Detlef Becker

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Detlef Becker (born March 21, 1963 in Ediger ; † October 16, 1982 in Koblenz ) was a German banker .

Career

Honor roll for Detlef Becker (1963–1982) in Ediger

After his training as a banker, Becker worked as an employee in the branch of the Sparkasse Koblenz at Schenkendorfplatz in Koblenz. On October 5, 1982, two bank robbers broke into the premises and took nine hostages . In order to blackmail an escape vehicle, one of the two perpetrators announced that he would shoot a woman in the leg. 19-year-old Becker volunteered to take her place. Ten days after the attack, he died of a pulmonary embolism as a result of the injury . The perpetrators were caught and convicted of murder.

At the funeral service, the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel made a reference to the missionary Maximilian Kolbe in which he said:

“... the reference means that a young person has volunteered and without hesitation registered for others as a guarantor of hope for the survival of others. That was an act full of courage and bravery, that was an exemplary act ... "

- Bernhard Vogel

Detlef Becker was posthumously awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany . On October 6, 1986, a memorial plaque was put up for him at the scene of the event , which is now in the administration tower of the Sparkasse am Wöllershof in Koblenz.

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (ed.): Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Trier, Kliomedia: 2004. ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 40
  • Rhein-Zeitung , Issue B0. - (2010), 64 of March 17, 2010, p. 14

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Trier, Kliomedia: 2004. ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , Detlef Becker, p. 40
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ediger
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1982
Place of death Koblenz