Execution of Josef Jakobs

Date: August 15, 1941 • Location: City of London, United Kingdom

Josef Jakobs, a German spy, became the last person executed at the Tower of London.

Josef Jakobs was a German spy and the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. He was captured shortly after parachuting into the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Convicted of espionage under the Treachery Act 1940, Jakobs was sentenced to death and shot by a military firing squad. He was not hanged since he was captured as an enemy combatant.