List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany

Listed below are people killed by non-military law enforcement officers in Germany, whether or not in the line of duty, irrespective of reason or method. Included, too, are cases where individuals died in police custody due to applied techniques. Inclusion in the list implies neither wrongdoing nor justification on the part of the person killed or the officer involved. The listing simply documents occurrences of deaths and is not complete.

Statistics
Figures before 1978 can not be compared directly to later numbers. A list of police killings was first compiled 1997; owing to a legal 20-year document retention limit, some files may have been destroyed. Additionally, the numbers here do not include suicides.

1920s
1920 1922  1923  1929

1930s
1931 1932

1940s
1944 1945  1946  1948  1949

1950s
1950 1951  1952  1953  1954  1955  1956  1957

1960s
1960 1961  1962  1966  1967  1968

1970s
 1971 

1972

 1973 

 1974 

 1975 

 1976   1977 

 1978 

 1979 

1980s
 1980   1981   1982 

 1983 

 1984 

 1985 

 1986 

 1987   1988   1989 

1990s
 1990   1991   1993 

 1994 

 1995   1999 

2000s
 2000   2001 

 2002 

 2003 

 2004 

 2005 

 2006 

 2007 

 2008 

 2009 

2010s
 2010 

 2011 

 2012 

 2013 

 2014 

 2015 

 2016 

 2017 

 2018 

 2019 

2020s
 2020 

 2021   2022   2023 

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