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February 13th, 1849
Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt was born in Tilsit as a son of a shoemaker. He attends the three-class town school. 

June 12th, 1863
Voigt is sentenced because of theft by the district court Tilsit to 14 days in prison. 

September 9th, 1864
Repeated condemnation of Voigt by the district court Tilsit: he gets 3 months in prison because of theft. 

September 1st, 1865 
Voigt is sentenced for "theft in the repeated relapse" by the district court Tilsit to 9 months in prison and a year loss of honour. 

April 13th, 1867
The jury Prenzlau sentences Voigt because of heavy falsification of documents to 10 years in prison and 1500 Taler fine.

July 5th, 1889
Voigt is condemned because of a serious theft by the district court Posen to a year in prison. 

January 18th, 1890
Voigt is sentenced because of "intellectual falsification of documents" by the district court Posen to 1 month in prison. 

February 12th, 1891
The district court Gnesen sentences Voigt because of serious theft to 15 years in prison and 10 years loss of honour and orders police supervision.

February 12th, 1906
Voigt is released from the detention centre Rawitsch. He works 3 months for the court shoemaker Hilbrecht in Wismar and is expelled after this. He gets stay ban for the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.  Voigt goes to his sister to Berlin and works there in the felt shoe factory Albert Viereck, Breslauer street.

August 24th, 1906
Voigt is expelled from Berlin, doesn't leave the town, however, and works further.

October 6th, 1906
Voigt hands in his notice for the felt shoe factory Albert Viereck.

October 16th, 1906
As a Prussian captain disguised Voigt does his famous "march to Koepenick" and robbes the cash-box in the city hall there. 

October 26th, 1906
Voigt is arrested.

December 1st, 1906
Condemnation to four years in prison by the district court II Berlin.

August 16th, 1908
Voigt is released from the detention centre Tegel.

August 20th, 1908
Voigt appears in Berlin in the arcade waxworks Friedrichstreet / corner Behrenstreet.

August 22nd, 1908
Appearance ban, tour to Dresden, Vienna, Budapest.

September 18th, 1908 -- March 4th, 1909
Appearances in varietes, restaurants, amusement parks. Voigt signs postcards which show him in captain uniform. Tours through Germany and Europe.

May 19th, 1909
On a journey to France Voigt purchases the right of residence in the city of Luxembourg.

March 5th, 1910
Tours in America, Canada and France.

April 30th, 1910
Return to Luxembourg.

May 1st, 1910
Voigt gets a Luxembourg identity card.

June 1910
Tours through Great Britain and Germany.

January 3rd, 1922
Voigt dies in Luxembourg and is buried on the cemetery Notre Dame.

 
   

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