannes Iseli (55) |
Hanging |
larceny |
|
17 Sep 1808 |
Erlach (Bern) |
Jacob Schwab (25) |
Sword |
manslaughter of 22-year-old man |
|
15 Oct 1808 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Victor Hofer Martin Doebelins |
Sword? |
crime unknown |
|
25 Oct 1808 |
Muri (Aargau) |
Jakobea Waltisberg |
Sword |
arson and larceny |
|
22 Nov 1808 |
Aarwangen (Bern) |
Jacob Kummer (40) |
Wheel |
murder of his parents; he was
strangled to death and then wheeled |
|
31 Jan 1809 |
Bern (Bern) |
Johannes Horrisperger (53) |
Burning |
arson; he was strangled to death and
his body burnt at the stake |
|
09 May 1809 |
Wangen (Bern) |
Johann Ulrich Weibel (19) |
Wheel |
murder; he was strangled to death
and then wheeled |
|
23 May 1809 |
Lenzburg (Aargau) |
Christian Gloor |
Sword |
larceny (several cases) |
|
23 Nov 1809 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Paulus Hofmann (21) |
Sword |
murder of a young woman |
|
20 Mar 1810 |
Bern (Bern) |
Friedrich Tschirren (39) |
Sword |
murder |
|
22 Mar 1810 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Melchior Dürr (23) Hans Georg Strübinger (30) |
Hanging Sword |
burglary burglary |
|
06 Dec 1810 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Anna Maria Fäßler Jakob Grüter |
Sword Sword |
larceny institgated his wife, A. M. F., to
commit larceny |
|
1811 |
Basel (Basel-Stadt) |
unidentified person |
Sword |
murder |
|
08 Jun 1811 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Joseph Anton Meyer |
Sword |
larceny, including from a church |
|
23 Jul 1811 |
Aarwangen (Bern) |
Niklaus Rösch (41) |
Hanging |
burglary |
|
29 Aug 1811 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Heinrich Baumann (38) |
Sword |
arson at Grafstall on 15 June 1811 |
|
1812 |
Schaffhausen (Schaffh.) |
unidentified person |
Sword |
robbery |
|
06 Feb 1812 |
Burgdorf (Bern) |
Hans Georg Hermann (22) Hans Heinrich Hermann (20) |
Hanging |
burglary and larceny |
|
15 Apr 1812 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Johann Jakob Sturzenegger |
Hanging |
murder of 13-year-old Anna
Katharina Engster to commit robbery |
|
14 Jul 1812 |
Bern (Bern) |
Jacob Matti (33) |
Sword |
manslaughter |
|
28 Jul 1812 |
Glarus (Glarus) |
Fridolin Oswald (21) |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant wife Anna
Schuler on 12 July 1812 near Glarus |
|
29 Sep 1812 |
Interlaken (Bern) |
Ulrich von Bergen (31) |
Wheel |
murder; first strangled to death,
then wheeled |
|
21 Dec 1812 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Josef Anton Bombacher (31) |
Sword |
arson; set fire to the house of
his elder brother |
|
01 Feb 1813 |
Romont (Fribourg) |
Jean Colignon (25) |
Sword |
larceny; theft of a few shirts in
the house of Claudius Maillard on 19 Sept 1812 at Hennens |
|
13 May 1813 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Regula Hartmann (31) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child near
Eglisau |
|
20 May 1813 |
Laupen (Bern) |
Barbara Weber (30) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child on 30
Nov 1812 at Mannwyl |
|
10 Jul 1813 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Aloys Schneiter |
Sword? |
crime unknown |
|
18 Sep 1813 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
Claude Dupont (27) |
Sword |
burglary and larceny |
|
30 Sep 1813 |
Laupen (Bern) |
Bendicht Stöckli (34) |
Sword |
manslaughter |
|
22 Mar 1814 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Magdalena Zöllig (35) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child |
|
22 Oct 1814 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
Benedikt Schaller |
Hanging |
horse theft |
|
1815 |
(Basel-Landschaft) |
Rengger (m) |
Sword |
murder |
|
26 Jan 1815 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Anna Heuser née Pfister (28) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child |
|
09 Mar 1815 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Johann Martin Valaster (20) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of his fellow
traveller Johann Georg Schmidt on the street between Berg and Gütigkhausen on
15 Jan 1815 |
|
16 Mar 1815 |
Fronhofen (Nidwalden) |
Alois Niederberger |
Sword |
larceny |
|
