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'''Klaus Brueske'''  (14 September 1938 – 18 April 1962) was a German [[truck driver]] who became the [[List of deaths at the Berlin Wall|sixteenth person to die]] at the [[Berlin Wall]]. Brueske died in an attempt to break through the Heinrich-Heine-Straße border crossing in a truck, and was the first Berlin Wall victim to die from [[suffocation]].

== Life ==
Klaus Brueske was born on 14 September 1938 in [[Berlin]], [[Nazi Germany]], one of eight children raised in the [[Friedrichshain]] area of the city. By 1962, Brueske still lived in [[Friedrichshain]], now in [[East Berlin]], but was a [[Cross border commuters in the berlin area 1948 1961|Grenzgänger]] (cross-border commuter) who worked as a [[truck driver]] for [[AEG (German company)|AEG]] in [[West Berlin]]. Following the abrupt closing of the border and construction of the [[Berlin Wall]] on 13 August 1961, by [[East German]] authorities, Brueske remained in East Berlin and found a new job as a truck driver. Quickly becoming unhappy with the situation in the East Germany, Brueske started to plan his escape to West Berlin with friends, deciding to break through the border with a truck.<ref name=chronik>[http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/en/victims/180494/brueske-klaus?letter=B Short portrait of Klaus Brueske at ''chronik-der-mauer.de'']</ref><ref name=gedenk>((Cite web |url=http://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/en/1962-300,345,2.html |title=Short Portrait of Klause Brueske at ''Gedenkstätte-Berliner-Mauer.de'', which includes the only known photo of Klaus Brueske |access-date=September 2, 2016 |archive-date=October 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014032524/http://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/en/1962-300,345,2.html |url-status=dead ))</ref>

==Death==
On 17 April 1962 Brueske borrowed a truck from his workplace then loaded it with [[sand]], and that evening met with six friends who wanted to take part in the escape attempt, where they [[Dutch courage|drank for courage]]. When Brueske and the men went to the truck to begin they saw [[Volkspolizei]] officers nearby, instead parting ways to not to attract any attention from the policemen. At the later meeting, only three of Brueske's friends were still willing to escape. Brueske sat down at the steering wheel to drive, Lothar M. sat in the passenger seat, and Peter G. laid down in the loading area of the truck. After midnight they drove at the Heinrich-Heine-Straße border crossing at about 70&nbsp;km/h (44&nbsp;mph), breaking through the first two [[boom barrier]]s, and a soldier of the [[Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic|East German border guards]] fired a total of 14 shots at the vehicle. The truck came to a halt on the West Berlin side after hitting a wall, but Brueske had died and his friends were injured, and all three were taken to the hospital. Brueske was pronounced dead, and an [[autopsy]] of his [[corpse]] revealed that he had suffered two non-fatal gunshot injuries to the neck, instead Brueske had [[suffocated]] in the sand loaded on the back of the truck, which had poured into the cab due to the impact with the wall.

Klaus Brueske's funeral, which his mother and siblings were prohibited from attending by the East German government, took place at the Friedhof Lübars cemetery in West Berlin.<ref name=chronik /><ref name=gedenk />

==After Reunification==
After the [[German reunification]], the Berlin public prosecutor at the [[Landgericht Berlin]] brought charges against the border guard who had fired the shots at Brueske's truck. The court sentenced him in 1998 to imprisonment of 14 months, which was converted to [[probation]].<ref name=chronik /><ref name=gedenk />

== See also ==
* [[List of deaths at the Berlin Wall]]
* [[Berlin Crisis of 1961]]

==References==
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==Literature==
* Christine Brecht: ''Klaus Brueske'', in: ''Die Todesopfer an der Berliner Mauer 1961–1989.'' Links, Berlin 2009, ((ISBN|978-3-86153-517-1)), p.&nbsp;79–81.

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