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
After a dispute in a shopping centre in Hamburg-Harburg, a man is suspected of stabbing a man of the same age several times. The victim later died in hospital, and the suspect was provisionally detained.
A man is alleged to have attacked two police officers with a knife during an operation in Wangen. He died after police used firearms, while one officer was seriously injured.
A 39-year-old woman was taken to hospital with a stab wound to her back in Berlin-Schöneberg. Police are investigating suspected dangerous bodily harm.
Two suspects are alleged to have robbed a man in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg after one of them threatened him with a machete. Warrants were executed against both men.
Two minors were injured during an altercation involving several people in Gera. Police said that a pair of scissors, a baseball bat and belts were among the objects used.
An unknown man threatened a delivery worker at Schifferstadt main station with a utility knife and demanded cash and a phone. When the man refused, he suffered a superficial cut injury.
Two men allegedly seriously injured a 20-year-old cyclist with a knife after a collision involving a car in Augsburg. Both are in pre-trial detention on suspicion of attempted murder.
An unidentified man is suspected of robbing and lightly injuring a man with a knife at Albertplatz in Dresden. A woman who tried to mediate in the dispute was also lightly injured.
A 65-year-old man is alleged to have seriously injured a 59-year-old man with a knife during an altercation in Augsburg. An investigating judge ordered his remand in custody on suspicion of attempted manslaughter.
Following an argument, a man allegedly made a stabbing motion with a knife towards another man in Neuendettelsau. The targeted man was uninjured and the suspect was provisionally detained.
During a family dispute in Eisleben, a 22-year-old man is alleged to have injured his 51-year-old mother with a paring knife. She was taken to a clinic for medical treatment.
A 27-year-old man died after a fatal stab injury in an apartment in Eging am See. A detention order for psychiatric placement was issued against his 30-year-old girlfriend.