18 Mar 1815 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Andreas Walser (35) |
Sword |
poisoned six persons to get rid of
his pregnant lover, an 11-year-old girl died |
|
14 Apr 1815 |
Baden (Aargau) |
Josepha Kählin (23) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child on 25
Oct 1814 at Göslikon |
|
08 Jun 1815 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Heinrich Bollier (58) Johannes Zolliker (22) |
Sword |
murder of Mrs. Bollier and her son
Siegmund on 6 Dec 1814; Bollier's hand was first chopped off, then his head,
his body burnt |
|
12 Jun 1815 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Jakob Gämperle (30) |
Sword |
poisoned his wife and 3-year-old daughter
Mariana, the child died on 16 April 1815 at Jonschwil |
|
19 Jul 1815 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Knobel (m) |
Sword |
instigation to commit perjury in a
paternity suit |
|
19 Sep 1815 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Maria Franziska Bruckmann |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child |
|
21 Oct 1815 |
Zofingen (Aargau) |
Joseph Kaufmann |
Sword |
arson |
|
06 Dec 1815 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Anna Egli |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child |
|
23 Dec 1815 |
Fronhofen (Nidwalden) |
Josef Christen |
Sword |
larceny |
|
10 Feb 1816 |
Thun (Bern) |
Barbara Schneiter (20) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn son on 12
Nov 1815 |
|
24 Feb 1816 |
Erlach (Bern) |
Jakob Tribolet (43) |
Wheel |
murder and street robbery; was
first strangled to death, then wheeled |
|
29? Jun 1816 |
Schaffhausen (Schaffh.) |
J. J. Sporndlin (42) Franziska Steiner (48) |
Sword Sword |
larceny (several cases) larceny and fraud |
|
31 Aug 1816 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
unidentified man |
Wheel |
murder; first strangled to death,
then wheeled |
|
07 Sep 1816 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
unidentified man |
Sword |
incest |
|
14 Sep 1816 |
Fronhofen (Nidwalden) |
Kaspar Zimmermann |
Sword |
burglary |
|
26 Oct 1816 |
Zug (Zug) |
Michael Hürli (43) |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant lover, Anna
Maria Büttel, on 27 Aug 1816. |
|
Dec 1816 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
unidentified man |
Wheel |
murder; first strangled to death,
then wheeled |
|
10 Dec 1816 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Johann Georg Looser (25) Anna Barbara Schmidt née Klauser |
Sword Sword |
murder of his newborn illegitimate
child on 19 Sep 1816 at Ennetbühl instigated this murder of her
grandchild |
|
1817 |
Môtiers (Neuchâtel) |
unidentified person |
Sword? |
unknown crime |
|
13 Jan 1817 |
Zug (Zug) |
Thomas Henggeler (38) |
Sword, right hand |
murder and robbery of Peter Etter,
his creditor, on 8 Oct 1816 |
|
30 Jan 1817 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Steinauer (m) |
Sword? |
unknown crime |
|
29 Mar 1817 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Joseph Schaller (21) |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant girlfriend Maria
Hunkeler |
|
29 Apr 1817 |
Fronhofen (Nidwalden) |
Franz Josef Käslin |
Sword |
larceny |
|
11 Jun 1817 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Jakob Oehninger (21) |
Sword |
murder of a young woman |
|
30 Jun 1817 |
Lausanne (Vaud) |
Jean-Louis Golaz (26) |
Sword |
robbery and beating of Henri Crot
in his bed on 6 Jan 1817 at Vevey |
|
27 Aug 1817 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Hans Konrad Jäger Hans Jakob Schefer jun. (19) Hans Jakob Schefer sen. |
Sword Sword Sword |
burglary and larceny burglary and larceny (14 cases) instigated his son to commit
burglary |
|
05 Sep 1817 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Josef Anton Bürgi |
Sword |
unknown crime |
|
26 Sep 1817 |
Lausanne (Vaud) |
Jean-Daniel Gentison (28) Sigismond Jaunin (52) |
Sword Sword |
murder and robbery of Elisabeth Christinat
(77) on 10 Jan 1817 in her house at Chabrey |
|
30 Sep 1817 |
Aarwangen (Bern) |
Johann Franz Niklaus Desgouttes
(32 |
Wheel |
murder of 23-year-old Daniel
Hemmeler, his unlucky lover; Desgouttes was strangled to death, then wheeled |
|
05 Feb 1818 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Johannes Oertli |
