Erich Janschke

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Erich Janschke (born June 19, 1941 in Dankmarshausen ; † November 15, 1962 near Untersuhl ) was a fatality on the inner-German border .

Life

Janschke, who fled the GDR in 1960, tried on November 15, 1962, near his home town, to get to the GDR with Klaus Körner . They set off a mine that fatally injured them. The GDR border guards noticed the detonation, but suspected a wild boar to be the cause. On December 14, 1962, their decomposed corpses were discovered while repairing the wire barrier. This had far-reaching consequences: The then head of the border command of the NVA, Erich Peter , ordered that the cause of mine explosions be found out in future. The Deputy Minister for National Defense, Waldemar Verner , shared Erich Honecker, who was then the Central Committee secretary for security issues, said that in future the problem of weed killing in the border strip would be "more appropriately tackled".

The officer responsible for laying the mines was acquitted in April 2001 by the Mühlhausen district court, as the dead had consciously accepted the risk of explosion.

literature

  • Reinhold Albert, Hans-Jürgen Salier : Borderline experiences compact: the border regime between Southern Thuringia and Bavaria / Hesse from 1945 to 1990. Salier 2009, ISBN 3-939-6113-52 , p. 95.
  • Heiner Sauer, Hans-Otto Plumeyer: The Salzgitter Report: the central registration office reports on crimes in the SED state. Ullstein 1993, ISBN 3-548-3498-03 , p. 265.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Koop: Destroy the enemy: the border security of the GDR. Bouvier 1996, ISBN 3-416-0263-30 , p. 345.
  2. ^ Rudolf Augstein: Der Spiegel, Volume 45, Issues 23-26 1991, p. 62.
personal data
SURNAME Janschke, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German workers, fatalities on the inner-German border
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dankmarshausen
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1962
Place of death at Untersuhl