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World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.

On June 11, in the year 1964, World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance. This event is recorded as a Historical Events event in the history of June 11, one of 363 recorded events on this date across all of history.

The Cologne school massacre was a mass murder that occurred at the Catholic elementary school located in the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, on 11 June 1964. The perpetrator, Walter Seifert, also known as "Der Feuerteufel von Volkhoven", attacked the people at the school with a home-made flamethrower and a spear, killing eight pupils and two teachers, and wounding twenty-two others. When police arrived at the scene, Seifert fled from the school compound and poisoned himself. He was taken to a hospital, where he died the same evening.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on June 11, 1964 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Historical Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 4 Wikipedia articles.
  • The event is associated with a specific geographical location (see map below).
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 1 March 2026.

On This Date in History 363

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Notable Deaths 2024 Jun 11 Françoise Hardy, French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2024 Jun 11 Majed Abu Maraheel, Palestinian long-distance runner and football player (born 1963)
Notable Deaths 2022 Jun 11 Hilary Devey, English businesswoman, television presenter (born 1957)
Notable Deaths 2020 Jun 11 Stella Pevsner, children's author (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2019 Jun 11 Billy McKee, Irish republican and founding member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2016 Jun 11 Rudi Altig, German track and road racing cyclist (born 1937)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 11 Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 11 Ian McKechnie, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1941)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 11 Ron Moody, English actor and singer (born 1924)
Notable Deaths 2015 Jun 11 Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (born 1945)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 11 Ruby Dee, American actress (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 11 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 11 Susan B
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 11 Mipham Chokyi Lodro, Tibetan lama and educator (born 1952)
Notable Deaths 2014 Jun 11 Benjamin Mophatlane, South African businessman (born 1973)
Historical Events 2013 Jun 11 Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 11 Miller Barber, American golfer (born 1931)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 11 Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 11 Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Notable Deaths 2013 Jun 11 Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (born 1929)
Historical Events 2012 Jun 11 75 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 11 Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (born 1917)
Notable Deaths 2012 Jun 11 Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (born 1952)
Selected Events 2012 Jun 11 Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people
Notable Deaths 2011 Jun 11 Eliyahu M
Selected Events 2011 Jun 11 The semi-professional English football club Gedling Town F
Historical Events 2010 Jun 11 The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa
Historical Events 2008 Jun 11 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses a
Historical Events 2008 Jun 11 The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit
Notable Deaths 2008 Jun 11 Ove Andersson, Swedish race car driver (born 1938)
Notable Deaths 2008 Jun 11 Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1922)
Selected Events 2008 Jun 11 Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimila
Historical Events 2007 Jun 11 Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people
Notable Deaths 2007 Jun 11 Mala Powers, American actress (born 1931)
Selected Events 2007 Jun 11 Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Ban
Notable Deaths 2006 Jun 11 Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2005 Jun 11 Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general and politician, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1922)
Notable Deaths 2005 Jun 11 Anne-Marie Alonzo, Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher (born 1951)
Historical Events 2004 Jun 11 Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe
Notable Births 2004 Jun 11 Katrina Scott, American tennis player
Notable Deaths 2004 Jun 11 Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (born 1946)
Notable Deaths 2003 Jun 11 David Brinkley, American journalist and author (born 1920)
Historical Events 2002 Jun 11 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
Historical Events 2001 Jun 11 Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
Notable Births 2001 Jun 11 Billy Gilmour, Scottish footballer
Notable Deaths 2001 Jun 11 Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (born 1968)
Notable Deaths 2001 Jun 11 Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (born 1923)

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