Pappenheimer Family controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1600
Pappenheimer witch trial and public executions
The family was subjected to severe torture, forced confessions, compelled denunciations, and exceptionally brutal public executions. The proceedings appear to have been used to make scapegoats of socially marginal people and to attribute numerous unsolved crimes to them.
1600
Execution of Hansel Gämperl
The youngest member of the family, a child, was initially spared a death sentence but was later executed after officials assessed his conduct at his family’s execution and continued the proceedings against him.