Karl Heinz Beckurts

Who was Karl Heinz Beckurts?

Karl Heinz Beckurts was a German physicist and research manager.

With Karl Wirtz, he wrote a textbook on neutron physics. He was co-editor of the journal Nukleonik.

Along with his driver, Eckhard Groppler, Beckurts was murdered by a roadside bomb at 7:32 AM on 9 July 1986 in Straßlach, a district of Munich. The bomb used an electronic triggering device. The RAF claimed responsibility under the name "Kommando Mara Cagol" but the identity of the perpetrators is still unknown. The Bundeskriminalamt named Horst Ludwig Meyer as the only suspect for the bombing; Meyer was fatally shot in 1999 by the police in Vienna.