The man who stabbed the physician Fritz von Weizsäcker on Tuesday evening has called a motive for his act during his police interrogation. The SPIEGEL learned from investigation circles. According to the 57-year-old from Andernach in Rhineland-Palatinate, he had deliberately killed the doctor to take revenge on the family von Weizsäcker. A spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor's office neither wanted to confirm nor deny this.
According to Spiegel research, the perpetrator justified his aversion to the role of Richard von Weizsäcker, the father of the killed, in the chemical company Boehringer Ingelheim.
Richard von Weizsäcker had been responsible as the company's CEO in the 1960s for supplying the company with deadly toxins for the Vietnam War.
Fritz von Weizsäcker, the son of the former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker, was killed on Tuesday evening during a lecture at the Schlosspark Clinic in Berlin. A man from the audience attacked him with a knife, Weizsacker died on the spot.
Until the act, the 57-year-old did not behave conspicuously during the presentation. Even during the deed he had said nothing according to the findings.
