MesserMonitor statistics place published knife attacks, knife threats, robbery and extortion involving a knife in their regional and temporal context. The federal-state comparison shows case counts and cases per 100,000 residents. Further analysis shows absolute case numbers by period, case type, level of use and reported injury outcome.
Comparison year2025
Federal states compared · 2025
Cases through December 31, 2025
Comparison of published cases by federal state with population, immigration history and people seeking protection.
Population Immigration history People seeking protectionMesserMonitor cases
Baden-Württemberg
11,245,909 Population
13.47 %32.06 %3.40 %
491 Cases · 4.37 Cases per 100,000 residents
Bavaria
13,260,815 Population
15.88 %26.18 %2.98 %
382 Cases · 2.88 Cases per 100,000 residents
Berlin
3,701,307 Population
4.43 %35.45 %5.21 %
196 Cases · 5.30 Cases per 100,000 residents
Brandenburg
2,552,851 Population
3.06 %10.07 %2.96 %
72 Cases · 2.82 Cases per 100,000 residents
Bremen
706,901 Population
0.85 %40.03 %6.62 %
80 Cases · 11.32 Cases per 100,000 residents
Hamburg
1,869,801 Population
2.24 %35.51 %4.12 %
53 Cases · 2.83 Cases per 100,000 residents
Hesse
6,281,600 Population
7.52 %33.51 %4.42 %
352 Cases · 5.60 Cases per 100,000 residents
Lower Saxony
8,002,922 Population
9.58 %22.62 %4.24 %
314 Cases · 3.92 Cases per 100,000 residents
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
1,567,290 Population
1.88 %8.61 %3.34 %
69 Cases · 4.40 Cases per 100,000 residents
North Rhine-Westphalia
17,999,392 Population
21.55 %30.14 %4.40 %
847 Cases · 4.71 Cases per 100,000 residents
Rhineland-Palatinate
4,124,910 Population
4.94 %25.87 %3.51 %
172 Cases · 4.17 Cases per 100,000 residents
Saarland
1,008,047 Population
1.21 %24.11 %5.35 %
18 Cases · 1.79 Cases per 100,000 residents
Saxony
4,024,188 Population
4.82 %10.49 %3.41 %
141 Cases · 3.50 Cases per 100,000 residents
Saxony-Anhalt
2,121,638 Population
2.54 %9.95 %3.69 %
79 Cases · 3.72 Cases per 100,000 residents
Schleswig-Holstein
2,959,859 Population
3.54 %19.29 %4.03 %
121 Cases · 4.09 Cases per 100,000 residents
Thuringia
2,081,288 Population
2.49 %10.19 %3.49 %
100 Cases · 4.80 Cases per 100,000 residents
Analysis and result
The figures are based on publicly reported cases found through the evaluated sources.
Social context
Each point represents a federal state. Its position connects the selected social indicator with published cases per 100,000 residents.
Area statesCity states
Result for the selected indicatorData table and sources
At Bayreuth's central bus stop, a girl is alleged to have inflicted a deep facial cut on a boy with a utility knife. The boy was treated in hospital and the girl was detained.
A 62-year-old man is alleged to have injured his 53-year-old wife with a knife in Warngau. She was treated in hospital, while the suspect was initially detained and later released.
An unknown man is alleged to have threatened a 21-year-old cyclist with a knife in Borken's city park and stolen his phone, bag and e-bike. The suspect fled on the bicycle.
A man is alleged to have threatened several people with a utility knife after an argument outside a café in Viersen. Police provisionally detained him and later released him.
Police arrested two men after suspected robbery extortion in Neukölln. During his arrest, one suspect held a half-open folding knife while resisting officers.
After allegedly harassing a woman in Gelsenkirchen, an unidentified man reportedly stabbed toward her companion with a knife. The man avoided the strike, and police are seeking witnesses.
After a dispute at a petrol station in Friedrichshafen, a resident returned with two kitchen knives. Police resolved the situation and opened proceedings.
Two hotel workers were injured during a dispute in Hanover. A 21-year-old man sustained multiple life-threatening stab wounds, and his 26-year-old counterpart was arrested.
Two minors are alleged to have robbed a 19-year-old of cash while displaying a knife outside Dresden's main railway station. Both were remanded in custody.
A woman is alleged to have attacked a resident with a knife after an argument at accommodation in Hof. The man injured his finger while defending himself, and the suspect was remanded in pre-trial detention.
