People

Everyone named in the records: people who escaped or tried to, the helpers who dug and drove for them, guards, and witnesses. 415 names in all; 13 of them appear in more than one story and have their own page.

Many sources shorten names to protect privacy, such as “Klaus Sch.” or “Frau K.”. They are listed as written, once for each story: the same shortened name in two stories is not assumed to be the same person.

A

Günter A.
- Günter A. climbs the Wall under machine-pistol fire (1961)
Hans-Jürgen A.
- A lorry driver delivering building material jumps the barrier wall (1961)
Simona A.
- The S-Bahn hijacking at Friedrichstraße (1983)
Lucie Aagaard
- The Aagaard Tunnel (1963)
Niels-Martin Aagaard
- The Aagaard Tunnel (1963)
Karl-Heinz Albert
- Dieter Wohlfahrt, escape helper shot at Staaken (1961)

B

Adolf B.
- Hans-Dieter Wesa shot at Bornholmer Straße station (1962)
Bernd B.
- Bernd B. is shot five metres from the Wall (1968)
Burckhardt B.
- "Now there are two fewer of you!" (1966)
Dietrich B.
- Dorit Schmiel – five friends crawl towards Reinickendorf (1962)
Eberhard B.
- Dorit Schmiel – five friends crawl towards Reinickendorf (1962)
Egon B.
- Egon B.'s desertion and the death of Ulrich Steinhauer (1980)
Erich B.
- Erich B.'s family jumps from Bernauer Straße 42 (1961)
Gerhard B.
- Gerhard B. is injured with a bayonet at Alte Jakobstraße (1961)
Hannelore B.
- Two escapes in one night from Bernauer Straße 2 (1961)
Hartmut B.
- Two conscripts flee on New Year's Eve at Gartenstraße (1965)
Irma B.
- Irma B. barricades her door and climbs down a fire brigade ladder (1961)
Jürgen B.
- Jürgen B. is caught past the wire at Ruppiner Straße (1963)
Klara B.
- Johannes M. offers a guard a thousand marks at Ruppiner Straße (1962)
Manfred B.
- A policeman crawls under the wire at mealtime (1961)
Manfred B.
- 80 shots at Manfred B. (1966)
Owm. B.
- Two policemen climb out of the Liesenstraße cemetery (1961)
Reinhold B.
- Two policemen leave their carbines in Onckenstraße, then wave from a VW (1961)
Rudolf B.
- Rudolf B., his wife and son rope down from Bernauer Straße 5 (1961)
August Bach
- The chauffeur who was looking for his ring (1961)
Bruno Becker
- The Becker Tunnel ("Tunnel 28") (1962)
Günter Becker
- The Becker Tunnel ("Tunnel 28") (1962)
Michael Becker
- Holger Bethke and Michael Becker slide over the Wall on a steel cable (1983)
Rita Bergemann
- Rita Bergemann and Michael Reck swim the Havel from Sacrow (1961)
Jens Bernhardt
- Jens Bernhardt waits until his partner falls asleep and climbs the fence into Spandau (1987)
Egbert Bethke
- Ultralight flight from Treptower Park to the Reichstag (1989)
Holger Bethke · escapee, later escape helper
- Holger Bethke and Michael Becker slide over the Wall on a steel cable (1983)
- Ultralight flight from Treptower Park to the Reichstag (1989)
Ingo Bethke · escape helper
- Holger Bethke and Michael Becker slide over the Wall on a steel cable (1983)
- Ultralight flight from Treptower Park to the Reichstag (1989)
Peter Bieber
- A head waiter hidden in a car trailer at Drewitz (1972)
Michael Bittner
- Michael Bittner shot at Glienicke/Nordbahn (1986)
Willi Block
- Willi Block – trapped in the wire and shot at Staaken (1966)
Harry Blue Jr.
- A pregnant woman and her husband behind the back seat of a US sergeant's Chevrolet (1975)
Peter Böhme
- Deserting cadets' gunfight at Griebnitzsee (1962)
Willi Born
- Willi Born – a young soldier's flight ends in the Bergfelde woods (1970)
Karl-Heinz Br.
- 35 shots at Karl-Heinz Br. and Gerd W. in the cemetery strip (1969)
Dieter Brandes
- Dieter Brandes – shot at the Nordbahnhof, died months later (1965)
Helgard Bromberger
- Helgard Bromberger and four others through a rainwater sewer from Spittelmarkt (1961)
Klaus Brueske
- Fatal truck breakthrough at Heinrich-Heine-Straße (1962)
Christian Buttkus
- Christian Buttkus – a snowstorm escape at Kleinmachnow (1965)

C

Carsten
- Ellen Thiemann's escape car stopped at the border (1972)
Leslie Colitt
- Ingrid crosses at Friedrichstraße on her fiancé's sister's US passport (1961)
Jürgen Cr.
- Jürgen Cr. jumps from the new wall (1963)
Heinz Cyrus
- Heinz Cyrus – hunted into Gartenstraße 85 (1965)

