The stewardess crouching on their knees. Deep in her long hair at the back of the head pierces the barrel of a Gun. The man on her sweats. He screams in Polish: "We land in West Berlin! When I see beauty field, I'll shoot! "The hijacker is mechanical, it drives a thought". Just do not return to East Germany, or I'm going to jail "
Bautzen be afraid to say word. That is why he now holds the weapon. That's why he brings the Polish airliner TU 134, a course for the GDR from. And so writes Alexander Tiede, a simple waiter from East Berlin, a dramatic chapter in the history of divided Germany. It is the end of summer 1978, exactly 30 years ago. The superpowers confront each other as enemies. Cold War. Germany in the firing line. Alexander Tiede's life will order the GDR has guard towers, barbed wire and hundreds of miles a death zone errichtet.Der 33-year-old waiter out. Tunnels were dug, people hidden in cars, others ventured to escape in self-constructed hot-air balloon or light aircraft. But what Alexander Tiede has done is probably the most brazen escape from the Republic that has ever taken a GDR citizens.
"Welcome to West Berlin" to welcome the Americans the hijackers after landing at Tempelhof. Military vehicles have surrounded the runway. Tempelhof is a U.S. territory. Alexander Tiede must raise their hands. Under his schnauzer distinguished but far from a broad grin. Index and middle finger, he formed the victory sign. He is on target. Even the U.S. military, this small, wiry freedom fanatics immediately likeable. The Americans admire his courage and celebrate him as a hero because he was 50 East German citizens who, on 30 August 1978 sitting on board the Tupolev 134, which gives a chance for freedom. Nevertheless, he must make the Americans the process. The family Schröder, Alexander Tiede grateful to this day. With nothing but her two young children by the hand, they get out of the hijacked aircraft. Friends, family, work, furniture, the Trabi - all will exchange it for a new life in an unfamiliar land.
Today, 30 years later harnessed a powerful Tiede's belly under faded XL Neonshirt. But let's wide awake, eyes no doubt: The now 63-year-old is the crazy guy from back then. Tiede loves the heroic - and the Western media love him. Finally, you fight on both sides of the Iron Curtain came down with psychological weapons. The East German leader Erich Honecker government is outraged. She just celebrated her triumph: The first Germans had the GDR Sigmund Jaehn shot into space. The proof of the superiority of the socialist system. But bursts of rocket noise in the news, produced by the hijackers Tiede. That a voluntary "the better Germany" leaves is outrageous. East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph even publicly accused West German intelligence, planned the hijacking to have. "No way, I have done it alone," said Tiede, "the love of freedom and to my son." Now that he no longer works, he dreams of a biography. But hardly anyone remembers him. Not even the Berlin Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which documents the fate of many East German refugees, is his image.
his flight at the time this case has even inspired Hollywood. "Judgement in Berlin" is the film of 1988, with Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Heinz Hoenig in the role of the courageous hijacker Tiede.
The case is spicy. Above all, legal. Americans and German long pass things back and forth, until the Americans in January 1979 finally use a "United States Court for Berlin". It is the only American jury trial, which takes place ever on German soil. And the only one who goes out from a hijacker at the end of a free man.
Tiede's story begins in Niederschönhausen, who later became East Berlin, where he goes to school. "As a child I moved around the city," he says. It supplies potatoes in West Berlin cellar. With the money he buys lemonade powder, later Chesterfield's true that there were just over there. From the DDR-Rundfunk Western popular music is already banned. Tiede continued defiantly hear the King of Rock 'n' roll - on the West Channel Rias. Nobody has the intention to build a wall. But 1961 is after all. Overnight. Tiede is not a type, one can arrest the man. Not in a country, not in a job, not in a relationship. Even now, as he says, his hands are always moving. He can well imagine how he ran as a young waiter across the room. High propped up, the tray with the Little Red Riding Hood sparkling, sometimes with real champagne. In the "VEB Johannishof", his training company, at that time frequented by the international guests of the GDR - West German diplomats and businessmen with selected Eastern celebrities. "I had no one with an anti-fascist protective barrier to protect against capitalism," he says. These hollow slogan angers him today. Wherever he looks, he sees only deficiency. For years, he is waiting for a Trabi, to her own apartment - when he first married in 1973, he and his wife Maria have assigned one. But the couple separated.
