Michael Weber (border victim)
Michael Weber (born December 5, 1969 in Leipzig ; † July 6, 1989 near Novo Chodschowo, now part of the Sandanski community , Bulgaria ) was a fatality on the Bulgarian-Greek border.
Life
The high school graduate who lived in Leipzig wanted to flee the GDR via Bulgaria and was shot by Bulgarian border soldiers on July 6, 1989 before crossing the border between Bulgaria and Greece in the Blagoewgrad Oblast, about one kilometer from the border. He is considered to be the last GDR refugee killed in Bulgaria.
According to the autopsy report, the shot was fired from a distance of 1.50 to 2 meters. The bullet penetrated the left side of his face, neck, and chest and got stuck in the back below the right armpit. The zygomatic bone, the upper jaw and two cervical vertebrae were smashed. The thoracic aorta and right lung were torn from the gunshot.
A case brought by the mother in Bulgaria against the shooter ended without conviction of the shooter.
Web links
- Michael Weber at the SED State Research Association : The GDR border regime, borders of the brother states
literature
- Christopher Nehring: Fatal escapes through Bulgaria - The cooperation of Bulgarian and GDR state security to prevent escape attempts. Berlin, 2017, The Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic , ISBN 978-3-942130-82-0 , Chapter 5.13 The last GDR refugee killed in Bulgaria: Michael Weber , pp. 87ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Appelius : Bulgaria: Europe's Far East . Bouvier Verlag , 2006, ISBN 978-3-416-03154-7 on Google Books p. 253
- ↑ Fatal escapes through Bulgaria ( memento of the original from February 20, 2018 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. bstu.bund.de
- ^ The last shot of Der Spiegel , edition 27/2008, p. 56 ff
- ^ Stefan Appelius : Escape route Bulgaria , issue 71 of the magazine Horch und Guck (March 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high school graduate, fatality on the Bulgarian-Greek border |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1989 |
| Place of death | near Novo Chodschowo, Bulgaria |