Wilhelm Voigt (1849-1922)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/205585
- Name (English)
- Wilhelm Voigt
- Short name
- Wilhelm Voigt
- Year of birth
- 1849
- Year of death
- 1922
- Short Description
- "Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 – 3 January 1922) was a German impostor who, in 1906, masqueraded as a Prussian military officer, rounded up a number of soldiers under his "command", and "confiscated" more than 4,000 marks from a municipal treasury. Although he served two years in prison, he became a folk hero as "the Captain of Köpenick" (German: der Hauptmann von Köpenick [ˈhaʊptman fɔn ˈkøːpənɪk] (listen)) and was pardoned by Kaiser Wilhelm II." - (en.wikipedia.org 13.07.2022)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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