Olga Sailor

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Facade of the former home of Olga Segler, Bernauer Strasse 32, Berlin, in the mid-1970s
Memorial plaque in Bernauer Strasse: "Dedicated to the victim of the Wall of Shame Olga Segler, † September 26, 1961"
Memorial stone to the victims of the Berlin Wall on Bernauer Strasse (also for Olga Segler)

Olga Segler (born July 31, 1881 in Prischt, Ukraine ; † September 26, 1961 in Berlin ) was one of the first and, according to the current state of research, the oldest known fatality on the Berlin Wall .

Life

Olga Segler lived on the second floor of Bernauer Strasse 34 in East Berlin , right on the border with West Berlin . The sidewalk in front of the house was already in the western part of Berlin. Due to this situation, the authorities of the GDR sought to have the houses in the wall area forcibly evacuated. In order to be able to get to her daughter in the adjoining district of Wedding in the western part of the city, she jumped on September 25, 1961 into a jumping mat that the fire department had provided. She suffered severe internal injuries and died the following day. Her burial took place in the municipal cemetery in Berlin-Reinickendorf .

To commemorate the death of Olga Segler, a memorial cross was set up at Bernauer Strasse 34 in 1962. In September 1982 the Wedding District Office had a boulder erected on Bernauer Strasse (near Swinemünder Strasse ) in Berlin to commemorate the victims of the Wall: Ida Siekmann , Hans-Dieter Wesa , Rudolf Urban , Olga Segler, Bernd Lünser , Ernst Mundt , Otfried Reck , Dietmar Schulz and to the victim Dieter Brandes , who was still unknown in 1982 . In 2006 a memorial plaque for Olga Segler was also installed on Bernauer Strasse.

literature

Web links

Commons : Olga Segler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ chronik-der-mauer.de: Memorial cross for Olga Segler.
  2. ↑ berlin.de: Overall concept of the Berlin Wall: Texts and materials (PDF; 395 kB).
  3. ↑ berlin.de: Memorial stone for victims of the Berlin Wall.
personal data
SURNAME Sailor, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wall victims
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Prisht, Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1961
Place of death Berlin