Rudi Arnstadt (September 3, 1926 - August 14, 1962). He was shot and killed while serving as a captain of the border troops of the former German Democratic Republic. September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a socialist country that existed from 1949 to 1990. ...

A married man with two children, he was shot by Hans Plüschke a twenty three year old Federal German border guard. The incident took place at Wiesenfeld on the East-West border in the German province of Thuringia. The Free State of Thuringia (German Freistaat Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the countrys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 sq. ...

His death occurred along with the deaths of another four GDR border troops in quite a short time. Such incidents led to a very strained relationship between the two opposing sets of German border troops. This has been proposed as a contributory factor for the failure of East Berlin border guards to assist the mortally wounded Peter Fechter. Mr. Fechter was shot while attempting to defect to West Berlin on August 17, 1962 and died after an hour lying in no-man's land in full view of both sides. East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... Portrait photograph of Peter Fechter Peter Fechter (14 January 1944 – 17 August 1962) was a bricklayer from East Berlin, who at the age of 18 became one of the first, and probably the most famous, of the victims of the Berlin Wall. ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...