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  Erfurt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erfurt [ˈɛrfʊrt] is a city in central Germany.
It is the capital of the state of Thuringia, a manufacturing centre with a population of 196,500.
Erfurt is the birthplace of one of J.S. Bach's cousins, Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749), Meister Eckhart and also sociologist, Max Weber (1864-1920).
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 Erfurt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
A city of central Germany, Erfurt is the capital of the state of Thuringia.
The emblem of Erfurt is the complex of two churches, Mariendom and Severikirche, which stand directly side by side.
Erfurt is the birthplace of one of J.S. Bach's cousins, Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749), and also of the sociologist, Max Weber (1864-1920).
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 School massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
A school massacre is an incident of attempted mass murder, involving at least one actual death, that occurs at a school.
After the Columbine massacre, for example, a number of American and Canadian high schools had students plot "Columbine-like" attacks; the vast majority of these plots were half-baked and unlikely ever to be taken to execution; of those attempted, almost all were foiled.
The 2005 Red Lake High School massacre (Red Lake, Minnesota, United States) was a notable exception, copying the element of a gunman in a fl trench coat.
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 Mass murder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Deliberate massacres of civilians during wartime by a state's military forces, such as the Nanjing Massacre during World War 2 or the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
These definitions are evidently outdated and do not take into account the phenomenon of school massacres by students, such as the Columbine High School Massacre, where alienated youths rampage through their schools killing fellow students and teachers alike.
The wrongful killing of large numbers of civilians or prisoners during war is called a war crime, although it may also be genocide if the proper ethnic motivation is present, as in the killings which occurred in the breakaway republics of the former Yugoslavia (e.g.
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 Erfurt spree killing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Erfurt spree killing occurred at the Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, on April 26, 2002.
Steinhäuser's words Für heute reicht's are also the title of a very controversial book about the massacre written by Ines Geipel.
In early 2004 a person on the Internet had maintained to be an friend of Steinhäuser's and to have known about his plans before the massacre.
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 Read about Erfurt at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Erfurt and learn about Erfurt here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Langensalza it was the centre of the German woad trade.
Erfurt University was founded, which was famous at its time but became defunct in 1816.
German reunification Erfurt became the capital of the reestablished
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 Erfurt
The emblem of Erfurt is the complex of two churches, Mariendom and Serverikirche, which stand directly side by side.
Erfurt is the birthplace of sociologist, Max Weber (1864-1920).
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 Encyclopedia: School massacre
The most widely publicized school massacre in the United States was the student-perpetrated Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.
The Red Lake High School massacre in 2005 (Red Lake, Minnesota) was a notable exception, copying the element of a gunman in a fl trench coat.
The Maalot massacre was a school massacre in Maalot, Israel, that occurred on May 15, 1974.
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 Time International : Massacre In Erfurt: An expelled student goes on a shooting spree at his former high school, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Start / T / Time International / May 06, 2002 / Massacre In Erfurt: An expelled student goes on a shooting spree at his former high school, killing 16.
Massacre In Erfurt: An expelled student goes on a shooting spree at his former high school, killing 16.
Read 'Time International: Massacre In Erfurt: An expelled student goes on a shooting spree at his former high school, killing 16.
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 Erfurt Massacre: Humanity Cannot Tolerate Killer Games
The school massacre in Erfurt, Germany on April 26, has been a brutal wake-up call to Germans about the crisis of education and the loss of human values in today's liberalized society.
That Friday, when students of the Johannes Gutenberg School in Erfurt were studying for their final exams, a former student, 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser, stormed into classrooms, firing into the heads of teachers, killing 13 of them.
The numerous teachers, parents, and education experts who have made this latter point in the wake of the Erfurt massacre, have so far not yet called for a return to the Humboldt system of Classical education which prevailed prior to the late 1960s.
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 Science Fair Projects - School massacre
In the United States, school violence, especially of the gang-related sort, is more common in poor, inner-city schools, but student-perpetrated school massacres most often occur in affluent suburbs.
The United States experienced what is usually considered to be an epidemic of school killings in the 1990s; presently, there are fears that China is experiencing one now.
June 11, 1964: A 42-year-old World War II veteran enters a primary school in Cologne-Volkhoven with a flame thrower and a lance.
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 Weise -Red Lake massacre
The common thread which seems to weave through all these massacres are: psychotropic drugs, Jewish shooters or accomplices, and the fact that the shootings are always followed by calls for strict gun control.
These massacres have a series of related coincidences, and it seems the ADL and SPLC is always around the corner.
After the massacre there have always been rumors about a second shooter, which some witnesses were believed to have seen.
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 TIMEeurope.com | Massacre In Erfurt - 05/06/02
Thousands of people crammed into an Erfurt church, where a Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest held a service hours after the shooting.
Manfred Ruge, mayor of Erfurt, said the killings were a careful execution of teachers: "The wounds indicate he was quite selective.
Paradoxically, at the same time the grisly shooting was unfolding in Erfurt, the German parliament was in the process of passing new legislation intended to strengthen the nation's already tough weapons laws.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2002/0506/cover/erfurt_2.html   (1099 words)

