Onesorg, Benno

Benno Ohnesorg ( German: Benno Ohnesorg ; October 15, 1940 , Hanover - June 2, 1967 , Berlin ) is a German student specializing in novelistics and Germanic studies . According to political views, the pacifist . Attended as a spectator at a demonstration against the visit of the head of Iran, Shah Mohamed Rez Pahlavi, to West Berlin and Germany . During the dispersal of the demonstration, he was mortally wounded by a shot in the back of the head from a close range by West Berlin policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras .

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Relief "Death of a demonstrator" in front of the Deutsche Oper building

The orderlies arrived only after 15 minutes. Onesorg was delivered to the hospital an hour after being wounded. He died in an ambulance. The dead woman had a pregnant wife. The court acquitted Karl-Heinz Kurras of "lack of evidence."

The killing of Onesorg was one of the reasons for the activation of German youth , the split of German society and the radicalization of the student movement in the country . It became a symbolic event of post-war German history and, in particular, a specific reason for the creation of the militant partisan organization “ June 2 Movement ”, which later joined the left-wing faction of the Red Army .

According to a Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik investigation by the State Commissioner for Documents of the GDR , submitted by ZDF and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras ( Г55 member) c 1964) and had the task of collecting internal information from the German police. No data were found on the connection of his activities in the exploration of the GDR and the killing of Onesorg ^[5] . After the murder, all contacts between Kurras and the Stasi were interrupted ^{[6] [7]} . However, the documents of the ministry were listed until 1976. ^{[8] [9]}