Dieter Hötger

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Memorial plaque at Sebastianstraße 82 with excerpts from an interview with Dieter Hötger on March 25, 2008

Dieter Hötger (born August 20, 1939 ) is a former GDR refugee and escape helper .

Life

Hötger dug in 1962 together with his friend Siegfried Noffke in Berlin Sebastianstraße an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall , about whom he wanted to bring his wife from the GDR. The escape plans were reported by an unofficial employee to the Ministry for State Security (MfS), which thwarted the escape attempt on June 28, 1962. During the operation, Noffke was killed and Hötger was seriously injured by a shot in the lung.

For so-called “attempted escape from the republic ” he was sentenced to nine years in prison and transferred to Bautzen II prison. On November 28, 1967, he was the only inmate in the prison's history to break out. After a nationwide manhunt, he was caught on a street near Kleinsaubernitz on December 6, 1967 and sentenced to eight more years in prison. In September 1972 the federal government bought him free . He then worked in West Berlin as a messenger in a construction company.

Honors

  • Bautzen II: The cell from which he was able to escape has been restored to its almost original state. It was given a notice about its history and can be visited.
  • 2012 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

  • Karl Wilhelm Fricke and Silke Klewin, Bautzen II - special detention center under MfS control 1956–1989 - report and documentation. Dresden, pp. 126-133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b They shot him down, interrogated him, and only then did the Stasi call the doctor . BZ , November 30, 2011
  2. ↑ The Stasi people ran into their own death trap . Die Welt , June 27, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hötger, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German escape helper, "tunnel builder"
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1939