Cengaver Katrancı
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Cengaver Katrancı (* probably 1964 ; † October 30, 1972 in Berlin ) was a Turkish student living in West Berlin who drowned in an accident in the Spree . Cengaver is therefore one of the youngest victims of the Berlin Wall .
The 8-year-old Cengaver stood on October 30, 1972 at around 1 p.m. in the Kreuzberg district with a friend on the Gröbenufer near the Oberbaum Bridge and fed birds. Then he lost his balance and fell into the Spree, which at this point was part of East Berlin . The alarmed and timely fire brigade of West Berlin was not allowed to intervene. A boat of the East Berlin fire brigade was in the middle of the river, but was not allowed to approach the western bank without permission. Around 2.30 p.m., an East Berlin lifeboat began to look for the boy, who was found after about half an hour and was rescued by divers from the National People's Army .
After Andreas Senk († at the age of 6), Cengaver Katrancı was the second of at least five children who lost their lives in this way. Similar fates overtook Siegfried Kroboth († at the age of 5), Giuseppe Savoca († at the age of 6) and Çetin Mert († at the age of 5) at the same or nearer point in the following years .
Web links
literature
- Hans-Hermann Hertle, Maria Nooke : The victims of the Berlin Wall 1961–1989. A biographical manual . Ch. Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-517-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katranci, Cengaver . Brief portrait on chronik-der-mauer.de; Retrieved September 29, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Katrancı, Cengaver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish wall victim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1964 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1972 |
| Place of death | Berlin |