Sword |
burglary and larceny (had been a
member of Schefer's gang) |
|
11 Mar 1818 |
Frauenfeld (Thurgau) |
Konrad Brühlmann Anna Hitz (his wife) |
Sword Sword |
murder of his father, Jakob Brühlmann,
on 16 Jan 1818 at Zihlschlacht instigated her husband to commit
this murder |
|
27 Aug 1818 |
Meiringen (Bern) |
Andreas Roth (25) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of a pig dealer
from Wallis on 25 May 1818 |
|
01 Oct 1818 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Rudolf Bölsterli (46) |
Sword |
maltreated and gravely wounded a
young woman |
|
26 Oct 1818 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Jakob Rüegg Rudolf Rüegg |
Sword Sword |
the brothers committed arson at
Uerschen on 25 Aug 1818, a 7-year-old girl dying in the flames |
|
13 Nov 1818 |
Lausanne (Vaud) |
Marie-Marguerite Durussel (32) |
Sword |
arson on 27 July and 11 Aug 1818
at Seigneux, burning down 3 houses in the first instance |
|
May 1819 |
Vevey (Vaud) |
Joseph Gaudard (24) |
Sword |
murder of François Dufey on 23 March
1819 at Vevey |
|
24 May 1819 |
Zug (Zug) |
Johann Ulrich Felix Waser |
Sword Sword |
larceny larceny |
|
04 Aug 1819 |
Basel (Basel-Stadt) |
Ferdinand Deissler (30) Jakob Föller (24) Xavery Hermann (30) |
Sword Sword Sword |
street-robbery, arson, theft in a
church, larceny |
|
10 Aug 1819 |
Bern (Bern) |
Elisabeth Siegenthaler (25) |
Sword |
murder of her husband with poison |
|
23 Sep 1819 |
Laupen (Bern) |
Anna Barbara Barth (26) |
Sword |
murder of her five-year-old son |
|
04 Nov 1819 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Verene Marthaler |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child in two
cases |
|
18 Nov 1819 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Hans Konrad Koller (18) |
Sword |
burglary and larceny in 12 cases |
|
18 Dec 1819 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
Peter Nicolet (24) |
Sword |
burglary and larceny on 29 Aug
1819 at Curvillers |
|
17 Mar 1820 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Josef Anton Thut (29) |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant lover
Susanne Ballmann |
|
12 May 1820 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Valentin Lüthold (34) |
Sword |
burglary and larceny in 8 cases,
valued 723 guilders |
|
19 Jul 1820 |
Glarus (Glarus) |
Rudolf Salmen (28) |
Sword |
larceny from a post-box, theft of
money |
|
22? Jul 1820 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
Peter Bächler |
Sword |
murder of Christina Aeby on 3 May
1820 at Rechthalten |
|
24 Oct 1820 |
Muri (Aargau) |
Johann Werner Marbeit |
Sword |
larceny |
|
02 Nov 1820 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Susanna Gehring (23) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child on 1
Aug 1820 near Flaach |
|
16 Jan 1821 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Franz Josef Waldvogel |
Sword |
manslaughter |
|
09 Mar 1821 |
Genève (Genève) |
Jacques Machon (44) Claude Menoud (44) |
Guillotine Guillotine |
murder and robbery of Louis Corboz
and his housekeeper Louise Miéville on 30 Oct 1820 at Plainpalais near Genève |
|
26 Jun 1821 |
Zurzach (Aargau) |
Johann Meyer |
Sword |
murder of his fiancée |
|
29 Aug 1821 |
Zug (Zug) |
Peter Knüssel |
Sword |
murder and robbery |
|
06 Nov 1821 |
Baden (Aargau) |
Vinzenz Kohler |
Sword |
murder and robbery of a Jew, Leob
Bernheim |
|
18 Feb 1822 |
Schaffhausen (Schaffh.) |
Baptist Wild |
Hanging |
burglary at priests' homes |
|
06 Mar 1822 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Fidel Anna (41) Melchior Schneider (23) |
Sword Sword |
forging bonds, embezzling 4155
guilders larceny |
|
20 Apr 1822 |
Wangen (Bern) |
Elisabeth Lienhard (27) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child |
|
20 Jul 1822 |
Fraubrunnen (Bern) |
Niklaus Glauser (31) |
Wheel |
murder; first strangled to death,
then wheeled |
|
15 Nov 1822 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Juditha Brög |
Sword |
larceny in several cases |
|
1823 |
Schaffhausen (Schaffh.) |
Melchior Kern |
Sword |
incest |
|
13 Feb 1823 |
Frutigen (Bern) |
Christen Wandfluh (53) Hans Wandfluh (45) |
Sword Sword |
murdered their brother Johannes on
25 Sept 1822 at his home near Frutigen |
