Werner Pinzner was born on 27 April 1947 in Bramfeld, the son of a radio mechanic and a grocery chain store manager.

However, drug trafficking also increased, as did other illegal activities such as arms dealing or possession of stolen goods, to the source of income.

He was also involved in an unpaid cocaine deal which forced him to run away from his wife and business partners in an apartment in Kiel.

On behalf of his ex-wife and daughter, Pinzner finally went to Kiel with an accomplice, Hockauf, and shot Arzi in his apartment on 7 July 1984.

Although the former wife and daughter were identified relatively quickly as suspects, the proceedings against the two were initially discontinued due to a lack of evidence.

[6][13] After the crime, Pinzner returned to the open Vierlande Prison, where he deposited the weapon back in his locker.

Pfeilmaier became an economic risk for his partner due to his increasing cocaine consumption and business-damaging behaviour in the brothel.

Instead, with the help of an accomplice, Pinzner lured Pfeilmaier, promising a larger drug deal to be carried out in a quiet place.

He went with the accomplice and the victim on 12 September 1984 in his car to a garage complex at Hirsekamp in Hamburg, Bramfeld, where Pfeilmaier was shot in the head.

In addition, he wanted to withdraw from his involvement in the brothel in exchange for a compensation payment of DM 100,000 (equivalent to €50,230) and to run drug deals independently of his partner.

[17] Waldemar Dammer, known as "Neger [German for Negro] Waldi", ran two brothels in competition with "Wiener Peter".

Shortly before Easter 1985, Dammer had "Wiener Peter" beaten up by two of his thugs in his "Palais d'Amour" brothel, thereby publicly humiliating him.

[19] In connection with allegations – which were ultimately not confirmed – that high-ranking police officers were working with pimps, an investigation group against organised crime, Fachdirektion 65 (or Department 65),[20] was set up under Interior Senator Alfons Pawelczyk at the end of the 1970s.

[14][22] They succeeded in getting a well-known brothel owner, who was called the "Godfather of St. Pauli", to face tax evasion charges.

Only in the case of Yehuda Arzi were the references to St. Pauli initially not recognisable, and the double murder of Dammer and Kühne only showed parallels in the execution of the crime.

[7] Finally, when two prostitutes made official statements, a mobile task force [de] arrested Pinzner on 15 April 1986, the "Wiener Peter" and an accomplice.

[11] "On the killer's sofa lay the murder weapon, a loaded Arminius revolver, .38 calibre, ten riflings with a right-hand twist.

"[11][9] After the arrest, which was only on suspicion of murdering "Bayern Peter" Pfeilmaier,[26] Pinzner immediately demanded to speak to the investigating public prosecutor, Wolfgang Bistry.

As a result, Pinzner was to provide specific information on five murders in several interrogations and testify on the structures in the red-light district of St.

[11][8] At a press conference, Hamburg Senator for the Interior, Rolf Lange (Social Democratic Party of Germany), described the arrest of Pinzner and the other participants as a great success for Fachdirektion 65 in the fight against organised crime.

[23] On 29 July 1986, Pinzner was taken to the Hamburg police headquarters, which was then located in a high-rise building at the Berliner Tor, for questioning.

In December 1986, around 350 police officers and several public prosecutors simultaneously carried out a major raid in Hamburg, Ahrensburg, Braunschweig and Mallorca.

[40] The brothel owner Reinhard Klemm [de], known as "Ringo", who was suspected of being behind the murder of prosecutor Bistry, escaped over the rooftops and left Germany for Costa Rica, from where he was extradited after considerable diplomatic efforts.

[41][42] In October 1989, Kalle Schwensen [de], Reinhard Klemm and Holger Sass were sentenced to prison by the Hamburg Regional Court for procuring the gun for Pinzner.

they indicated that the debate about internal security caused by the incident in the police headquarters had led to a heavy loss of votes in the election for the SPD.

Since there was no coalition agreement; as a result, the so-called "Hamburg conditions" occurred with an SPD minority senate with changing majorities.

[30][61] In 1989, two of Pinzner's accomplices, Armin Hockauf and Siegfried Träger, and "Wiener Peter" received a life sentence.

[7][6] In addition to the criminal proceedings, the judiciary repeatedly dealt with the consequences of Pinzner's actions in terms of the press law.

[62] In 1994, the Hamburg Regional Court [de] prohibited the journalist Dagobert Lindlau from naming Pinzner's lawyer in his book Der Lohnkiller for reasons of social rehabilitation.

Frank Göhre [de] dealt with the case in his St. Pauli trilogy,[64] and Dagobert Lindlau, in his 1994 book, The Hire Killer an organised crime figure.