The Bremen School Shooting took place at approximately 11:00 a.m., when a shooter entered St. Mary's Catholic School, carrying a briefcase packed with ten handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. The killer's name was Heinz Schmidt. He was 29 years old.
Reports of what took place say that after entering the school, he met up with teacher Marie Pohl in the hallway on the first floor. Pohl had just stepped out of her class when she encountered Schmidt. Pohl questioned Schmidt about what he was doing there. She knew Schmidt because he was also a teacher at that school before being recently fired. Schmidt shot at her. He barely missed shooting her in the head.
In a panic, Pohl runs into a nearby classroom. At the same time, Schmidt entered the classroom that Pohl initially came out of. In that classroom, he came into contact with 65 students, all girls between 6 and 7 years old. He immediately began opening fire at the children.
The frightened children didn't know where to run so they hid under their tables. That didn't stop Schmidt from instantly killing two of them and wounding another. And when the children tried to run out of the classroom, Schmidt followed them.
Shooting at them as pursued them, one girl is said to have fallen down some stairs and actually broke her neck and died. He then tried to enter another classroom but found the door locked. Inside, a quick-thinking teacher realized what was taking place and locked herself and her class in.
At some point, a janitor appeared and tried to subdue Schmidt. He shot at the school janitor, hitting him in the face. Schmidt then tried going up some stairs but was tackled by a teacher. Sadly, Schmidt broke free and shot that teacher in his stomach and shoulder. After that, Schmidt started shooting out a window at children in a schoolyard. He shot five boys. Right after that, teachers, school employees, and the janitor, all rushed and finally subdued Schmidt.
The 29-year-old killer indiscriminately shot at students and teachers alike, actually killing five girls and wounding more than 20 others children and staff. Heinz Jakob Friedrich Ernst Schmidt was in fact a recently fired teacher at the school. The unemployed teacher was never tried for the crime and was instead sent directly to an insane asylum where he died almost 20 years later of tuberculosis.
The Bremen School Shooting took place on June 20th, 1913, at St Mary's Catholic School in Bremen, Germany. Which of course proves such heinous acts are also nothing new to Europe.
Tom Correa
I have no sympathy for pathetic bastards like Heinz Schmidt who wanna shoot up schools or do anything violent, suspicious, or dangerous that involves children. And to think this happened in Germany only two decades before World War II! Makes me sick. Heinz Schmidt should have been taken to a prison, blindfolded, marched up against a wall, and shot. But an insane asylum? Was there even proof that he was insane? I mean, I can understand him getting fired. But the insanity plea? Hell no! You killed women and children at that school in Bremen and now all of a sudden you're insane? Well, you would only be insane if you were a normal person who probably didn't have a job and wanted to target a school because of the fact that they wouldn't let you work there. Or you would be insane if your primary mission was to only harm the children. But instead you had to go and kill as many people at that school as possible before they brought you in. I plan on making a movie about the incident called, "Bremen" where I play the role of Iver Svenson. Svenson is a reporter in Munich in the 1940s who wants to find out from the survivors of the Bremen school shooting what Heinz Schmidt's motive was on the day of the attack. One of the survivors, Olga Helm, says, "It was rage. Blind rage. He got fired for inappropriate behavior and they let him go. He got angry. Said he would bring a gun. He brought one. He killed everybody!" Then she cries. Another survivor, Otto Klemberg, shares his account. "He had a Luger pistol in his right coat pocket. I took it from him and beat him over the head with it. I told him, 'You bastard. I want you dead!' I wanted to strangle him. But Officer Gudegan wouldn't let me. He said I would be arrested too. But I didn't care. That man killed my son. He killed Andre. And for that, I will never forgive him!" Another survivor, Bruno Von Brecht, shares his story. "I was in the kitchen when he came for me. He had the Luger pistol. He aimed it at me. I tried to run, but he caught up to me. He shot me in the head but I survived. It's all because of that bastard that I now walk with a limp! I'm glad he's dead!" And finally, Omar Brocken, another survivor, tells his story. "They told all sorts of lies at trial. They said he was mentally ill. They said he was insane. They said he was paranoid. They lied to us. He meant to do this terrible thing. We needed justice, not lies. But that was all they gave us. Lies! All lies!" I hope I succeed. Wish me luck.
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