Eric Muenter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eric Muenter

American would-be assassin

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1871

Place of Birth: Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1915

Profession: university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Eric Muenter (1871–1915), also known as Erich Münter, Erich Muenter, Erich Holt or Frank Holt, was a German-American activist and would-be assassin.
Although employed as a German professor at elite American universities, he was actually a spy and a "fanatic in the clandestine service of the Imperial German government." While an instructor at Harvard University, he poisoned and killed his pregnant wife.
He appeared again as Cornell University professor Frank Holt who contacted the German spy network which undertook to sabotage US aid to the war in Europe against Germany.
In 1915, he planted a bomb which exploded in the US Capitol, shot Jack Morgan, son of financier J.P.
Morgan in his home, and predicted the bombing of a steamship bound for England before committing suicide while in police custody. His activities, and those of other Germans, were played up by the press as "Hun barbarity" anti-German feelings rose in the years as America eventually entered the war with Germany.