He was shot by the plain clothes police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras who served as an informant to the East German Stasi, and was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
He was shot by the plain clothes police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras. More than forty years later it was revealed that Kurras also served as an informant to the East German Stasi, and was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.