Peter Fechter

Peter Fechter

male, deceased (1962)
Peter Fechter (14 January 1944 - 17 August 1962) was a bricklayer from East Berlin, who at the age of eighteen became one of the first victims of... More
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Otto Grotewohl

Otto Grotewohl

male, deceased (1964)
Otto Grotewohl (March 11, 1894 - September 21 1964) was an East German politician. Grotewohl was born in Braunschweig. A leader of the Social... More
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Armin Mueller-Stahl

Armin Mueller-Stahl

male, 77 years old
Armin Mueller-Stahl (born December 17, 1930) is a German film actor. Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany, (now Sovetsk,... More
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Ernst Busch

Ernst Busch

male, deceased (1980)
Ernst Busch (22 January, 1900 - 8 June, 1980) was a singer and actor. He was born in Kiel, Germany, and died in Berlin. Busch first rose to... More
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Lothar de Maizière

male, 68 years old
Lothar de Maizière is a German conservative politician who served as the first and only democratically elected Prime Minister of the German D... More
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Robert Havemann

Robert Havemann

male, deceased (1982)
Robert Havemann was a chemist, communist and an East German dissident. He studied chemistry in Berlin and Munich from 1929 to 1933, and then later... More
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Chris Gueffroy

Chris Gueffroy

male, deceased (1989)
Chris Gueffroy was the last person to die while trying to escape across the Berlin Wall. Together with his friend Christian Gaudian, Gueffroy... More
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Elisabeth Hauptmann

Elisabeth Hauptmann

female, deceased (1973)
Elisabeth Hauptmann (born June 20 1897 in Peckelsheim, Westphalia; died April 20 1973 in East Berlin) was a German writer who worked with Bertolt... More
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Walter Felsenstein

Walter Felsenstein

male, deceased (1975)
Walter Felsenstein was a theater and opera director. Felsenstein was born in Vienna and began his career at the Burgtheater in his birthcity and... More
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Peter Hacks

Peter Hacks

male, deceased (2003)
Peter Hacks, was a German playwright, author, and essayist. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance... More
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