Looking at the topic of political murders, one can recognize, that this tool of politics is used more than rare. At the killing of a disliked person, the political, religious and ethic reasons play a role often underestimated. Murders for religious and ethic reasons can also be counted to the category of political murders because they are mostly a part of a political strategy. However, these bloody attacks cannot always be recognized as murders for political reasons. Professional underground movements and intelligence agencies often do murders in a way which makes it hard to the investigators of the police to uncover the political background. The results of this work are victims killed of "technical defectives", "tragic accidents", as "victim of a mistake" or "brutal criminals". Another frequently used method is the coup. Professionally organized, i.e. hiding the people behind, one discharges the chosen victim and substitutes it with a more favorable person. Since sometimes not merely one or a few persons should be killed but whole groups of human beings, mostly for religious or ethic raisons d'être, have to be annihilated, some sovereigns don't hesitate to genocide. In general, every assassination can be separated into the three steps of preparation, execution and enlightenment. Thereby, the assassin itself is directly involved in the execution. If he's acting alone, he's also heavily entangled with the preparation. At most coups, accidents and other murders the preparation isn't done by the murderer itself but by a professional organization with extensive financial, logistic and personal resources. In these cases the assassin often has contact to only one member of this group, he gets to know his tasks not before the preparation is finished. If the assassin is full of hate for his victim, very convinced of his deed or just a martyr, he easily puts up with his own death. From this time on, the planners are only spectators, too. Instead, the victim enters the scene of the crime. Some victims are aware of their endangerment, others extrude it and many victims don't know about their threat. Mostly, the contact between the victim and the assassin lasts only for a few seconds, however, at abductions several days and weeks are also possible. As a consequence, a sub-section into three kinds of fulfillment is recommended. At a secret murder, it's not obvious who committed the murder and for what reasons. If the assassin wants to get attention for his matter or probably his faith by the acceptance of his own death, the assassination is committed publicly and with the aim of a high number of spectators. The third kind is a terrorist operation, mainly a kidnapping with following murder. The culprits give hints to themselves and their points of view to the investigators or the press. With the end of the abduction, the proficiency of preparation and fulfillment can be judged. It can be the case that no investigations are started for a murder case since no witnesses, no tracks of a murder or - after a coup - no necessity for scrutinies is extant. In German, the word "Attentat" for an assassination doesn't correspond to the German term for assassin, "Täter". Instead, it is a derivation of the Latin verb "attemptare" which also leads to the English word "attempt". "attemptare" is a strengthened "temptare" and means "at the right time". In many languages, like the English, the term "assassination" is used for political murders. This expression has its origin in the radical Islamic group of the Assassins.