Peter Müller (border victim)
Peter Müller (born May 15, 1944 in Osterode am Fallstein ; † June 14, 1964 in Elend ) was a fatality on the inner-German border .
Life
The driver Peter Müller lived in Gernrode .
On June 13, 1964, he and his friend Dieter S. went to the inner-German border to get to the Federal Republic of Germany. After they were almost discovered, they spent the night in hiding between the first and second border fences. The next morning they crawled through the minefield that followed the second border fence. In doing so, Peter Müller triggered a PMD-6 anti-personnel mine of the Soviet design, which killed him immediately.
Dieter S. was arrested, given a suspended sentence, and fled the GDR in the same section of the border in 1965.
Work colleagues who took part in Peter Müller's funeral in Quedlinburg were interrogated in the following weeks in order to intimidate employees of the State Security Service.
literature
- Jochen Staadt , Klaus Schroeder (ed.): The victims of the GDR border regime on the inner-German border 1949–1989. A biographical manual . Wissenschaftsverlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2017, pp. 211–212 ISBN 978-3-7425-0119-6 (licensed edition for the Federal Agency for Civic Education )
Web links
- Peter Müller on the website of the SED State Research Association of the Free University of Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Excerpt from the jury court indictment against Erich Honecker (jury court indictment: Public Prosecutor at the Higher Regional Court, file number 2 Js 26/90, pages 8 - 33) , berliner-mauer.tv
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fatality on the inner-German border |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osterode am Fallstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1964 |
| Place of death | in misery |