D

Axel D.
- Wolga car on the Glienicke Bridge (1987)
Gerhard D.
- Gerhard D.'s family escapes through a bricked-up cellar window (1961)
Günter D.
- Günter D. crawls under the wire while his partner sleeps (1961)
Hartmut D.
- Paul Schultz – shot on the Wall on Christmas Day (1963)
Klaus D.
- Under the wire on the sewage fields between control points 3 and 4 (1961)
Ulla D.
- Ulla D. and Hans K. break into an empty flat and jump (1961)
Harry Deterling
- The last train to freedom (1961)
Detlef
- Three generations jump into the net at Bernauer Straße 10 (1961)
Ingolf Diederichs
- Ingolf Diederichs dies jumping from an S-Bahn at Bösebrücke (1989)
Dirk
- Thomas Drescher and his friend caught at the Wall in Glienicke (1989)
Thomas Drescher
- Thomas Drescher and his friend caught at the Wall in Glienicke (1989)
Udo Düllick
- Udo Düllick – drowned under fire in the Spree (1961)

E

Erich E.
- Conscript Jörg S. stages a check and escapes with two friends (1962)
Manfred E.
- From a lorry's radiator over the wire near control point 4 (1961)
Mario E.
- Mario E. gets away from the guards, then is caught by the police (1979)
Siegfried E.
- A fitter climbs the Bergmann-Borsig factory wall with a ladder (1961)
Helmut Eggebrecht
- In a US Air Force uniform at Checkpoint Charlie (1977)
Horst Einsiedel
- Horst Einsiedel shot on a ladder at Pankow cemetery (1973)
Wolfgang Engels
- Wolfgang Engels' armoured personnel carrier (1963)

F

Joachim F.
- Horst Kutscher – shot 25 metres from West Berlin (1963)
Karl-Heinz F.
- Two pioneers go through the fence they were building at Grüneck (1961)
Michael F.
- Family F. jumps under fire from the third floor (1961)
Peter Fechter
- Peter Fechter bleeds to death at Zimmerstraße (1962)
Georg Feldhahn
- Georg Feldhahn – a border policeman's escape at the Massante Bridge (1961)
Christa Feurich
- The Swiss embassy cook's Mini: caught at Bornholmer Straße (1975)
Horst Frank
- Horst Frank – caught in the last wire at Schönholz (1962)
Boris Franzke · tunnel builder
Eduard Franzke · tunnel builder
Sabine Freudenberg
- Winfried Freudenberg's fatal gas balloon flight (1989)
Winfried Freudenberg
- Winfried Freudenberg's fatal gas balloon flight (1989)
Karl-Heinz Friedrich
- Three Leipzig youths over the fence at Kleinmachnow (1971)
Christian Peter Friese
- Christian Peter Friese shot on Christmas night at Köllnische Heide (1970)
Volker Frommann
- Volker Frommann jumps from a moving S-Bahn near the border (1973)
Wolfgang Fuchs · escape helper and tunnel builder
- The first Bernauer Straße 97 tunnel ends in a coal yard (1964)
- Tunnel 57 (1964)
Reinhard Furrer
- Tunnel 57 (1964)

G

Dr. G.
- Dr. G. rides an ambulance through the Brunnenstraße crossing and stays in the West (1961)
Jan-Michael G.
- Jan-Michael G.'s truck is caught in a cable barrier (1989)
Wolfgang G.
- Deserting cadets' gunfight at Griebnitzsee (1962)
Klaus Garten
- Klaus Garten – left to bleed in the vehicle ditch (1965)
Christian Gaudian
- Chris Gueffroy, the last escaper shot dead at the Wall (1989)
Günther Gedike
- A militia man deserts from the wire detail at Zimmerstraße (1961)
Manfred Gertzki
- Manfred Gertzki's armoured escape attempt at the Reichstag (1973)
Detlef Girrmann
- 'Glockengasse 4711': the sewer route under the Alte Jakobstraße (1961)
Rainer Gneiser
- Norbert Wolscht and Rainer Gneiser – homemade diving gear in the Havel (1964)
Klaus Gomert
- Klaus Gomert at the Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark – shot at, arrested, then expelled to the West (1973)
Peter Göring
- Wilfried Tews swims the canal – border guard Peter Göring killed (1962)
Peter Grohganz
- Peter Grohganz drowns in the winter Spree (1980)
Peter Gross
- The Swiss embassy cook's Mini: caught at Bornholmer Straße (1975)
René Gross
- Manfred Mäder and René Gross – lifting-platform truck at Karpfenteichstraße (1986)
Werner Grützmann
- Circus artiste Horst Klein on the high-voltage line (1962)
Chris Gueffroy
- Chris Gueffroy, the last escaper shot dead at the Wall (1989)

H

Bernhard H.
- A train on the bridge: a guard slips away at control point 4 (1961)
Dieter H.
- Dieter H.'s folding-ladder escape under fire (1986)
Holger H.
- 15-month-old Holger H. suffocates during his parents' escape (1973)
Ingrid H.
- 15-month-old Holger H. suffocates during his parents' escape (1973)
Klaus H.
- 15-month-old Holger H. suffocates during his parents' escape (1973)
Ulrich H.
- Ulrich H. goes into the bushes and does not come back (1961)
Lutz Haberlandt
- Lutz Haberlandt – shot at the Charité (1962)
Joerg Habermann
- The US ambassador's chauffeur smuggles his family out in the official car (1979)
Carl-August von Halle
- Sewer escape helper Carl-August von Halle walks into a Stasi trap (1961)
Herbert Halli
- Herbert Halli shot while turning back at Zimmerstraße (1975)
Axel Hannemann
- Axel Hannemann – from a cargo barge into the Spree (1962)
Bernd Hansen
- Over the rear wall and across the Bösebrücke (1986)
Jörg Hartmann
- Children Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener shot in Treptow (1966)
Walter Hayn
- Walter Hayn shot beside the 'Sorgenfrei' allotments (1964)
Walter Heike
- Walter Heike shot at the Invalidenfriedhof (1964)
Philipp Held
- Philipp Held – a West German who could not get back (1962)
Rolf Henniger
- Deserting policeman and border soldier die near Klein Glienicke (1968)
Hasso Herschel · tunnel builder and escape helper
- Hasso Herschel leaves on a Swiss passport (1961)
- The Betrayed Kiefholzstraße Tunnel (1962)
- Tunnel 29 (1962)
- The betrayed second tunnel from Bernauer Straße 78 (1963)
- The Cadillac with a dashboard hideout (1964)
- Tunnel 71 – The Last Tunnel under Bernauer Straße (1971)
Peter Hertel
- Peter Hertel's forged BEWAG order and a gas worker's ladder (1961)
Ingeborg Hiekel
- Peter Hohmann sprints past the guards at Brunnenstraße (1961)
Manfred Höer
- The heaters' tunnel under the Zimmerstraße (1972)
Peter Höer
- The heaters' tunnel under the Zimmerstraße (1972)
Ulrich-Jürgen von Hof
- Two East Germans force a Polish airliner to land at Tegel (1969)
Roland Hoff
- Roland Hoff – shot in the Teltow Canal (1961)
Hubert Hohlbein
- Hubert Hohlbein – through the Jungfernsee in a diving suit (1963)
Peter Hohmann
- Peter Hohmann sprints past the guards at Brunnenstraße (1961)
Günter Holzapfel
- The Holzapfel family's cable slide from the Haus der Ministerien (1965)
Heinz Holzapfel
- The Holzapfel family's cable slide from the Haus der Ministerien (1965)
Jutta Holzapfel
- The Holzapfel family's cable slide from the Haus der Ministerien (1965)
Ulrike Honko
- A teenage couple climbs the Wall with fence boards and swims the Spree (1986)
Dieter Hötger
- The Betrayed Sebastianstraße Tunnel (1962)
Reinhold Huhn
- Rudolf Müller's Tunnel and the Death of Reinhold Huhn (1962)
Michael Hutter
- Three students disguised as a border patrol climb the Wall on folding ladders (1978)

I

Gotthard Ihden
- Truck full of gas cylinders over the Glienicke Bridge (1988)
Ingrid
- Ingrid crosses at Friedrichstraße on her fiancé's sister's US passport (1961)
Ingrid
- Hans-Peter and Peggy Spitzner in an American's car boot through Checkpoint Charlie (1989)

J

Joachim-Wolfgang J.
- Four men are caught on the timber yard in Wildenbruchstraße (1961)
Siegfried J.
- Siegfried J. sets off an alarm and gives up at Bergstraße (1966)
Klaus-Günter Jacobi
- Smuggled out in a BMW Isetta (1964)
Werner Jäger
- Truck full of gas cylinders over the Glienicke Bridge (1988)
Heinz Jercha
- Heidelberger Straße Tunnel and the Death of Heinz Jercha (1962)
Marienetta Jirkowsky
- Marienetta Jirkowsky shot from a ladder at Hohen Neuendorf (1980)

