List of official executioners
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(August 2008 )
This is a list of people who have acted as official executioners .
Zachary Wallace Gross
1843–1856
Jacques Baroux
1842–1847 (first name is sometimes given as Joseph )
Nicolas Wolf
1847–1855
Antoine-François-Joseph Rasseneux
1855–1871
Monsieur d'Alger: The Executioners of the French Republic[ edit ]
In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Algiers, Antoine Rasseneux, Éxécuteur des Arrêts Criminels en Algérie, which became France's official description of the executioner of Algeria's occupation. From then on there would be one only executioner to carry out death sentences for all of Algeria. Since the colony's executioner was required to live in Algiers, people soon started to refer to him as "Le Monsieur d'Alger" ("The Man From Algiers"). Upon his nomination, Rasseneux was permitted to choose four among France's and Algeria's former local executioners to be his aides.
Franz Wurm (hired for one execution in 1934)
? Ance
~1789 (Rochefort )
Pierre Nieuwland
before 1918 – before 1929 (never executed anyone)
After 1808, during the Portuguese-Brazilian Kingdom (1808–1822) and the Empire (1822–1889), when Brazil 's States were still called "Provinces " and the currency was called "Reis", Brazil had factually abolished torture but was a busy death penalty country.
Method of execution was public hanging by an ultra-short drop of approximately 90 cm (2' 9 11/2"), with the executioner, after having activated the trap door or pushed the convict, according to the gallows's structure, climbed a ladder and launched himself rope downwards, hitting on the convict's shoulders with his weight.
Executioners generally were selected among convicts of capital crimes who had their death sentences stayed for indefinite terms or even commuted for life without parole, and who in exchange for their stays or commutations had to carry out the executions ordered by law. Executioners were, whenever possible, selected from among slaves convicted for a capital crime. And except for the province of Rio Grande do Norte , executioners had obligatorily to be of African descent.
As stayed or commuted convicts, executioners consequently lived as inmates in the prisons of the respective towns where they were based. When an execution was to be carried out elsewhere in his area, the executioner would be transported to the place of execution in chains and sleep in the local prison; after an attempt of murder against Fortunato José in 1834, prisons started separating the executioners from other inmates.
In the province of Rio Grande do Norte , the executioner had always to be the convict scheduled to die next after an execution, so that province's last execution had to be carried out by a firing squad, after the necessary emergency change of execution protocol.
In the state of Rio de Janeiro , after Independence September 7, 1822 there were also free executioners of African descent who having to travel around, were reached by couriers with execution orders.
Executioners, also when slaves, were paid for their executions; at the example of the province of Minas Gerais , we can establish payment was between 4$000 and 12$000 (4 Mil-Reis to 12 Mil-Reis) per execution.
The last execution of a free convict in Brazil was that of José Pereira de Sousa October 30, 1861 in Santa Luzia (nowadays Luziânia ), GO . The last execution at all under law in Brazil was that of the slave Francisco April 28, 1876 in Pilar , AL .
Brazil abolished capital punishment officially with the Proclamation of the Republic November 15, 1889, and by law with its first Republican Constitution of 1891 and Penal Code of September 22, 1892.
José do Egito
1823 (refused to carry out his first and only execution, had his stay lifted for it and died executed himself)
Joaquim Correia
September 26, 1849 (voluntary executioner, hanged Lucas da Feira ; despite white he was allowed to carry out that one since his father, Francisco Correia, had been one of Lucas's victims)
slave Silvério
active in 1854
João Paulo de Sousa (nicknamed"João Paulo Sagaz " and "Boca Negra ")
September 16, 1828 (executioner executed January 19, 1829)
slave Felício (nicknamed: "Farinha Sêca")
February 4, 1832
slave Francisco
April 5, 1838 (executioner executed September 5, 1838)
nicknamed "Macota "
active in 1844
slave Manoel
nominated January 12, 1822, by commutuation of his death sentence
André Bernard
1645
"The Drummer"
1648–1653
?
1653–1665
Jacques Daigre
1665–1680 (last name also given as Daigle )
Jean Rattier
1680–1703
Jacques Élie
1703/05–1710
Pierre Rattier
1710–1723 (youngest son of Jean Rattier)
Gilles Lenoir
1726–1728
Malgein
1728–1730 (a slave from Martinique )
Guillaume Langlais
1730–1733
Mathieu Léveillé
1733–1743 (a slave from Martinique )
Jean-Baptiste Duclos
1743–1750 (dit "Saint-Front")
Jean Corolère
1751–1752
Pierre Gouet
1754–1755 (nicknamed "Lalime")
Denis Quévillon
1755 (his hanging for theft was his successor Montelle's first job)
Joseph Montelle
1755– c. 1759
John Radclive
1892–1911 (last name also given as Radcliffe )
Arthur Ellis
1912–1935 (Arthur Ellis was the pseudonym of executioner Arthur Bartholomew English )
"Camille Blanchard"
1935–1960 (Camille Blanchard was the pseudonym that executioner of Canada used)
"John Ellis"
1960–1976 (John Ellis was the pseudonym Canada's last executioner used while interviewed on a TV show)
Kingdom of Bohemia / Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)[ edit ]
Philippe Hertrich
1702–1732
Philippe Hertrich
1732–1767
Jean-Gaspard Ostertag
1767–1780
Léopold Ostertag
1780–1793
Jean Ostertag
1649–1667
Jean-Philippe Roch
1667–1704 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
Matthieu Wees
1704–1737
François-Joseph Wees
1737–1749
see: Andlau
Jean-Henri Hermann
1690–1692
Jean-Barthélémy Reuter
1692–1715
Jean-Georges Hermann
1715–1782
Jean-Michel Hermann
1782–1793
see: Sarre-Union
Matthieu Frey
active in 1613
Jean Schild
1641–1644
Jean-Valentin Wees
1644–1676
Jean-Philippe Wees
1676–1689
Jean-Jacques Wees
1689–1696
Jean-Georges-Frédéric Wees
1696–1729
Jean-Valentin Wees
1729–1765
Jean-Michel Wees
1765–1793
Jean Ostertag
active in 1636
Jean-Georges Wees
active in 1665
Ulrich Schweitzer
c. 1690
Jean-Michel Rhein
1704–1730
Jean-Jacques Rhein
active in 1730
Frédéric Rhein
active in 1744
Georges-Jacques Grosholtz
active in 1793
Jacques Ostertag
active in 1609
Jean Ostertag
c. 1630–1667
Jean-Jacques Rauch
1667–1681
Jean Halter
1681–1716
Jean-Nicolas Igel
1703–1741
see: Ohnenheim
Thomas Burckhard
active in 1623
Jean Halter
1716–1750
Ignace Halter
1750–1762
see: Epfig
Fleckenstein (Lembach)[ edit ]
see: Memmelshoffen
Jean-Georges Stoeckel
1705–1723
Jean-Georges Stoeckel
1723–1739
Jean-Henri Hermann
1660–1692
Jean-Henri Hermann
c. 1692–1708
Jean-Henri Hermann
c. 1708–1747
Jean-Georges Hermann
c. 1747–1754
Jean-Michel Hermann
1754–1761
Pierre Hermann
1761–1767
Jean-Louis Schweitzer
1689–1733
François-Antoine Burck
1733–1760
Ignace-Jonas Rauch
1760–1793
see: Gundershoffen
Nicolas Reuter
1728–1745
Philippe Reuter
c. 1745–1766
Jean-Louis Reuter
1766–1787
Jean-Louis Reuter
1787–1793
Jean Halter
active in 1587
Jean Burckhard
active in 1612
Jean-Georges Wees
1650–1689
Jean-Jacques Wees
1690–1712
Philippe Burck
c. 1740–1743
Georges-Frédéric Seidler
active in 1776
Jean-Georges Burckhard
active in 1612
Jean-Jacques Lohri
1697–1717
Jean-Martin Rhein
1717–1735 époux de Barbara LOHR habitaient au "Hundsgalgen" (Chroniques familiales Auguste KOCHER)
Jean-Valentin Rhein
1735–1771 nettoyait les prisons en 1774
François-Antoine Wees
1771–1790
Arbogast Rhein
1790–1793 époux de Anne Marie HEITZ, une fille Catherine née en 1791
Jean-Jacques Kirschner
active in 1686
Jean-Jacques Burckhard
1686–1701
Jean-Thibaud Stoeckel
1701–1736/38
Jean-Thibaud Stoeckel
1736/38–1748
Georges-Adolphe Burck
1765–1773
Charles-Antoine Burck
1790–1793
Jean Schild
1644–1647
Jean-Valentin Wees
1647–1670 (interim; executioner of Bouxwiller)
Matthieu Schild
1670–1722
Jean-Henri Schild
1722–1741
Jean-Michel Schild
1741–1763
Jean-Michel Schild
1763–1793
Jean-Pierre Bour
1739–1763
Jean-Pierre Bour
1763–1782
François Rhein
1782–1793
Steinmayer
c. 1635
Jean-Georges Lohri
1717–1758
Thomas Burckhard
active in 1623
Jacques Bengler
c. 1670
Jean-Georges Bengler
active in 1676
Jean-Thibaud Bengler
active in 1688
Jean-Michel Bengler
active in 1701
Jean-Georges Bengler
1717–1740
Jean-Georges Ittinger
c. 1690
Jean-Henri Hirth
active in 1763
Jean-Valentin Wees
c. 1635–1644
Jean-Michel Burckhard
1699–1739
Antoine Rhein
1769–1782
Jean-Martin Rieger
1688–1713
Jean-Henri Rhein
1713–1732
Matthieu Rieger
1732–1762
François-Joseph Rieger
1762–1793
Jean Bengler
1595–1602
Michel Furcht
active in 1609
Michel Lautenmueller
1609–1614
Pancrace Furcht
1614–1621
Jean Furcht
1621–1634
Jean-Georges Heidenreich
1634–1643
Georges Vollmar
1643–1657
Jean Halter
1657–1672
Matthieu Wees
1672–1720
Christian Wees
1720–1761
Ignace Halter
1761–1778
Jean-Gaspard Ostertag
1778–1780
Léopold Ostertag
1780–1783
Jean-Baptiste Braun
1783–1793
Jonas Roch
1725–1748 (last name also given as Rauch )
Jean-Georges-Adolphe Roch
1748–1775 (last name also given as Rauch )
Gervais Roch
1775–1793 (last name also given as Rauch )
see: Saverne
see: La Petite-Pierre
see: Gundershoffen
François Rieger
c. 1720–1730
François-Adam Rieger
1730–1744
see: Bouxwiller
Jean-Frédéric Schaeffer
1625–1654
Claude Urich
1654–1691
Jean-Jacques Grosholtz
1691–1698
Jean-Philippe Schild
1698–1735
Jean-Michel Schild
1735–1769
Pierre Hermann
1769–1793
Jean-Georges Burck
1673–1679
Jean-Jacques Rhein
c. 1710–1716
Jean-Jacques Rhein
1716–1750
Jean-Georges Rhein
1750–1793
see: Sarre-Union
Ittinger
active in 1595
Christian Ittinger
1658–1675
Jean-Henri Burckhard
1675–1684
Jonas Ittinger
1684–1699
Georges-Frédéric Grosholtz
1699–1701
Jonas Felder
c. 1720–1725
Jonas Roch
1725–1748 (last name also given as Rauch )
François Heidenreich
1777–1793
Jean Vollmar
1562–1577
Gaspard Immion
1577–1583
Michel Comte
1583–1587
Jean Halter
1587–1591
Jean Ginter
1612–1628
Christian Burckhard
1631–1670
Jean-Michel Grosholtz
1670–1686
Jean-Melchior Grosholtz
1686–1691
Jean-Michel Grosholtz
1691–1724
Jean-Georges Franck
1724–1756
Jean-Joseph Grosholtz
1756–1761
Valentin Grosholtz
1763–1785
Georges-Frédéric Maegert
1785–1807
Georges-Louis Maegert
1807–1830
Georges-Frédéric Maegert
1830–1849
Laurent Bornacini
1849–1850
Jean-Guillaume Stoeckel
1723–1757
Antoine Stoeckel
1757–1768
Jean-Georges Burckhard
1687–1705
Jean-Conrad Ginter
1705–1710
Melchior Burckhard
1717–1730
Jean-Georges Burckhard
1730–1732
Antoine Ginter
1732–1746
Jean-Michel Ginter
1746–1747
François-Joseph Burckhard
1747–1748
Melchior Rhein
1748–1787
Georges-Frédéric Mengis
1787–1793
Christian Burckhard
c. 1670–1689
Jean-Georges Burckhard
1689–1700
Jean-Nicolas Franck
1700–1708
Jean-Jacques Grosholtz
1708–1717
Jean-Conrad Bauernfeind
1750–1790
Jean Bauernfeind
1790–1793
see: Wasselonne
Thibaud Burckhard
active in 1612
Georges-Frédéric Burck
1717–1739
Jean-Jacques Reuter
active in 1762
Lazare Wees
active in 1650
Jean-Michel Vollmar
1706–1711
Jean-Pierre Steinmayer
active in 1715
Georges Fleischmann
active in 1584
Erhard Gilg
active in 1624
Michel Ginter
active in 1627
Jacques Ginter
active in 1630
Henri Fleischmann
active in 1636
Georges-Frédéric Heidenreich
1647–1654
Matthieu Ostertag
1654–1694
Georges-Adolphe Ostertag
1694–1730
Jean Ortscheid
1730–1754
Jean-Philippe Burck
1754–1781
François-Joseph-Antoine Ostertag
1781–1793
Melchior Ginter
1688–1714
Melchior Ginter
1714–1737
Georges-Frédéric Mengis
active in 1749
Protais Roch
1788–1793 (last name also appears as Rauch )
Jean Heyd
c. 1440
Jean Buebe
1454–1458
Henri Schaedel
active in 1474
Christian Mueller
1598–1642
Jean-Georges Heidenreich
1644–1679
Melchior Ginter
1679–1692
Georges-Adolphe Heidenreich
1692–1716
Jean-Jacques Ginter
1716–1722
Melchior Ginter
1722–1733
Georges-Frédéric Ginter
1733–1736
Georges-Frédéric Burckhard
1736–1747
Georges-Michel Vollmar
1747–1754
Georges-Frédéric Vollmar
1754–1764
Jean-Jacques Vollmar
1764–1806
