Remembering Bremen, the First-Ever School Shooting

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Century of Massacres:

 

Remembering Bremen, the First-Ever School Shooting

 

By René Schlott

 

On Friday, June 20, 1913, 100 years ago, death arrived at the Marienschule school in Bremen, Germany. What happened that day wasn't just any old murder -- it was the first documented mass school shooting in history.

 

It was shortly before 11 a.m., as teacher Maria Pohl lined her students up in two lines to leave the school building for recess. As the girls began to move, a man stormed up the stairs and opened fire. His name was Heinz Jacob Friedrich Ernst Schmidt, a 29-year-old unemployed teacher who had only lived in the city since December of the previous year.

 

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-98253.html