# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/klaus-brueske
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:59:46.170Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/klaus-brueske"
name: "Klaus Brueske"
slug: "klaus-brueske"
description: "Klaus Brueske was a German truck driver who became the sixteenth person to die at the Berlin Wall. Brueske died in an attempt to break through the Heinrich-Heine-Straße border crossing in a truck, and was the first Berlin Wall victim to die from suffocation."
tagline: "Victim at the Berlin wall (1938-1962)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1938-09-14"
deathDate: "1962-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.77
  momentum:             2.627118644067797
  historical:           5.005364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Brueske"
    title: "Klaus Brueske"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Brueske"
    title: "Klaus Brueske"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Brueske"
    title: "Klaus Brueske"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Brueske"
    title: "Klaus Brueske"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5"
    title: "Клаус Бруске"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1260540"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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