K

Bernd K.
- Peter Kreitlow – shot by Soviet soldiers near Nieder Neuendorf (1963)
Brigitte K.
- Dorit Schmiel – five friends crawl towards Reinickendorf (1962)
Dieter K.
- Four men are caught on the timber yard in Wildenbruchstraße (1961)
Dieter K.
- Eberhard Schulz shot after standing up to surrender (1966)
Dirk K.
- Sacrower See – one friend makes it, Rainer Liebeke drowns (1986)
Eberhardt K.
- Walter Kittel – killed after surrendering at Kleinmachnow (1965)
Ella K.
- 69-year-old Ella K. escapes with the fire brigade's help (1961)
Frank K.
- Frank K. is caught at the signal fence (1986)
Frau K.
- Three generations jump into the net at Bernauer Straße 10 (1961)
Frau K.
- Horst K. jumps, and a week later his wife follows with their baby (1961)
Frau K.
- The pair who came to rent a cellar (1961)
Gefreiter K.
- Gefreiter K. climbs the Wall behind a sight screen at Strelitzer Straße (1961)
Hans K.
- Ulla D. and Hans K. break into an empty flat and jump (1961)
Hans-Jürgen K.
- Joachim Mehr shot in the wire near Bergfelde (1964)
Heinz K.
- Truck driver Heinz K. over the glass-topped wall (1961)
Helmut K.
- Two guards use a piece of fence as a ladder (1961)
Hildegard K.
- Through the graveyard and the church gate: Hildegard K. and her son (1961)
Horst K.
- Horst K. jumps, and a week later his wife follows with their baby (1961)
Klaus K.
- A bricklayer painting the wall's coping stones jumps down on the other side (1961)
Klaus-Peter K.
- Klaus-Peter K. is caught on the patrol road (1973)
Rudolf K.
- Two policemen vanish from the Kobold works (1961)
Rudolf K.
- Removal worker jumps onto a waiting truck (1961)
Thomas K.
- 18-year-old flies a light aircraft from Potsdam to RAF Gatow (1987)
Werner K.
- Dog handler Werner K. slips away over the cemetery wall (1961)
Wolfgang K.
- The S-Bahn hijacking at Friedrichstraße (1983)
Rolf-Dieter Kabelitz
- Rolf-Dieter Kabelitz – shot in the snow at Bergfelde (1971)
Kay-Uwe Katte
- Stolen tipper truck at Heinrich-Heine-Straße (1983)
Erna Kelm
- Erna Kelm – swimming belt under her clothes (1962)
Herbert Kiebler
- Herbert Kiebler shot near Mahlow; death disguised as suicide (1975)
Volkmar Kienöl
- Volkmar Kienöl and Klaus Kuschmierz try to glide to the Springer building (1986)
Walter Kittel
- Walter Kittel – killed after surrendering at Kleinmachnow (1965)
Klaus-Peter
- Through the graveyard and the church gate: Hildegard K. and her son (1961)
Horst Klein
- Circus artiste Horst Klein on the high-voltage line (1962)
Rene Klein
- Two young men from Prenzlauer Berg cross the Wall with a window-cleaner's ladder (1983)
Peter Klemt
- Two East Germans force a Polish airliner to land at Tegel (1969)
Ronald Klotzer
- Two young men from Prenzlauer Berg cross the Wall with a window-cleaner's ladder (1983)
Klaus-Jürgen Kluge
- Klaus-Jürgen Kluge shot on the crest of the Wall (1969)
Helga Knittel
- Heavily pregnant Helga Knittel jumps first (1961)
Marina Knittel
- Heavily pregnant Helga Knittel jumps first (1961)
Karlheinz Kohl
- Two trainees swim through the ice floes of the Nieder Neuendorfer See (1963)
Michael Kollender
- Michael Kollender – a soldier's flight from guard duty (1966)
Horst Körner
- Deserting policeman and border soldier die near Klein Glienicke (1968)
Manfred Koster
- Smuggled out in a BMW Isetta (1964)
Klaus Kratzel
- Klaus Kratzel killed in the S-Bahn tunnel at Bornholmer Straße (1965)
Dieter Krause
- Klaus Schulze killed, Dieter Krause escapes at Falkenhöh (1972)
Peter Kreitlow
- Peter Kreitlow – shot by Soviet soldiers near Nieder Neuendorf (1963)
Ingo Krüger
- Ingo Krüger – a diver's attempt to reach his fiancée (1961)
Karl-Heinz Kube
- Karl-Heinz Kube shot near the Teltow harbour (1966)
Erich Kühn
- Erich Kühn shot 'blindly into the bushes' at Kiefholzstraße (1965)
Czesław Jan Kukuczka
- Czesław Kukuczka: an exit visa, then a shot in the back at Friedrichstraße (1974)
Helmut Kulbeik
- Peter Fechter bleeds to death at Zimmerstraße (1962)
Horst Kullack
- Horst Kullack shot on New Year's Eve at Großziethen (1971)
Kuo Ying-Hu
- Kuo Ying-Hu's Mercedes: three people in the boot (1965)
Klaus Kuschmierz
- Volkmar Kienöl and Klaus Kuschmierz try to glide to the Springer building (1986)
Mike Kussin
- A teenage couple climbs the Wall with fence boards and swims the Spree (1986)
Horst Kutscher
- Horst Kutscher – shot 25 metres from West Berlin (1963)

L

Anita L.
- Anita L. and Erna M. are caught in the attic with a washing line (1961)
Detlef L.
- Two transport workers plan to stop a West Berlin U-Bahn train under Alexanderplatz (1967)
Gerd L.
- Gerd L. turns back under warning shots and hides at Brunnenstraße 141 (1966)
Kerstin Land
- Kerstin Land and her partner in a car boot (1979)
Johannes Lange
- Johannes Lange shot at the last wall on Adalbertstraße (1969)
Bernd Lehmann
- Bernd Lehmann – caught in underwater barbed wire (1968)
Lothar Lehmann
- Lothar Lehmann – a young policeman swims from Sacrow (1961)
Peter Leibing
- Conrad Schumann's leap to freedom (1961)
Martina Ley
- Gravel truck through Checkpoint Charlie (1986)
Hartmut Lichy
- The last train to freedom (1961)
Rainer Liebeke
- Sacrower See – one friend makes it, Rainer Liebeke drowns (1986)
Leo Lis
- Leo Lis shot near the Nordbahnhof (1969)
Günter Litfin
- Günter Litfin – shot swimming the Humboldthafen (1961)
Jürgen Litfin
- Günter Litfin – shot swimming the Humboldthafen (1961)
Bernd Lünser
- Bernd Lünser's fatal rooftop jump (1961)

