Title: A Century after the First School Shooting in Bremen - DER SPIEGEL
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Century of Massacres Remembering Bremen, the First-Ever School Shooting
Overcoming the Killer
Police Stop a Lynch Mob
Hatred against Jesuits
Four Small Coffins

Content: A Century after the First School Shooting in Bremen - DER SPIEGEL
Foto: Archiv der St.-Marien-Gemeinde Bremen/Hermann Sandkühler
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Century of Massacres Remembering Bremen, the First-Ever School Shooting
One hundred years ago, a gunman entered a school in Bremen, Germany, and killed five girls in the first-ever mass school shooting. The similarities with the dozens of horrifying attacks that have come since are haunting. Von René Schlott
20.06.2013, 18.03 Uhr
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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. Panic broke out as Schmidt continued to fire his gun.