|
24 Jan 1824 |
Morges (Vaud) |
Pierre Forestier (18) |
Sword |
attempted murder and robbery of Jean-Marie
Pirolly on 16 Nov 1823 |
|
Feb 1824 |
Samedan (Graubünden) |
Mathis Volpe |
Sword |
murder and rape Ursina Zambail in
Jan 1824 at Pontresina |
|
27 Mar 1824 |
Zug (Zug) |
Elisabeth Köpflin née Steiner Joseph Steiner |
Sword Sword |
murder of her newborn child and
incest with her father murder of his newborn child, born
by his married daughter |
|
28 Apr 1824 |
Zug (Zug) |
Anna Maria Suter |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child |
|
30 Jun 1824 |
Zug (Zug) |
Anna Maria Barbara Lottenbach (43) |
Sword |
repeated larceny |
|
12 Jul 1824 |
Zug (Zug) |
Johann Zacharias Seeholzer |
Sword |
crime unknown |
|
07 May 1825 |
Solothurn (Solothurn) |
Johann Wyss |
Sword |
murder of his wife |
|
1826 |
Nidau (Bern) |
unidentified person |
Hanging |
larceny |
|
14 Feb 1826 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Josef Schütz (34) |
Sword |
burglary and larceny in several
cases |
|
27 Apr 1826 |
Pruntrut (Bern) |
Catherine Rondez (40) |
Sword |
murder of her mother |
|
20 May 1826 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Johann Stadelmann |
Sword |
attempted rape and murder of a
young woman |
|
15 Jun 1826 |
Altdorf (Uri) |
Bartholomäus Tasso (26) |
Sword |
stabbed and killed a soldier in
April 1826 |
|
22 Jul 1826 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Nikolaus Mader Johannes Kiwiler (Kywiler) |
Sword Sword |
repeated larceny burglary in a church, maltreating
a hermit who died 3 days later |
|
18 Sep 1826 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Johann Georg Natter (33) |
Sword |
burglary and maltreating his
victims |
|
26 Sep 1826 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Leodegar Arnold (30) Basil Germann |
Sword Sword |
burglary, maltreating, arson |
|
14 Nov 1826 |
Aarwangen (Bern) |
Johann Jakob Hindermann (46) |
Sword |
murder |
|
03 Feb 1827 |
Aarburg (Bern) |
Hans Geißbühler (57) |
Burning |
arson; was first strangled to
death, body burnt at the stake |
|
26 Jun 1827 |
Bern (Bern) |
Anna Barbara Liechti (34) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child on 3
March 1827 at Landiswil |
|
07 Aug 1827 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Kaspar Leonz Fleischmann |
Sword |
crime unknown |
|
26 Sep 1827 |
Signau (Bern) |
Elisabeth Liechti (39) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child at
Signau |
|
06 Oct 1827 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Joseph Haas |
Sword |
murder and rape of Vernona Bösch on
5 Aug 1825 and of Barbara Sidler on 10 Dec 1826 |
|
19 Nov 1827 |
Martigny (Valais) |
Margaretha Moncira |
Sword |
murder of her husband with poison
in September 1827 at Iserable |
|
10 Dec 1827 |
Glarus (Glarus) |
Marianna Hauser (30) |
Sword |
murder of her newborn child on 5
Oct 1827 at Näfels |
|
09 Feb 1828 |
Solothurn (Solothurn) |
Viktor Baumann (28) |
Sword |
arson; set fire to the house of
his brother in Dec 1826 and Dec 1827 |
|
18 Apr 1828 |
Genève (Genève) |
Alexandre Debogis (42) |
Guillotine |
shot to death Jean-Etienne Mugnier
near the river Versoix on 16 Dec 1827 |
|
17 May 1828 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Joseph Römer (36) |
Sword |
larceny, repeated |
|
20 Jun 1828 |
Zurzach (Aargau) |
Johann Suter |
Sword |
robbery and murder |
|
27 Aug 1828 |
Erlach (Bern) |
Françoise Rohl (34) |
Sword |
poisoning |
|
18 Sep 1828 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Jakob Maag |
Sword |
burglary in the goldsmith's shop
of Mrs. Hegi at Zürich |
|
05 May 1829 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Joseph Engler (38) |
Sword |
burglary, amounting to 3000
guilders, including two thefts in a church |
|
23 May 1829 |
Solothurn (Solothurn) |
Josef Jecker (35) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Mrs. Anna
Elisabeth Biberstein at Etziken on 22 March 1829 |
|
06 Jun 1829 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Katharina Burri (wife Mühlibach) Elisabeth Mühlibach (wife Wobmann |
Sword Sword |
they poisoned Elisabeth's husband,
Jakob Wobmann, who died on 17 June 1828 |
|
17 Jul 1829 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Elisabetha Müller |