M

Anni M.
- Anni M.'s rope tied round the sofa (1961)
Detlef M.
- Detlef M. and Herbert Z. try the Wall at Ruppiner Straße (1961)
Eberhard M.
- Two NCOs run for the border at Kohlhasenbrück – one gets through (1966)
Erna M.
- Anita L. and Erna M. are caught in the attic with a washing line (1961)
Gabriela M.
- Gabriela M. tries to escape while East Berlin demonstrates (1989)
Gerhard M.
- Two transport workers plan to stop a West Berlin U-Bahn train under Alexanderplatz (1967)
Günter M.
- Two conscripts flee on New Year's Eve at Gartenstraße (1965)
Johannes M.
- Johannes M. offers a guard a thousand marks at Ruppiner Straße (1962)
Karl-Heinz M.
- Karl-Heinz M. is caught past the inner wall (1974)
Lutz M.
- Border policeman Lutz M. jumps from Bernauer Straße 2 (1961)
Martin M.
- Martin M. reaches the watchtower at Ackerstraße (1980)
Michael M.
- Otfried Reck – the S-Bahn tunnel plan (1962)
Manfred Mäder
- Manfred Mäder and René Gross – lifting-platform truck at Karpfenteichstraße (1986)
Peter Mädler
- Peter Mädler – 'Don't shoot!' in the Teltow Canal (1963)
Thomas Mahler
- Thomas Mahler gives his passport to an East Berlin youth (1987)
Michael Mara
- Michael Mara and a fellow patrol leader climb the wire at Kohlhasenbrück on Christmas morning (1961)
Willi Marzahn
- Two NCOs run for the border at Kohlhasenbrück – one gets through (1966)
Manfred Massenthe
- Failed bus escape at Invalidenstraße (1963)
Christian May
- Two dentists and their son in the boot of a US Army Volvo (1982)
Dittmar May
- Two dentists and their son in the boot of a US Army Volvo (1982)
Monika May
- Two dentists and their son in the boot of a US Army Volvo (1982)
William S. Medley
- A US soldier is stopped at Checkpoint Charlie with two East Germans (1974)
Joachim Mehr
- Joachim Mehr shot in the wire near Bergfelde (1964)
Heinz Meixner
- Under the barrier in an Austin-Healey Sprite (1963)
Michael Meyer
- Michael Meyer pulled over the Wall under fire (1964)
Helga Michnowski
- Stasi officer Werner Stiller walks out through the Friedrichstraße agents' gate (1979)
Kay-Uwe Mierendorff
- Sealed van of the Mierendorff escape organisation stopped at Staaken (1976)
Peter Mindorf
- Peter Mindorf flees from his post in Klein Glienicke (1961)
Wernhard Mispelhorn
- Wernhard Mispelhorn shot at the Schönholz allotments (1964)
Jan Peter Mueller
- Over the rear wall and across the Bösebrücke (1986)
Rudolf Müller
- Rudolf Müller's Tunnel and the Death of Reinhold Huhn (1962)
Ernst Mundt
- Ernst Mundt shot on the Sophien cemetery wall (1962)
Wolf-Olaf Muszynski
- Wolf-Olaf Muszynski drowns in the Spree, presumably while trying to escape (1963)

N

Klaus N.
- Klaus N. escapes his pursuers but is arrested in Brunnenstraße (1966)
Joachim Neumann
- Joachim Neumann's Swiss passport (1961)
Lothar Niebank
- The Pankow Cemetery Tunnel (1961)
Waltraud Niebank
- The Pankow Cemetery Tunnel (1961)
Burkhard Niering
- Burkhard Niering's hostage escape attempt at Checkpoint Charlie (1974)
Siegfried Noffke
- The Betrayed Sebastianstraße Tunnel (1962)
Martin Notev
- Martin Notev is dragged back out of the Spree at the West Berlin bank (1989)

