Bodo Strehlow

Bodo Strehlow (born April 5, 1957 in Fürstenberg an der Havel ) is a former GDR citizen whose escape from the GDR failed. In 1979 he tried violently to get from the GDR with a border surveillance ship from the 6th Coastal Border Brigade to the Federal Republic.

Life

After graduating from high school, Bodo Strehlow signed up for a four-year service with the Coastal Border Brigade, hoping to study physics in Moscow. Due to increasing dissatisfaction with the conditions in the GDR, he decided to flee to the Federal Republic. On August 4, 1979, Bodo Strehlow locked the entire sleeping crew of the border surveillance ship "Graal-Müritz" with two padlocks below deck during the night watch. Then he started the diesel engines in order to maneuver the ship into western German territorial waters. The crew was woken up by the noise of the aircraft. Hand grenades were thrown on deck by the commander. Strehlow was seriously injured and overwhelmed by this.

In 1980 he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Neubrandenburg Military Court. In December 1989 he was released from Bautzen II prison due to an amnesty as one of the last political prisoners in the GDR .

After imprisonment, he studied physics in Heidelberg , where he founded an IT company. The verdict against him was overturned in 1992.

Web links

Klaus Schwagrzinna: Ten years of isolation: Bodo Strehlow , Documentation Bautzen II, Bautzen Memorial Archive, December 9, 1989.

Individual evidence

↑ https://www.landtag.ltsh.de/export/sites/landtagsh/homedata/kat1/data/stasi_ausst_katalog.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ Service ships of the Border Brigade Coast. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .
^ The last prisoner from Bautzen II . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on June 13, 2017]).
↑ Rüdiger Wenzke: Ch. Links Verlag | Enemies of the state in uniform - Resistant behavior and political persecution in the NVA. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
↑ https://verlag.sandstein.de/reader/98-450_Stasi-Bautzen/39/

personal data
SURNAME	Strehlow, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German military
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5th 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fürstenberg on the Havel

[1] ttps://www.landtag.ltsh.de/export/sites/landtagsh/homedata/kat1/data/stasi_ausst_katalog.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2

[2] Service ships of the Border Brigade Coast. Retrieved June 15, 2017 .

[3] The last prisoner from Bautzen II . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on June 13, 2017]).

[4] Rüdiger Wenzke: Ch. Links Verlag | Enemies of the state in uniform - Resistant behavior and political persecution in the NVA. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .

[5] ttps://verlag.sandstein.de/reader/98-450_Stasi-Bautzen/39/