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Friederike "Luise" Christiane Delitz (c. 1791 – 28 May 1813) was a convicted Prussian arsonist. With her accomplice and co-defendant, Johann Peter Horst (1783–1813), she was the last person in Germany to be executed by burning.^[1]

Delitz had a relationship with Horst, with whom she was arrested after a fire in Schöneberg in 1810. In August 1812, she stood trial for having been a part of a gang of eleven arsonists who were suspected of having caused 45 fires with 30 casualties around Brandenburg. Delitz and Horst were judged guilty and sentenced to be executed by burning. The verdict was carried out in Berlin on 28 May 1813.

The cause célèbre has been the subject of research and exhibitions.

References

General

• "Events in 1813". jrbecker. Archived from the original on 2014-12-06. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
• Johanna Muschelknautz; Petra Zwaka (2001). "Steckbrieflich gesucht! Die wahre Geschichte einer Mordbrennerbande in Preußen – Eine Ausstellung des Jugend Museums Schöneberg zum Preußenjahr" (PDF). Museumsjournal (in German) (II). Museentempelhof Schoeneberg. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016.
• Birgitt Eltzel (24 January 2014). "Die wahre Geschichte der Mordbrenner" [The True Story of the Murder Burners]. Berliner Zzeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 24 January 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
• Tobias Arbinger (20 May 2002). "Schöneberg: Brandstifter auf dem Scheiterhaufen" [Schöneberg: Arsonist at the stake]. Der Tagesspiegel (in German).
• "Das letzte Feuer" [The last fire]. Welt (in German). 24 September 2008.

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