Hagen Koch

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Hagen Koch (* 1940 in Dessau ) was in 1989 commissioner for the demolition of the Berlin Wall .

Life

Hagen Koch completed an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman . He began his career as a sergeant candidate with the watch regiment "Feliks Dzierzynski" . There he was commissioned to map the boundary line of the wall .

He married his wife Elke twice. Since she had Western contacts, he divorced her in 1966 at the urging of the Ministry for State Security (MfS), but remarried her in 1967. In 1985 he was dismissed from the service of the MfS due to the completion of the service period.

After he was appointed commissioner for the protection of cultural property at the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments of the GDR , he was appointed commissioner for the demolition of the wall in 1990 by the Minister of Culture Dietmar Keller from the Hans Modrow government.

He founded the Berlin Wall Archive.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita Hagen Koch ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Berlin Wall ; accessed on March 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-mauer.de
  2. ↑ Katja Iken: A German Life: The Wall Man. In: one day . November 9, 2007, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  3. ↑ The wall. One life. A career . ( Memento from October 11, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) In: netzeitung.de
  4. ↑ Where is the wall? In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 2001, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 114-122 ( luise-berlin.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Hagen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commissioner for the demolition of the Berlin Wall
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau , German Empire