Jean-Guillaume Vollmar
1806–1833
Jean Zimber
1833–1841
Matthieu Spirckel
1841–1847
Nicolas Cané
1847–1870
Ittinger
c. 1650
Jean-Georges Mengis
1671–1693
Georges-Melchior Mengis
1693–1699
Jean-Michel Mengis
1699–1721
Pierre Mengis
1721–1736
François-Michel Roth
1768–1793
Jean Gilg
1570–1582
Jean Gilg
1582–1619
Erhard Gillig
1619–1620
Matthieu Mercklen
active in 1628
Matthieu Ostertag
1677–1735
Georges-Frédéric Ostertag
1735–1746
Jean-Jacques Comte
1746–1764
François-Oswald Seidler
1764–1780
François-Antoine Comte
1780–1790
Jean-Erhard Baumert
1611–1628
Thomas Burckhard
1628–1629
Wernhard Grosholtz
1629–1640
Martin Grosholtz
1640–1653
Jean Ostertag
1653–1717
Matthieu Ostertag
1717–1729
Jean-Georges Ostertag
1729–1736
Pierre Mengis
1736–1753
François-Joseph-Antoine Ostertag
1753–1793
Thibaud Lacour
c. 1665
Jean-Josse Ostertag
1680–1685
Laurent Ostertag
1706–1736
Jacques-Christophe Ostertag
1736–1762
Georges-Frédéric Seidler
1762–1769
Christophe Ostertag
1769–1793
Morschwiller-le-Bas [ edit ]
see: Mulhouse
Jean Mennly
c. 1507
Guy Bartlin
1545–1553
Barthélémy Iring
1553–1554
Louis Kremer
1554–1555
Jean Waltz
1555–1560
Jean Hummel
1560–1565
Jacques Rueb
1565–1569
Gaspard Fues
1569–1587
Martin Hummel
1587–1596
Ulrich Grosholtz
1596–1624
Jean-Michel Grosholtz
1624–1637
Jérôme Ginter
1637–1662
Christian Burckhard
1662–1678
Christian Burckhard
1678–1709
Jean-Rodolphe Vollmar
1709–1712
Jean-Etienne Hirschfeld
1712–1735
Jean-Henri Naeher
1735–1764
Pierre Mengis
1753–1764
François Mengis
1764–1775
Pierre Mengis
1775–1793
François-Joseph-Pierre-César Mengis
1793–1798
Jean Bardouil
active in 1633
Jean-Michel Burckhard
1660–1697
Jean-Georges Burck
1697–1727
Jean-Georges Burck
1727–1764
Jean-Georges Burck
1764–1790
Jean-Georges Burck
1790–1793
Jean-Conrad Ginter
1600–1615
Melchior Ginter
1615–1634
Melchior Ginter
1634–1649
Jean Fuend
1649–1652
Jean-Jacques Ginter
1652–1653
Matthieu Fuend
active in 1653
Melchior Ginter
1653–1681
Melchior Ginter
1681–1714
Melchior Ginter
1714–1733
Georges-Frédéric Seidler
1733–1775
Gervais-Frédéric Seidler
1775–1793
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines [ edit ]
see: Ribeauvillé
Bibwand
c. 1545
Balthazar Schaeflein
1580–1615
Balthazar Ginter
1615–1626
Balthazar Schaeflein
1626–1634
Balthazar Schaeflein
1634–1660
Melchior Ginter
1660–1664
Balthazar Schaeflein
1664–1691
Jean-Georges Ostertag
1691–1718
Matthieu Ostertag
1718–1748
Jean-Baptiste Reisser
1748–1767
Jean-Joseph Reisser
1767–1791
Jean-Philippe Ostertag
1791–1793
Traubach (Traubach-le-Bas and Traubach-le-Haut)[ edit ]
Jean-Jacques Ginter
1679–1686
Melchior Burckhard
1686–1691
Christian Burckhard
1717–1743
Jean-Jacques Burckhard
1750–1767
Joseph Ostertag
1764–1774
Jean-Jacques Ostertag
1774–1793
see: Thann
Christian Hertrich
active in 1613
Matthieu Pradel
1779–1822
Pierre Pradel
1822–1827
Louis-François-Gabriel Deville
1827–1837
Jean-Baptiste Champin
1837–1839
Jean Rascat
1839–1849
Lauffort
active in 1416
Jean Maloizeau
active in 1455
Jean Maloizeau
active in 1502
Bernard Robert
c. 1525
Jansenot de Fousse
active in 1535
Jamet de Fousse
active in 1542
Pierre de Villac
active in 1542
Guichard Deymier
1549–1552
Arnaud de Villac
c. 1562
Jacques de Villac
c. 1570
Louis Maubert
c. 1580
André Chaigneau
active in 1582
Pierre de La Boucherie
1596–1598
Pierre Gantet
active in 1665
Julien Dupré
1674–1675
Pierre Duret
active in 1675
Antoine Royère
active in 1675
Arnaud Pignot
1675–1684
Guillaume Lespine
1684–1685
François Marquison
active in 1686
Jean Escuvé
1700–1706
Louis Verdier
1706–1731
Pierre Verdier
1731–1760
Jean Faroux
1760–1780
Jean Peyrussan
1780–1788
Jean Peyrussan
1788–1801
Jean Peyrussan
1801–1809
Jean Peyrussan
1809–1819
Jean-Baptiste Scarron
1819–1821
Joseph Sauvage
1821–1853
Henri-Charles Desmorest
1853–1870
Jean-Louis Hébert
1792–1795
François-Claude Chrétien
1795–1797
Bénigne-Nicolas-François Brochard
1797–1798
Jean Peyrussan
1798–1806
Raymond Peyrussan
1806–1822
François Peyrussan
1822–1846
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Roch
1846–1849 (last name also given as Rauch )
Lot-et-Garonne (47)[ edit ]
Maurice
c. 1575
Jean Gastebois
1691–1692
Jean Rascat
1784–1788
Guillaume Augé
1788–1793
Jean Peyrussan
1793–1794
Pierre Rigal
1794–1796
Joseph Peyrussan
1796–1802
Gilles-François Berger
1802–1805
François Berger
1805–1808
Joseph Pavot
1808–1827
Pierre Berger
1827–1831
Jean-Pierre Étienne
1831–1839
Jean-Baptiste Champin
1839–1856
Vincent Bornacini
1856–1860
Laurent-Désiré Desmorest
1860–1870
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64)[ edit ]
Jean Faroux
1729–1738
Vidal
active in 1746
Jean-Pierre Peyrussan
1746–1792
Gelpy
1792–1793
Guillaume Gayme
active in 1463
Simon Marensin
1640–1643
Jean Desplats
1643–1644
Henri Dubois
1653–1660
Dubois
active in 1660
Antoine Cassou
1740–1765
Jean Cassou
1765–1780
Jean Faroux
1780–1822
Joseph Faroux
1822–1853
Vincent Bornacini
1853–1856
Joseph Rascat
1856–1870
Jérôme Bodin
1762–1767
Jean Desfourneaux
active in 1767
Jean-Baptiste Jean
1793–1828
Jacques-Christophe Gruneisen
1828–1841 (his last name is also rendered as Grinheiser )
Louis-Jacques-Eugène Gruneisen
1841–1849 (his last name is also rendered as Grinheiser )
Jean Robertie
1716–1750
Jean Robertie
1750–1761
Antoine-Michel Foyez
1761–1763
André-Joseph Foyez
1763–1793
Joseph Foyez
1793–1795
Tourette
active in 1790
Jean Foyez
1790–1823
André-Joseph Foyez
1823–1835
Bernard Gatheuil
1835–1836
Joseph-Antoine Deibler
1836–1853
Jean Lacroix
1780–1789
François Faroux
1800–1802
Claude Hermann
1802–1815
Nicolas Hermann
1815–1842
Eloi-Désiré Hermann
1842–1850
Jean Dubois
c. 1720
Pierre Dubois
1730–1749
Geniès Armilhon
1749–1764
Martin Courtois
1764–1789
Frédéric Courtois
1789–1790
Simon Jean
1790–1791
Simon Jean
1791–1798
Michel Benoist
1798–1803
François Étienne
active in 1843
Charles-Louis Jouenne
1774–1776
Nicolas-Jean Jouenne
1621–1633
Nicolas-Robert Jouenne
1663–1692
Nicolas Férey
1727–1738
Charles-François Jouenne
1738–1748
Charles-Lubin Jouenne
1748–1776
Nicolas-François Férey
1761–1763
Charles-Louis Jouënne
1776–1820
Charles-Nicolas-Lubin Jouënne
1820–1840
Matthieu Spirckel
1840–1841
Nicolas Wolff
1841–1847 (from 1847 to 1855 executioner of Alger, Algeria)
Joseph Baroux
1847–1849
Eugène Ganié
1849–1850
Louis-Jacques-Eugène Gruneisen
1850–1870 (his name also appears as Grinheiser )
Jean Bouëtard
1724–1748
Jean Bouëtard
1748–1755
Etienne Martin
1755–1770
Charles-Louis Jouenne
1770–1793
Nicolas-Richard Jouenne
1770–1793
Guillaume Dubut
active in 1440
Pierre Barbon
1735–1742
Nicolas Férey
active in 1742
Nicolas Férey
1742–1754
Charles Lacaille
1754–1760
Thomas Lacaille
1725–1731
Charles Lacaille
1731–1754
Michel-Jean Martin
1787–1793
François Férey
active in 1725
Lubin Vallet
1717–1719
Joseph Morin
active in 1719
Jean Gerbault
active in 1589
Mathurin Vallet
1682–1710
Lubin Vallet
1710–1717
François Férey
1717
Charles Morin
1717–1727
Nicolas-François Férey
1750–1760
Charles-Jean-Baptiste Sénéchal
1760–1761
Charles-Lubin Jouënne
1761–1775
Charles-Louis Jouënne
1775–1794
Charles Lacaille
1794–1807
François-Lubin Desmorest
1807–1849
Pierre Martin
1730–1739
Étienne Martin
1739–1755
Pierre Martin
1739–1770
Maurice Lantier
active in 1789
François Corneillet
1718–1731
Michel-Louis Bouëtard
active in 1731
Jacques-Michel Bouëtard
1774–1793
Michel Bouëtard
1774–1793
Pierre-Denis Ganié
1793–1810
Louis Filliaux
1810–1821
Joseph Ganié
1821–1849
Mortagne-au-Perche
Nicolas Durand
1730–1738
Michel Durand
1738–1741
Jean-Joseph Durand
1738–1786
Michel Durand
1780–1786
Pierre-Denis Ganié
1786–1793
Nicolas-Lubin Jouenne
1786–1788
Pierre Minard
active in 1574
Morlot
active in 1575
Damien Tombereau
active in 1582
Jean Pancquotet
active in 1584
Jean Blaigny
1416–1417
Arny Signart
active in 1430
Étienne Poisson
1465–1470
Jean Larmite
1470–1473
Jean Dupoix
1473–1478
Jean Minot
1478–1487
Thomas Regnault
1487–1490
Joseph Blanchet
1487–1490
Jean Alory
1490–1493
Jean Blanleu
1493–1520
Jean Beurey
1520–1524
Vincent Rapeneaul
1524–1536
Pierre Berbier
1536–1538
Pierre Dufresne
1538–1545
Sylvestre Champonnet
1545–1546
Jacques Silvestre
1546–1558
Hilaire Benoist
1558–1568
Claude Tussault
1568–1572
Pierre Fleuriet
1572–1593
Claude Chrétien
1607–1611
Jacques Brun
1610–1611
Jean Chrétien
1611–1615
Simon Grandjean
1615–1625 (lynched together with his wife in the end of a botched beheading)
Gaspard Perrier
1637–1647
Perrot-Morisot
1647–1660
Jacques Champion
1660–1671
Antoine Petit
1671–1680
Jacques Drouot
1680–1695
Matthieu Champion
1695–1698
Nicolas Vallot
1698–1710
Jean Champion
1710–1720
Jean Griveau
1720–1724
Joeph Gerboin
1724–1729
Pierre Champion
1729–1741
Martin Chefdeville
1741–1745
Martin Millot
1745–1748
François Montagne
1748–1759
Claude-Laurent Chrétien
1759–1763
François Chefdeville
1763–1794
Nicolas-François Férey
1794–1797
Louis-Gabriel Bellat
1797
Philibert-Joseph Vermeille
1797–1799
Paul Martinet
1799–1801
Louis-Charles-Martin Sanson
1801–1808
Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Desmorest
1808–1823
Joseph-Antoine Deibler
1823–1827
Charles-Louis Lacaille
1827–1839
François-Joseph Desmorest
1839
Dominique Martinet
1839–1841
Henri-Charles Desmorest
1841
Nicolas Chtarque
1841–1844
François Étienne
1844–1870
Gaspard Perrier
1630–1637
Jean Chasteau
active in 1522
Jean de Norry
1668–1677
Georges Brunet
1677–1710
Pierre Bellin
1710–1712
Gabriel Amariton
1712–1721
Jean Bodin
1743–1750
Louis Remon
1750–1752
Pierre Gilles
1752–1760
Joseph Tisserand
1760–1761
Jean Tisserand
1761–1805
Laurent Pourra
1805–1815
François Étienne
1815–1835
François Étienne
1835–1843
Antoine Étienne
1843–1845
? Palle
1845–1849
Saône-et-Loire (71)[ edit ]
Jacques Brun
active in 1610
Jacques Quantin
c. 1645
Matthieu Champion
1690–1695
Pierre Champion
1695–1721
François Champion
1721–1745
Pierre Champion
1745–1750
Pierre Henry
1750–1762
Lafrance
1762–1764
Claude-Laurent Chrétien
1764–1770
Quentin Brochard
1770–1793
Claude-Antoine Chrétien
1793–1804
François-Joseph Heidenreich
c. 1806
Denis Gromon
active in 1610
Jean Thévenet
active in 1714
Claude Martigny
c. 1600–1610
Joseph Gerboin
1716–1717
Jean Hérisson
1717–1733
Jean Brochard
1733–1758
Nicolas Brochard
1758–1787
Henri Bickler
1787–1807
Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Desmorest
1807–1808
Louis-Charles-Martin Sanson
1808–1812
Pierre-Nicolas Jouenne
1812–1822
Pierre-Joseph Doubleau
1822–1849
Jean Le Nain
1577–1580
Claude Nignet
active in 1598
Jean Doubleau
1660–1680
Pierre Doubleau
1680–1715
Charles Brochard
1715–1722
Nicolas Brochard
1722–1727
Pierre Daucourt
1727–1732
Jacques Tisserand
1732–1734
Joseph Doubleau
1734–1746
Jean Brochard
1746–1758
Jean-Charles Brochard
1758–1793
Côtes-d'Armor (22; Côtes-du-Nord before 1990)[ edit ]
Charles-Lubin Lacaille
1792–1822
Auguste Gassouin
1822–1840
Charles-Marie-Louis Lacaille
1840–1842
Jacques-Henri Ganié
1842–1845
Joseph Ganié
1845–1853
Jacques Le Glaouer
1712–1759
Jean Le Glaouer
1759–1773
Maurice Le Glaouer
1773–1793
Hervé Le Glaouer
1793–1804
François Lacaille
1804–1805
Paul Miraucourt
1805
Georges Miraucourt
1805–1807
Hervé-Joseph Le Glaouer
1807–1815
Jean-Baptiste Michel
1815–1817
Laurent Rhein
1817–1821
Germain Benoist
1821–1823
Claude-François Desmorest
1823–1849
Ille-et-Vilaine (35)[ edit ]
Cousinet
c. 1617
Étienne Normandeau
1700–1723
Jean Verdier
1723–1730
Jacques Ganié
1730–1752
François-Thomas Férey
1752–1757
Jacques-Joseph Ganié
1757–1786
François-Joseph Férey
1786–1792
Gabriel-Joseph Dupuy
1792–1815
Henri Bickler
1815–1852
Jean-Emile Grosholtz
1852–1853
Joseph-Antoine Deibler
1853–1863
Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler
1863–1871 (after 1871 the executioner of the republic in Paris)
François Guay
active in 1653
Pierre Tillard
active in 1657
Gervais Judic
active in 1686
François Guay
active in 1693
Jean Verdier
active in 1686
Pierre Ganié
active in 1736
Jacques Verdier
1752–1753
François Prudhomme
1753–1764
Jean Verdier
1764–1770
Charles-François Prudhomme
1770–1777
Louis-François Prudhomme
1777–1779
Charles-François Prudhomme
1777–1813
Charles-Louis Prudhomme
1777–1813
François Ganié
1841–1849
Centre-Val de Loire (Centre before 2015)[ edit ]
