Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck
The Murders of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck were a double homicide that took place in Berlin, Germany on 9 August 1931, when police captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck were assassinated by the paramilitary wing of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Both Anlauf and Lenck were members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). One of the murderers, Erich Mielke, later became the head of the "Stasi", the secret police of East Germany, and it was only in 1993 that he was tried and convicted of the murders.