Frank Mater

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Frank Mater (born May 1, 1963 in Eisenach ; † March 22, 1984 near Wendehausen ) was a fatality on the inner-German border .

Life

On the afternoon of March 22, 1984, 20-year-old Frank Mater from Mihla , Eisenach district , approached the border from Wendehausen, Mühlhausen district. Approx. 2500 m west of Wendehausen between the border pillars 1385 and 1386 he overcame the border signal fence , triggered it and ran in the cover of a forest to border fence 1 with fragmentation mines. At around 1:37 p.m. he triggered a fragmentation mine (self-firing system SM 70) in the middle row and was seriously injured. The recovery of the injured person began at 2 p.m. At 2:30 p.m. the regimental doctor declared that he was dead.

He was probably the last person to be killed in a mine on the inner-German border, as it was removed in November 1984 in return for a one billion DM loan brokered by Franz Josef Strauss .

In a trial for the death of Mater and five other escape victims who died from self-shot systems or the use of firearms, the responsible former members of the National Defense Council of the GDR were sentenced to four and a half to seven and a half years in prison for inciting manslaughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mater, Frank. In: fu-berlin.de. November 16, 2015, accessed June 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ List of victims. In: broda-72.de. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  3. ^ NDR: Fatalities of the self-firing systems. In: ndr.de. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  4. ^ Klaus Marxen , Gerhard Werle: Criminal justice and GDR injustice: acts of violence on the German-German border . Walter de Gruyter, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89949-007-7 ( google.com [accessed June 21, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Mater, Frank. In: fu-berlin.de. November 16, 2015, accessed June 21, 2016 .
  6. ^ NDR: Fatalities of the self-firing systems. In: ndr.de. Retrieved June 21, 2016 .
  7. ^ Roman Grafe : German Justice: Trials against GDR border guards and their commanders. Siedler Verlag, 2009, ISBN 9783641012359 ; limited preview in Google Book search.
personal data
SURNAME Mater, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German refugee, fatality on the inner-German border
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1984
Place of death Turning houses