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23-2897: Seifert is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Seifert (1850–1901), Czech German painter Alfred Seifert (flax miller) (1877–1945), New Zealand flax-miller Alwin Seifert (1890–1972), German architect Benjamin Seifert (born 1982), German cross country skier Bernhard Seifert (born 1993), German javelin thrower Bill Seifert (born 1939), American racecar driver Christian Seifert (born 1969), German entrepreneur Christopher Seifert (1975–2003), American soldier Else Seifert (1879–1968), German photographer Emil Seifert (1900–1973), Czech football manager Ernst Seifert (1855–1928), German organ builder Frank Seifert (born 1972), German footballer Friedrich Seifert (born 1941), German mineralogist George Seifert (born 1940), American football coach Harald Seifert (born 1953), East German bobsledder Hartmut Seifert (born 1944), German labor economist Heath Seifert (born 1968), American television writer Herbert Seifert (1897–1996), German mathematician Howard S. Seifert (1911–1977), American rocket propulsion authority Ilja Seifert (1951–2022), German politician Jan Seifert (born 1968), German footballer Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), Czech writer, poet, and journalist Jeremy Seifert , American filmmaker Jim Seifert (born 1956), American politician Johannes Seifert (1915–1943), German Luftwaffe ace Kathi Seifert , American businesswoman Kurt Seifert (1903–1950), German actor Lewis Seifert (born 1962), American academic Manfred Seifert (1949–2005), German football player Maria Seifert (born 1981), German Paralympian athlete Marty Seifert (born 1972), American politician Michael Seifert (disambiguation) , multiple people Patrick Seifert (born 1990), German ice hockey player Rainer Seifert (born 1947), German field hockey player Richard Seifert (1910–2001), Swiss British architect Robert Seifert (born 1988), German speed-skater Robert O. Seifert , U.S. National Guard general Rudolf Seifert (born 1934), East German slalom canoer Sandra Seifert (born 1984), Taiwanese fashion model Sebastian Seifert (born 1978), Swedish handballer Shirley Seifert (1888–1971), American historical fiction author Stephen Seifert (born 1973), American folk musician Steve Seifert , American bassist of Groovy Rednecks Steven Seifert (1950–2022), American medical toxicologist Tim Seifert (born 1994), New Zealand cricketer Tim Seifert (footballer) (born 2002), German footballer Toni Seifert (born 1981), German rower Viva Seifert (born 1972), British musician and former gymnast Walter Seifert (1921–1964), German man who attacked

46-621: A landscape painter. After two years of studies at a high school in Malá Strana (Lesser Town of Prague), he received an admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1869. In 1876, he opened his own workshop there. Seifert focused on portraits of women, especially on sentimentally mooded heads of girls which became known as "Seifert type". Critics appreciated a well-thought composition of paintings, attention to detail, as well as harmonic colors and

69-442: A plan to kidnap young girls and hold them captive in the cellar of his moped trailer. On 7 October 1955 Seifert married Renata Urszula and reportedly fell apart when she died of an embolism during premature birth on 11 February 1961. Holding the doctors responsible for the death of his wife, he wrote a 120-page letter titled " Muttermord — Einzelschicksal und Analyse eines Systems " ( Matricide - Individual fate and analysis of

92-652: A pleasant atmosphere. Seifert spent most of his life in Germany. In native Bohemia, he was personally almost unknown, though he had exhibitions in Prague and black-and-white reproductions of his works regularly appeared in Světozor magazine. Some Czechs criticized his lack of patriotism by pointing out on his preference for foreign topics over domestic ones. His approach, however, was explained by financial reality: to make his living, he had to create such paintings that his Munich audience

115-472: A school Werner Seifert (born 1949), Swiss businessman Yvonne Seifert (born 1964), German skier Zbigniew Seifert (1946–1979), Polish jazz violinist See also [ edit ] Siebert Seyfert (disambiguation) Siefert [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Seifert . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding

138-550: A shot in his leg. He was arrested and taken to the University Hospital in Lindenthal , where he was questioned several times, before he died at 20:35. The attack lasted for about fifteen minutes. Kuhr died at the scene, while Bollenrath died from her wounds in hospital at 13:00. Along with teachers Langohr and Wiltrud Schweden, twenty-eight pupils were taken to hospitals, some of them with burns to 90% of their bodies. Eight of

161-519: A spear, killing eight pupils and two teachers, and wounding twenty-two others. When police arrived at the scene, Seifert fled from the school compound and poisoned himself. He was taken to a hospital, where he died the same evening. Willi Walter Seifert (19 June 1921 – 11 June 1964) was born in Bickendorf, a district of Cologne , in what was then Weimar Germany . He was the son of a glass-grinder and had one brother. From 1927 to 1935 Seifert attended

184-421: A system) and sent it to agencies, doctors and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Therein Seifert tried to prove that the treatment of his wife's embolism was done wrong, called society a criminal system and equated doctors with murderers, writing: Seifert had made all of his weapons about two months prior to the attack. The spear was made from a broomstick and a triangular scraper, while he used a pump bracket to create

207-431: A total of eight teachers and 380 pupils. As Seifert entered the school compound through the smaller of two gates, he was observed by three crossing guards who mistook him for a mechanic trying to repair the gate's broken lock and asked him what he was doing there. Seifert ignored them and, after blocking off the gate with a wooden wedge, proceeded towards a girls' physical education class led by teacher Anna Langohr at