Pierre Mayet
1656–1662
Blaise Thiéry
1662–1681
Michel de Larousse
1681–1690
Jean Bessois
1690–1699
Jean Brunet
1699–1707
Michel Brunet
1707–1719
François Adam
1719–1739
Charles Esnault
1739–1742
Pierre Desfourneaux
1742–1769
Jacques Desfourneaux
1769–1779
François Desfourneaux
1779–1788
Ulrich Fischer
1788–1829
Pierre-Etienne Fischer
1829–1841
Christophe-Henri Desmorest
1841–1849
Georges Aurillault
1624–1627
Claude Aurillault
1627–1635
Hubert Bouard
1636–1691
Jean de Larousse
1691–1696
Claude Esnault
1696–1698
Charles Esnault
1698–1706
Jean Desfourneaux
1706–1747
Jean Desfourneaux
1747–1755
François Desfourneaux
1755–1792
Robert Divray
active in 1584
Robert Beaufils
active in 1581
Jean Baudry
c. 1600
Lubin Baudry
1604–1627
Lubin Baudry
1627–1647
Pierre Corneillet
1647–1657
Nicolas Le Vavasseur
1672–1681
Antoine-François Deville
1781–1808
François-Eloi Deville
1808–1826
Jean-Eloi Deville
1826–1846
Henri-François Deville
1846–1849
Guillaume Artus
1496–1497
Jacques Fulbert
1556–1557
Yves Tontonnay
active in 1564
Jacques Guictray
1577–1580
Joachim Guictray
1582–1584
Michel Leliepvre
1602–1616
Jacques Landeau
1625–1629
Laurent Landeau
1629–1651
Louis Landeau
1651–1663
Nicolas Brunet
1663–1686
Claude Esnault
1686–1691
François Tardiveau
1691–1714
Aignan Proust
1714–1744
Jean-Baptiste Proust
1744–1772
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Étienne
1772–1793
Pierre Desfourneaux
1792–1834
Jacques Cané
1834–1849 (last name also rendered as Canin )
François-Joseph Desmorest
active in 1837
Charles Esnault
1706–1718
Matthieu de Larousse
1718–1735
Louis-Pierre Hébert
1735–1749
Gilbert-Matthieu de Larousse
1749–1752
Louis-Charles Hébert
1749–1752
Charles-François de Vallereau
1752–1760
François Desfourneaux
1760–1792
Indre-et-Loire (37)[ edit ]
Jacques Berger
1690–1722
Jacques Berger
1722–1744
Martin Berger
1744–1760
Gilles-François-Nicolas-Martin Berger
1783–1793
René Condenay
1680–1700
Jean Condenay
1700–1711
Louis Duchesne
1711–1718
Michel Clément
1718–1720
Louis Ayrault
1720–1730
Etienne Robert
1730–1735
Jacques-Bernard Lefébure
1735–1738
Gilles Férey
1738–1753
Jean-Louis Ayrault
1762–1783
Gilles-François Berger
1783–1793
see: Chinon
Étienne-Louis Normandeau
1730–1740
Jean Bodin
1740–1743
Vincent Jamet
1743–1754
Jean-Louis Ayrault
1754–1758
Quentin Brochard
1762–1770
Claude-Henri Chrétien
1772–1789
François-Claude Chrétien
1789–1793
Denis
1461–1488
Jacques Lefébure
1640–1654
François Berger
1654–1690
Jacques Berger
1690–1722
Antoine Berger
1722–1744
Gilles-François-Nicolas Berger
1744–1768
Louis-Charles-Martin Sanson
1768–1795
Pierre-François-Etienne Desmorest
1795–1830
François-Louis-Henri Desmorest
1830–1849
Guillaume Guillard
1373–1374
Laurent Robert
c. 1600
Blaise Robert
1609–1649
Jean Robert
1649–1665
Louis Robert
1665–1667
Nicolas Esnault
1667–1698
Jean Berger
1698–1710
Jean Berger
1710–1718
Jean de Larousse
1718–1721
François Trémont
1721–1761
Pierre-André-Louis Desmorest
active in 1761
Joseph Doubleau
1761–1795
Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson
1795–1799
Joseph Doubleau
1799–1800
Charles-Louis Férey
1800–1826
André-Louis Férey
1826–1832
Charles-François Desfourneaux
1832–1849
Romorantin-Lanthenay [ edit ]
Guillaume Landeau
1600–1629
Jacques Landeau
1629–1640
Louis Landeau
1640–1692
Pierre Trémont
1692–1747
Henri-Pierre Trémont
1747–1756
François Brunet
1756–1775
François Montagne
1775–1793
Louis Macé
1582–1583
Charles Brochard
1715–1722
Jean Brochard
1722–1745
Pierre Tapetoux
1745–1789
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Étienne
1789–1793
Joseph Gerboin
1704–1717
Georges Hérisson
1717–1718
Jean Berger
1718–1720
Jean Hérisson
1720–1727
René Berger
1727–1733
Louis-François Hébert
1797–1801
Pierre Robert
c. 1430
Jean Legros
c. 1600
Matthieu Legros
active in 1627
Simon Boudineau
1648–1656
Jacques Leroy
1656–1658
Nicolas Martinot
1658–1670
Louis Tardiveau
1670–1699
Jean Desmorest
1699–1700
Louis Tardiveau
1700–1707
Michel Tardiveau
1707–1715
Henri Tardiveau
1715–1735
François Tardiveau
1735–1736
Aignan Proust
1736–1740
Nicolas Berger
1740–1758
Henri-Alexis Tardiveau
1758–1771
Pierre-François Étienne
1771–1789
Charles-François Férey
1789–1820
Gabriel-Auguste Desmorest
1820–1870
Pierre Barbier
1690–1722
Pierre Barbier
1722–1727
Jean Barbier
1727–1731
Simon Barbier
1731
Pierre Barbier
1731–1773
Simon Barbier
1773–1779
Jean-François Barbier
1779–1828
Pierre Barbier
1779–1828
François Barbier
1828–1841
Philippe Wolff
1841–1842
Christophe Reine
1842–1849 (his last name also appears as Rhein )
Guillaume
active in 1432
Maigret
active in 1571
Maxime Doublot
1710–1715
Nicolas L'Arné
1715–1729
Antoine Doublot
1729–1736
Hubert Doublot
1736–1750
Jean Doublot
1750–1761
François Blondeau
1761–1770
Jean-Baptiste Doublot
1770–1787
Louis-Michel Olivier
1787–1823
Joseph-Nicolas Fauconnier
1823–1841
Châlons-en-Champagne[ edit ]
Louis Saffret
1606–1628
Séverin Saffret
1628–1632
Pierre Lévesque
1632–1638
Louis Saffret
1638–1643
Jean Saffret
1667–1679
Jacques Jean
1679–1688
Jacques Michelin
1688–1702
Pierre Daniel
1702–1709
Nicolas Desmorest
1709–1730
Simon Desmorest
1730–1742
Jean Desmorest
1742–1777
Jean-Baptiste Desmorest
1777–1780
Jean-Simon Desmorest
1780–1793
Chatillon-sur-Marne [ edit ]
Simon Jean
1770–1780
Simon-Hippolyte Desmorest
1780–1788
Claude Belleville
active in 1629
Antoine Guibourg
1683–1702
Simon Hébert
1702–1730
Charles Jouënne
1730–1736
Martin Jean
1736–1740
Simon Jean
1740–1752
François-Hippolyte Desmorest
1752–1788
Simon-Hippolyte Desmorest
1788–1793
Pierre Lormant
active in 1684
Charles Michelin
1692–1698
Pierre Daniel
1698–1702
Pierre Daniel
1723–1726
Charles-François Jouenne
1726–1735
Pierre Daniel
1735–1738
Louis-Adam Hébert
1738–1743
Jean-Louis Hébert
1743–1744
Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson
1744–1770
Jean-Louis Sanson
1770–1793
Jean-Simon Desmorest
1793–1798
Jean-Louis Desmorest
1798–1828
François-Louis Desmorest
1828–1853
Louis Saffret
active in 1628
Louis Saffret
active in 1688
Jean-Baptiste Barré
1688–1693
Jacques Jean
1693–1725
Martin Jean
1725–1733
Louis Guitton
1733–1743
Jean-Pierre-Henri Dalembourg
1743–1745
Nicolas Dalembourg
1745–1747
Jean-Baptiste Desmorest
1747–1774
Jean-Baptiste Desmorest
1774–1793
Jean Chrétien
1731–1735
Claude Bour
1735–1737
Léopold Bour
1737–1771
Claude-Charles Bour
1771–1793
Pierre Daucourt
1693–1732
Jean Gueldre
1732–1760
Henri Gueldre
1760–1805
Nicolas Cané
1805–1825
François Cané
1825–1835
Simon Grandjean
active in 1615
Rémi Henry
1717–1721
Michel Henry
1721–1729
Robert Daucort
1729–1732
Joseph Tisserand
1732–1757
Claude-Michel Chrétien
1757–1793
With a four-year delay in 1875 also Corsica was integrated into the area of the executioner of the republic's activity; see: Monsieur de Paris
For the different department numbers, before 1976 Corsica used to be one department only and was codenumbered with 20 by then.
René Giudici
1799–1800 (his last name is also rendered as René Jugé )
Jean-François Hermann
1803–1804
Bernardin Porro
1804–1806
Dominique Paglia
1806–1808
Antoine Vollmar
1808–1809
Jean Peyrussian
1809–1812
Jean-Pierre Combé
1805–1809
François Étienne
1809–1813
Louis Simaliot
1813–1826
Jean-Baptiste Simaliot
1826–1840
Michel Porro
1840–1851
Antoine-François-Balthazar Porro
1851–1852
Louis-Marie Douran
1852–1853
Vincent Bornacini
1853
Louis-Henri Desmorest
1853–1873/74
Désiré Herman
1873/74–1875
Jean-Jacques Karpf
active in 1718
Nicolas-François Dupuy
1762–1765
Claude-Antoine Chrétien
1765–1794
Nicolas Hermann
1794–1809
François Étienne
1809
Jean-Pierre Urich
1809–1846
Jean-Georges Burck
1846–1849
François-Ferréol Pierrot
1849–1858
Jacques-Henri Ganié
1858–1862
Georges-Louis-Gustave Pierrot
1862–1870
Joachim Fleurdelis
1685–1686
Joseph Denthe
1686–1695
Melchior Ginter
1754–1760/61
Jacques Fleurdelis
1615–1627
Jacques Fleurdelis
1642–1670
Jean Fleurdelis
1670–1680
Jacques Fleurdelis
1680–1700
Pierre Fleurdelis
1700–1729
Pierre Fleurdelis
1729–1749
Gaspard Boilley
1749–1768
Pierre Fleurdelis
1768–1793
Désiré Giboz
1794–1803
Jean-Baptiste Cané
1803–1827
Germain Burck
1827–1838 (last name sometimes written Purgy )
François-Joseph Desmorest
1838–1849
Nicolas Roch
1849–1851 (last name also given as Rauch )
Claude-Laurent Chrétien
1793–1805
Nicolas Pierrot
1805–1823
François-Ferréol Pierrot
1823–1849
Territoire de Belfort (90)[ edit ]
Joseph Comte
c. 1650
Joseph Comte
1668–1726
Nicolas-Antoine Comte
1726–1739
Jean-Pierre Comte
1739–1780
Jean-Pierre-Nicolas Comte
1780–1793
Pancrace
1648–1656
Jean Fleury
active in 1665
Laurent Lacour
1665–1672
Martin Lacour
1672–1674
Ehrard Lacour
1682–1716
Jean-Georges Lacour
1716–1739
Jean-Georges Reichlin
1739–1752
Jean-Georges Lacour
1752–1793
Joachim Comte
1673–1725
Jean-François Comte
1725–1744
Jean Fleurdelis
1744–1781
Jacques Denthe
c. 1670–1674
Jean-Georges Denthe
1674–1725
Robert Le Vavasseur
1598–1618
Etienne Le Vavasseur
1626–1649
Louis Le Vavasseur
1649–1658
François Le Vavasseur
1675–1681
Nicolas Le Vavasseur
1681–1687
Lubin Jouenne
1687–1700
Lubin Jouenne
1720–1725
Louis Jouenne
1725–1737
Jean-Baptiste Sénéchal
1725–1737
Nicolas-Louis Jouenne
1737–1750
Nicolas-Lubin Jouenne
1737–1758
Nicolas-Louis Jouenne
1758–1780
Nicolas-Louis Jouenne
1784–1802
André-Thomas Férey
1810–1824
Amand Leroy
1824–1844
Louis-Marie-Dauphin Benoist
1844
Raymond Peyrussan
1844–1846
Louis-Julien-Fortuné Leroy
1846–1849
Jean-Baptiste Carlier
1712–1733
Georges Carlier
1733–1741
Michel Durand
1741–1765
Jean-Louis Olivier
1765–1794
Lubin Jouenne
1700–1722
Lubin Vallet
1722–1727
François Férey
1727–1735
Nicolas Férey
1735–1738
François Férey
1738–1742
François-Charles-Gabriel Férey
1742–1769
Maixent-François Férey
1769–1785
François-Joseph Férey
1769–1791
Seine-Maritime (76)[ edit ]
Nicolas Jouenne
active in 1202 (last name also given as Jouhanne)
? Jouenne
mentioned in 1380–1384 (last name also given as Jouhanne, nicknamed "Jouhanne-Justice)
Martin Lecupeur
1384–1409
? Marescot
c. 1450
Robin Jouenne
active in 1460
Guillaume Jouenne
active in 1507
Pierre Jouenne
active in 1675
? Dumontier
active in 1706–1710
Jacques Dubourg
1710–1713
Charles Dubourg
1713–1719
Martin Rossignol
1719–1723
Nicolas-François Damonville
1723–1738
Nicolas Férey
1738–1742
François-Thomas Férey
1742–1770
Charles Férey
1742–1770
Charles-Lubin Jouenne
1770–1776
Nicolas-Richard Jouenne
1776–1787
Michel-Jean Leroy
1787–1793
Pierre Jouenne
−1662 (last name also referred to as Juoanne )
Charles Sanson
1662-
Pierre Jouenne
active in 1675 (last name also referred to as Juoanne )
Nicolas Férey
active in 1738
Charles Jouenne
active in 1780
Simon Dailly
c. 1400
Geoffroy Thérage
1406/07–1432 (or after; executed Jeanne d'Arc ; last name also rendered as Thiérache)
Pierre Lecomte
active in 1607
Pierre Jouenne
1660–1681
Guillaume Malloeuvre
1681–1688
Nicolas Le Vavasseur
1688–1694
Martin Le Vavasseur
1694–1703
Jean-Baptiste Morin
1703–1704
Lubin Jouenne
1704–1724
Jean-Baptiste Sénéchal
1724–1725
Nicolas Férey
1725–1735
Charles Férey
1735–1796
Nicolas-François Férey
1735–1750
François-Thomas Férey
1735–1782
Charles-André-Louis Férey
1796–1811
Charles-André Férey
1811–1847
Jean-François Heidenreich
1847–1848
? Rhein
1848–1870
Prévoté de l'Hôtel du Roi[ edit ]
Etienne Lebré
active in 1417
Fleurant
- 1516
Macé
active in 1523
Jean Guillaume
1590–1594
Denis Corneillet
1594–1616
Henriet Cousin
mid-17th century
Oudet Barré
1653–1671
Thévenot
1278–1320 (last name also given as Estevenot )
Nicolas
1322–1358
Colart Provignon
1358 or after – c. 1380 or before
Pierre Dupré
c. 1380 - c. 1400, active in 1383 (last name also written as du Pré )
Geoffroy
1407–1411/13 (name also appears as Guieffroy )
Capeluche
1411/13–1418 (before being executed in 1418 or 1419, Capeluche trained his executioner himself)
Jean Tiphaine
active in 1418
Colin Foucher
active in 1445
Henri Cousin
1460 - before 1477
Jean Cousin
- 1477
Pierre Philippart
c. 1478
Tristan
active in 1484
Jacques Dulac
active in 1502
Robin Serre
active in 1507
Jacquet
1507
Florent Bazard
1507–1516 (his last name also appears as Bazart; lynched after a botched execution)
Rotillon
1516–1529
Pierre Pommerelle
1529-?
