TODAY IN BERLIN: SHOTS IN THE JUNGFERNHEIDE

March 10 in Berlin

In very early hours of March 10, 1856 a group of well-clad men met in the Jungfernheide woods on the edge of Charlottenburg (since 1920 part of Berlin). The location was not a coincidence: they were about to hold a duel. Something that was not only banned by law - one of the duelling men was actually in charge of enforcing that law. On that early morning in March Berlin’s General Police Director, Karl Ludwig von Hinckeldey was forced to “defend his honour”and prove he was both “a man” and a gentleman to boot.