Berthold Wehmeyer (7 June 1925 – 11 May 1949) was a German murderer and the last criminal sentenced to death and executed in West Berlin.
On 22 April 1947, Wehmeyer, a trained locksmith, and his companion, whose name is not known, set out on a so-called hoarding trip to the Prignitz region.
In the trial before the Berlin jury court on 5 July 1948, Berthold Wehmeyer was sentenced to death for murder and to five years in prison for rape as the main perpetrator on the basis of the Reich Criminal Code of 1871, which continued to apply after the end of the war with the exception of its state protection provisions.
In West Berlin, the Basic Law applied until German reunification in 1990 only insofar as the measures of the occupying powers did not restrict its application.
Thus, capital punishment was only partially abolished by resolution of the West Berlin Senate in agreement with the Western Allies on 20 January 1951.