Macé
1543–1553
Jean Rozeau
1555/58–1594
Jean Guillaume
1594–1620
Jean Guillaume
1620–1666
François Guillaume
1666–1672
Antoine de France
1672–1674
André Guillaume
1674–1682
Jean Carlié
1682–1687
Nicolas Levasseur
1687–1688 (his last name also appears as Le Vavasseur)
Charles-Louis Sanson
1688–1699 (de facto) / 1703 (official)
Charles Sanson
1699 (de facto)/1707 (official) – 1726
François Prudhomme
1726–1739 (interim executioner)
Charles-Jean-Baptiste Sanson
26 (official)/1739 (de facto)–1754 (de facto)/1766/1778 (official)
Charles-Henri Sanson
1754 (de facto)/1766/1778 (official) – 1795 (de facto)/1804 (official)
Henri Sanson
1795 (de facto)/1804 (official) – 1840
Henry-Clément Sanson
1840–1847 (he was an inveterate abolitionist)
Charles-André Férey
1847–1849
Jean-François Heidenreich
1849–1871
Seine-et-Marne (77)[ edit ]
Pierre Corneillet
1648–1660
André Guillaume
1660–1665
Denis Barré
1665–1680
Louis Hébert
1680–1709
Pierre Daniel
1709–1723
Louis-François Hébert
1723–1724
Louis-Adam Hébert
1724–1738
Jean-Louis Hébert
1738–1743
Louis-Adam Hébert
1743–1761
Louis-Adam Hébert
1761–1770
Jean-Louis Hébert
1770–1793
Jean Hérisson
c. 1765–1787
Georges Hérisson
1687–1716
Georges Hérisson
1716–1721
Georges-René Hérisson
1721–1723
Georges Hérisson
1723–1727
Antoine-Pierre Dubut
1727
Jean Hérisson
1727–1746
Pierre Hérisson
1746–1787
Pierre-André-Louis Desmorest
1787–1788
Nicolas-Lubin Jouenne
1788–1826
Nicolas-Placide Doubleau
1826–1849
Robert Sénécart
–1571
Jean Hérisson
1740–1742
Jean Pichon
1742–1762
Jean-Rémi Pichon
1762–1768
Louis-Cyr-Charlemagne Sanson
1768–1789
André-Thomas Férey
1789–1793
Michel Le Vavasseur
1625–1631
Jean Bouëtard
active in 1689
Nicolas Le Marchand
1689–1722
Nicolas Le Marchand
1722–1737
Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Le Marchand
1737–1755
Michel Durand
1755–1780
Louis-Michel Olivier
1780–1788
Pierre-André-Louis Olivier
1780–1793
see: Mantes
Versailles (Prévoté de l'Hôtel du Roi)[ edit ]
Robert Anise
1671–1680
Robert Le Marchand
1680–1690
Jean Carlier
1690–1733
François Prudhomme
1733–1749
Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson
1749−1778
Charles-Henri Sanson
1778–1788
Louis-Cyr-Charlemagne Sanson
1788–1794
Prévôté de Versailles[ edit ]
Louis-Jean Dupuy
1794–1795
Jean Boursier
1795–1808
François-Nicolas Férey
1808–1817
Jean-Baptiste Scarron
1817–1819
Germain Benoist
1819–1821
Laurent Rhein
1821–1846
Jean-Henri Rhein
1846–1849
see: Étampes
Léonard Leprince
1549–1556
David Devoire
1598–1623
Jean Duchamp
active in 1641
Jean Berger
1662–1677
François Berger
1677–1694
André-Louis Desmorest
1694–1740
André-Louis Desmorest
1740–1763
Pierre-André-Louis Desmorest
1763–1793
see: Étampes
No local executioner known so far
Seine-Saint-Denis (93)[ edit ]
No local executioner known so far
No local executioner known so far
Jean-Baptiste Carlier
1699–1712
Jean-Baptiste Carlier
1712–1732
Jean-Baptiste Carlier
1732–1742
Jean-Baptiste-François Carlier
en 1742–1782
Jean-Baptiste-François Carlier
1782–1793
Languedoc-Roussillon [ edit ]
Pierre de Lafont
active in 1538
Jean Lapeyre
1545–1561
André
1561–1566
Jean Maigre
1566–1580
Jean Roizat
1580
Jean Sesherbe
1580–1593
Antoine Faret
1593–1594
Jacques de Laplanche
1594–1600
Benoît Libès
1600
Antoine Ferrier
1600–1603
Jean Bon
1603
Gaillard Bourd
1603–1610
Bernard Dauriac
c. 1640
Pierre Puech
c. 1645–1650 (his last name also appears as Pech )
Antoine Bourset
active in 1719
Bernardin Blaize
1770–1786
Pierre Blanc
1786–1793
Etienne-Victor Rives
1793
? Roch
1793 (interim executioner; his last name also appears as Rauch )
François Berger
1793 (interim; executioner of Tarbes)
Jean-Philibert Ginier
1793–1795
Pierre Chevalier
1795–1801
François Berger
1801–1804
Jean-François-Philibert Robineau
1804–1823
Laurent-Denis Robineau
1823–1827
Philibert-Godefroy Robineau
1827–1840
Georges Miraucourt
1840–1849
Jean Vernhet
1522–1538
Antoine Ferrier
1579–1589
Jean Boussac
active in 1619
Antoine Blanc
1572–1578
Jean Cronhac
1578–1582
Guillaume Teissère
1582–1584
Jean Sesherbe
1584–1585 (interim; executioner of Carcassonne)
Jean Jacmes
1585–1603
Antoine Ferrier
1603–?
Guillaume Teissère
1567–1570
Barthélémy Querol
1573–1589
Jean Cabrière
1590–1611
Jean Arman
active in 1646
Victor Deltet
1775–1780
Marcelin Berthoumier
1791–1792 (interim; executioner of Montpellier)
Dominique Vassalo
1792–1795
François-Louis-Hippolyte Desmorest
1795–1814
Jean-Baptiste Desmorest
1814–1816
Pierre-Vivien Debost
1816–1830
Jean-Nicolas Cané
1830–1853
Martin-Pierre-Joseph Berger
1853–1870
Jacques Thiesame
active in 1460
André Bonissi
c. 1470
François Lacombe
active in 1585
Claude Bausillon
c. 1610
Pierre Arnaud
1624–1628
Étienne Roquefort
active in 1645
Pierre Gineste
active in 1657
Marcelin Berthoumier
1791–1794
Barthélémy Mauvin
1794–1795
Jean Boursier
active in 1795
Gilles-François-Nicolas-Martin Berger
1795–1799
Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Sanson
1799–1800
Louis-Victor Sanson
1800–1802
Pierre-Joseph Vermeille
1802–1808
Jean-Baptiste Desmorest
1808–1811
François Guillot
1811–1818
Antoine Guillot
1818–1825
Jean-Pierre Guillot
1825–1832
Léonard Richim
1832–1833
Joseph-Louis Claret
1833–1860
Auguste-Paul Roch
1860–1870 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
Gilles-François-Nicolas-Martin Berger
Active in 1794
Jean-Pierre Boitquin
1799–1801
Jean-Pierre Roch
1801 (last name sometimes written as Rauch )
Nicolas Cané
1801–1805
François Roch
1805–1848 (last name sometimes written as Rauch )
Pyrénées-Orientales (66)[ edit ]
Jacques del Arnau
1682–1687
Carrera
1688–1699
Traginer
1700–1709
Raphaël del Arnau
1711–1723
Simon Grio
active in 1724
Antoine Denis
1733–1734
Nicolas-Alexis Montagne
1772–1779
Claude Thouvenin
1779–1782
Jean Camille
1782–1791
Bernardin Blaize
active in 1791
Antoine Varennes
1791–1793
Jean Crossy
1793–1797
Jean-François-Philibert Robineau
1797–1798
Jean-Pierre Bickler
1818–1819
Laurent Bickler
1819–1839
Martin-Pierre-Joseph Berger
1839–1850
Bernard Varennes
1720s–1730s
Michel Benoist
1756–1788
Aureil Mendé
1788–1793
Jean Gumond
active in 1761
François Benoist
1789–1804
Valentin Grosholtz
1804–1820
Louis Grosholtz
1820–1823
Jean Grosholtz
1823–1849
Léonard Chanton
active in 1715
Jean-Pierre François
1783–1786
Pierre-Etienne François
1786–1798
François-Joseph Férey
1798–1808
Pierre-Jacques Nord
1808–1849
Louis Vivien
1792–1798
Louis Gendron
1716–1720
Pierre Chaussonnier
1720–1725
Pierre Pradel
1798–1802
Antoine Hiezely
1802–1826
Louis Hiezely
1826–1848
Nicolas Hiezely
1848–1849
Nicolas Grosholtz
1849–1853
François-Louis-Henri Desmorest
1853–1870
Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)[ edit ]
François-Joseph Hiezely
1719–1739
Jean-Michel Hiezely
1739–1777
Georges-Antoine Hiezely
1777–1793
Bernard Eisenhuet
active in 1598
Marc Hausser
1603–1604
Jean-Nicolas Laury
1685–1686
Georges Hiezely
1722–1732
Claude-Antoine Hiezely
1732–1762
Jean-Pierre Chrétien
1777–1793
Pierre Courtois
1712–1748
Jean-François Courtois
1748–1763
Nicolas Thouvenin
1763–1772
Jean-François Courtois
1772–1793
Charles Magnard
active in 1691
Jean-François Courtois
1730–1740
Dominique Courtois
1758–1779
Joseph-François Wolff
1779–1793
Georges Hiezely
1719–1722
Nicolas Parisot
1722–1754
Jean-Jacques Hermann
1761–1783
Jean-François Hermann
1783–1790
Jean-Nicolas Fixard
1790–1793
Jean Schweitzer
active in 1675
Jean-Léonard Henry
1701–1711
Bernard Back
1711–1725
Jean-Pierre Dillenburg
1725–1733
Jean-Baptiste Dillenburg
1733–1752
Jean-Pierre Thiéry
1752–1754
Jean-Baptiste Dillenburg
1754–1761
Jean-Antoine Roch
1761–1793 (last name also given as Rauch )
Conflans-en-Jarnisy [ edit ]
Henri Labille
1717–1735
Louis Thomas
1735–1736
Jean-Pierre Thiéry
1736–1750
Laurent Viard
1750–1793
see: Baccarat
see: Bauzemont
Jean-Pierre Duval
1743–1758
Jean Cané
1758–1790
Jean-Baptiste-Oswald Cané
1790–1793
Pierre Wolff
1743–1778
François Wolff
1778–1793
see: Einville-au-Jard
see: Blâmont
Corneille Back
1710–1715
Matthieu Labille
1715–1748
Jean Labille
1748–1792
Jean-Nicolas Cané
1772–1775
Jean Labille
1775–1777
Jean-Henri Labille
1777–1793
Pierre Bour
1692–1693
Jean-Nicolas Back
1693–1701
Nicolas Klein
1701–1718
Jean Klein
1718–1752
Joseph Klein
1752–1761
Jean-Nicolas Roch
1761–1790 (last name also given as Rauch )
Jean-Pierre Roch
1790–1793 (last name also given as Rauch )
François Henry
1700–1713
Jean-Léonard Henry
1713–1720
Claude Duval
1720–1743
Jean-Pierre Duval
1743–1764
Jean-Nicolas Roch
1764–1766 (last name also appears as Rauch )
Marguerite Cané
1766–1784 (one of France's most long-termed female executioners)
Jean-François Hermann
1784–1793
Jean-Georges Duval
1658–1680
Nicolas Suisse
1680–1684 (his last name also appears as Schweitzer )
Jean-Jacques Burckhard
1684–1705
Jean-Pierre Bour
1705–1718
Jean-Pierre Bour
1718–1730
Jacobé Rieger
1730–1732 (Jean-Pierre Bour's wife and after 1730 widow; one of the rare cases a woman was appointed)
François Roch
1732–1747 (Jacobé Rieger's new husband; his last name is also given as Rauch )
Jean-Pierre Rhein
1747–1758
Laurent Roch
1758–1779 (his last name is also given as Rauch )
Jean-Pierre Spirckel
1779–1799
Jean-Nicolas Roch
1799–1823 (his last name is also given as Rauch )
Nicolas Cané
1823–1847
Matthieu Spirckel
1847–1870
see: Pont-à-Mousson
Bernard Back
1715–1741
Claude Back
1741–1781
Jean-Baptiste Thiéry
1781–1793
Goeury Pichon
active in 1709
Jean-Pierre Bickler
c. 1722
Christophe-Séraphin Bickler
1734–1757
Jean-Pierre Bickler
1757–1783
Christophe Bickler
1783–1793
Réchicourt-la-Petite[ edit ]
see: Blâmont
see: Baccarat
Saint-Nicolas-de-Port [ edit ]
Nicolas Valois
1650–1683
Rémi Karpf
active in 1720
Jean-Jacques Parisot
1716–1733
Jean-Philippe Rhein
1733–1762
François Rhein
1762–1776
Jean-Jacques Roch
1776–1793 (his last name is sometimes given as Rauch )
Bernard Back
1715–1741
Claude Back
1741–1783
Jean-Nicolas Roch
1783–1793 (last name also written as Rauch )
Thézey-Saint-Martin[ edit ]
see: Delme at Moselle (57)
Thiaucourt (Thiaucourt-Regniéville)[ edit ]
see: Pont-à-Mousson
Claude Miraucourt
1670–1679
Claude Miraucourt
1692–1699
Antoine Hermann
1708–1714
Jean-Charles Valois
1714–1728
Jean-Georges Roch
1728–1748 (last name also given as Rauch )
François Roch
1748–1761 (last name also given as Rauch )
Laurent Bickler
1761–1776
François Roch
1776–1790 (last name also given as Rauch )
Nicolas Cané
1790–1793
see: Conflans-en-Jarnisy
Villers-la-Montagne [ edit ]
Bernard Back
1725–1741
Matthieu Back
1741–1748
Jean-Nicolas Roch
1748–1772 (last name may also appear as Rauch )
Jean-Pierre-Laurent Roch
1772–1775 (last name may also appear as Rauch )
Laurent-Nicolas Roch
1775–1793 (last name may also appear as Rauch )
see: Longuyon at Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Jean-Nicolas Labille
1720–1742
Jean-Pierre Labille
1742–1775
Michel Labille
1775–1793
Pierre Chapuzot
1630–1657
Claude Chapuzot
1667–1686
Jacques Chapuzot
active in 1696
Martin Castagnière
1708–1731
Jean-Conrad Rhein
1731–1752
Simon Jean
1752–1770
Jean-François Hiezely
1770–1776
Laurent Rhein
1777–1793
Billy-sous-Mangiennes [ edit ]
François François
1740–1759
Jean-Nicolas Cané
1759–1786
Jean-Louis Cané
1786–1793
Jean-Nicolas Guerchoux
1746–1768
Louis Thomas
1768–1772
Jean-Pierre Roch
1772–1790 (last name also given as Rauch )
Nicolas Cané
1790–1793
Jean François
1706–1734
François François
1734–1768
Pierre-Etienne François
1768–1786
Paul François
1786–1793
Claude Suisse
1715–1719 (his last name also appears as Schweitzer )
Pierre Étienne
1719–1750
Jean-Pierre Thiéry
1750–1752
François Étienne
1752–1759
Jean-Pierre Thiéry
1759–1793
François-Edmé Duval
1684–1731
