Peter Reisch
Peter Reisch (born February 26, 1943 in Sierpc ; † July 13, 1962 in Magdeburg ) was a fatality on the inner-German border .
Life
Peter Reisch, who had fled the GDR via West Berlin before the Wall was built, had returned to the GDR in March 1962 for fear of a claim for damages, lived with his mother in Egeln and worked there as a farm worker. On June 5, 1962, he tried to escape from the GDR again at Schierke's . He was discovered by border guards. The corporal Fritz Hanke shot him and hit the back of the head. Peter Reisch was first taken to the Wernigerode district hospital and later to the Magdeburg Medical Academy , where he died on July 13, 1962.
The shooter Fritz Hanke fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1963 and was sentenced to 15 months in prison by the Stuttgart Regional Court in October 1963 . This was the first procedure of its kind in the Federal Republic of Germany and a forerunner of the later wall rifle trials .
Web links
- Peter Reisch on the website of the SED State Research Association of the Free University of Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Inner German border: The first wall rifle trial took place in 1963. In: welt.de . October 11, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reisch, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fatality on the inner-German border |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sierpc |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1962 |
| Place of death | Magdeburg |