Thomas Wolf (criminal)

Thomas Wolf (aka David van Dijk and David Schult, born February 11, 1953 in Dusseldorf ) is a German bank robbers. Several bank robberies in various cities, including wholesale Gerau, Hamburg and Eindhoven will be laid to his charge.

The criminal career of Thomas Wolf began at the age of 15 years with bicycle and shoplifting. Later, robbery, fraud, serious extortion, conspiracy came to the hostage-taking and Gefängnismeuterei it. Thomas Wolf sat 1981-2000 in various prisons in North Rhine -Westphalia. In 1982, he escaped from a prison clinic, 1988, he sawed the bars of the prison Gütersloh and escaped. In 1989 he fled after the execution in the prison money has been relaxed. Each flight was followed by an arrest.

Wolf sat until the turn of the year 2000 in the prison Moers Chapels and there was serving a six-year residual imprisonment for bank robbery as part of a prison sentence of 21 years. From a parole he did not return.

For years lived under a false identity Wolf with the name David van Dijk predominantly in Frankfurt am Main. On 20 April 2000, he attacked the Commerzbank at the Paul -Never -Platz in Hamburg's Altona district and captured 500,000 DM During his long flight Wolf has committed more parallelism of crimes in the Netherlands and in Belgium and tried.

Wolf is on 27 March 2009, the wife of a bank officials kidnapped in Wiesbaden, which freed itself after payment of a ransom of 1.8 million euro itself. Wolf has since been on the run. On his capture 100,000 euro reward were exposed. In May 2009, he escaped the police only just. His getaway car was found in a wooded area near Delmenhorst.

On 28 May 2009 Wolf was arrested by the police in front of the local " Lehmitz " on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. He offered no resistance.

In April 2010 it was announced that Wolf has been diagnosed with Lyme disease. He drew The disorder may be, as in the year before he hid during his flight even in forests and suffered a tick bite. In the criminal trial for the kidnapping and three bank robberies, which began before the Landgericht Wiesbaden in March 2011, his hearing ability was limited by the disease. Wolf has announced that he would sue the prison doctors because they had not initially recognized his illness. In December 2011, Wolf was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 13 years and 6 months after nine months of negotiations, for kidnapping in 2009 and two in front of it made ​​bank robberies. The prosecutor looked upon to apply preventive detention.