Wolfgang Glöde (victim of the wall)

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Memorial plaque , Kiefholzstrasse 100, in Berlin-Plänterwald

Wolfgang Glöde (born February 1, 1949 in Berlin ; † June 11, 1962 there ) was a victim of the Berlin Wall . A member of the GDR border troops accidentally shot the 13-year-old boy in the allotment garden colony "Sorgefrei" by the Berlin Wall.

Life

Wolfgang Glöde grew up in the allotment garden colony with his siblings. Because of the housing shortage after the Second World War, the family lived on their garden property. After the wall was built, the colony was right on the border area and was only accessible to tenants. Because of several escape attempts, she was closely monitored by the border troops. Border patrols ran up and down between the individual parcels.

On the day of his death, he played with neighborhood children on the premises. A patrol of border guards started talking to them. After being asked to explain how the AK-47 assault rifle he was carrying , one of the border guards took the weapon off his shoulder and reloaded it. He came to the trigger and shot Wolfgang Glöde in the upper body. This died from the lung bullet. Investigations of the incident by the authorities of the GDR showed that the border guard had acted with gross negligence, who acted contrary to the rules he was aware of regarding the handling of service weapons. The border guard was arrested and charged in a military court with an unknown outcome.

Wolfgang Glöde was buried in the Treptower cemetery Baumschulenweg.

The West Berlin authorities assumed a failed escape attempt. The media reported about the murder of a student. During a speech on June 17, 1962, Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt condemned the shots at Glöde by name. Later it became public in the West that it was an accident.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Glöde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Fatalities at the Berlin Wall 1961-1989 , ISBN 978-3-86153-517-1
personal data
SURNAME Glöde, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German minor who was the victim of an accident on the Berlin Wall
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1962
Place of death Berlin