List of fatalities in demonstrations in the Federal Republic of Germany

The list of fatalities in demonstrations in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949 includes those who died in demonstrations in the Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin .

Fatalities

Name of the victim	Age	Job specification	date of death	place	Circumstances of death
Philipp Mueller	21st	Workers	May 11, 1952	eat	He was shot dead by a police officer during a demonstration against West German rearmament .
Benno Ohnesorg	27	college student	June 2nd, 1967	West Berlin	He was shot dead by the police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras at the demonstration against the Shah on June 2, 1967 in West Berlin .
Rudiger Schreck	27	college student	April 15, 1968	Munich	Rüdiger Schreck suffered a skull fracture during a demonstration against the Springer Group after the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke . The circumstances of his death are unclear.
Klaus Frings	32	Press photographer	April 17, 1968	Munich	Klaus Frings was hit by a stone during a demonstration against the Springer Group after the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke and later succumbed to his injuries.
Olaf Ritzmann	16	Carpenter apprentice	August 29, 1980	Hamburg	During a demonstration against an election campaign appearance by Franz Josef Strauss on August 25, while fleeing from the police at Sternschanzenbahnhof, he was hit by an S-Bahn train and died four days later from his injuries
Klaus-Jürgen Rattay	18th		September 22, 1981	West Berlin	He was fatally wounded by a bus during a demonstration against the eviction of occupied houses .
Günter Sare	36	Machinist	September 28, 1985	Frankfurt am Main	He was run over by a water cannon during a demonstration against the NPD in which there was a street battle between militant anti-fascists and neo-Nazis . The Frankfurt Regional Court acquitted the water cannon crew of the accusation of negligent homicide. Sare, who was under the influence of drugs at the time of the accident, had not evaded the vehicle and, according to the court ruling, had misjudged the traffic situation.
Erna Sielka			March 2, 1986	Wackersdorf	she suffered heart failure during a police operation against opponents of the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant
Alois Sonnleitner	38		March 31, 1986	Wackersdorf	By using CS gas during police operations against opponents of the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant , he suffered an asthma attack and died.
Johann Hirschinger	31	Chief detective	September 24, 1986	Wackersdorf	Succumb to severe burn injuries after a helicopter accident while working in protests at the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant in the hospital.
Klaus Eichhöfer	43	Police chief inspector	November 2nd 1987	West runway	From the demonstration, a shooter opened fire on the police, Eichhöfer died on site ( homicides at the runway west ).
Torsten Schwalm	23	Police chief	November 2nd 1987	West runway	From the demonstration, a shooter opened fire on the police, Schwalm died on the way to the hospital ( homicides on the runway west ).
Conny Wessmann	24	Student	November 17, 1989	Goettingen	In the context of violent clashes between right-wing extremist skinheads and autonomous people in downtown Göttingen, civil investigators tried to bring an anti- fascist group to which Wessmann belonged. While trying to escape the police on a busy road, Wessmann was hit by a car and fatally injured.
Alexander Kludt	27	Nurse	July 10, 1999	Berlin	Alexander Kludt was stabbed to death during the Love Parade in 1999. The Love Parade was officially registered as a political demonstration until 2001.
Steffen Meyn	26th	journalist	19th September 2018	Hambach Forest	As part of the protest actions against the clearing of the Hambach Forest , the 26-year-old man broke through a suspension bridge and fell at least 15 meters into the depth. He had been documenting the life of the environmentalists in the tree houses for a long time . Due to his severe injuries, he died shortly afterwards.