My wife is named Fechter (my brother in-law is Rob Fechter). Her great grandfather, Joseph Fechter came Holland about 1870 from Glottau, the area near Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad), East Prussia, now a part of Russia.
There are stories that Joseph had a brother in Berlin, but we never had contact with people of that name in Berlin. Because the name Peter is known several times in our family we think that the Peter Fechter that was shot at the Berlin wall belongs to this family.
I live in Castricum, 30 kilometers north of Amsterdam.
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