Dorothea Schmidt

Dorothea Schmidt (* 19.03.1919 in Berlin, † 30.05.1922 ibid) was a human being who lived in the apartment of her parents at Prenzlauer Straße 3 at the time of her murder. Her father, Friedrich Schmidt, ran a hairdressing salon on the first floor of the apartment building since 1918. Berliner Adreßbuch Edition 1918 
==== Murder in the ∇ ====
The perpetrator probably stabbed the child with a penknife while it was playing in the backyard. Vossische Zeitung from May 31st, 1922
As in Hermann Blecher's murder, Dr. Strauch exmued the corpse. Immediately after the crime, numerous indications were received that a 20-30 year old male had already spoken to several children beforehand and tried to get them to go with sweets. A 39-year-old suspect was arrested in Adlershof, but he was able to show an alibi for the time of the crime. A male person in a pub on Alexanderstraße was noticed through strange behavior. When the person described with an elongated face and protruding cheekbones left the pub, the coat from a store in Chemnitz remained there. Here collected newspaper articles about the murder of little Dorothea were found as well as a handkerchief with the initials LU Berliner Zeitung from June 3rd, 1922 . None of the traces could lead to the perpetrator.
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