Reinhold Huhn

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Reinhold Paul chicken (* 8. March 1942 in Braunsberg ; † 18th June 1962 in Berlin ( East )) was Corporal of the Border Troops of the GDR , when he was in the room Straße 56 in Berlin by the smugglers Rudolf Müller was shot. Before Huhn did his military service, he was a cattle farmer. He was promoted posthumously to NCO .

The East Berlin Reinhold-Huhn-Oberschule ( POS ) was named after him as well as Reinhold-Huhn -straßen in Berlin, Hoyerswerda , Magdeburg , Guben and Hildburghausen . The memorial for soldiers of the border troops of the GDR who died on the state border with Berlin (West) on Jerusalemer Strasse at the corner of Schützenstrasse (from 1966 to 1991 Reinhold-Huhn-Strasse) in Berlin, existed from 1973 to October 4, 1994 Names. A bronze memorial plaque attached there was removed and is located in an exhibition room of the civil defense facility Blochplatz der Berliner Unterwelten eV Another removed memorial plaque was in the Nikolai-Bersarin barracks in Berlin-Lichtenberg.

death

On June 18, 1962, Reinhold Huhn was deployed to the Berlin Wall in Berlin-Mitte near Zimmerstrasse. Escape helpers around Rudolf Müller dug an escape tunnel from the construction site of the Axel Springer high-rise building in West Berlin, directly on the wall . Müller, a former cross-border commuter , wanted to bring his wife, his two children and his sister-in-law from East Berlin to West Berlin . After the tunnel had broken through into the basement of a house in East Berlin, Rudolf Müller went over, left the house and picked up his family from an agreed meeting point. On the way back to the tunnel entrance they passed Reinhold Huhn and his guard leader. When Huhn wanted to control the group, all but Rudolf Müller continued. Müller drew a pistol from the inside pocket of his jacket and shot Chicken at close range in the chest. Then Müller ran to the tunnel entrance. The guard leader Huhns opened fire on the refugees without meeting any of them.

  • Reinhold Huhn is buried in Adorf / Vogtl. on June 22, 1962

  • Youth hour at the first memorial for chicken on Zimmerstrasse in 1964

  • On June 14, 1972, Fidel Castro laid a wreath at the Reinhold Huhn memorial

  • Young pioneers at the memorial for the soldiers of the border troops of the GDR who died on the state border with Berlin (West) , which had replaced the Reinhold Huhn memorial in 1973, 1986

  • Memorial plaque , Zimmerstrasse 54, in Berlin-Mitte

Aftermath

When he arrived on the West Berlin side, Rudolf Müller stated that he had merely hit Reinhold Huhn. The fatal shot had been fired by the guard leader. The West Berlin Senate flew Müller and his family to the Federal Republic . An extradition request from the GDR authorities, who were convinced of Müller's guilt, was rejected. The West Berlin investigation against Müller was closed in November 1962. In front of border soldiers, the GDR government claimed that Müller had acted on behalf of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Governing Mayor Willy Brandt .

After German reunification , the Berlin public prosecutor's office re-investigated the case. This led to a trial against Rudolf Müller in 1996. During the course of the proceedings, the defendant confessed to being responsible for the fatal shots, but claimed self-defense . The district court sentenced him to one year probation for manslaughter . The minimum penalty for manslaughter is five years imprisonment, but the court saw special legal mitigating reasons in Müller's case. In the appeal hearing before the Federal Court of Justice in 2000, the sentence was left unchanged, but the offense was changed to murder because the criterion of treachery was fulfilled. The mitigation of the sentence was left unchanged, but the reasons for it corrected.

In November 2000 , the Federal Constitutional Court did not accept Müller's constitutional complaint and stated among other things: "The assessment of the act as treacherous murder is otherwise unconstitutional".

On August 6, 2001, the TV station MDR broadcast the documentary film The Death Stripe - Fatal Shots about these events, which confirmed the investigations by the GDR police and GDR courts.

literature

Web links

Commons : Reinhold Huhn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietmar Kuntzsch : Urban development and border. Jerusalemer Strasse and the monument to Reinhold Huhn in East Berlin . In: Günter Schlusche, Verena Pfeiffer-Kloss, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper , Axel Klausmeier (eds.): Urban development in double Berlin. Contemporaries and places of remembrance . Links Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-810-3 , pp. 24–31.
  2. ↑ welt.de, May 15, 2018, The Kalashnikov blocked the way into the escape tunnel
  3. ↑ Brief portrait on www.chronik-der-mauer.de
  4. ↑ BVerfG, 2 BvR 1473/00 of November 30, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Chicken, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soldier of the border troops of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunsberg (East Prussia) , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1962
Place of death East Berlin