P

Bruno P.
- Dieter R. jumps from Bruno P.'s flat (1961)
Gerd P.
- Otfried Reck – the S-Bahn tunnel plan (1962)
Günter P.
- Truck driver Günter P. climbs the Wall on his first day at the site (1962)
Helmut P.
- Helmut P. is shot at but gets over the cemetery wall (1962)
Horst P.
- Horst P. and Wolfgang R. are caught swimming at the Treptower Brücke (1961)
Ilse P.
- Christian Buttkus – a snowstorm escape at Kleinmachnow (1965)
Klaus P.
- The chauffeur who was looking for his ring (1961)
Manfred P.
- Two guards use a piece of fence as a ladder (1961)
Monika P.
- Heinz Schöneberger – escape helper shot at Heinrich-Heine-Straße (1965)
Rainer P.
- A former border officer helps Rainer P. over the Wall and is caught (1977)
Selma P.
- Selma P. and her son Peter W. jump from the third floor (1961)
Gabriele Paissoni
- A bookshop assistant leaves in the boot of two French officers' car (1965)
Charles L. Peak
- A doctor's family in the boot of a US sergeant's Cadillac (1975)
Peter
- Eva Röser in the petrol-tank space of a Lotus Seven (1978)
Detlef Hubert Peuker · escapee, later escape helper
- Detlef Hubert Peuker over the Wall from a Bernauer Straße yard (1969)
- Peuker's brother hidden in the tank of a converted car at Drewitz (1975)
Ulrich Pfeifer · civil engineer and tunnel builder
- The Betrayed Kiefholzstraße Tunnel (1962)
- Tunnel 71 – The Last Tunnel under Bernauer Straße (1971)
David-Franzes Pierce
- Two dentists and their son in the boot of a US Army Volvo (1982)
Franciszek Piesik
- Franciszek Piesik – from the Oder to the Nieder Neuendorfer See (1967)
Horst Plischke
- Horst Plischke – missing in the Havel for four months (1962)
Hans-Joachim Pofahl
- Gravel truck through Checkpoint Charlie (1986)
Klaus-Dieter Precht
- Sealed van of the Mierendorff escape organisation stopped at Staaken (1976)
Werner Probst
- Werner Probst – shot at the West Berlin ladder (1961)
Silvio Proksch
- Silvio Proksch shot on Christmas Day at Pankow cemetery (1983)
Marina Prüfer
- Marina Prüfer and her son in a car boot (1976)
Hans Werner Puhl
- Michael Meyer pulled over the Wall under fire (1964)
Bernd Puhlmann
- Truck full of gas cylinders over the Glienicke Bridge (1988)
Andreas Puttich
- Three students disguised as a border patrol climb the Wall on folding ladders (1978)

R

Christel R.
- Heinz Schöneberger – escape helper shot at Heinrich-Heine-Straße (1965)
Dieter R.
- Dieter R. jumps from Bruno P.'s flat (1961)
Ingrid R.
- Ingo Krüger – a diver's attempt to reach his fiancée (1961)
R.
- Over the roofs from Ackerstraße 41 with a washing line (1961)
Reinhardt R.
- Two policemen vanish from the Kobold works (1961)
Traugott R.
- Two policemen leave their carbines in Onckenstraße, then wave from a VW (1961)
Wolfgang R.
- The works locomotive that stopped on the line (1961)
Wolfgang R.
- Horst P. and Wolfgang R. are caught swimming at the Treptower Brücke (1961)
Norbert Raasch
- Bricklayer Norbert Raasch jumps while walling up windows (1961)
Hans Räwel
- Hans Räwel – New Year's morning in the icy Spree (1963)
Michael Reck
- Rita Bergemann and Michael Reck swim the Havel from Sacrow (1961)
Otfried Reck
- Otfried Reck – the S-Bahn tunnel plan (1962)
Renate Reich
- Renate Reich crosses at Harzer Straße on a forged identity card (1961)
Hartmut Richter · escapee, later escape helper
- Hartmut Richter swims the Teltow Canal (1966)
- Escape helper Hartmut Richter caught at Drewitz with his sister in the boot (1975)
Karl-Heinz Richter
- Jumping onto the Moscow–Paris Express behind Friedrichstraße (1964)
Joachim Röhricht
- A water police officer sails his patrol boat to the West (1985)
Albrecht Roos
- Sent to help build the Wall, Albrecht Roos crawls under the fence from Falkensee to Spandau (1961)
Manfred Roseneit
- Manfred Roseneit leaves his scooter at the Kiefholzstraße fence (1961)
Eva Röser
- Eva Röser in the petrol-tank space of a Lotus Seven (1978)
Joachim Rudolph · escapee, later tunnel builder
- Joachim Rudolph through the Tegeler Fließ (1961)
- The Betrayed Kiefholzstraße Tunnel (1962)
Ingrid Ruske
- LOT Flight 165: East Germans divert a Polish airliner to Tempelhof (1978)

