A former Hamburg red-light godfather convicted of contract killings was arrested on entering Germany at Frankfurt am Main airport.

As the federal police there announced on Wednesday, the 71-year-old Austrian must now serve the remainder of his prison sentence.

The man, who is the former Hamburg neighborhood great Peter N., was released from prison early in 2000 and deported.

In 1990, the Hamburg district court sentenced N., better known by his scene name “Wiener Peter”, to life imprisonment for several contract killings in the red-light district.

In 2000, the judiciary prematurely suspended the further execution of his sentence on the basis of a provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure in exchange for deportation to his home country of Austria.

However, the restriction applies that the remainder of the sentence must be served upon return.

According to the Federal Police, this case has now occurred.

The man was arrested at Frankfurt Airport on Sunday after arriving from the Dominican Republic and taken to prison.

Accordingly, he wanted to fly to Vienna via Frankfurt.

According to the police, N., whose name the officials did not name themselves, had served more than 13 years and nine months in prison before being expelled.

He was considered unusually unscrupulous

In the 1980s, N. rose to become one of the leading criminals in Hamburg's red-light district around the Reeperbahn, where individual pimps and their groups were in charge at the time.

He was considered unusually unscrupulous.

The notorious contract killer Werner "Mucki" Pinzner killed several pimps on his behalf in the mid-1980s.

For these and other crimes, N. was taken into custody in 1986 and convicted in 1990.

Pinzner, who was also arrested at the same time, shot a public prosecutor, his wife, who was also present, and himself during an interrogation at Hamburg police headquarters in July 1986. With the help of Pinzern's defense attorney, his wife was able to bring the murder weapon into the interrogation room unnoticed.

The crime caused a stir and was one of the most well-known criminal cases of the time.

According to earlier media reports, N., who was born in Austria, came to Hamburg in the 1970s and rose to become a leading pimp and brothel owner by the early 1980s.

After his deportation to Austria, he is said to have also lived on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Ibiza.