  
 Columbine massacre survivors meet Erfurt students.htm in Business Recorder on June 08, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
ERFURT: Survivors of the US Columbine High School massacre met students in the east German city of Erfurt, where a gunman killed 16 on a killing spree in April, to share experiences and prayers on Friday.
On April 26, a former student at the Johann Gutenberg school in Erfurt shot and killed sixteen teachers and students before committing suicide in Germany's worst post-war shooting spree.
The contingent of students, their friends and family from Littleton met students from a different Erfurt school, as most Johann Gutenberg students were taking exams.
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 How the teacher stopped the Erfurt massacre
The houses on Ottostrasse on the outskirts of Erfurt's picturesque old town are not prosperous, but comfortable.
He was entitled to own two short- and two long-barrelled guns, which he carried in Germany's biggest multiple killing since the massacre at the Munich Olympics - and he learnt to use them partly at the local police shooting association, of which he was a member.
Erfurt's police chief, Rainer Grube, said: 'He did not stay in one place, but covered several floors of the building.'
www.mattoid.ca /data/HumanRights/Teacher_stopped_the_massacre.htm   (708 words)

  
 TIMEeurope.com | Gunning for it - 05/13/02
Massacre at Erfurt: Why did a 19-year-old shoot dead 16 people at his former school
The tragic shooting in Erfurt last month and in Nanterre in March, both perpetrated by gun-club members, show that even Europe's tough laws cannot keep guns out of the reach of murderous individuals.
By that afternoon, the Erfurt massacre had rendered the new law all but moot.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2002/0513/guns/story.html   (545 words)

  
 Schiller Institute- Erfurt Massacre Proves-- We Need a Return to classical culture
On February 20, 2000, at a conference of the Schiller Institute in Washington, I made a presentation on the topic of "The New Violence," in which I pointed out the indisputable connection between violence in the media—particularly in Nintendo video games—and the dramatic increase in violent criminal acts commited by young people.
Long before the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton was making headlines, the United States had been witnessing literally thousands of cases of violence, and even murder, in schools and in residential neighborhoods, all committed by children and teenagers.
The massacre at Erfurt was merely the detonation of something that has been building up for a long time.
www.schillerinstitute.org /new_viol/helga_erfurt_42902.html   (976 words)

  
 A Step Too Far - On the road to global disarmament
The most important development was the sudden death on Saturday of an 18 year-old student from Gutenburg Gymnasium high school, where 17 were killed and 7 injured in the mass murder executed on April 26, 2002.
Apart from the dramatic hanging in Erfurt on Saturday, there have been a large number of other suspicious incidents and media misquotes surrounding the Gutenburg high school shootings, many of them well beyond my limited capabilities to translate accurately from the original German text.
Ralph speculates that a secret service probably orchestrated the mass murder at Erfurt, though understandably he does not seek to identify the country of origin of the shooters involved.
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 BBC News | EUROPE | Erfurt massacre 'planned for months'
The failed student who killed 16 others and himself at his former high school may have planned Germany's worst post-war massacre for months or even a year.
Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, stormed into Erfurt's Johann Gutenberg high school, shooting dead 13 teachers, two pupils and a police officer before killing himself on Friday, six months after the school expelled him.
In Berlin, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has summoned the leaders of the country's 16 states to a meeting next Monday to discuss how to tackle violence and toughen gun laws in the wake of the shooting.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1960170.stm   (414 words)