Sword |
assisting her lover with the murder
of her new-born baby; Jacob Lang, who wouldn't admit his crime, was exposed
and sentenced to 10 years |
|
10 Dec 1829 |
Nidau (Bern) |
Susanna Elisabeth Weyeneth (27) |
Burning |
arson, killing three little
children; she was first strangled to death, then burnt at the stake |
|
02 Jan 1830 |
Lugano (Ticino) |
Giosuè Guzzi |
Sword |
murder |
|
18 Jan 1830 |
Chur (Graubünden) |
Joseph Anton Müller (41) |
Sword |
murder |
|
14 Apr 1831 |
Zillis (Graubünden) |
Moritz Grischot (25) |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant lover Maria
Roßsteter at Pasaigna on 14 Feb 1831 |
|
13 Jun 1831 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Johann Baptist Custer (67) |
Sword |
rape and murder of Elisabeth
Gebert near Jona on 27 April 1831 |
|
18 Jul 1831 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Ludwig Singer |
Sword |
murder |
|
10 Aug 1831 |
Frauenfeld (Thurgau) |
Johannes Imhof |
Sword |
arson |
|
12 Jan 1832 |
Altdorf (Uri) |
Franz Josef Stauch |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant lover |
|
14 Apr 1832 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Friedrich Bürki |
Sword |
murder of Albert Butschek on 24
Dec 1831 |
|
23 Jun 1832 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
Magdeleine Dutoit née Daguet Christe Jungo |
Sword Sword |
they poisoned Christe Jungo's
wife, Marianne née Hayoz, who died on 13 Feb 1832 |
|
06 Oct 1832 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
Hans Joseph Bäriswyl |
Sword |
arson, set fire to his brother's
house |
|
19 Dec 1832 |
Zofingen (Aargau) |
Samuel Lüscher |
Sword |
murder of his uncle |
|
09 Feb 1833 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Joseph Zemp |
Sword |
arson, resulting in the death of a
person |
|
07 Mar 1833 |
Frauenfeld (Thurgau) |
Alois Straus |
Sword |
murder |
|
11 Jul 1833 |
Altdorf (Uri) |
Anton Zurflüh |
Sword |
larceny |
|
14 Mar 1834 |
Frauenfeld (Thurgau) |
Kaspar Fröhllich |
Sword |
poisoning his wife |
|
26 Jun 1834 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Johannes Fischbacher (21) |
Sword |
arson |
|
27 Jun 1834 |
Môtiers (Neuchâtel) |
Charles-Frédéric Reymonda (57) |
Sword |
murder of François Isoz on May 16,
1833 |
|
04 Sep 1834 |
Baden (Aargau) |
Peter Welti (parson) |
Sword |
arson (three cases) and post
robbery (three cases) |
|
08 Nov 1834 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Joseph Zihlmann |
Sword |
murder of a young woman |
|
18 Dec 1834 |
Locarno (Ticino) |
Pietro Pellanda (29) Giuseppe Dedini (29) Giuseppe Lesnini (29) |
Sword Sword Sword |
murder and robbery of Mrs.
Giacomina Bizzini in her house at Avegno on 22 Oct 1833 |
|
24 Aug 1835 |
Lenzburg (Aargau) |
Samuel Weber |
Sword |
arson at Egliswil on 4 June 1835,
including his father's house |
|
02 Dec 1835 |
Courtelary (Bern) |
François Fête (33) |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant fiancée,
Marianne Boumard |
|
18 Jan 1836 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Kreszentia Seraphina Giger (25) |
Sword |
poisoned and killed her
72-year-old husband Fridolin Gyger |
|
08 Apr 1836 |
Fraubrunnen (Bern) |
Jacob Leibundgut (34) |
Sword |
robbery and murder of two persons |
|
17 Jun 1836 |
Baden (Aargau) |
Bartholomä Schibli |
Sword |
arson |
|
15 Oct 1836 |
Bern (Bern) |
Jakob Gattiker (26) |
Sword |
robbery and murder |
|
24 Nov 1836 |
Glarus (Glarus) |
Rudolf Michel (36) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Mrs. Barbara
Kundert, wife of councillor Stauffacher, at Matt on 25 Oct 1836 |
|
15 Mar 1837 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Josef Anton Jägg (22) |
Sword |
burglary and arson |
|
13 May 1837 |
Lugano (Ticino) |
Francesco or Andrea Maldini |
Sword |
murder of his wife |
|
28 Apr 1838 |
Liestal (Basel-Land) |
Johannes Jakob Bowald (61) |
Sword |
manslaughter of Vinzenz Oeschger
on 28 Dec 1837 in Bowald's home |
|
04 Jul 1838 |
Belp (Bern) |
Anna Freiburghaus (40) |
Sword |
murder of her husband with poison |
|
29 Jan 1839 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Matthäus Diethelm |
Sword |
murder of his wife |
|
05 May 1839 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Hieronymus Kessler (23) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of two persons |