S

Bernd S.
- Wolga car on the Glienicke Bridge (1987)
Detlev S.
- Karl-Heinz Kube shot near the Teltow harbour (1966)
Jörg S.
- Conscript Jörg S. stages a check and escapes with two friends (1962)
Karl-Heinz S.
- Karl-Heinz S. climbs down a fire brigade ladder while police hold the guards at bay (1961)
Marianne S.
- Marianne S. flees as the eviction squads arrive (1961)
Ronni S.
- Ronni S. and the painter's ladder (1983)
Udo S.
- "Now there are two fewer of you!" (1966)
Ursula S.
- Two escapes in one night from Bernauer Straße 2 (1961)
Max Sahmland
- Max Sahmland – shot while swimming the Teltow Canal (1967)
Annemarie Salzmann
- Annemarie Salzmann crawls through the wire at the Heidekrautbahn embankment (1962)
Alfred Sch.
- The boot left in the barbed wire (1961)
Gerd Sch.
- Conscript Jörg S. stages a check and escapes with two friends (1962)
Klaus Sch.
- Klaus Sch. comes through the cemetery and is caught in Bernauer Straße 10 (1961)
Klaus Sch.
- Private Klaus Sch. switches off the lights and climbs over on a stool (1962)
Kurt Sch.
- A police sergeant swims the Teltow Canal (1961)
Manfred Sch.
- Two pioneers go through the fence they were building at Grüneck (1961)
Erika Schallert
- Erika Schallert walks across Bernauer Straße with her wedding-dress fabric (1961)
Detlef Schauer
- The Pensioners' Tunnel (Thomas Tunnel) (1962)
Brigitte Schimpfermann
- A councillor, his wife and two small sons climb the Wall at Klein Glienicke with a fruit ladder (1971)
Helmut-Henning Schimpfermann
- A councillor, his wife and two small sons climb the Wall at Klein Glienicke with a fruit ladder (1971)
Lothar Schleusener
- Children Jörg Hartmann and Lothar Schleusener shot in Treptow (1966)
Lutz Schmidt
- Lutz Schmidt shot helping his friend over the Wall (1987)
Michael Schmidt
- Michael Schmidt shot at Schulzestraße (1984)
Jörgen Schmidtchen
- Deserting cadets' gunfight at Griebnitzsee (1962)
Dorit Schmiel
- Dorit Schmiel – five friends crawl towards Reinickendorf (1962)
Heinz Schöneberger
- Heinz Schöneberger – escape helper shot at Heinrich-Heine-Straße (1965)
Horst Schöneberger
- Heinz Schöneberger – escape helper shot at Heinrich-Heine-Straße (1965)
Monika Schönicke
- A hairdresser cuts the wire at the Kiefholzstraße allotments for his daughter (1961)
Peter Schöpf
- The heaters' tunnel under the Zimmerstraße (1972)
Klaus Schröter
- Klaus Schröter – homemade diving suit at the Reichstag (1963)
Egon Schultz
- Tunnel 57 (1964)
Paul Schultz
- Paul Schultz – shot on the Wall on Christmas Day (1963)
Dietmar Schulz
- Dietmar Schulz – killed on the S-Bahn tracks north of Bornholmer Straße (1963)
Eberhard Schulz
- Eberhard Schulz shot after standing up to surrender (1966)
Frieda Schulze
- Frieda Schulze's tug-of-war at the window (1961)
Klaus Schulze
- Klaus Schulze killed, Dieter Krause escapes at Falkenhöh (1972)
Peter Schulze
- Lutz Schmidt shot helping his friend over the Wall (1987)
Conrad Schumann
- Conrad Schumann's leap to freedom (1961)
Michael Schwerk
- Michael Schwerk pulls the S-Bahn emergency brake (1966)
Dietmar Schwietzer
- Dietmar Schwietzer killed near Schönwalde (1977)
Olga Segler
- Olga Segler's jump into the fire brigade net (1961)
Harry Seidel · escape helper and tunnel builder
- Heidelberger Straße Tunnel and the Death of Heinz Jercha (1962)
- The Whitsun Tunnel (Pfingsttunnel) (1962)
- The Betrayed Kiefholzstraße Tunnel (1962)
- The Second Heidelberger Krug Tunnel to Elsenstraße (1962)
- The Kleinmachnow Tunnel and the Arrest of Harry Seidel (1962)
Domenico Sesta
- Tunnel 29 (1962)
Ida Siekmann
- Ida Siekmann, first death at the Berlin Wall (1961)
Heinz Sokolowski
- Heinz Sokolowski – shot at the Wall near the Brandenburg Gate (1965)
Gerd Sommerlatte
- Policeman Gerd Sommerlatte flees at the Brandenburg Gate and is kidnapped back (1961)
Bernd Sp.
- Bernd Sp. leaves only his briefcase behind (1961)
Reinhard Spiller
- Reinhard Spiller drives his parents out on a forged diplomatic pass (1962)
Luigi Spina
- Tunnel 29 (1962)
Hans-Peter Spitzner
- Hans-Peter and Peggy Spitzner in an American's car boot through Checkpoint Charlie (1989)
Peggy Spitzner
- Hans-Peter and Peggy Spitzner in an American's car boot through Checkpoint Charlie (1989)
Margot St.
- Two escapes in one night from Bernauer Straße 2 (1961)
Peter St.
- Peter St. escapes on his birthday, losing his wallet (1966)
Hans-Jürgen Starrost
- Hans-Jürgen Starrost shot during capture at Sigridshorst (1981)
Ulrich Steinhauer
- Egon B.'s desertion and the death of Ulrich Steinhauer (1980)
Werner Stiller
- Stasi officer Werner Stiller walks out through the Friedrichstraße agents' gate (1979)
Austin-Shelton Stockmann
- Two dentists and their son in the boot of a US Army Volvo (1982)
Michael Synowzik
- Michael Synowzik through the sewer under Checkpoint Charlie (1961)