230-762: The Volksschule in Ehrenfeld and afterwards started an apprenticeship as a metal worker at a machine factory, which he successfully finished in 1939. In 1941, during the Second World War , he was drafted into the Luftwaffe and attended the Waffentechnische Schule der Luftwaffe (Weaponry Technology School of the Airforce) for a year. By the end of the war Seifert was a sergeant in an anti-aircraft battery and afterwards

253-531: The mace . His flamethrower was made from an insecticide sprayer with a wire netting attached to the nozzle, and filled with a mixture of old motor oil and paint thinner . On 11 June 1964, shortly after 09:00, Seifert approached the schoolyard of the Catholic elementary school located at Volkhovener Weg 209–211, armed with a self-made flamethrower, a spear and a mace. The school consisted of one main building and four wooden barracks , each housing two classes with

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276-404: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seifert&oldid=1227094956 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Surnames from given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alfred Seifert He

299-620: The pupils died in the following weeks. Teachers: Students: Both teachers who died had schools named after them. Anna Langohr, one of the surviving teachers, was presented with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal by Pope Paul VI as well as with the Medal of Merit (" Verdienstmedaille "), the lowest class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , and the " Rettungsmedaille of

322-400: The school compound and attempted to kill himself by swallowing E605 , a poisonous insecticide , but as the substance was diluted he did not die immediately. Chased by twenty to thirty people he ran towards a railway embankment where he tried to fend off his pursuers with his spear. When police arrived at the scene at 09:38 he tried to stab one of the officers but was eventually immobilised with

345-432: The schoolyard Seifert fatally stabbed her in the chest with his spear and then approached the barrack where Ursula Kuhr and Mrs Kunz were teaching. The two women tried to keep the doors shut, but Seifert managed to open one and caused Kuhr to lose her balance. After she fell down the flight of stairs and landed on the ground in front of the building Seifert stabbed her in both legs and once between her shoulders. Seifert fled

368-501: The schoolyard. When Langohr, who knew Seifert, asked if she could help him, he ignited his flamethrower and attacked her and the girls. Seifert then went to one of the school's barracks, smashed in the windows with the mace and aimed his weapon at the children in the classrooms, setting them on fire. He continued to attack the people running and jumping out of the burning building until his flamethrower ran out of fuel, whereupon he threw it away. When teacher Gertrud Bollenrath stepped out on

391-452: Was a mass murder that occurred at the Catholic elementary school ( German : katholische Volksschule ) located in the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia , West Germany , on 11 June 1964. The perpetrator, Walter Seifert, also known as " Der Feuerteufel von Volkhoven " ("Firedevil of Volkhoven"), attacked the people at the school with a home-made flamethrower and

414-548: Was a prisoner of war for several months. At war's end, Seifert worked for a Cologne car factory, before joining the Schutzpolizei on 14 November 1945. On 23 August 1946, he was treated for a bronchial catarrh , and an examination by a specialist on 5 September diagnosed tuberculosis in the right lung, resulting in Seifert being deemed unfit for service and dismissed from the police on 30 September. From then on Seifert attempted to enforce his claims for subsistence, feeling he

437-465: Was being treated unfairly and cheated of his war pension by the government. In 1953 Seifert's tuberculosis was found to be inactive and he was declared to have a reduced earning capacity of 30%, though any causality between his illness and his imprisonment during the war was denied. Seifert contested this, accused the doctors of creating false medical reports and complained in long letters to various authorities about his problems. In August 1954 Seifert

460-553: Was born in Praskolesy (present-day Czech Republic ), but within a few months, his family moved to nearby Hořovice . As a child, he fell seriously ill, could not walk for four years and spent two years in an orthopedic institution. Instead of playing, he began to draw pictures and his artistic talent soon started to emerge. His first teachers were Karl Würbs , inspector of the Estates Gallery at Prague Castle , and Alois Kirnig ,

483-491: Was examined by a medical specialist who noted Seifert's quirky behaviour, his scattered train of thought and his constant smile in inappropriate situations. He also recorded that Seifert harboured paranoid thoughts about his doctors and showed a peculiar fanatical behaviour, coming to the conclusion that he had paranoid schizophrenia , but did not have him hospitalised since he did not show any violent or dangerous behaviour. Meanwhile, Seifert revealed to his brother that he had

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506-448: Was examined by a public health officer, who was of the opinion that he was not in need of a regimen but suggested that he could be sent to a sanatorium for observation. The doctor also noted in his report that Seifert was a mentally devious person with no will to recover. Seifert again contested the report and wrote a letter titled " Sozialpolitik - Sozialärzte — Sozialmord " (social politics — social doctors — social murder), whereupon he

529-576: Was willing to buy. In Bohemia, his works did not sell well, even if he accommodated. For example, a history painting Jan Augusta welcomes Filipina Welser waited long for a buyer. To a church in Hořovice, he donated his painting Ave Maria , depicting a young girl praying to Virgin Mary. His other famous works include: Ophelia , Titania , Walk out of the gate , Spring of love and Tales of spooks . Walter Seifert The Cologne school massacre

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