Uwe Hädrich the highest economic officials of the GDR. Until September 1989. Since he became a political prisoner and was even then in secret police custody, as the wall had long since fallen and the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) no longer existed. That's almost 20 years ago. More than 7,500 pages long is Haedrich Stasi files in the Gauck Authority. It is a story that gives an idea of how perfect the system with the Stasi spying, isolation and the breakdown all human rights, made sure that those applying for the GDR had declared their opponents, really had no chance. Uwe Hädrich everything seems like it was yesterday. It shakes his voice, his hands tremble as he reported in a hotel in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg by his attempt to escape from East Germany and the subsequent ordeal in the top-secret Stasi prison in Hohenschönhausen.
Perhaps it was a kind of resistance gene, which was passed Hädrich in the family and that caused it in spite of all his privileges, life in the GDR could no longer endure at some point. Uwe Haedrich father Robert Havlik, a butcher from the Sudetenland, had in a concentration camp Dachau in the forties, the Social Democrats, Kurt Schumacher met. Ten years later, he had become the People's Police of the GDR, Havlik said at a master table, and in bitter beer mood: 'Kurt Schumacher is the only real labor leaders, Pieck and Grotewohl are not. "The Stasi overheard, and Uwe Haedrich father was sentenced for this one sentence to three years in prison. That was 1955th 26 years later, Uwe Hädrich top arrived in the system of the GDR, as deputy director general of state-owned retail HO. The same state that had followed his father as inhuman gave him a storybook career, including high school, study and advancement. He, the son of a widowed saleswoman, was now head of a company with 213,000 employees. He had everything offered by it to its citizens pattern: a modern apartment in Berlin-Marzahn, a car and permission to travel in the socialist countries. He also had a happy marriage and two beautiful children, "he says. Others would leave it at that.
fraud on all the people
Not so Uwe Hädrich. He was married to the daughter of the man who had wandered in the GDR for a set of Schumacher three years in prison. Somewhere deep in his heart he harbored a deep distrust of that state. Haedrich as in 1975 the text of the Helsinki Final Act in Read the new Germany, fell on them that were there all States, the CSCE, the new European human rights treaties acceded to its citizens freedom of travel and assurances regarding the free choice of residence. The GDR was the CSCE joined
The thought of the freedom of travel and the free choice of residence, the couple had since been hooked. When the GDR finally allowed its citizens to close relatives in West Germany to visit family events high, Hädrich wife went to relatives in Bavaria. What she saw there was the decisive factor. Because nothing was like the East German propaganda would have us believe its citizens, no one was unemployed, had all the money, and many had Houses and a perfect health insurance. In the shops there was anything much affordable prices. You could read what you wanted and say what you thought. "We knew," says Uwe Hädrich that "we from the GDR state in a way had been cheated, as one could imagine no worse." He looks up, and in his eyes is still the horror of this betrayal of an entire people.
stopped by tracer bullets
On May 1, 1989 is so far. The family has had to approve a "normal vacation to the Black Sea" by postal ballot have been chosen entirely accurate SED, rises and moves in their Wartburg in Hungary directly to the border. It's dark, tracer ammunition stops Haedrich. Border guards interrogate them, but they believe that they have just moved and sent them back easily. The family descends in Budapest, and from a pay phone calls Uwe Hädrich the German Embassy in the Hungarian capital: "I am a high economic official of the GDR and would like to talk to you ..." The family will receive, and would now be able to stay at the Embassy , to emigrate to the West but you can guarantee it at that time. A life on the embassy grounds, future uncertain? That was not the family. So, the Wartburg was re-started, and went back it to Berlin.
Source: focus.online
Perhaps it was a kind of resistance gene, which was passed Hädrich in the family and that caused it in spite of all his privileges, life in the GDR could no longer endure at some point. Uwe Haedrich father Robert Havlik, a butcher from the Sudetenland, had in a concentration camp Dachau in the forties, the Social Democrats, Kurt Schumacher met. Ten years later, he had become the People's Police of the GDR, Havlik said at a master table, and in bitter beer mood: 'Kurt Schumacher is the only real labor leaders, Pieck and Grotewohl are not. "The Stasi overheard, and Uwe Haedrich father was sentenced for this one sentence to three years in prison. That was 1955th 26 years later, Uwe Hädrich top arrived in the system of the GDR, as deputy director general of state-owned retail HO. The same state that had followed his father as inhuman gave him a storybook career, including high school, study and advancement. He, the son of a widowed saleswoman, was now head of a company with 213,000 employees. He had everything offered by it to its citizens pattern: a modern apartment in Berlin-Marzahn, a car and permission to travel in the socialist countries. He also had a happy marriage and two beautiful children, "he says. Others would leave it at that.
fraud on all the people
Not so Uwe Hädrich. He was married to the daughter of the man who had wandered in the GDR for a set of Schumacher three years in prison. Somewhere deep in his heart he harbored a deep distrust of that state. Haedrich as in 1975 the text of the Helsinki Final Act in Read the new Germany, fell on them that were there all States, the CSCE, the new European human rights treaties acceded to its citizens freedom of travel and assurances regarding the free choice of residence. The GDR was the CSCE joined
The thought of the freedom of travel and the free choice of residence, the couple had since been hooked. When the GDR finally allowed its citizens to close relatives in West Germany to visit family events high, Hädrich wife went to relatives in Bavaria. What she saw there was the decisive factor. Because nothing was like the East German propaganda would have us believe its citizens, no one was unemployed, had all the money, and many had Houses and a perfect health insurance. In the shops there was anything much affordable prices. You could read what you wanted and say what you thought. "We knew," says Uwe Hädrich that "we from the GDR state in a way had been cheated, as one could imagine no worse." He looks up, and in his eyes is still the horror of this betrayal of an entire people.
stopped by tracer bullets
On May 1, 1989 is so far. The family has had to approve a "normal vacation to the Black Sea" by postal ballot have been chosen entirely accurate SED, rises and moves in their Wartburg in Hungary directly to the border. It's dark, tracer ammunition stops Haedrich. Border guards interrogate them, but they believe that they have just moved and sent them back easily. The family descends in Budapest, and from a pay phone calls Uwe Hädrich the German Embassy in the Hungarian capital: "I am a high economic official of the GDR and would like to talk to you ..." The family will receive, and would now be able to stay at the Embassy , to emigrate to the West but you can guarantee it at that time. A life on the embassy grounds, future uncertain? That was not the family. So, the Wartburg was re-started, and went back it to Berlin.
Source: focus.online
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