RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Killing of Peter Fechter

1944 - 1962

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Peter Fechter (14 January 1944 – 17 August 1962) was an East German bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Fechter was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by East German border guards while trying to cross over to West Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Killing of Peter Fechter is the 919th most popular religious figure (down from 885th in 2019), the 1,086th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,116th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 919 out of 3,187. Before him are Juan Diego, Primož Trubar, Cyriacus, Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Giuseppe Moscati, and Patriarch Nikon of Moscow. After him are Sasan, Peter Chrysologus, Charalambos, Guru Angad, Ravi Shankar, and Angela of Foligno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 100. Before him are Nebahat Çehre, Klaus Nomi, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Moe Tucker, Kary Mullis, and W. G. Sebald. After him are Karin Schubert, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, Jeroen Krabbé, Ian McDiarmid, Donna Haraway, and Hugo Gatti. Among people deceased in 1962, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 37. Before him are Hans Lammers, Therese Neumann, C. Wright Mills, Joseph Berchtold, Hanns Eisler, and Jacques Ibert. After him are Ivan Meštrović, Dušan Simović, Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Eiji Yoshikawa, Leonardo De Lorenzo, and M. Visvesvaraya.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 1,086 out of 7,253. Before him are W. G. Sebald (1944), Franz, Duke of Bavaria (1933), Georg Baselitz (1938), Ralf Dahrendorf (1929), Peter Minuit (1589), and Oskar Schlemmer (1888). After him are Karin Schubert (1944), William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548), Hannah Pick-Goslar (1928), Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1641), Carl Clauberg (1898), and Friedrich Hund (1896).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 26. Before him are Gerhard Ludwig Müller (1947), Margot Frank (1926), Mechtilde (1241), Therese Neumann (1898), Georg Ratzinger (1924), and Bruno of Querfurt (970). After him are Severinus of Noricum (410), Walter Kasper (1933), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Otto of Bamberg (1060), Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744), and Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878).

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