Hans-Joachim Böhme, were tried for the death of Gueffroy and two other young men, but acquitted as the judge could find no evidence that they might have been able to lift the shoot-to-kill order. The case was retried on 7 August 2004, and the two men were found guilty and given suspended sentences of 15 months each. The judge explained that the short sentences were due to the length of time since the events. This was the last case concerning deaths on the inner German border. On 21 June 2003, which would have been his 35th birthday, a monument to Gueffroy was erected on the bank of the Britz district canal. The monument was designed by Berlin artist Karl Biedermann. One of the crosses at the White Crosses memorial site next to the Reichstag building is devoted to him. On 13 August 2010 the Britzer Allee between Treptow and Neukölln was renamed Chris-Gueffroy-Allee. See also Sven Hüber List of deaths at the Berlin Wall Berlin Crisis of 1961 References Memorials Memorials to his death are located in the "White Crosses" memorial, next to the Reichstag building, in the "Window Of Remembrance" of the Berlin Wall Memorial in Berlin and near the former scene of the attempted escape, on the Teltow Canal. External links Short Portrait of Chris Gueffroy at chronik-der-mauer.de Chris Gueffroy at "Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records" 1968 births 1989 deaths People from Pasewalk Deaths at the Berlin Wall Deaths by firearm in East Germany People from Bezirk Neubrandenburg 1989 in Berlin People from East Berlin East German defectors