Josef Jakobs Josef Jakobs Josef Jakobs (30 June 1898 – 15 August 1941) 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 shot by a military firing squad. He was not hanged because he was captured as an enemy combatant. Jakobs, who was a German citizen, was born in Luxembourg in 1898. During the First World War, he served in the German infantry, rising to the rank of "Leutnant", in
Josef Peterhans le Mérite" (1938), a policeman in "Frau Luna" (1941) and a general in "Fridericus" (1937) and "The Great King" (1941). He also played the role of an Indian in "Indian Revenge" (1920) and in the double roles in "The Tiger of Eschnapur" and "The Indian Tomb" (both 1938). His last film was "Die Entlassung" (1942). He spent his life in Berlin-Steglitz. He ended his career with the second World War. Josef Peterhans Josef Thomas Peterhans (1882–1960) was a German actor. He began his film acting career at the age of twenty four years with the film ' in 1916. Before