Chris Gueffroy (June 21, 1968 – February 6, 1989) was the last person to die trying to escape across the Berlin Wall. Jump to: navigation, search June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989 The Berlin Wall (German: Die Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. ...

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Together with his friend Christian Gaudian, Gueffroy attempted on the night of February 5–6, 1989 to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin, along the Britz district canal. The two believed that the Schießbefehl, the standing order to shoot anyone who attempted to cross the wall, had been lifted. Climbing the last metal lattice fence, the two were discovered and came under fire from the NVA border troops. Gueffroy was hit in the chest by ten shots and died in the border strip. Gaudian, badly but not fatally injured, was arrested and was condemned May 24, 1989 to an imprisonment of three years by the Pankow district court for attempted illegal border-crossing of the first degree ("versuchten ungesetzlichen Grenzübertritts im schweren Fall"). Britz canal, Berlin This picture is from the website: http://www. ... Britz canal, Berlin This picture is from the website: http://www. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... Jump to: navigation, search The German term Schießbefehl (which may also be transliterated as Schiessbefehl and which means firing order) was the common term to refer to Befehl 101 (Order 101), a standing order that instructed border patrols of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) to... NVA troops on parade, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of East Germany in 1989 The National Peoples Army (German: Nationale Volksarmee, NVA) was the army of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). ... Jump to: navigation, search May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pankow is a borough of Berlin. ...

In September 1989 Gaudian was freed on bail by the GDR and on 17 October 1989 he was transferred to West Berlin. Jump to: navigation, search 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The four border guards involved at first obtained an honorary award (Leistungsabzeichen der Grenztruppen) from the chief of the Grenzkommandos Mitte border guards, Erich Wöllner, and a prize of 150 Mark each. However, after the reunification of East and West Germany they were prosecuted by Berlin regional court. Two of them were released in January 1992, one got a suspended sentence. The latter, Ingo Heinrich, who was responsible for the mortal shot in the heart, was at first condemned to three and a half years of jail. In an appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof (high court of justice) in 1994 the verdict was lowered to a suspended sentence of two years. German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, in English often called East Germany) were incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany). After the GDRs first free elections on 18 March 1990, negotiations... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Bundesgerichtshof or BGH (German for federal court) is the highest Germany for civil and criminal lawsuits. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

On June 21, 2003, which would have been his 35th birthday, a monument to Gueffroy was erected on the bank of the Britz district canal. The monument was designed by Berlin artist Karl Biedermann. Jump to: navigation, search June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2000, two SED functionaries, Siegfried Lorenz and Hans-Joachim Böhme, were tried for the death of Gueffroy and two other young men, but acquitted as the judge could find no evidence that they might have been able to lift the shoot-to-kill order. The case was retried on 7 August 2004, however, and this time the two men were found guilty and given suspended sentences of 15 months each. The judge explained that the short sentences were due to the length of time since the events. This was the last case concerning deaths on the border of the GDR. Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ... The logo of the SED The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, or SED) was the governing party of East Germany from its formation in 1949 until the elections of 1990. ... Jump to: navigation, search August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The GDR border system was formed by a series of chain-link fences, walls, turrets and mine fields that was in place from 1961 to 1990, and was 1381 km (858 miles) in length, the entire length of the border separating East and West Germany; just as the Berlin Wall...