Fritz Honka—Frida Roblick

Fritz Honka—Frida Roblick is a perpetrator-victim relationship defined by Roblick’s killing. In early December 1974, Honka strangled Roblick, a sex worker, in his apartment at Zeißstraße 74 in Hamburg. Her death was one of four killings for which Honka was tried; the court record identifies her separately by name, occupation, approximate date of death, and cause of death.

The Killing

The judgment describes Honka, then a 40-year-old watchman, as convicted and confessing to killing four women in his apartment, reportedly to satisfy his sexual desire. Within that series, Roblick’s case is dated to early December 1974 and the method is specified as strangulation. The evidence establishes the killing and its setting, but does not give further detail about the circumstances of the encounter between Honka and Roblick.

Legal Outcome

The court sentenced Honka to a total of 15 years’ imprisonment for one murder and three manslaughters, each committed with diminished criminal responsibility, and ordered his placement in a psychiatric hospital. The judgment excerpt does not assign a particular offense classification to each victim, so it does not establish whether Roblick’s killing was the murder conviction or one of the three manslaughter convictions. Her case is thus recorded within the four-count sentence without a separately specified legal outcome.