Hubert Hohlbein
Hubert Hohlbein (born around 1942 in Berlin ) was an escape helper on the inner-German border .
Life
Hohlbein's parents were independent entrepreneurs whose property was nationalized in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He grew up in Adlershof and trained as an electrical engineer .
Hubert Hohlbein fled the GDR through the Jungfernsee on November 21, 1963 and lived in West Berlin . Here he began studying electrical engineering.
Hohlbein was a member of a student escape helper group around Wolfgang Fuchs . Between April and October 1964, the group dug an escape tunnel to East Berlin from a rented bakery in Bernauer Strasse 97, later named tunnel 57 . Between October 2 and October 4, 1964, 57 people passed through the tunnel to West Berlin. Hubert Hohlbein's mother was also one of the refugees.
After helping with the escape through the tunnel, Hohlbein helped two other people to escape from the GDR.
Hubert Hohlbein lived in Munich in 2011 .
Honors
- 2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
Source on the Internet, individual references
- ↑ The Escape by Hubert Hohlbein. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
- Rena Lehmann: Help to escape was also revenge on the GDR system. August 2, 2011, accessed on July 9, 2020 (German).
Web links
- The contemporary witness café, audio report
- Fluchthilfe was also revenge on the GDR system , In: Rhein-Zeitung, August 4, 2011
- Tunnel 57 , ed. v. Federal Agency for Civic Education and Robert Havemann Society e. V.
- Hubert Hohlbein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hohlbein, Hubert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Escape helper on the inner-German border |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |