Lutz Haberlandt
Lutz Haberlandt (born April 29, 1938 in Berlin ; † May 27, 1962 there ) was a victim of the Berlin Wall . Members of the GDR border troops shot him while trying to escape on the Spree near the Charité .
Life
Lutz Haberlandt grew up with two siblings in Prenzlauer Berg . After school he did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer . When he died at the age of 24, he was still living with his parents on Dimitroffstrasse . The family is said to have had relatives in West Berlin . According to the MfS , he was “politically disinterested”.
On May 27, 1962, a warm Sunday, he went to a pub for lunch and drank beer there with a friend who happened to be there. During the conversation he made no hints about his upcoming attempt to escape. In the afternoon he went downtown to the Charité at the sector border. At around 4:00 p.m., two transport policemen watched him climb a shed and lay in the sun without shoes or jacket. He later jumped from the roof of the shed, overcame a wall and penetrated the border strip. Border guards discovered him from their location 100 meters away on the Sandkrug Bridge . After a warning shot, Grenzer K. shot Lutz Haberlandt twice. A bullet struck his head. The border guards let about 40 minutes pass before they took Haberlandt away, who had been lying in a bush without medical help, and who had died. Other border guards had also shot at Haberlandt. Some of the bullets hit West Berlin territory. From there a West Berlin police officer returned fire, where he met a GDR border guard by the helmet.
The next morning around 4:00 a.m., police officers and a public prosecutor informed Haberlandt's relatives about his death and the cause of death. They ransacked the family's home and pressed them to consent to the cremation. The parents had neither known about their son's escape plans nor his motives. Haberlandt's urn burial took place on July 8, 1962 at the Weißensee cemetery .
After the reunification of Berlin , the public prosecutor began investigations against members of the border troops. In 1996 the Berlin district court sentenced K. to a youth penalty of one year and six months on probation in a wall rifle trial .
A cross facing the Spree from the White Crosses Memorial on the bank of the Reichstag commemorates Lutz Haberlandt.
literature
- Christine Brecht : Lutz Haberlandt , in: The victims of the Berlin Wall 1961–1989 , Links, Berlin 2009, pp. 88–89.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haberlandt, Lutz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German casualty from the Berlin Wall |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1962 |
| Place of death | Berlin |