|
21 Nov 1839 |
Weinfelden (Thurgau) |
Ulrich Riser Margaretha Ruemmel née Baumann |
Sword Sword |
murder by poison |
|
14 May 1840 |
Liestal (Basel-Land) |
Anna Maria Buser née Graf (50) |
Sword |
murder of her husband Heinrich
Buser with poison, died on 19 May 1839 |
|
06 Jul 1841 |
Locarno (Ticino) |
Joseph Nessi (34) |
Shooting |
rebellion, treason |
|
28 Feb 1842 |
Sion (Valais) |
François Rey (42) Barthélémy Joris (or Juoly) (45) Marie-Thérèse Seppey (29) |
Sword Sword Sword |
murder of Seppey's husband,
Nicolas Franier, on 25 April 1841 on the bridge of Granges |
|
16 Jul 1842 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Anton Senn (40) |
Sword |
murder of Anna Franziska Arnold on
4 March 1842 at Bürglen |
|
29 Nov 1843 |
St. Gallen (St. Gallen) |
Peter Waser (55) |
Sword |
murder of his son-in-law Peter
Lehnherr at Gams on 23 April 1843 |
|
12 Jul 1844 |
Altdorf (Uri) |
Andreas Dittli |
Sword |
murder of a child (his child?) |
|
12 Nov 1844 |
Aarau (Aargau) |
Johann Suter |
Sword |
arson |
|
05 Jul 1845 |
Courtelary (Bern) |
Jean Jossi (21) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Daniel
Schenk near Saint-Imier on 21 Nov 1844 |
|
15 Jul 1845 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Jakob Lattmann (30) Heinrich Sennhauser (34) |
Guillotine Guillotine |
murder and robbery of Jakob and
Elisabetha Leuthold in their home at Wädenschweil on 27 Feb 1845 |
|
31 Jan 1846 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Jakob Müller (35) |
Sword |
murder of councillor Joseph Leu on
8 Dec 1845 |
|
30 Apr 1846 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Johannes Graf |
Sword |
arson |
|
08 May 1846 |
Chur (Graubünden) |
Johannes Reidt (53) |
Sword |
murder of his child, born by his
own daughter on 14 July 1844 |
|
20 Jun 1846 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Joseph Glanzmann (59) |
Sword |
murder of his own legitimate
4-week-old child in July 1845 |
|
08 Aug 1846 |
Solothurn (Solothurn) |
Johann Rudolf von Rohr (28) |
Sword |
arson in three cases at Kestenholz
on 12, 19 and 24 Jan 1846 |
|
09 Sep 1846 |
Rolle (Vaud) |
Jacob Lausselet (43) |
Sword |
murder of his co-worker Jean Romel
to conceal his thefts in Aug 1845 |
|
23 Sep 1846 |
Laupen (Bern) |
Christian Bannwart (35) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of driver Märki
on 1 Aug 1846 |
|
17 Oct 1846 |
Sarnen (Obwalden) |
Josef Anton Amrhein (25) Franz Burch-Amrhein (22) |
Sword Sword |
murder of Eugen Amrhein, father
and father-in-law resp., on 7 July 1846 |
|
21 Nov 1846 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Johann Arnold |
Sword |
murder of a child |
|
19 Apr 1847 |
Bern (Bern) |
Anna Maria Flückiger (20) |
Sword |
murder of Gottlieb Mischler (2
months old), son of a co-prisoner, because she wanted to be executed, to
avoid serving a term of 15 years in prison |
|
28 Jun 1847 |
Zofingen (Aargau) |
Verena Gautschi |
Sword |
arson, set fire to a house in
Staffelbach |
|
30 Jun 1847 |
Bremgarten (Aargau) |
Jakob Rufli (ab. 50) |
Sword |
arson, set fire to several houses
in Wohlen, killing one woman |
|
23 Juli 1847 |
Schaffhausen (Schaffh.) |
Johannes Schilling (34) |
Sword |
murder of his wife Elisabeth Sch.
with poison on 22 Jan 1847 |
|
30 Oct 1847 |
Chur (Graubünden) |
Jakob Condrau Spescha (26) |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant lover, Mrs.
Maria Kath. Derungs on 1 July 1847 |
|
23 Dec 1847 |
Zug (Zug) |
Jost Schanz (48) |
Sword |
arson, set fire to the barn of farmer
Freimann in revenge on 29 Aug 1847 |
|
28 Dec 1847 |
Zofingen (Aargau) |
Jakob Hürzeler Jakob Klaus |
Sword Sword |
murder and robbery of J. Lienhard,
another inmate of the poorhouse of Uertheim |
|
16 Mar 1849 |
Lugano (Ticino) |
Luigi Baroli |
Sword |
rape and murder of Osvaldo Rhiner
of Glarone |
|
12 May 1849 |
Laufenburg (Aargau) |
Sebastian Rebmann (30) |
Sword |
murder, robbery and rape of
Elisabeth Freudenmann in March 1849 |
|
29 Oct 1849 |
Baden (Aargau) |
Jakob Fischer |
Sword |
arson |
|
03 Dec 1849 |
Appenzell (Appenz. IR) |
Anna Maria Koch (18) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Magdalena
Fäßler on 7 June 1849 at Gonten |
|
11 Jun 1850 |