Mary and he always argue more often, they eventually separate. Since she is Polish, she can commute between East and West Berlin. One day she comes from a trip to the Ku'damm not go back. Their son John has taken her. A first attempt with fake Papers, together with his old love affair Ingrid Ruske and their twelve year old daughter Sabine, fails. From Gdansk ausbüxen they wanted to Travemünde, but the smugglers with the passports believed Tiede, was caught by the Stasi. Now he is stuck in the Polish port of Gdansk. "I drove forward the pure fear," he says. Because he does not know what he gets drunk. In broad daylight. In the dimly lit corner bar Danzig music playing the music of the popular Polish rock singer Maryla Rodowicz. In the rush to him then comes the mad idea. The craziest thing he's ever done in his life. Sober, he says to Ingrid: "I will take . An airplane, "she replies," You're crazy "
In Gdansk red light district wants to buy Tiede of shady characters and a gun!. But it drives the fear that he is already under surveillance by the Stasi. On 28 August, he replaced at the counter of the Polish airline LOT tickets. On the ticket is: departure: 30 August 1978 Line: Gdansk (Danzig) - Berlin-Schoenefeld. Start time: 8.40 clock. Tiede fears that the Stasi would give him and his girlfriend Ruske in Berlin are preparing a great reception. This day, 30 August 1978 celebrating the Schroeder's still like a birthday. Constance Schroeder was then 25 years old. Last year she Tiede after almost 30 years again seen for the first time. And hugged him. "He was my savior," she says. "Through him, my family got a second chance." She still lives in Mannheim, at the place where she has ended up in the unexpected escape. In the queue observed Constance Schroeder a family, their luggage is the only fully felted. She also sees how a customs officer found the girl a toy gun. Finally, he waved through the little jokes in Polish, "But do not shoot me dead"
front of her close in the cabin Schroeder sees the family again. There are Tiede, his companion and their daughter. You are sitting in row five. The young man is to frequently, smokes, drinks several cognacs. As the crew about 15 minutes before announcing the landing in Schoenefeld, he stumbles to the kitchen curved line in front of the cockpit. Schroeder still see his hands, then falls to the curtain. "I thought he was drunk and upset." As Schroeder, the 50 other passengers remain oblivious. Until the end. Behind the curtain Tiede threatened the flight attendant. With a toy pistol - just those who had waved through the customs officer. No one realizes that she is made of cheap tin. The terrified crew follows the demands of the kidnapper, the Polish captain radios the air traffic control: "He wants to land at Tempelhof." For 20 minutes, the Tupolev circling over the city. Only when Tiede far down does the colorful houses of Tempelhof, he is confident of victory and a cigarette in his mouth. Handed, the other still holds the gun.
Tiede know today, it was lucky that he had no real gun at hand. After landing, he kicks it down with the foot of the gangway. When the American captain picks the toy, he holds up the thumb, laughing. In the machine there is dead silence - to Tiede, the purely send the Americans a little later screams, "Who wants to get off, go! You are free! "This is the signal for Bertram Schröder. He immediately stands up. "It was absolutely clear that my husband gets out," recalls his wife, Constanze. He had often told her of his escape plans, it was always dangerous. To her he now says: "So I got up and had two children taken," Constance Schroeder follows her husband - and never regretted it, "Come!".. The rest of the tortured prisoners later in the canteen at the airport, fries, cola and West cigarettes with the decision. climb
Besides Schroeder's, and three other passengers, all in the evening a double-decker bus. With a detour on the Kurfürstendamm, past the KaDeWe, the Memorial Church, the "Café Kranzler drives "the bus in the eastern part of the city. Each passenger could "please hold" at any time, press the button and get off. No one does it, although in the eastern part of the city already waiting Mielke Stasi troops for questioning. He has achieved everything. In one day, "his luck" as he says, "For the rest of life exhausted. In fact, it is weighed him after his crimes. At first, anyway. It was lucky that he had flown straight to the Americans in their hands. He knows that he recapitulates his iced With a nearly nine-month detention: What he describes sounds like something from a luxury holiday. The first five months of which he was sitting off in Tempelhof. "Every I ate lunch in jail with another officer. So many T-bone steaks as never before in my life. "During his American friends successfully fend off all requests for extradition of the GDR, he goes jogging on the airfield.
The trial of the Tiede-flight, however, is delicate. The U.S. had just signed an international agreement against air piracy. A reaction to the kidnapping of the Lufthansa airplane "Landshut" to Mogadishu a year ago. The Americans have to make her sympathetic to the hijackers process. For 100,000 D-Mark, they build it in the airport Tempelhof an American courtroom. Negotiations are under U.S. procedures, so the Americans out of 500 Berliners select twelve jurors. The Stasi may have a smuggle their agents. As advocates of the single juror to "guilty." The flown in from New Jersey judge Herbert J. Stern Tiede sentenced for hostage taking. But the penalty is already paid for with pre-trial detention.