Jean Cané
1731–1740
Jean-Pierre Urich
1740–1745
Antoine-Martin Urich
1745–1779
Jean-Pierre Urich
1745–1786
Nicolas Thiéry
1786–1793
Herméville-en-Woëvre[ edit ]
François-Edmé Duval
1684–1726
Jean-Pierre Miraucourt
1726–1754
Paul Miraucourt
1754–1765
François Miraucourt
1765–1793
Jean-Nicolas Labille
1720–1748
Jean-Nicolas Labille
1748–1777
Michel Labille
1777–1793
Jean-Nicolas Labille
1720–1748
Jean Labille
1748–1787
Christophe-Séraphin Bickler
1722–1752
Jean-Pierre Thiéry
1752–1757
Jean-Pierre Bickler
1757–1766
Christophe Bickler
1766–1823
Simon-Hippolyte Desmorest
1823–1849
Jean Gaultier
1532–1536
Jean Gaultier
active in 1575
Martin Jean
c. 1630
Jean Miraucourt
1640–1668
Nicolas Blin
1668–1679
Claude Miraucourt
1679–1708
Pierre Étienne
1708–1762
François Étienne
1762–1791
Antoine Étienne
1791–1793
Claude Guerchoux
1681–1710
Jean Guerchoux
1710–1758
Jean-Laurent Guerchoux
1758–1793
Hermann Roch
c. 1700 (last name also given as Rauch )
Simon Klein
1714–1730
Christophe-Séraphin Bickler
1722–1741
Jean-Nicolas Rauch
1741–1751 (last name also given as Rauch )
Jean Grauel
1774–1793
see: Buding
see: Courcelles-sur-Nied
Jean-Nicolas Back
1697–1701
Claude Guerchoux
1701–1710
Jean Guerchoux
1710–1722
François Guerchoux
1722–1780
Guillaume Back
1780–1793
see: Béchy
see: Schorbach
Nicolas Schweitzer
active in 1613
Christophe Schwartz
1618–1621
Jean-Jacques Rhein
1621–1663
Jean-Pierre Back
1663–1703
Jean-Georges Back
1703–1731
Jean-Pierre Wolff
1731–1786
Jean Wolff
1786–1787
Jean-Nicolas Wolff
1787–1793
Jean-Pierre Spirckel
1744–1787
Laurent Rauch
1787–1793
see: Buding
Nicolas Godot
c. 1700
Jean Godot
c. 1720
Jean Godot
1738–1753
Martin Courtois
1753–1759
Louis Thomas
1759–1777
Louis Thomas
1793
see: Dieuze
Mauclair
active in 1679
François Lhôpital
c. 1730–1737
Oswald Rhein
1737–1756
Jean-Henri Rhein
1756–1787
Georges Miraucourt
1787–1793
Courcelles-sur-Nied [ edit ]
Antoine Scherr
c. 1720
Georges Scherr
c. 1740
Nicolas Scherr
1750–1756
Jean-Pierre Miraucourt
1756–1793
Claude Thomas
c. 1700–1719
Nicolas Thomas
1719–1748
Michel Thomas
1748–1784
Jean Thomas
1784–1793
Laurent Urich
c. 1620–1654
Claude Urich
1654–1691
Jean-Jacques Bour
1691–1699
Claude Hermann
1699–1733
Jean Hermann
1733–1758
Jean-Jacques Hermann
1758–1761
Claude Hermann
1761–1793
see: Hombourg-Budange
see: Rodemack
Nicolas Schweitzer
active in 1613
Christophe Schwartz
1618–1621
Jean-Henri Lander
1652–1682
Jean-Henri Rhein
1682–1695
Léonard Rhein
1695–1748
Jean Rhein
1748–1759
Jean-Pierre Rhein
1759–1793
see: Niederstinzel
Jean-Nicolas Back
1686–1714
Jean-Nicolas Back
1714–1728
Jean-Philippe Mohr
1728
Christophe Parisot
1728–1729
André Heffinger
1729–1742
Jean-Pierre Back
1742–1792
Jean-Nicolas Rhein
1792–1793
Jean-Christophe Grauel
1686–1692
Jean-Henri Burckhard
1692–1744
Jean-Nicolas Burckhard
1744–1776
François-Martin Burckhard
1776–1793
Matthieu Burckhard
1776–1793
Jean-Christophe Hopp
1685–1735
François Hopp
1735–1738
Jean Hopp
1738–1758
Jean-Pierre Hopp
1758–1766
Nicolas Schwind
1766–1781
Pierre Hopp
1781–1793
Jean-Jacques Valche
1707–1714
Jean-Pierre Urich
1714–1740
Jean-Nicolas Guerchoux
1777–1793
Jean-Jacques Cané
1725–1753
Oswald Back
1753–1793
Jean-Ulrich Vollmar
1657–1690
Jean-Nicolas Vollmar
1690–1730
Jean-Jacques Grosholtz
1730–1735
Jean-Georges Lander
1766–1793
Jean-Jacques Lang
active in 1689
Matthieu Back
1738–1741
Jean-Léonard Schwind
1741–1744
Jean-Pierre Spirckel
1744–1773
Pierre Schwind
1773–1783
Jean-Jacques Wolff
1783–1793
Sébastien Parisot
1635–1707
Jean-Valentin Parisot
1707–1731
Jean-Jacques Bour
1731–1765
Jean-Thibaud Schweitzer
1765–1769
Jean-Jacques Bour
1769–1781
Valentin Grosholtz
1781–1793
Pierre Wolff
1695–1721
Gaspard Wolff
1721–1722
Jean-Martin Wolff
1722–1740
Gaspard Wolff
1740–1743
François Wolff
1743–1776
Pierre Wolff
1776–1793
Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold[ edit ]
Nicolas Schweitzer
active in 1613
Antoine Grauel
1717–1757
Jean Grauel
1757–1782
Jean-Pierre Grauel
1782–1786
Jean Wolff
1786–1787
Jean-Nicolas Wolff
1787–1793
Jean-Georges Burckhard
1680–1692
Dominique Burckhard
1709–1734
Michel Henry
1734–1765
Joseph Godot
1765–1779
Jean-Pierre Wolff
1779–1793
Jean-Jacques Grosholtz
1680–1712
Jean-Michel Grosholtz
1712–1743
Jean-Georges Grosholtz
1743–1787
Jean-Georges Grosholtz
1787–1793
Louis Schweitzer
1613–1653
Matthieu Schweitzer
1653–1680
Nicolas Schweitzer
1680–1684
Jean-Jacques Burckhard
1684–1693
Jean-Baptiste Barré
1693–1715
Nicolas Barré
1715–1730
Jean-Nicolas Roch
1730–1731 (last name also appears as Rauch )
Georges-Laurent Roch
1731–1748 (last name also appears as Rauch )
Nicolas Barré
1748–1779
Nicolas-Oswald Barré
1779–1801
Nicolas Barré
1801–1812
Matthieu Spirckel
1812–1833
Pierre-Emmanuel Desfourneaux
1833–1870
Jean Spirckel
1680–1695
André Spirckel
1695–1711
Jean-Nicolas Roch
1711–1720 (last name also appears as Rauch )
Georges-Laurent Roch
1720–1721 (last name also appears as Rauch )
Jean-Pierre Spirckel
1721–1759
Nicolas Spirckel
1759–1793
Étienne Schwartz
1610–1632
Antoine Hermann
1632–1670
Jean-Jacques Grosholtz
1670–1680
Pierre Hermann
1680–1682
Claude Hermann
1682–1733
Jean Hermann
1733–1758
Jean-Jacques Hermann
1758–1761
Claude Hermann
1761–1793
Jean-Nicolas Lander
1681–1692
Jean-Philippe Schild
1736–1762
Pierre Schild
1762–1786
Jacques Schild
1785–1793
Gaspard Wolff
1740–1748
Pierre Wolff
1748–1785
Puttelange-aux-Lacs [ edit ]
Jean-Jacques Carpe
1665–1686
Jean-Valentin Igel
1686–1702
Jean-Bernard Bour
1702–1734
Théodore Bour
1734–1752
Jean-Georges Bour
1752–1793
Jean-Henri Spirckel
1687–1709
Jean-Henri Spirckel
1709–1718
Jean-Bernard Spirckel
1718–1724
Jean-Théodore Burckhard
1724–1754
François Spirckel
1754–1773
Jean-Nicolas Spirckel
1773–1793
Jean Spengler
active in 1615
Christophe Lander
1625–1632
Jean-Nicolas Carpe
1632–1652
Jean-Gaspard Lander
1652–1688
Jean-Michel Lander
1688–1719
François-Gaspard Lander
1719–1745
Nicolas Lander
1745–1785
Christophe Back
1785–1793
Jean-Pierre Rhein
1702–1724
Jacques-Charles Rhein
1724–1744
Jean-Thibaud Schweitzer
1765–1769
Jean-Jacques Bour
1769–1781
Jean Grosholtz
1781–1793
Guy Burckhard
1685–1698
Jean-Georges Burckhard
1698–1717
Georges-Frédéric Burck
1739–1740
Nicolas Bour
1666–1675
Jean-Bernard Bour
1675–1702
Jean-Jacques Bour
1702–1734
Jean-Pierre Bour
1734–1754
François Rhein
1754–1784
Jean Rhein
1784–1793
Jean-Henri Schild
1662–1699
Matthieu Schild
1699–1751
Georges-Frédéric Schild
1751–1756
Jean-Jacques Schild
1756–1775
Jean-Henri Schild
1775–1793
Nicolas Geiler
c. 1680
Jean-Henri Spirckel
1687–1709
Jean-Pierre Dillenburg
1709–1738
Jean-Pierre Dillenburg
1738–1748
Jean-Pierre Dillenburg
1748–1763
Jean-Baptiste Dillenburg
1748–1789
Jean-Baptiste Spirckel
1789–1793
Humbert Caille
active in 1633
Rémi Laurent
1663–1680
Pierre Hermann
1680–1688
Claude Parisot
1688–1734
Jean Parisot
1734–1777
Claude Parisot
1777–1793
François-Joseph Hiezely
1719–1736
Jacques Heidenreich
1736–1761
Charles Magnard
1702–1733
Jean-Charles Chrétien
1746–1752
Jean-Joseph Hiezely
1752–1754
Léopold Chrétien
1754–1786
Antoine Hiezely
1786–1793
Jean Chrétien
1752–1756
Claude-François Chrétien
1756–1793
Jean-Pierre Courtois
1737–1769
Pierre-Fidèle Chrétien
1769–1793
Jean-Nicolas Laury
1709–1730
Didier Chapelain
1730–1752
Jean-Nicolas Chapelain
1752–1757
Antoine-François Fixard
1757–1774
Jean-François Fixard
1774–1788
Jean Bontemps
active in 1601
Nicolas Guillemette de Fontenay
1601–1607
Martin
active in 1656
Jean Pierson
1672–1686
Jean-Nicolas Laury
1686–1726
Jean-Nicolas Laury
1726–1734
Matthieu Wees
1734–1753
Jean-Georges Anthès
1753–1762
François Wees
1762–1775
Joseph Wees
1775–1790
François Spirckel
1790–1797
François Wolff
1797–1803
Jean-Nicolas Chapelain
1803–1817
Antoine Chapelain
1817–1818
Jean-Nicolas Cané
1818–1840
Conrad Braun
1840–1849
La Neuveville-sous-Châtenois[ edit ]
Jean-Dominique Chrétien
1700–1736
François Chrétien
1736–1754
Jean-Nicolas Chrétien
1776–1798
Antoine Chrétien
c. 1730–1745
Henri Chrétien
1745–1755
Claude-Michel Chrétien
1755–1756/57
Oswald Rhein
1756/57–1773
Jean-Nicolas Wolff
1770–1793
François-Joseph Hiezely
active in 1719
Georges Chapelain
1746–1769
Jean-Michel Hiezely
1769–1770
Jean-Georges Hiezely
1770–1777
Nicolas Maurisat
active in 1621
Jean-Michel Burckhard
1701–1712
Georges-Adolphe Heidenreich
1712–1737
Jean-Michel Hiezely
active in 1757
Claude Hiezely
1774–1793
François Cabanié
1793–1802
Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Dupuy
1802–1830
Joseph Beaufaye
1830–1849
François-Nicolas Beaufaye
1849–1853
Pradel
c. 1685
Jean-Louis Daydé
1780–1782
Jean Crossy
1782–1793
François Berger
1793–1797
Jean Crossy
1797–1824
Guy Le Moalic
1824–1828
Pierre-Victor Rives
1828–1853
Jean Barrot
1659–1666
Jean Touzet
active in 1666
Mathieu Bourideu
–1757 (his last name also appears as Mathieu Bouirou; sources also say 1759–1763)
Jean Daizes
active in 1768 (some sources say 1757–1769)
Antoine Varennes
1769/70–1812 (brother to Jean Varennes in Cahors)
Marcelin Berthoumier
1812–1817
Jean-François Guerchoux
1817–1818
Laurent Guerchoux
1818–1837
Henri-Matthieu Guerchoux
1837–1838
Jean Palaso
1574–1575
Pierre André
active in 1623
Jean Dupin
c. 1630
Pierre Labailhe
active in 1650
Jean Cestarès
1662–1670
Jean Dumas
1673–1695
Jean Bruel
1699–1719
Guillaume Bruel
1719–1747
Bertrand Faroux
1752–1777 (name also given as Féraut)
Jean Daizes
1781–1788
Jean Rascat
1788–1790
? Goutte
1790–1792
Matthieu Benoist
1792–1793
Jean Rascat
1793–1798
Joseph Laporte
1798–1822
Jean Prosset
1822–1849
Jean Varennes
1761–1809 (brother to Antoine Varennes in Toulouse)
Romain Labat
1809–1810
Armand Varennes
1810–1818
Laurent-Désiré Desmorest
1827–1849
Hautes-Pyrénées (65)[ edit ]
Jean-Louis Daydé
active in 1792
Charles Lacaille
1792–1794
François Spirckel
1794–1802
Jean Rascat
1802–1818
Jean Grosholtz
1818–1823
Louis Grosholtz
1823–1843
Jean-Simon Grosholtz
1843–1844
Vincent Bornacini
1844–1848
Jean Matthieu
1598–1599
Sylvain
c. 1685
Étienne Étienne
1807–1815
Marcelin Rigal
1815–1824
Jean-Pierre Étienne
1824–1831
Pierre Miraucourt
1831–1849
Tarn-et-Garonne (82)[ edit ]
Armand Varennes
1809–1818
Marcelin Berthoumier
1818–1824
Marcelin Rigal
1824–1837
Jean-François Guerchoux
1837–1849
Escluve
active in 1368
Robert Fayet
active in 1595
Nicolas Delannois
active in 1611
Pierre de Groville
1627–1629
Guillaume-Joseph Vermeille
c. 1730 –1750
François Damonville
active in 1750
Pierre-François Vermeille
1790–1793
Jean de Le Porte
active in 1459
Jacques Galoppin
active in 1679
François-Joseph Demettre
1795–1825
Louis Demettre
1825–1828
Pierre Demettre
1828–1835
François Demettre
1835–1870
Pierre Vermeille
active in 1766
Charles-André-Joseph Demettre
1766–1773
Pierre-Joseph Foyez
1773–1792
Jean Boitquin
active in 1679
Julien-Joseph Vermeille
1780–1801
Pierre-Joseph Vermeille
1801–1802
Henri Cousin
c. 1470
Jean-Baptiste Outredebanque
1753–1780
Pierre Outredebanque
1780–1795
Jean-André-Joseph Tanné
1731–1766
Charles-André-Joseph Demettre
1766–1773
François Lacaille
1773–1793
Jean-André-Joseph Tanné
1729–1766
Charles-André-Joseph Demettre
1766–1773
François Lacaille
1773–1793
Loire-Atlantique (44; before 1957 Loire Inférieure)[ edit ]
Pierre Poupin
1574–1575
Charles Davy
active in 1626
Macé Bouëtard
active in 1673
Jean Verdier
1673–1686
Laurent Leroy
1686–1688
Pierre Judic
1688–1701 (name also rendered as Jeudy)
François Durand
1701–1705
Pierre Chaumont
1705–1725
Étienne Ganié
1725–1735
Jacques Bouëtard
1735–1738
Pierre Chaumont
1738–1755
Étienne Ganié
1755–1757
Jacques-Victor Ganié
1757–1784
Charles-François Férey
1784–1789
Michel Sénéchal
1789–1794
François-Joseph Férey
1794–1798
François Lacaille