Genève (Genève) |
Louis-Frédéric Richard (43) |
Guillotine |
murder and robbery of 84-year-old Jean-François
Borel on 5 Nov 1848 |
|
25 Feb 1851 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Hans Konrad Frischknecht (47) |
Sword |
arson, set fire to a barn at
Herisau, burning down the entire court on 28 Arpil 1850 |
|
08 Aug 1851 |
Muri (Aargau) |
Franz Greter (26) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Johann
Rütlispach at Brunwil on 7 Jan 1848 |
|
25 Sep 1851 |
Altdorf (Uri) |
Ambrosius Lyrer (26) |
Sword |
manslaughter of a 19-year-old lad
at Giedstafel |
|
04 Oct 1851 |
Aarwangen (Bern) |
Johann Hünig (25) |
Sword |
murder of Elisabeth Moser, his
lover and maid-servant; thought she was pregnant, which she wasn't, and
wanted to get rid of her on 5 Jan 1851 |
|
15 Oct 1851 |
Liestal (Basel-Land) |
Hyazint Bayer (29) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Heinrich
Wiesner |
|
11 Dec 1851 |
Pruntrut (Bern) |
George-Frédéric Gilliotte (34) |
Sword |
murder of Varin, his lover's
husband |
|
10 Feb 1852 |
Altdorf (Uri) |
Karl Franz Wolleb (28) Kaspar Anton Wolleb (24) |
Sword Sword |
murder and robbery of their aunt at
Hospenthal on 17 Dec 1851 |
|
18 Dec 1852 |
Solothurn (Solothurn) |
Joseph von Arx (32) |
Sword |
arson in three cases |
|
16 May 1853 |
Lugano (Ticino) |
Bernardo Bernasconi (28) |
Sword |
murder of federal councillor
Bénigno Soldini at Chiasso on 24 May 1852 for political reasons |
|
28 Sep 1853 |
Frauenfeld (Thurgau) |
Jakob Küng (43) |
Sword |
murder and rape of 12-year-old
Dominika Harder on 27 Aug 1853 |
|
13 Dec 1853 |
Avenches (Vaud) |
Samuel Schaller (31) |
Sword |
murder of Jean Isenschmidt,
husband of his lover, on 8 Aug 1853 |
|
28 Mar 1854 |
Schloßwil (Bern) |
Johann Binggeli (21) Jakob Reber (22) |
Sword Sword |
murder and robbery of Christen
Rüedi on 13 July 1853 near Wil |
|
24 May 1854 |
Lenzburg (Aargau) |
Bernhart Matter (33) |
Sword |
larceny in 11 cases amounting to
4302 Francs |
|
29 Nov 1854 |
Frauenfeld (Thurgau) |
Jakob Hungerbühler (24) |
Sword |
robbery and murder of Josef Anton
Kessler on 30 June 1854 at Sommeri |
|
17 Feb 1855 |
Solothurn (Solothurn) |
Urs Joseph Schenker (28) |
Sword |
murder of his father, 70-year-old
Johann Schenker, on 26 Oct 1854 |
|
04 Sep 1855 |
Bern (Bern) |
Jean Nicolas Senaud (41) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Bendicht
Niederhäuser on 2 Feb 1855 |
|
05 Sep 1855 |
Fraubrunnen (Bern) |
Johann Kilchenmann (38) |
Sword |
arson, set fire to three houses in
Utzenstorf 24 to 27 March 1855 |
|
04 Apr 1856 |
Aarwangen (Bern) |
Johannes Bösiger (21) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Niklaus Roth
on 31 Oct 1855 near Melchnau |
|
05 Apr 1856 |
Bern (Bern) |
Peter Henzi (35) |
Sword |
strangled to death his wife, Anna
Henzi née Wyttenbach, on 7 Jan 1856 |
|
02 Jul 1856 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Jakob Bosshard (33) Jakob Reinberger (39) |
Guillotine Guillotine |
murder and robbery of Eduard
Gotthard Engel on 15 April 1856 on the road between Embrach and Rorbas |
|
26 Oct 1859 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Hans Jakob Kündig (21) |
Guillotine |
murder and robbery of Hans Jakob
and Anna Schmid on 24 Sept 1859 |
|
25 May 1861 |
Genève (Genève) |
Claude Vary (40) |
Guillotine |
murder of painter Richer,
Margaretha Bichsel and her little child on 8 and 9 March 1860, drowning them
in the river Rhône, because of a debt |
|
07 Jun 1861 |
Büren (Bern) |
Louis-Adolphe Bellenot (27) |
Sword |
murder of Anna Barbara Trussel at
Reiben on 2 Feb 1861 in revenge |
|
18 Jun 1861 |
Altdorf (Uri) |
Kaspar Zurflüh (25) |
Sword |
murder of his pregnant lover Anna
Maria Gamma on 26 Jan 1861 |
|
08 Jul 1861 |
Langnau (Bern) |
Verena Wißler (43) Jakob Wißler (40) Samuel Krähenbühl (25) Jakob Stücki (27) |
Sword Sword Sword Sword |
murder and robbery of Andreas
Schlatter on 15 Feb 1861 at Signau |
|
07 Sep 1861 |
Delsberg (Bern) |
Geneviève Guéniat (38) Jean-Baptiste Guéniat (35) |
Sword Sword |
murder and robbery of Ignaz and
Maria Rossé on 21 March 1860 at Courroux in their beds |
|
09 Dec 1861 |
Bern (Bern) |
Johann Kläntschi (32) |
Sword |
murder of Friedrich Schenk on 3
July 1861, his lover's husband |
|
