Fred Woitke
Fred Woitke (born October 16, 1949 in Schönfließ (Eisenhüttenstadt) ; † April 21, 1973 near Marienborn ) was a fatality on the inner-German border .
Life
Woitke, who lives in Eisenhüttenstadt , decided to leave the GDR illegally , together with two colleagues with whom he worked in the Eisenhüttenstadt road maintenance depot . They installed a snow plow, additional headlights and yellow rotating beacons on a truck at their work place. They covered the inside of the driver's cab with blankets and a carpet as a bullet trap. On April 21, 1973 around 1:15 a.m. they tried to cross the border with this truck in the area of the Helmstedt / Marienborn border crossing. After breaking through two barriers, the truck hit the extended anti-roll bar, overturned and lay on the roof. Woitke and one of his companions tried to flee on foot. 4 border guards fired a total of 100 shots at him, leaving him dead.
The perpetrators were not punished. The Public Prosecutor's Office II at the Berlin Regional Court closed the preliminary investigation in 1996 because it could not be clarified who fired the fatal shots at Woitke and the accused could not be proven to have intended to kill.
Web links
- Information on Fred Woitke on the website of the SED State Research Association of the Free University of Berlin
- Death at the third lock . In: Tages-Anzeiger of June 13, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woitke, Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fatality on the inner-German border |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönfließ (Eisenhüttenstadt) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1973 |
| Place of death | at Marienborn |