Karl Ahrendt (1853 – 1941)

In 1907, the coachman Karl Ahrendt appeared in a general's coat on the Alexanderplatz in Berlin. A crowd gathered. He was admitted to a mental hospital as an »insane public danger« and spent 33 years in hospitals until he was murdered in the Bernburg killing centre on 18 March 1941.

Image: Karl Ahrendt, Drawing from his medical records, undate
Karl Ahrendt, Drawing from his medical records, undate
© Bundesarchiv Berlin, R179/5597