  
 Violence of School Massacre Mystifies Germany (washingtonpost.com)
ERFURT, Germany, April 27 -- Robert Steinhaeuser arrived at Gutenberg High School in this medieval eastern German city on Friday morning with a bag containing a pump-action shotgun, a pistol and more than 500 rounds of ammunition.
A member of two gun clubs who was legally entitled to carry the weapons, Steinhaeuser was a superb shot, felling his victims with a single round after bursting into classrooms or finding them in offices, corridors and restrooms.
Germany is in a state of collective distress and confusion following the Erfurt massacre, which was apparently triggered by Steinhaeuser's expulsion from the school for repeatedly forging doctors' notes so he could skip class.
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 List of massacres - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Massacres are individual acts of mass killing of civilians or noncombatants, almost always characterised as having distinct political significance in shaping subsequent events.
Below is a list of incidents that are commonly referred to as massacres, though other incidents may also qualify yet not be called massacres.
Erfurt massacre - Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, April 26, 2002
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 CBS News | Germany Mourns School Massacre | May 3, 2002 07:52:10
However, during a mass at the end, there was a prayer for the family as well as one urging politicians not to exploit the tragedy.
On Thursday, in their first public statement since the massacre, Steinhaeuser's father Guenter, mother Christel and older brother Peter said in an open letter they had never seen the hate that led him to kill teachers and school mates.
The massacre has triggered a national debate about television and video game violence after suggestions they may have had an influence on Steinhaeuser.
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 BBC News | EUROPE | 18 dead in German school shooting
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder described the massacre in the quiet provincial city as "beyond the powers of the imagination".
It is the worst school massacre in Europe since the 1996 shooting in Dunblane, Scotland, when a deranged gunman killed 16 children, a teacher and himself.
The German authorities have not given the name of the Erfurt killer but they said he was a 19-year-old who had been expelled from the school several months earlier and told he could not sit his university entrance exam.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1952000/1952869.stm   (589 words)

  
 Erfurt articles and news from Start Learning Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Together with the other five Thuringian woad-towns of Gotha (district)Gotha, Tennstedt, Arnstadt and Langensalza it was the centre of the German woad trade.
After German reunification Erfurt became the capital of the reestablished States of Germanystate of Thuringia.
Erfurt is the birthplace of one of J.S. Bach's cousins, Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749), Meister Eckhart and also sociologysociologist, Max Weber (1864-1920).
www.startlearningnow.com /Erfurt.htm   (412 words)

  
 ERFURT FACTS AND INFORMATION
In 1392 Erfurt_University was founded, which was famous at its time but became defunct in 1816.
On April_26, 2002 the student Robert Steinhäuser killed 13 teachers, 2 students, a policeman and himself at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium school, see Erfurt_massacre.
Erfurt_Airport can be reached by plane via Munich.
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However, it would have been a bigger step to do the massacre if he wouldn’t be used to guns already.
It was essential and indispensable to change the weapon law after the massacre of Erfurt.
A lot of people hold the opinion that the school massacre could have been prevented if there would be controls before you enter a school.
www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de /~el6/presentations/pres_c2_ymv/Erfurt.html   (662 words)

  
 The Patriotist - Ted Lang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Comparing the Erfurt, Germany massacre of 13 teachers, a school secretary, two students and a police officer by the gunman who then committed suicide, the carnage was every bit as horrific as the slaughter at Columbine.
The Erfurt shooter was a misfit and was expelled from school, thereby providing the motivation to get even.
Recall the massacre of innocent children at Dunblane, Scotland.
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 Erfurt massacre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Erfurt massacre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Heise said he had locked Steinhäuser in an empty classroom where he shot himself down.
See also (Click link for more info and facts about school massacres) school massacres, (Click link for more info and facts about list of massacres) list of massacres.
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 BBC News | MEDIA REPORTS | German press agonises over massacre
The Erfurt shooting is "Ground Zero for raising our children", the popular tabloid paper Bild says in a commentary.
The paper blames violence on television and computer games for the massacre in which 17 died.
Describing the massacre as "disturbing, shocking, indescribable", the paper calls on society to take more determined, decisive action against violence.
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