[Was the German forensic psychiatrist Hans Szewczyk the first modern profiler?]

The term "profiler" is usually associated with the FBI. For more than two decades a multitude of publications has appeared on this subject in the Anglo-American language area describing the work of psychiatrists and psychologists as profilers in spectacular crimes. This article deals with the forensic psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Szewczyk, who probably worked out the first perpetrator profile on a scientific basis in 1969-71 already when three boys were murdered in Eberswalde (state of Brandenburg); his profile made an essential contribution to the solution of the case.