August Heider

August Heider (* 1864 or 1865 in Neu Buckow, † after 1925) was a human being and couiller with multiple convictions who murdered Hermann Blechert in 1908. He was baptized as a Protestant.
At the murder trial, he was described as slim and of medium height and gave the impression of a harmless person who did not appear like to be 43 years old. His face was narrow and pale, his hair was parted neatly, a small, blond mustache was slightly curved upwards.Das Urteil im Mordprozess Heider. in: Berliner Volkszeitung from June 7th, 1908 
== life ==
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Ten years before the act he was sentenced to prison in Osnabrück for a similar act. J. Eik: Schaurige Geschichten aus Berlin. Die dunklen Geheimnisse der Stadt. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2013 Furthermore, since the age of 16 he was repeatedly sentenced to several prison terms for fraud and theft. Der Knabenmörder Heider vor dem Schwurgericht. In: Berliner Volkszeitung from May 6th, 1908 
In 1805 he came to Berlin and in 1900 married the daughter of a shoe retailer, whose business he initially took over.
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In 1908, however, he had lived alone in his current apartment at Lietzmannstraße 2 for a few weeks. At the time of the crime, his wife had been in the hospital for several months.
A few weeks before the crime, he met 18-year-old penniless Miss Eckhardt in the Bouillonkeller. R. Stückow: Mörderische Metropole Berlin. Authentische Fälle., Militzke Verlag, Leipzig 2015 Under the pretext of offering her a bed for the night, the two went to Heider's apartment in the nearby Lietzmannstraße. There Heider quickly became intrusive, whereupon Eckhardt resisted and finally could escape. Because of her head injuries she was sent to the St. Hedwig Hospital also in Scheunenviertel. Due to the similarities of the two cases, Heider could be convicted of the murder of Hermann Blechert by Eckhardt's testimony on April 13, 1908. The trial began in June 1908. On the 6th of that month, he was sentenced to ten years in prison.
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Although the murder of the Fehse siblings in Breslau in 1925 showed considerable parallels, Heider was not investigated. At that time he had been at large for eight years. 
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