Klaus Frings

Klaus Frings (* 1936 ; † April 17, 1968 in Munich ) worked as a press photographer for the Associated Press and the Axel Springer Verlag , among others . He died of injuries sustained by a stone throwing during a demonstration after the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke .

In April 1968, events in the APO accelerated . On Maundy Thursday 1968, Rudi Dutschke, a leading figure in the student protest movement , was gunned down on Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin . As a result of the reporting by the Springer press, which was strictly against the student movement, demonstrations took place in front of the publishing houses in West Berlin and various other cities in West Germany , including Munich. Some of these demonstrations developed into civil war-like street battles with the police and became known as the Easter Riots .

Klaus Frings was so badly injured by a stone throwing a "cuboid granite stone" on Easter Monday, April 15, 1968, that he died two days later of cerebral haemorrhage caused by fractured skull. The attending doctors had initially underestimated his injury. The police were investigating for " bodily harm resulting in death against unknown persons". It is still unclear who threw the stone and was responsible for his death. Because that evening stones were thrown by both students and police officers. On the part of the APO, the police were held responsible, but they denied any responsibility. Another fatality was the student Rüdiger Schreck, who died one day after Frings from the effects of a blow from a lumber.

Web links

• Spiegel from July 15, 1968

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Unrest / Fatalities : Gewisse Scheu , Der Spiegel 18/1968 of April 29, 1968
2. ↑ ^{a b} Two forgotten victims of 1968 ( memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) BR-online, March 18, 2008
3. ^ Nick Thomas: Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany. A Social History of Dissent and Democracy, Oxford / New York 2003, p. 175.