The son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker was stabbed to death while he was giving a lecture at a hospital in
Berlin where he worked as a head physician,
police said Wednesday.
A 57-year-old German man is in custody after he jumped up from the audience at the Schlosspark-Klinik and attacked Fritz von Weizsaecker with a knife on Tuesday evening.
Von Weizsaecker died at the scene from a knife wound to the neck despite immediate attention from colleagues, said Martin Steltner, a spokesman for Berlin prosecutors.