1798–1805
François Lacaille
1805–1823
Jacques-Auguste Ganié
1823–1845
Jacques-Henri Ganié
1845–1849
Maine-et-Loire (49)[ edit ]
Adam Lesné
active in 1546
Nicolas Cousnier
1615–1618
Jacques Cousnier
1618–1622
Pierre Roussière
1622–1625
Pierre Briand
1670–1677
Julien Beudin
1677–1681
Pierre Verdier
1681–1687
Jean Morin
1687–1689
Laurent Leroy
1689–1709
François Verdier
en 1709–1717
Jean Petitjean
1717–1720
Nicolas Férey
1720–1725
François Férey
1725–1736
Pierre Charpentier
1736–1753
Jean-Baptiste Charpentier
1753–1766
Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Charpentier
1753–1758
Jean-Baptiste Charpentier
1766–1771
Jacques Filliaux
1771–1785
Jacques-Joseph-Hyacinthe Filliaux
1785–1808
Pierre-Jacques Ganié
1808–1829
Charles-Gabriel Jouenne
1829–1832
Pierre-Jacques Ganié
1832–1848
Stanislas Ganié
1848–1870
André Carouault
activ in 1634
Jean Verdier
1674–1687
Etienne Robert
1712–1727
Pierre Asselin
1727–1731
Etienne Robert
1731–1735
Yves Robert
1735–1759
Antoine Dupuy
1759–1767
Antoine Dupuy
1767–1785
Louis-Jean Dupuy
1785–1793
René Chaumont
active in 1686
Martin Dupuy
1717–1722
Jacques Dupuy
1722–1742
Jacques-François Dupuy
1742–1759
Pierre Dupuy
1759–1783
Nicolas-Charles-Gabriel Dupuy
1783–1793
François Chaumont
1680–1687
Jacques Bouëtard
1720–1730
Jacques-Etienne Bouëtard
1730–1740
Pierre Martin
1740–1756
Jacques Durand
1756–1782
Pierre Martin
1782–1785
Jacques-François Durand
1785–1813
Henri Bickler
1813–1815
Jacques-Joseph Durand
1815−1819 (executed for homicide)
Pierre-Michel Durand
1819–1823
François-Hippolyte Desmorest
1823–1843
Jean-Jacques Ehrardt
1843–1849
Jean Billon
active in 1686
Jean Benoist
1698–1720
Joseph Filliaux
1720–1723
Pierre Charpentier
1723–1733
Joseph Charpentier
1733–1750
Louis-Jacques Filliaux
1750–1767
Nicolas-Louis Jouenne
1750–1767
Nicolas-Louis Jouenne
1767–1784
Charles Jouenne
1767–1822
Isidore-Joseph Vermeille
1822–1827
Romain Labat
1827–1846
Pierre Marc
1846–1849
Jean Fraigneau
c. 1700–1710
François Fraigneau
1710–1728
Michel Clément
1728–1745
Pierre-Victor Asselin
1745–1755
Joseph Asselin
1755–1778
Pierre Asselin
1778–1802
André-Thomas Férey
1802
Nicolas-Louis Jouenne
1802–1805
Pierre Wolff
1805–1824
Pierre Wolff
1824–1849
Mathurin Porrès
active round 1590
Mathurin Damet
1595–1617
François Roussel
1660–1664
Louis Desmorest
1664–1710
Nicolas Desmorest
1710–1761
François-Joseph Desmorest
1761–1764
Jean-LouisDesmorest
1764–1812
Isidore-Joseph Vermeille
1812–1823
Jean-François-Philibert Robineau
1823–1845
Frédéric-Henri-Auguste Robineau
1845–1849
Jean Gressier
1680–1705
André Gressier
1705–1726
François Desmorest
1726–1750
Nicolas-François Desmorest
1750–1761
Denis-François Hérisson
1761–1762
Charles-René Zelle
1762–1776
Charles-Henri-Martin Zelle
1776–1792
Robert Berger
1749–1763
Jacques-Robert Berger
1763–1784
François-Robert-Gabriel Berger
1784–1798
Jean-François-Philibert Robineau
1798–1799
François-Robert-Gabriel Berger
1799–1805
Robert-Gabriel Berger
1805–1813
Charles-Henri-Constant Desmorest
1813–1849
(former Clermont-en-Beauvaisis , also called Clermont-en-France)
Pierre Clavière
active in 1627
Cyprien Levert
1660–1670
Jacques Hérisson
1670–1680
Guillaume Hérisson
1680–1683
Jacques Dollé
1683–1717
Louis-André Desmorest
1717–1719
Jacques Dollé
1719–1749
Nicolas Dollé
1749–1762
Louis-Nicolas Dollé
1762–1793
Pierre Hérisson
active in 1629
Louis Berger
1700–1713
Jacques Dollé
1713–1717
Robert Berger
1717–1763
Jacques-Robert Berger
1763–1784
François-Robert-Gabriel Berger
1784–1793
Féry Leblon
active in 1617
François-Joseph Desmorest
1743–1793
Claude Harrie
active in 1544
Jean Taffin
active in 1571
Philippe Hérisson
1622–1662
Claude Hérisson
1662–1667
Philippe Hérisson
1667–1673
Jacques Hérisson
1673–1680
François-Cyprien Hérisson
1680–1727
Nicolas Hérisson
1727–1742
François-Nicolas Hérisson
1742–1755
Denis-François Hérisson
1755–1761
Nicolas-François Desmorest
1761–1784
Louis-Auguste-Nicolas Desmorest
1784–1793
Pierre-Nicolas-François Desmorest
1784–1793
Pierre Phélippart
active in 1463
Haquin de Bergue
active in 1468
Jean de Tournai
active in 1516
Louis-Charles Hébert
1731–1760
Joseph Foyez
1760–1767
Pierre-François Vermeille
1767–1795
François Étienne
1795
Jean Boursier
1795–1796
Jacques-Bonaventure Collet de Charmoy
1796–1816
Amand-Constant Vermeille
1816–1837 (Armand-Constant ?)
Amand Vermeille
1837–1852 (Armand ?)
Jacques-Henri Ganié
1852−1853
Nicolas Roch
1853–1870 (his last name seometimes appears as Rauch ; after 1870, see: Monsieur de Paris)
Jean Cestarès
1656–1682
Guy Robert
1684–1698
Robert Guitton
1700–1702
Joseph Senigotte
1728–1740
Jean Jacquinet
1740–1742
Jacques Berger
1744–1758
Jean Brunet
1758–1760
(interim executioners between 1760 and 1789)
Jean Roch
1789–1802 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
Pierre Pradel
1802–1816
François-Xavier Rhein
1816–1827
Matthieu-Isidore Rhein
1827–1840
Claude Roch
1840–1849 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
Charente-Maritime (17)[ edit ]
Hilaire Camyon
round 1610
Jacques Lafargue
1663–1680
Jacques Lafargue
1694–1702
Pierre Lafargue
1702–1713
Pierre Combaud
1713–1719
Pierre Landeau
1719–1723
Victor Landeau
1723–1726
Christophe Benoist
1726–1747
Jean Benoist
1747–1749
François Férey
1749–1757
Joseph Férey
1757–1774
François-Charles-Gabriel Férey
1757–1769
Joseph Lacaille
1774–1789
Jacques-Bonaventure Collet de Charmoy
1789–1795
Jean Benoist
1725–1728
Pierre Benoist
1728–1750
Maixent-Mathurin Ayrault
1750–1763
Christophe Ayrault
1763–1802
François Spirckel
1802–1825
Matthieu Spirckel
1825–1849
Pierre Landeau
1695–1723
Victor Landeau
1723–1731
Pierre Asselin
1731–1748
Joseph Asselin
1748–1756
Augustin Asselin
1756–1781
Augustin-Joseph Asselin
1781–1813
Augustin-André Asselin
1813–1823
Louis-Augustin-Désiré Asselin
1823–1849
Saint-Maixent-l'École[ edit ]
Réneteau
active in 1667
Chaussonnier
active in 1683
Mathurin Ayrault
1705–1722
Louis Ayrault
1722–1736
Mathurin Ayrault
1736–1762
Clément Ayrault
1762–1785
Maixent-Mathurin Ayrault
1762–1763
Jean-Jacques Fraigneau
1710–1722
Martin Dupuy
1732–1745
Louis Duchesne
1745–1765
Jean-Martin Dupuy
1765–1793
Duchesne
active in 1634
Michel Clément
1718–1720
Louis Ayrault
1720–1725
Louis Duchesne
1725–1758
François Duchesne
1758–1787
François Berger
1787–1793
Jean Verdier
active in 1626
Michel Verdier
active in 1670
Étienne Renéteau
1687–1707
Mathurin Pinocheau
1707–1709
Mathurin Pinocheau
1709–1721
Guy Renéteau
1721–1727
François Verdier
1727–1764
François Verdier
1764–1772
Pierre-François Verdier
1764–1796
Louis-Nicolas Dollé
1796–1805
Joseph-Martin Benoist
1805–1809
Pierre-Nicolas Berthelot
1809–1827
Nicolas Wolff
1827–1831
Matthieu Wolff
1831–1846
Raymond Peyrussan
1846–1854
Charles-André Wolff
1854–1870
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur[ edit ]
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04)[ edit ]
Pierre Back
1793–1794
Pierre Cané
1794
François Montagne
1794–1795
Jean-Pierre Thiéry
1795–1816
François-Xavier Reine
1816–1817 (his name comes also written as Rhein )
Alexandre-Victor Jouenne
1817–1849
Nicolas Viard
1793–1794
Antoine Roch
1794–1797 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
François Roch
1797–1805 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
Laurent Roch
1805–1826 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
Hyacinthe Roch
1826–1836 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
? Schlick
1836–1841
Victor Roch
1841–1849 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
Alpes-Maritimes (06)[ edit ]
Joseph-François Desmorest
1798–1804
François Berger
1804–1805
Joseph-François Desmorest
1805–1814 (the same like from 1798 to 1804)
Bouches-du-Rhône (13)[ edit ]
Laurent-Martin Coquelin
1802–1809
Pierre-Gabriel Giraudon
1809–1810
Louis Alexis
1810–1811
Romain Labat
1811–1814
François-Joseph Férey
1814–1819
Bénigne-Nicolas-François Brochard
1819–1820
Nicolas Burckhard
1820–1834 (his last name is also written Bourgard )
Pierre-Thermidor Vermeille
1834–1842
Henri-Charles Desmorest
1842–1853
Laurent-Désiré Desmorest
1853–1860
Vincent Bornacini
1860–1870
Joseph Chaylan
1799–1802
Jean Wolff
1802
Matthieu Burckhard
1802–1814
François-Joseph Heidenreich
1814–1827
Jean-François Heidenreich
1827–1835
Nicolas Chtarque
1835–1841
Laurent Bornacini
1841–1848
Vincent Bornacini
1848–1849
François Berger
1797–1799
Pierre-Nicolas-François Desmorest
1799–1830
Adrien-Nicolas-Joseph Cané
1830–1834
Antoine Garoux
1834–1838
Jean-Jacques Erhardt
1838–1843
Louis-Henri Desmorest
1843–1849
François Lauret
active in 1738
Geniès Armilhon
active round 1765 (former executioner of Clermont-Ferrand)
Nicolas Montagne
active in 1766
Désiré Giboz
active in 1792
Louis Ripert
1792–1793
Claude-Antoine Chrétien
1793–1794 (interim; executioner of Chalon)
Charles Frey
1794–1795
François Vially
1795–1796
Pierre Ripert
1796–1797 (interim; executioner of Lyon)
Jean-Pierre Reine
1797–1805 (his name also appears as Rhein)
Paul Martinet
1805–1808
Jean Guillamet
1808–1845
Nicolas Grosholtz
1845–1849
Henri Labille
1793–1794
Pierre-Nicolas-François Desmorest
1794–1795
Jean-Pierre Bickler
1798–1811 (his last name also appears as Pickler )
Nicolas-Pierre Hermann
1811–1832
Pierre Roch
1832–1836 (his last name also appears as Rauch )
Léonard Richim
1836–1849
Laurent-Marin Coquelin
1792–1793
Jean-Pierre Combe
1793–1805
Jean-Baptiste-Oswald Cané
1805–1822
Jean-François Cané
1822–1835
François Wolff
1835–1844
Hyacinthe Roch
1844–1849 (his last name also appears as Rauch sometimes)
Antoine de Loches
active in 1519
Guillaume de Leison
active in 1553
Vincent Brun
active in 1557
Michel Perrin
active in 1562
? Lerbras
c. 1565
? Rozeau
c. 1575
? Palevin
c. 1585
Michaud-Pierron
c. 1595
Jean Brocard
active in 1611
Jean Janon
active in 1670
Jean Eynard
active in 1674
Jean Janon
active in 1691
Jacques Joubert
1702–1720
François Ripert
1725–1782
Jean Ripert
1782–1790
Pierre Ripert
1790–1793
François Pache
active in 1793
Jean-Baptiste Desmorest
1794–1808
Pierre-Joseph Vermeille
1808–1820
Jean Guerchoux
1820–1835
Jean-François Heidenreich
1835–1847
Jean-Pierre Piot
1847–1862
Louis-Richard Faroux
1734–1760
Jean Faroux
1760–1793
Jean Faroux
1795–1799
Jean-Pierre Roch
en 1799–1801 (last name also given as Rauch )
Louis Faroux
1801–1813
Joseph-François Desmorest
1813–1823
Nicolas Roch
1823–1849 (last name also given as Rauch )
Jean Jacquenot
1525–1526; active again in 1529 ? (his last name also appears written as Jacquemot)
Antoine Benoît
–1723 (Benoit and his wife have been murdered in the night from May 18 to 19, 1723)
Jean Lavoué
1723–1735
Marguerite-Julienne Le Paistour
1745–1749 (sacked after involving in a mayor robbery; married and became a housewife in Cancale)
Jean Ripert
1792–1794
Claude-Antoine Chrétien
1804–1842
Henri Lac
1853–1870
Laurent Rhein
1794–1810
Pierre Rhein
1810–1815
Jean-Emile Grosholtz
1860–1866
Jules Cané
1866–1868 (not 100% confirmed, but most likely)
no executioner known so far
Monsieur de Paris: The Executioners of the French Republic [ edit ]
In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Paris, Jean-François Heidenreich, Exécuteur des Arrêts Criminels , which became France's official description of the executioner's occupation. From then on there would be only one executioner to carry out death sentences for all of France except Corsica which would follow in 1875. As the Republic's executioner was required to live in Paris, people soon started to refer to him as "Monsieur de Paris", "The Mister from Paris". At the occasion of his nomination, Heidenreich could choose four among France's former local executioners to be his aides.
