Düsseldorf

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, chairman of the Treuhand agency, was killed by RAF terrorists at his home in Düsseldorf on 1 April 1991. The assassination was the most high-profile terrorist attack in Germany in decades. His murder was never fully solved.

Peter Kürten, known as 'The Vampire of Düsseldorf', was a German serial killer who committed at least nine murders and numerous other crimes in Düsseldorf between 1929 and 1930. His brutal methods and sexually motivated attacks sent the city into mass panic. Kürten was executed by guillotine in Köln on 2 July 1931.