The Captain of Köpenick: Everything From Friday to Sunday for the 120th Anniversary

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When Prussia understood where submissive spirit and belief in authority lead, it decided to laugh more about itself: 120 years ago Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt stormed the town hall of Köpenick as a false captain.

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This week the district of Treptow-Köpenick celebrates the so-called Köpenickiade and reminds of the coup of the shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt alias the captain of Köpenick.

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In October 1906, a fraudster took command of a few Prussian soldiers, arrested the mayor of Köpenick and captured the municipal treasury of the village.An extra sheet from Köpenick near Berlin reported on 16 October 1906 "the deed of a madman or fraudster": In the early afternoon, a Prussian captain had arrived from Berlin with a troop of soldiers, had the town hall locked down, arrested the mayor and the head of the main treasury of the village…