Les Départements Outre-Mer[ edit ]
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (975)[ edit ]
Saint-Barthélemy (977)[ edit ]
Les Territoires Outre-Mer [ edit ]
Wallis-et-Futuna (986)[ edit ]
Polynésie française (987)[ edit ]
Nouvelle-Calédonie (988)[ edit ]
Île de Clipperton (989)[ edit ]
Monsieur de Cayenne: The Executioners of the French Republic [ edit ]
Cayenne Central Prison never used its own guillotine. All death sentences of convicts and locally condemned prisoners were conducted at Saint-Laurent .
Monsieur de Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni|Saint-Laurent: The Executioners of the Bagne[ edit ]
All executioners of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni were Bagne inmates themselves.
Rasséguier
1860(?)–1889
Louis-Auguste Chaumet
1889–1898/1900
Isidore Hespel
1898–1921 (nicknamed "Le Chacal" by the other inmates)
Bonnefoy
1921–1923 (inmate nr. 42164; nicknamed "Charlot" by the other inmates)
Louis Ladurelle
1923–1937 (his name also appears as Ladurel)
Clouziot
1937–1943 (nicknamed "Mouche à Bœuf" by the other inmates)
Pre-Germany Executioners [ edit ]
Local Executioners (1276 to between 1848 and 1871)[ edit ]
Bötzow, Oranienburg[ edit ]
Claus Frölich
~1652
Christoph Pfeffer
~1724
? Funcke
~1818
? Adelarius
–1539
Christian Schwarz
1827–1860 (Unknown when he passed from Bremen City's local executioner to Bremen 's state executioner; from 1843 to 1859 he also was Hannover 's state executioner)
Johann Christian Göppel
1738-
Franz Joseph Wohlmuth
~1566
? Peter
~1486
? Philipp
~1581
? Huß
–1781
Karl Huß
1781–1827
Johann Hartmann
1818–1831
Johann Voß
–1843
Christian Schwarz
1843–1857 (from 1857 to 1859 Hannover 's state executioner; local executioner in Bremen from 1827 to 1860)
Heinrich Schmidt
16th century (father of Nuremberg 's Franz Schmidt)
? Pickel (also Bickel)
~1722
Hans ? 1537
State Executioners (from 1848 and 1871 to 1936/37)[ edit ]
Christian Schwarz
1827–1860 (Unknown when he was nominated from Bremen City's local executioner to Bremen state executioner; from 1843 to 1859 he also was the state's executioner in Hannover )
Christian Schwarz
1857–1859 (from 1843 til 1857 local executioner for Hannover ; also local executioner in Bremen from 1827 to 1860)
? Bormann
1859–1870
Julius Krautz
1870–1878 (from 1878 state executioner for Prussia )
Executioners from 1936/37 to 1945[ edit ]
Concentration camp executioners (from 1938 to 1945)[ edit ]
Interim executioners (from 1945 to 1949)[ edit ]
West Germany (1949 to 1951/53)[ edit ]
Except for Western Berlin where the Allied did not validate the new German constitution, West Germany had abolished capital punishment May 23, 1949. For West Berlin, the death penalty would still continue in law until January 20, 1951. Despite at least one executioner continued nominated, no death sentences or executions ordered by German courts in that period have been reported so far.
Clemens Dobbek
1949–1951 (before 1949 interim executioner, most likely in West Berlin only)
East Germany (1949 to 1987)[ edit ]
Occupation Executioners (from 1945 to 1992)[ edit ]
Johann Baptist Reichhart
(Bavaria ) 1945–1947 (from 1924 to 1937 state executioner for Bavaria ; from 1937 to 1945 German executioner; after 1945 also Interim time executioner with the guillotine for German justice; executed for the US Military justice)
Friedrich Hehr
1946–1952 (from 1935 to 1937 state executioner for Baden , Württemberg and Hesse ; from 1937 to 1945 executioner for the German state; after 1945 also interim executioner with the guillotine for German justice
Gustav Völpel
1945–1950 (in 1950 arrested, condemned for burglary and armed robberies and in jail until 1957; executed for the Soviet Military)
Albert Pierrepoint
1945–1949 (from 1932 to 1941 assistant executioner and then chief executioner until 1956 in England)
Until 1868 most of executors employed by one-one bigger cities(who possessed the "pallosjog [1] " [right for execution] e. c. Buda) or travellers(gypsied) did this as temporary job(until the 18th century). Emperor Joseph II introduced a law reform. The separate legislatures of the cities will be abolished, as will the patrimonial tribunal and the "pallos jog" of the estates. Before that, bakó(executioner) belonged to the status of the county, the city, the larger estate, now five executioners will be enough throughout Hungary. Later he abolished even the capital punishment(except in the military cases)but in 1795 Emperor Franz I. reintroduced.[ 3]
*Schüch Pál executioner of Pest
The list of state executioners[ 4]
Kornberger, Mihály executioner (1850?–1867)[He was executioner of Buda but later became a non official executioner of the whole country in criminal but not political cases][ 5] [ 6]
Kozarek, Ferenc state executioner( 1876–1894)
Bali, Mihály state executioner (1894–1925)
Gold, Károly state executioner (1925–1928)
Kozarek, Antal state executioner (1929–1932)
Id.(Senior) Bogár(Kovács), János state executioner (1932–1944)
Ifj. (Junior) Bogár, János state executioner (1944–1965?) (He executed: before 1945: some political prisoners, after 1945: Ferenc Szálasi, László Rajk, Imre Nagy and all death sentenced people between this time).
Pradlik, György the last state executioner (–1988)
Mullick family, Culcutta[ edit ]
Lakshman Ram family, Meerut[ edit ]
(son of Mammu Singh) (Meerut )
Ireland consisted of the Kingdom of Ireland between 1534 and 1800; it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1801–1922; after that it was Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State ; from 1937 the southern part was the Republic of Ireland .
Mohammed Emwazi
-2015 (British citizen known as Jihadi John )
Maxime Hauchard
active in 2014 (French citizen converted to Islam in 2008)[ 10]
Michael Dos Santos
active in 2014 (French citizen who has been using the name Abou Othman after his conversion to Islam)[ 11]
Tadashi Suzuki
1941–1945 (Japanese occupation executioner for Butterworth and Pulau Pinang )[ 14]
Rajendran Kuppusamy
–1986 (died Nov. 15, 2011)[ 15]
Kesavan A. Arumugam
before 2001 - after 2010
Monsieur de Nouméa: The Exexcutioners of the French Republic[ edit ]
Monsieur de la Bagne: The Executioners of the Bagne [ edit ]
All executioners of New Caledonia's Bagne were inmates themselves.
Petit
1867–1874
Meyer
1874
Ambarreck
1874-
Henri Brissac
possibly -September 1879 (as a death penalty opposer and Commune de Paris member he was forced to "work" as an aide and most likely to execute later
Guerino
after 1874 or 1879 - before 1882
Ledoux
- c. 1882
Jean-Louis Macé
c. 1882–1905 (nicknamed "Monsieur Nou" by the other inmates; last name also appears as Massé )
Rieusset
1905- (last name also given as Rieussec )
Paturot
active in 1920
? Julian
after 1920
Dalstein
active in 1933
?
unknown Javanese inmate active in 1934
Jugaret
1937–1943 (nicknamed "La Gueule" by the other inmates)
In Pakistan, executioners have obligatorily to be Christians.
Ionel Boeru
leader of the Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu firing squad December 25, 1989
Dorin Cârlan
member of the Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu firing squad December 25, 1989
Octavian Gheorghiu
member of the Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu firing squad December 25, 1989
Barend (in 1804) (Lijst van Alle Collegien 1804)
Carolus (1848–...) (Cape of Good Hope Almanac 1853)
Edward H. von Witt (1860s–1884)
Arthur J. King (1884–1898) (Civil Service List)
Thomas W. Blake (1898–1910) (Civil Service List)
South African Republic / Transvaal (colony)[ edit ]
Jan Bastiaan Rabie (1890–1891)
Gideon S. Scheepers (1891–...)
Arthur Simpson (1908–1910)
Audiencia de Madrid [ edit ]
Audiencia de Barcelona [ edit ]
Audiencia de Burgos [ edit ]
Audiencia de Sevilla [ edit ]
Audiencia de Valladolid [ edit ]
Audiencia de Zaragoza [ edit ]
Mikael Reissuer (Stockholm)
1635–1650 (nicknamed Mäster Mikael )
Gabriel Alexandersson Meijer
end 1600s – beginning 1700s
Alexander Gabrielsson Meijer (Västmanland, Uppsala)
1721–1741 (son of Gabriel Alexandersson Meijer)
Gabriel Meijer d.ä. (Örebro)
1741–1765 or before (son of Alexander Gabrielsson Meijer)
Anders Persson Trafware
1702–1721 (Gävleborg)
Lars Flink (Östergötland)
active in 1719
Brun (Malmö)
active in 1743
Carl Hjerpe (Göteborg)
1765–1784
Lars Hjerpe (Göteborg)
1784–1807 (son of Carl Hjerpe)
Erik Lyckman (Kopparberg, Gävleborg, Västernorrland)
before 1794–1798
Jonas Sandwall (Asarum)
active in 1794
Niclas Öberg (Harbäcken, Strömsund)
–1813
Hemming Sjögren (Sjöbo)
1816 or before – 1825 or after (himself executed ?)
Carl Magnus Lidman (Uppsala, Gävleborg, Västernorrland)
active in 1822
Olof Olsson Häll (military and settlement executioner)
1827–1833
Carl Ludvig Nafström (Stockholm)
1832–1859)
Styf (Hörsne, Gotland)
–1854 (himself executed for murder March 5, 1845)
Hans Carlsson (Blekinge, Skåne)
–1838
Anders Pettersson (Blekinge, Skåne)
1838–1868
Magnus Jarl
1840 or before – 1861 or after
Jacob Gyll (Västerbotten)
active in 1851
Johannes Jansson (Göteborg)
1854 or before – 1857 or after
Magnus Ferm (Örebro)
active in 1858
Johan Fredrik Hjort (Stockholm)
1859–1882
Per Petter Christiansson Steineck (Jönköping/Vadstena)
1861–1887
Albert Gustaf Dahlman (also called Anders Gustaf Dahlman ; originally in Stockholm, from 1901 for the entire country)
1885–1920
Franz Josef Mengis
carried out Canton (= State) of Aargau 's last public execution May 24, 1854, in Lenzburg
Appenzell Innerrhoden [ edit ]
Bernhard Schlegel
–1374 (murdered by theft victim Peter Agsten after the thief hanged got back to live)
Claus von Offenburg
1393– or –1393 (?)
Hans Körber
1424–1436
Hans Seckeler
1430–1445
Hans Krämer
1445–1448 (nicknamed "Gangkly")
Hans Heyd
1448–1449
Ulrich von Eger
1449–1458
Ulrich von Honwile
1458–1467 or –1474 (?)
Hans Schatz
1474–1476
Jakob Rennisfeld
1476–1488
Jakob Nydegger
1488–1497
Ulrich
1497–1509
Conrad von Horn
1509–1511 or –1516 (?)
Hans Schenk
1516-518
Gilg Beck
1518–1529
Jakob
1529–1537
Niklaus Rod
1537–1541
Jörg Volmar
1541 (himself decapitated for murder still in 1541)
Niklaus Schnatz
1545–1546, 1552 (contract executioner from Berne)
Pauli Fuerer
1559–1569 or – 1572 (?)
Georg Käser
1572–1592 or –1612 (?)
? Iseli
1612–1633
Thomas Iseli
1633
Conrad von Hagen
1633–1635
Georg ?
1635–1652
Paulus Stunzt
1652 (contracted executioner from Saint-Gall )
Jakob Günther
1652–1692
Georg Friedrich Günther
1692–1714 or –1726 (?)
Hans Jakob Günther
1692
? von Hagen
1694–1695 or –1726 (?)
Sebastian Näher
1726–1745
Friedrich Näher
1745–1758 or –1766 (?)
Martin Mengis
1766–1804
Peter Mengis
1804–1838
Jacob Mengis
1838–1850 (contracted executioner from Aargau since Bâle chose to not have an own executioner after 1838.
? Vollmer
~1782
see also Schwyz
Baltzer Mengis
~1652 (also referred to as Balthasar Mengis)
Vollmar family
1695–
Johannes Bettenmann
–1843
see also Schwyz
Christoph Mengis
–1651
Christoph II. Mengis
1651–1681
Johannes Mengis
1681–1695
Balthasar Mengis
1695–1723
Bernhard Mengis
1723-
? Mengis
–1779
Johann Melchior Grossholz
–1815
Augustin Grossholz
1815–1826
Joseph Pickel
1826–1829
Oswald Schlumpf
1829–1830
Johann Bettenmann
1855–1857 (also for Saint-Gall )
Franz Xaver Schmid
1830–1855 (also for Zug and Glarus )
Franz Josef Grossholz
active in 1765
Nikolaus Grossholz
active in 1833
Vinzenz Grossholz
1861–
Franz Grossholz
1822–
Arthur X.
