# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-sokolowski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:59:24.099Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-sokolowski"
name: "Heinz Sokolowski"
slug: "heinz-sokolowski"
description: "Heinz Sokolowski was a German man who became the sixty-fourth known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Sokolowski, a former political prisoner, was shot and killed by East German border troops while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall near to the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building."
tagline: "East German political prisoner (1917–1965)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Berliner_Mauer%2C_Gedenkkreuze_Ebertstra%C3%9Fe_05.jpg/330px-Berliner_Mauer%2C_Gedenkkreuze_Ebertstra%C3%9Fe_05.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1917-12-17"
deathDate: "1965-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.22
  momentum:             15.23364485981308
  historical:           4.807884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Sokolowski"
    title: "Heinz Sokolowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Sokolowski"
    title: "Heinz Sokolowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Sokolowski"
    title: "Heinz Sokolowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Sokolowski"
    title: "Heinz Sokolowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "ہینز سوکولووسکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102270"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump