Schinderhannes
Sign in to savethumb|Johannes Bückler, Painting by K. H. Ernst (1803)
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- Origin
- Life
- Black Peter
- Placken-Klos
- Imprisonment
- Crime spree
- Arrest and fate
- Trial
- Execution
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thumb|Johannes Bückler, Painting by K. H. Ernst (1803)
Johannes Bückler ( 177821 November 1803; ) was a German outlaw who orchestrated one of the most famous crime sprees in German history. He has been nicknamed Schinderhannes and Schinnerhannes () in German and John the Scorcher, John the Flayer and the Robber of the Rhine in English. He was born at Miehlen, the son of Johann and Anna Maria Bückler. He began an apprenticeship to a tanner but turned to petty theft. At 16 he was arrested for stealing some of the skins, but he escaped detention. He then turned to break-ins and armed robbery on both sides of the Rhine, which was the border between France and the Holy Roman Empire.