August 25, 1939 (official reference to the voluntary executioner of Paul Irniger , the "taxi killer of Baar"; born September 16, 1915, Arthur X. was given entrance at Burghölzli mental institution in Zürich because of paranoid schizophrenia September 12, 1947; September 1952 he was transferred to the Clinica Waldhaus mental institution in Chur where he deceased January 26, 1960)[ 21]
see also Schwyz
Cunrat Grossholz
1473–
Paulus Volmar
1587–
Hans Jakob Volmar
Hans Jakob II. Volmar
Johann Näher
1639–1650 (1623–1640 and again after 1650 in Lindau , Germany)
Hans Jakob III. Volmar
–1697
Hans Jakob IV. Volmar
1697- 1711
? Vollmer
1820s
Theodor Mengis
1879–1918
Theodor Mengis Junior
1918–1958
Cratwell
to 1538 (London; in 1538 he was himself hanged for robbery)[ 22] [ 23]
"Stump-leg "
to 1556 (London; he was himself hanged for theft)[ 22] [ 24]
? Bull
before 1587–1601 (London)
Thomas Derrick
1601- before 1616 (London)
Gregory Brandon
before 1616- before 1640 (London)
Richard Brandon
before 1640–1649 (London)
George Joyce
1649 (London) : Lieutenant-colonel Joyce was named as the person who executed King Charles I by William Lilly .[ 25]
William Lowen
1649 (London)[ 26]
Edward Dun
1649–1663 (London)[ 27] (the subject of Groanes from Newgate, or an Elegy upon Edward Dun. Esq., the Citie's Common Hangman, who died naturally in his bed the 11th of September, 1663. Written by a person of Quality )[ 28]
John Crossland
c1660 (Derby) supposed to have been one of three members of the same family convicted and then appointed hangman to hang the other two and then remaining in post.[ 29]
Jack Ketch
1663–1686 (London)
Paskah Rose
1686 (Bleackley (1929) graphs his name as Pasha Rose ; London)
John Price
1714–1715 (London)
William Marvell
1715–1717 (London)
James Aird
1715–1723 (Scotland)
? Banks (known as Banks the Bailiff )
1717- after 1718 (London)[ 30]
Richard Arnet
before 1726–1728[ 30] (London; hanged Jonathan Wild in 1725[ 31] )
John Hooper
1728–1735[ 32] (London; known as "the laughing hangman"[ 32] )
John Thrift
1735–1752 (convicted of murder in 1750, but pardoned and continued in office). (London);[ 33] [ 34] executed Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat on 9 April 1747, the last man to be beheaded in England.[ 35] Thrift controversially was buried at St Paul's.[ 36]
William Stout, of Hexham
1746 York; hanged Francis Buchanan, two hours before a reprieve arrived.[ 37]
Robert Clarke, a Butcher
1749 Sussex; executed some smugglers and later hanged himself after being tricked out of money.[ 38]
William Elliot
c1752 (London) executed at Tyburn on 10 June 1767 for housebreaking, he had been hangman earlier after John Thrift, Elliott was transported for felony, after the expiry of his term he returned continued as a common robber.[ 39]
Thomas Turlis
1752–1771 (London); hanged Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers with a silken rope, the last nobleman to be hanged in England[ 40] )
Edward Hamlon
1756 (Dublin); arrested, identified as topman (or hangman) and sentenced to transportation for attempted robbery.[ 41] [ 42]
1760 (Oxford) in April, 1760 the hangman enlisted into the army. It was reported that he had carried out many hangings.[ 43]
Joseph Cartwright
1767 (Worcester) in April, 1767 this prisoner was under sentence of transportation when he hanged Samuel Turner, for housebreaking.[ 44]
Andrew Boyle
c1768 (Edinburgh) a prisoner hangman, escaped wearing his wife's clothes, he was captured and escaped again from Arbroath. He was recaptured and found in possession of a watch, banknotes and other stolen items. He had previously been convicted of theft and then enlisted as a soldier.[ 45] [ 46]
Edward Dennis
1771–1786 (London); the last hangman at Tyburn and the first at Newgate;[ 47] died 21 November 1786 at his home in the Old Bailey[ 48] ) The hangman was arrested in 1780, and sent to the New Prison, Clerkenwell for involvement in crimes.[ 49] He was convicted for his part in the riots.[ 50]
Henry Thornton,
1773 (Sligo): Thornton the High Sheriff, had to step forward to carry out this when the official hangman was not at his post at the right moment, when Samuel Slack finished his speech to those assembled.[ 51]
William Mcghie
c1775 (Glasgow) : when arrested for theft in 1775, he was described as 'late hangman in Glasgow'.[ 52] He was sentenced to be whipped through the city for repeated acts of theft, and banished for life.[ 53]
? Allen
1777 (Lincoln) : capitally convicted, then reprieved, he later hanged for Highway Robbery Thomas Hamm, a former accomplice of his.[ 54]
Edward Barlow
1781–1812 (Lancashire)
A female
1782 (Dublin) : an unidentied woman hanged two men for murder on 13th, November at Kilmainham, near Dublin. The men were also quartered. The sheriff received abuse for making a hangman of a woman.[ 55]
Keenan
c1784 (Ireland) : described as "late hangman of the New Prison and is now an approver at Kilmainham, was four times capitally convicted, and will again, by a defect on our laws, be turned loose to commit more depredations on the public"[ 56]
Thomas Woodham
c1785 (Gloucester). Aged 69 executed for highway robbery in Ilchester in August 1785, described as a former Gloucester hangman[ 57]
William Brunskill
career lasted from 1786 to 1814 (London)[ 58] (started as assistant to Edward Dennis;[ 47] executed Catherine Murphy in 1789, the last woman to be burned at the stake in England)
William Blackhall
c1787 (Oxford) reported as "on a former occasion, officiated as hangman, committed to our Castle, charged upon oath with stealing, out of a house".[ 59]
John Howes
1792 (Norfolk) : reported as "the hangman for Norfolk, committed to the house of correction at Wymondham, for want of sureties in a case of bastardy."[ 60] In a similar article in the Norfolk Chronicle of 4 February 1792, he is described as "the finisher of the law for this county" ('finisher of the law' being a euphemism for hangman).
Thomas Davies
c1794 (Shropshire) : reported as "hangman for city and county of Shropshire, the Principalty of North Wales, Montgomeryshire etc died 1794.[ 61]
Samuel Burrows
1802–1834 (Cheshire)
William Taylor
−1810[citation needed ]
Jonathan Cole
1802 (Suffolk) : county hangman charged with stealing oats. He was sentenced to transportation.[ 62] [ 63]
William "John" Curry
1802–1835 (Yorkshire)
John Read
1803 (Hampshire) : the county hangman placed in the stocks and to serve 6 months.[ 64]
Edward Barlow
1806 (Lancashire) : it was reported that Old Ned the hangman was committed to Lancaster Castle for stealing a horse.[ 65] Edward Barlow for many years hangman, sentenced to be hanged for horse-stealing.[ 66]
Josie Tait
c1807 (Dumfries) : named in a poem published in 1807.[ 67]
Patrick Halpen
c1794–1809 (Newgate) Died whilst in the office of Finisher of the Law he had occupied for thirteen years, his widow is thought may succeeded him in his role as hangman.[ 68]
Donald Ross
1812–1834 (Inverness) appointed on a salary of £12 plus numerous perks. It was reported he was attached by a mob of mischievous boys and lads, and died on the spot. He was not replaced.[ 69]
James Botting
1813/17–1819 (London)
John Langley
1814–1817 (London)[ 70]
James Botting
1817–1820
John Milne (executioner)
–1818 (Aberdeen)
Thomas Cheshire
1820–1829 (London; known as "Old Cheese";[ 71] assistant from 1808 to 1820 and from 1820 to 1840)[ 72]
James Foxen
1820–1829 (London; name also given as Foxten)
Samuel Haywood
1820–1848 (Leicestershire & the Midlands)
"Bungey's" Ralph Fleming
c1826 (Durham) Reported in the paper as being sought for theft of a cloak, the common hangman sentenced to 2 months in prison.[ 73] [ 74] He was sentenced to transportation for seven years for theft of a cotton gown in September, 1829. It was said he had previously committed innumerable thefts.[ 75]
William Lee
−1827[citation needed ]
George Mitchell
1828–1845 (Southwest)
William Calcraft
1829–1874
James Coates
1835–1839 (Yorkshire) Coates was under sentence of seven years transportation but took on the role of hangman remaining in confinement at York Castle. He was one of three prisoners that escaped from the castle in 1839.[ 76]
John Scott
1835–1847 (last executioner of Edinburgh)[ 77] James Eddy was found guilty of his homicide, whilst drink he had assaulted Scott, who was said to be in frail health.[ 78]
John Wilkinson
1839–1840 (Yorkshire; no execution carried out)
Nathaniel Howard
1840–1853 (Yorkshire)[ 79]
George Smith
1843–1872
Thomas Askern
1856–1877 (initially Yorkshire)
Robert Anderson Evans
1873–1883
William Marwood
1872–1883
George Meker , or George Incher
1875–1881 (Staffordshire)
Bartholomew Binns
1883–1884
James Berry
1884–1891 (Home Office List)
James Billington
1884–1901 (Home Office List)
Thomas Henry Scott
1892–1895 (Home Office List)
William Warbrick
1893–1910 (Home Office List)
Thomas Billington
1897–1901 (Home Office List)
Henry Pierrepoint
1900–1910 (Home Office List)
John Ellis
1901–1923 (Home Office List)
William Billington
1902–1905 (Home Office List)
John Billington
1902–1905 (Home Office List)
William Willis
1906–1926 (Home Office List; assistant to John Ellis from 1906;[ 80] assisted him in the execution of Hawley Harvey Crippen [ 81] )
Thomas Pierrepoint
1906–1946 (Home Office List)
Robert Baxter
1915–1935 (Home Office List)
Thomas Phillips
1918–1941 (Home Office List)
Robert Wilson
1920–1936 (Home Office List)
Alfred Allen
1928–1937 (Home Office List)
Stanley Cross
1932–1941 (Home Office List)
Albert Pierrepoint
1932–1956 (Home Office List)
Henry Kirk , or Harry Kirk
1941–1950 (Home Office List)
Stephen Wade
1941–1955 (Home Office List)
Henry Bernard Allen
1941–1964 (Home Office List)
Herbert Allen
1949–early 1950s (assistant) not to be confused with Henry Bernard Allen above; both men were known socially as "Harry Allen"
Syd Dernley
1949–1954 (assistant)
Robert Leslie Stewart
1950–1964 (Home Office List)
Royston Lawrence Rickard
1953–1964 (assistant)
Harry Frank Robinson
1958–1964 (assistant)
Samuel Barrass Plant
1961–1964 (assistant)
John Underhill
1963–1964 (assistant)
John C. Woods (1911–1950). Hangman for the Third Army in WWII. He was one of the hangmen who executed Nazi war criminals.
Joseph Malta (1918–1999) was the hangman who, with John C. Woods, executed the top 10 leaders of the Third Reich in Nuremberg on October 16, 1946, for crimes against humanity.
Clarence Burford, warden at Kilby Prison from 1952 to 1965, was involved in several executions.[ 82]
Murray Daniels, assistant warden at Kilby Prison in the 1950s, involved in eleven executions.[ 83]
J.D. White, warden at Holman Correctional Facility from 1980 to 1983, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences. Executed Alabama's first post-Furman inmate, John Louis Evans on April 22, 1983.[ 84]
Willie Johnson, warden at Holman Correctional Facility from 1983 to 1988, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences[ 85]
Charlie Jones, warden at Holman Correctional Facility from 1988 to 2002, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences[ 86]
Grantt Culliver, warden at Holman Correctional Facility from 2002 to 2009, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences[ 87]
Gary Hetzel, warden at Holman Correctional Facility since 2012, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences[citation needed ]
During the first part of the 20th century, operators of the electric chair were known as "State electricians ".
John J. "Jack" Eeles – corrections officer who served as hangman at Colorado State Penitentiary until he was murdered in a prison riot on October 3, 1929.[ 88]
Wayne K. Patterson – warden at Colorado State Penitentiary who pulled the lever to start execution of Luis Jose Monge on June 2, 1967. This was the last execution in the United States prior to the 1972 US Supreme Court case Furman vs. Georgia , which temporarily invalidated the death penalty procedures nationwide. Patterson was opposed to capital punishment.[ 89]
Jack P. Duckworth
1981 – Warden of Indiana State Prison at Michigan City who was required by law to throw the switch at the electrocution of Steven Timothy Judy [ 90]
Louis Congo
c. 1725–1737 or after (an emancipated slave appointed public executioner of Louisiana (New France) )
Grady H. Jarratt
1941 (last name also given as Jarrett )
Edward "Ephie" Foster
active in 1946 (substitute executioner)
"Sam Jones"
1983–1991 (Sam Jones is a pseudonym used by that executioner)
Edwin B. Currier
circa 1910 – Chief Engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital who operated electric chair control panel during executions at Charlestown Prison .[ 91]
Alan R. Doerhoff
(apparently involved in executions also in Indiana, Arizona and at least one Federal)
County Sheriff (later President of the United States) Grover Cleveland
September 6, 1872 and February 14, 1873[ 97]
New York State Electrician [ edit ]
Sheriff John Ludlow on November 15, 1792 (today's Hamilton County)
Sheriff John Ellison, Jr. on December 10, 1808
Sheriff Samuel S. Baldwin and Deputy Sheriff & Coroner Levi Johnson on June 26, 1812
Sheriff Miller S. Spangler on June 1, 1855
Sheriff Felix Nicola on February 9 and 10, 1866 and August 10, 1866
Sheriff John Frazee on February 4 or 13, 1869 and April 25, 1872
Sheriff Pardon B. Smith on April 29, 1874
Sheriff A. P. Winslow on June 22, 1876
Sheriff John Wilcox on February 13, 1879
Sheriff Daniel Kishler and Coroner John Heck on October 14, 1836
Sheriff William Domigan and Coroner A. W. Reader on February 9, 1844 (a double execution, including the first reported execution of a woman in Ohio's history)
Sheriff Silas W. Park and Coroner Elias Gaver on December 17, 1858
Sheriff Samuel Holcomb on September 9, 1817
Sheriff Jeremiah McLene and Coroner Benjamin Urmston on August 3, 1804
Sheriff Asa Burroughs on November 30, 1816
State Executioners with the Gallows [ edit ]
Warden Isaac Peetry between 1885 and 1886, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden E.G. Coffin between 1886 and 1890, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden B.F. Dyer between 1890 and 1892, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden C.C. James between 1892 and 1896, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden E.G. Coffin between 1896 and 1897, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
State Executioners with the Electric Chair [ edit ]
Warden E.G. Coffin between 1897 and 1900, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden W.N. Darby between 1900 and 1903, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden E. A. Hershey between 1903 and 1904, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden O.B. Gould between 1904 and 1909, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden T.H.B. Jones between 1909 and 1913, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden D.E. Thomas between 1913 and 1935, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden J.C. Woodard between 1935 and 1939, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden F.D. Henderson between 1939 and 1948, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden R.W. Alvis between 1948 and 1959, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden B.C. Sacks between 1959 and 1961, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Warden E.L. Maxwell between 1961 and 1963, required by state law to be the executioner of death sentences
Zoe Himes in 1911 (a secretary of Clarion County, PA, Court House, she reportedly executed Vincent Voycheck on June 1, 1911)
Frank Wilson electrical industry superintendent from Pittsburgh area who served as executioner between 1939 and 1953 at Rockview Prison.[ 100]
Tench Boozer (1911–1918)[ 101]
Joe Byrd – Captain of the guard at the Walls Unit who served as executioner between 1936 and 1964.[ 83] The nearby prison cemetery, where unclaimed remains of executed inmates are buried by the state, is named in his honor.
W. James "Jim" Estelle – Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) between 1972 and 1983. Was designated executioner under policy developed by the TDCJ in 1976.[ 102] Was the individual pushing the drugs into the IV lines at the December 1982 execution of Charlie Brooks , the first inmate in the United States to be executed by lethal injection .
Jerry Givens
1982–1999 – Givens, a corrections officer at Virginia State Penitentiary and later Greensville Correctional Center, served as official executioner for all executions carried out in the state during this time period.
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^ "Schuller szolgálatának vége egybeesik az 1848–1849-es forradalom és szabadságharc bukásával. Nem tudjuk, önként vagy utasításra vonult-e nyugalomba harmincegy év után, de 1849-től új, szintén brünni származású hóhér, Both Ferenc váltotta fel őt. Mintha az elnyomó osztrák hatalom még a büntetés-végrehajtókban sem bízott volna a forradalmi időkből. Tény, hogy míg a budai oldalon Schuller korábbi segédje, a győri születésű Kornberger Mihály kizárólag köztörvényes bűncselekményért elítélteken hajtotta végre a halálbüntetést, addig Both a forradalmi cselekedeteikért halálra ítélt politikai foglyok kivégzését is vállalta. Az állami terror idején Schuller József alakja egy letűnt, reményteli korszak emlékét idézte, amikor még a hóhér vörös megkülönböztető öltözetének szabása is magyaros volt a kivégzéseken…"
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