Franz Krajewski (1897-) was a German pornographer, drug addict, and police informant during the Weimar era.
Biography[]
Franz Krajewski was born in Hamburg, German Empire, and he served in the 76th (2nd Hanseatic) Infantry Regiment of the Imperial German Army on the Western Front of World War I. After the war, he worked as a police officer, but he dealt with his wartime trauma by developing a drug addiction. During a shootout, his trembling rendered him useless, causing the police to fire him. Krajewski came to live in the ruins on the Hermannplatz in Berlin, where he continued to suffer from his addiction. He became involved in Johann König's illicit pornography operation in Neukölln, resulting in his arrest by policemen Gereon Rath and Bruno Wolter on 29 April 1929. Wolter persuaded Krajewski to become a police informant in exchange for not charging Krajewski with shooting at Rath.