24 Apr 1862 |
Genève (Genève) |
Maurice Elcy (20) |
Guillotine |
murder and robbery of Jean-Jacques
Favre-Chantre on 20 Oct 1861 at Genève |
|
01 Jul 1862 |
Trogen (Appenzell AR) |
Johann Ulrich Schläpfer (40) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Bartholome
Zürcher on 14 May 1862 at Speicher |
|
27 Nov 1863 |
Aarburg (Aargau) |
Josef Jakob Felder (27) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Johann Huber
on 28 Oct 1863 near Balzenwyl |
|
10 May 1865 |
Zürich (Zürich) |
Heinrich Götti (37) |
Guillotine |
murder of his six newborn children
|
|
06 Jul 1867 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Niklaus Emmenegger (37) |
Sword |
murder and robbery of Jakob
Schnider at Flühli about 21 Dec 1866 |
|
10 Jan 1868 |
Moudon (Vaud) |
Héli Freymond) |
Sword |
murder of his wife Elise Eugénie
Olivier on 14 May 1868 with poison |
|
18 Mar 1892 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Ferdinand Gatti (24) |
Guillotine |
murder of school teacher
Margaretha Degen on 14 Jan 1892 at Luzern |
|
31 Oct 1893 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Johann Keller (26) |
Guillotine |
murder of his pregnant lover Maria
Näf on 22 April 1893 near Büron |
|
22 May 1894 |
Schwyz (Schwyz) |
Dominik Abegg (48) |
Guillotine |
murder of his 17-year-old daughter
Hermine Abegg on 16 March 1894 near Schindellegi |
|
01 Aug 1902 |
Fribourg (Fribourg) |
Etienne Chatton (28) |
Guillotine |
murder and robbery of his cousin
Louise Mettraux at Neyruz on 1 Dec 1901 |
|
02 May 1910 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Matthias Muff (36) |
Guillotine |
murder of farmer Bisang, his wife,
and menservants Joseph Huber and Xaver Bucher, all shot to death on 21 Dec
1909 near Hellbühl |
|
20 Jan 1915 |
Luzern (Luzern) |
Anselm Wütschert (33) |
Guillotine |
murder 22-year-old Elise Furrer on
16 May 1914 near Krummbach |
|
29 Oct 1924 |
Altdorf (Uri) |
Klemenz Bernet (42) |
Guillotine |
murder of 15-year-old Josepha
Scheiber on 31 Aug 1924 at Schattdorf |
|
25 Aug 1939 |
Zug (Zug) |
Paul Irniger (25) |
Guillotine |
murder of taxi driver Werner
Kessler on 5 Dec 1933 near Baar |
|
18 Oct 1940 |
Sarnen (Obwalden) |
Hans Vollenweider (32) |
Guillotine |
murder of policeman Alois von Moos
on 23 June 1939 at Sachseln |
|
11 Nov 1942 |
Oberuzwil? (Zürich) |
Jakob Josef Feer (24) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
11 Nov 1942 |
Oberuzwil? (Zürich) |
Werner Zürcher (26) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
11 Nov 1942 |
Oberuzwil (Zürich) |
Ernst Schrämli (23) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
20 Jan 1943 |
unknown |
Otto Charles Reimann (29) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
20 Jan 1943 |
unknown |
Otto Peter Kully (25) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
20 Jan 1943 |
unknown |
Erwin Philipp (30) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
30 Mar 1943 |
Regensdorf (Zürich) |
Fridolin Beeler (22) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
25 May 1943 |
Regensdorf (Zürich) |
Hans Gröbli (33) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
17 Jun 1943 |
Regensdorf (Zürich) |
Heinrich Reutlinger (37) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
30 Mar 1944 |
Regensdorf (Zürich) |
Hans Pfister (47) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
7 Jun 1944 |
near Zürich |
Alfred Quaderer (24) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
7 Jun 1944 |
near Zürich |
Kurt Johann Roos (24) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
28 Sep 1944 |
Regensdorf (Zürich) |
Hermann Vinzens (36) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
28 Sep 1944 |
near Zürich |
Fritz Heller (29) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
07 Dec 1944 |
Regensdorf (Zürich) |
Hermann Grimm (47) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
07 Dec 1944 |
Regensdorf (Zürich) |
Walter Gottfried Laubscher (47) |
Shooting |
treason |
|
13 Dec 1944 |
unknown |
Samuel Plüß (46) |
Shooting |
treason |
missing: 10 in Schwyz 1815-38
33 in Genève 1798-1813
a dozen in Fribourg 1803-31
(total of 24 executions 1803-32)
very likely several in
Solothurn in the early years
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