Real criminal cases

From a mafia murder to a rucksack full of weapons

Wolfgang Gottsbachner (center) experienced a lot as a police officer. As deputy district commander of Zwettl, he is retiring and congratulates his successor Manfred Holzbrecher (right), who is now strengthening the team of police chief Rudolf Mader.(Bild: Klaus Schindler, Archiv Kronen Zeitung Krone KREATIV,)

The deputy district police chief of Zwettl in Lower Austria can look back on many unusual cases in his police career. Wolfgang Gottsbachner has now retired and is succeeded by the experienced Manfred Holzbrecher. Gottsbachner told the "Krone" about the highlights of a lifelong police career.

Zwettl's new deputy district police chief is Manfred Holzbrecher. He succeeds Wolfgang Gottsbachner, who has been involved in many moving cases during his career, which the "Krone" has reported on repeatedly since the 1980s.

Serious violent criminal was perplexed
Gottsbachner "lent a hand" in 2013, for example, when he arrested a fugitive felon in a pub garden full of people in Zwettl.