Wolfgang Zill

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolfgang Zill (born May 5, 1941 in Leipzig , † January 15, 1969 in Schnackenburg ) was a fatality on the inner-German border .

Life

After graduating from high school, Zill studied at the Technical University in Dresden from 1959 to 1964. The engineer who lives in Leipzig swam across the Elbe to get to the Federal Republic. Unconscious from exhaustion and hypothermia, he was discovered on the western bank in the territory of the Federal Republic by officers of the border customs service. He died 20 minutes later, and the emergency doctor who had been called could no longer help.

Commemoration

In memory of Zill and the other border victims in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district , a memorial plaque was placed at the border museum in Schnackenburg .

By council resolution of July 2000, his hometown Leipzig renamed Joseph-Zettler-Strasse in the district of Gohlis- Nord to Zillstrasse with effect from May 1, 2001 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/fsed/Das-DDR-Grenzregime/Biografien-von-Todesopfern/Zill_Wolfgang/index.html
  2. ↑ Memorial plaque for the victims of the inner-German border in the Lüchow Dannenberg district at the Grenzlandmuseum. Schnackenburg (1945-1989), Lüchow-Dannenberg district, Lower Saxony. In: www.denkmalprojekt.org. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Street names on the topic of "Opposition, resistance and moral courage in the GDR / victims of the SED regime". Template VI-A-03021-VSP-01. In: Council information system of the city of Leipzig . December 14, 2016, accessed February 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ www.leipzig-lexikon.de Register Z – Zl, Zill, Wolfgang , accessed on February 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Zill, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fatality on the inner-German border
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 1969
Place of death Schnackenburg