Tiede was dismissed in May 1979 as in freedom, it starts at zero. He is not a type, the so makes little scared. Too much he has gone through recently. Only first night torment him nightmares. "I often dreamed that the secret police kidnapped me in the East." Nevertheless, he is living in West Berlin. He reconciled with his ex-wife, but again it only holds short. The relationship with his son is difficult. He works as a waiter again, the money remains scarce. The Golden West knows very new and different borders that can not simply fly over. But now can travel Tiede. At first invite him to his American friends often are. In Iowa, they want to marry him even once. America is like it much too far away. "My goal was always just West Berlin," he says. "That's all I wanted at that time not."
Source: focus.online
Bautzen be afraid to say word. That is why he now holds the weapon. That's why he brings the Polish airliner TU 134, a course for the GDR from. And so writes Alexander Tiede, a simple waiter from East Berlin, a dramatic chapter in the history of divided Germany. It is the end of summer 1978, exactly 30 years ago. The superpowers confront each other as enemies. Cold War. Germany in the firing line. Alexander Tiede's life will order the GDR has guard towers, barbed wire and hundreds of miles a death zone errichtet.Der 33-year-old waiter out. Tunnels were dug, people hidden in cars, others ventured to escape in self-constructed hot-air balloon or light aircraft. But what Alexander Tiede has done is probably the most brazen escape from the Republic that has ever taken a GDR citizens.
"Welcome to West Berlin" to welcome the Americans the hijackers after landing at Tempelhof. Military vehicles have surrounded the runway. Tempelhof is a U.S. territory. Alexander Tiede must raise their hands. Under his schnauzer distinguished but far from a broad grin. Index and middle finger, he formed the victory sign. He is on target. Even the U.S. military, this small, wiry freedom fanatics immediately likeable. The Americans admire his courage and celebrate him as a hero because he was 50 East German citizens who, on 30 August 1978 sitting on board the Tupolev 134, which gives a chance for freedom. Nevertheless, he must make the Americans the process. The family Schröder, Alexander Tiede grateful to this day. With nothing but her two young children by the hand, they get out of the hijacked aircraft. Friends, family, work, furniture, the Trabi - all will exchange it for a new life in an unfamiliar land.
Today, 30 years later harnessed a powerful Tiede's belly under faded XL Neonshirt. But let's wide awake, eyes no doubt: The now 63-year-old is the crazy guy from back then. Tiede loves the heroic - and the Western media love him. Finally, you fight on both sides of the Iron Curtain came down with psychological weapons. The East German leader Erich Honecker government is outraged. She just celebrated her triumph: The first Germans had the GDR Sigmund Jaehn shot into space. The proof of the superiority of the socialist system. But bursts of rocket noise in the news, produced by the hijackers Tiede. That a voluntary "the better Germany" leaves is outrageous. East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph even publicly accused West German intelligence, planned the hijacking to have. "No way, I have done it alone," said Tiede, "the love of freedom and to my son." Now that he no longer works, he dreams of a biography. But hardly anyone remembers him. Not even the Berlin Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which documents the fate of many East German refugees, is his image.
his flight at the time this case has even inspired Hollywood. "Judgement in Berlin" is the film of 1988, with Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Heinz Hoenig in the role of the courageous hijacker Tiede.
The case is spicy. Above all, legal. Americans and German long pass things back and forth, until the Americans in January 1979 finally use a "United States Court for Berlin". It is the only American jury trial, which takes place ever on German soil. And the only one who goes out from a hijacker at the end of a free man.
Tiede's story begins in Niederschönhausen, who later became East Berlin, where he goes to school. "As a child I moved around the city," he says. It supplies potatoes in West Berlin cellar. With the money he buys lemonade powder, later Chesterfield's true that there were just over there. From the DDR-Rundfunk Western popular music is already banned. Tiede continued defiantly hear the King of Rock 'n' roll - on the West Channel Rias. Nobody has the intention to build a wall. But 1961 is after all. Overnight. Tiede is not a type, one can arrest the man. Not in a country, not in a job, not in a relationship. Even now, as he says, his hands are always moving. He can well imagine how he ran as a young waiter across the room. High propped up, the tray with the Little Red Riding Hood sparkling, sometimes with real champagne. In the "VEB Johannishof", his training company, at that time frequented by the international guests of the GDR - West German diplomats and businessmen with selected Eastern celebrities. "I had no one with an anti-fascist protective barrier to protect against capitalism," he says. These hollow slogan angers him today. Wherever he looks, he sees only deficiency. For years, he is waiting for a Trabi, to her own apartment - when he first married in 1973, he and his wife Maria have assigned one. But the couple separated.