T

Detlef T.
- Dorit Schmiel – five friends crawl towards Reinickendorf (1962)
Dieter T.
- Dieter T. and four friends fail at Ackerstraße 43 (1962)
Thomas Taubmann
- Thomas Taubmann jumps from a freight train under the Bösebrücke (1981)
Wilfried Tews
- Wilfried Tews swims the canal – border guard Peter Göring killed (1962)
Ellen Thiemann
- Ellen Thiemann's escape car stopped at the border (1972)
Klaus Thiemann
- Ellen Thiemann's escape car stopped at the border (1972)
Dieter Thieme
- 'Glockengasse 4711': the sewer route under the Alte Jakobstraße (1961)
Max Thomas
- The Pensioners' Tunnel (Thomas Tunnel) (1962)
Margarete (Margit) Thurau
- Under the barrier in an Austin-Healey Sprite (1963)
Rudi Thurow
- Rudi Thurow leads refugees to Steinstücken (1962)
Hans Detlef Alexander Tiede
- LOT Flight 165: East Germans divert a Polish airliner to Tempelhof (1978)
Günter Tr.
- Günter Tr. climbs the Wall with a company ladder (1961)
Hildegard Trabant
- Hildegard Trabant shot in the back on the disused S-Bahn line (1964)

U

Siegfried Uhse
- The Betrayed Kiefholzstraße Tunnel (1962)
Rudolf Urban
- Rudolf Urban's rope descent from Bernauer Straße 1 (1961)

V

Heinz V.
- Evacuation-squad member jumps from Bernauer Straße 6 (1961)
Burkhart Veigel · escape helper
- 'Glockengasse 4711': the sewer route under the Alte Jakobstraße (1961)
- The Cadillac with a dashboard hideout (1964)
Juergen Vicari
- Juergen Vicari tries to walk through Checkpoint Charlie in a US Army uniform (1973)

W

Detlef W.
- Four men are caught on the timber yard in Wildenbruchstraße (1961)
Detlev W.
- Horst Frank – caught in the last wire at Schönholz (1962)
Dieter W.
- Clothesline rope escape from a Treptow border house (1965)
Gerd W.
- 35 shots at Karl-Heinz Br. and Gerd W. in the cemetery strip (1969)
Günter W.
- Günter Tr. climbs the Wall with a company ladder (1961)
Helga W.
- Helga W. gets through during the identity check at Lohmühlenstraße (1961)
Max W.
- Max W.'s rope breaks at Bernauer Straße 24 (1961)
Peter W.
- Selma P. and her son Peter W. jump from the third floor (1961)
Uwe W.
- A former border officer helps Rainer P. over the Wall and is caught (1977)
Uwm. W.
- Two policemen climb out of the Liesenstraße cemetery (1961)
W.
- Conscript Jörg S. stages a check and escapes with two friends (1962)
Fritz Wagner · escape helper
- Heidelberger Straße Tunnel and the Death of Heinz Jercha (1962)
- The Whitsun Tunnel (Pfingsttunnel) (1962)
- The Betrayed Kiefholzstraße Tunnel (1962)
Jürgen Wagner
- The armoured bus of Boxing Day (1962)
Ricarda Wagner
- Three students disguised as a border patrol climb the Wall on folding ladders (1978)
Anton Walzer
- Anton Walzer – shot swimming from a barge (1962)
Dieter Weckeiser
- Elke and Dieter Weckeiser shot opposite the Reichstag (1968)
Elke Weckeiser
- Elke and Dieter Weckeiser shot opposite the Reichstag (1968)
Christel Wehage
- Christel and Eckhard Wehage's attempted hijacking of an Interflug plane (1970)
Eckhard Wehage
- Christel and Eckhard Wehage's attempted hijacking of an Interflug plane (1970)
Hans Weidner
- The armoured bus of Boxing Day (1962)
Henri Weise
- Henri Weise found drowned in the Spree at the Marschallbrücke (1977)
Dieter Wendt
- Hitch-hiking on the U8 (1980)
Manfred Wenzel
- Manfred Wenzel swims the Teltow Canal on the first evening (1961)
Ursel Wenzel
- Manfred Wenzel swims the Teltow Canal on the first evening (1961)
Hans-Dieter Wesa
- Hans-Dieter Wesa shot at Bornholmer Straße station (1962)
Manfred Weylandt
- Manfred Weylandt – shot in the Spree (1972)
Siegfried Widera
- Border guard Siegfried Widera fatally injured at the Massante Bridge (1963)
Günter Wiedenhöft
- Günter Wiedenhöft – through the ice of the Griebnitzsee (1962)
Dieter Wohlfahrt
- Dieter Wohlfahrt, escape helper shot at Staaken (1961)
Hans-Joachim Wolf
- Hans-Joachim Wolf shot in the Britzer Zweigkanal (1964)
Norbert Wolscht
- Norbert Wolscht and Rainer Gneiser – homemade diving gear in the Havel (1964)
Eduard Wroblewski
- Eduard Wroblewski – 274 shots at Mahlow (1966)

Y

Eric Yaw
- Hans-Peter and Peggy Spitzner in an American's car boot through Checkpoint Charlie (1989)

Z

Egon Z.
- NCO Egon Z. knocks down his squad leader and flees with two women (1962)
Herbert Z.
- Detlef M. and Herbert Z. try the Wall at Ruppiner Straße (1961)
Manfred Z.
- Four men are caught on the timber yard in Wildenbruchstraße (1961)
Hans-Georg Ziegler
- Two trainees swim through the ice floes of the Nieder Neuendorfer See (1963)
Christian Zobel
- Tunnel 57 (1964)
Hans-Joachim Zock
- Hans-Joachim Zock – a planned swim across the Spree (1970)