Wolfhardt Schroedter

Wolfhardt Schroedter (* 1940 ) is a former escape helper on the inner-German border .

Career

Schroedter studied engineering in Berlin. After the Berlin Wall was built , he joined a group of student escape workers led by Italians Domenico Sesta and Luigi Spina , who dug an escape tunnel to the east from Bernauer Strasse . On September 14 and 15, 1962, 29 people were able to flee to West Berlin through the tunnel, which was later named Tunnel 29 .

To finance the tunnel, he and Sesta and Spina sold the film rights to the American television station NBC , which followed the construction work with two cameramen.

Honors

2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Three cashed , In: Der Spiegel 43/1962

Individual evidence

^ Vita of Dr. Burkhart Veigel. In: fluchthilfe.de. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Berlin escape helpers receive the Federal Cross of Merit. Interior Senator Frank Henkel (CDU) honors 15 men who paved the way to freedom for GDR citizens from 1961 onwards. In: Berliner Morgenpost. October 29, 2012, accessed October 3, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schroedter, Wolfhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German escape agent
DATE OF BIRTH	1940

[1] Vita of Dr. Burkhart Veigel. In: fluchthilfe.de. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .

[2] Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Berlin escape helpers receive the Federal Cross of Merit. Interior Senator Frank Henkel (CDU) honors 15 men who paved the way to freedom for GDR citizens from 1961 onwards. In: Berliner Morgenpost. October 29, 2012, accessed October 3, 2018 .