Carl Hans Lody
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Carl Hans Lody (January 20, 1877 – November 6, 1914) was executed as a German spy by Great Britain at the Tower of London soon after the outbreak of World War I.
Born in Berlin, Lody was shot at the Tower's rifle range by an eight-man firing squad drawn from the 3rd Battalion, The Scots Guards. He was the first person to be incarcerated at the Tower for almost a century, and the first executed there in over 150 years.
A German destroyer, the Hans Lody, was named for him.
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