protesters with Iranian secret police collaborators and massive police forces, whereby the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras, an incident that became a turning point in the devolution of the German student movement. On 28 September Mayor Albertz was forced to resign after an investigation into the police's role in the killing. The Abgeordnetenhaus elected Klaus Schütz his successor. From 1970 he worked as a pastor, from 1974 to 1979 in Berlin-Zehlendorf. When on 27 February 1975 the Movement 2 June militant group (named after the obit of Benno Ohnesorg) abducted the Christian Democrat candidate for Mayor of West Berlin Peter Lorenz, Albertz agreed to accompany the exchanged prisoners, among them Verena Becker and Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, on their flight to South Yemen. Retired in 1979, he joined the German peace movement of the 1980s and several protests against the NATO Double-Track Decision. Albertz died in a Bremen nursing home on 18 May 1993. References External links 1915 births 1993 deaths Lutheran pacifists Clergy from Wrocław 20th-century German Protestant theologians Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Mayors of West Berlin Senators of Berlin Members of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin People from the Province of Silesia Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany German male non-fiction writers 20th-century Lutherans German Army personnel of World War II