Mary and he always argue more often, they eventually separate. Since she is Polish, she can commute between East and West Berlin. One day she comes from a trip to the Ku'damm not go back. Their son John has taken her. A first attempt with fake Papers, together with his old love affair Ingrid Ruske and their twelve year old daughter Sabine, fails. From Gdansk ausbüxen they wanted to Travemünde, but the smugglers with the passports believed Tiede, was caught by the Stasi. Now he is stuck in the Polish port of Gdansk. "I drove forward the pure fear," he says. Because he does not know what he gets drunk. In broad daylight. In the dimly lit corner bar Danzig music playing the music of the popular Polish rock singer Maryla Rodowicz. In the rush to him then comes the mad idea. The craziest thing he's ever done in his life. Sober, he says to Ingrid: "I will take . An airplane, "she replies," You're crazy "
In Gdansk red light district wants to buy Tiede of shady characters and a gun!. But it drives the fear that he is already under surveillance by the Stasi. On 28 August, he replaced at the counter of the Polish airline LOT tickets. On the ticket is: departure: 30 August 1978 Line: Gdansk (Danzig) - Berlin-Schoenefeld. Start time: 8.40 clock. Tiede fears that the Stasi would give him and his girlfriend Ruske in Berlin are preparing a great reception. This day, 30 August 1978 celebrating the Schroeder's still like a birthday. Constance Schroeder was then 25 years old. Last year she Tiede after almost 30 years again seen for the first time. And hugged him. "He was my savior," she says. "Through him, my family got a second chance." She still lives in Mannheim, at the place where she has ended up in the unexpected escape. In the queue observed Constance Schroeder a family, their luggage is the only fully felted. She also sees how a customs officer found the girl a toy gun. Finally, he waved through the little jokes in Polish, "But do not shoot me dead"
front of her close in the cabin Schroeder sees the family again. There are Tiede, his companion and their daughter. You are sitting in row five. The young man is to frequently, smokes, drinks several cognacs. As the crew about 15 minutes before announcing the landing in Schoenefeld, he stumbles to the kitchen curved line in front of the cockpit. Schroeder still see his hands, then falls to the curtain. "I thought he was drunk and upset." As Schroeder, the 50 other passengers remain oblivious. Until the end. Behind the curtain Tiede threatened the flight attendant. With a toy pistol - just those who had waved through the customs officer. No one realizes that she is made of cheap tin. The terrified crew follows the demands of the kidnapper, the Polish captain radios the air traffic control: "He wants to land at Tempelhof." For 20 minutes, the Tupolev circling over the city. Only when Tiede far down does the colorful houses of Tempelhof, he is confident of victory and a cigarette in his mouth. Handed, the other still holds the gun.
Tiede know today, it was lucky that he had no real gun at hand. After landing, he kicks it down with the foot of the gangway. When the American captain picks the toy, he holds up the thumb, laughing. In the machine there is dead silence - to Tiede, the purely send the Americans a little later screams, "Who wants to get off, go! You are free! "This is the signal for Bertram Schröder. He immediately stands up. "It was absolutely clear that my husband gets out," recalls his wife, Constanze. He had often told her of his escape plans, it was always dangerous. To her he now says: "So I got up and had two children taken," Constance Schroeder follows her husband - and never regretted it, "Come!".. The rest of the tortured prisoners later in the canteen at the airport, fries, cola and West cigarettes with the decision. climb
Besides Schroeder's, and three other passengers, all in the evening a double-decker bus. With a detour on the Kurfürstendamm, past the KaDeWe, the Memorial Church, the "Café Kranzler drives "the bus in the eastern part of the city. Each passenger could "please hold" at any time, press the button and get off. No one does it, although in the eastern part of the city already waiting Mielke Stasi troops for questioning. He has achieved everything. In one day, "his luck" as he says, "For the rest of life exhausted. In fact, it is weighed him after his crimes. At first, anyway. It was lucky that he had flown straight to the Americans in their hands. He knows that he recapitulates his iced With a nearly nine-month detention: What he describes sounds like something from a luxury holiday. The first five months of which he was sitting off in Tempelhof. "Every I ate lunch in jail with another officer. So many T-bone steaks as never before in my life. "During his American friends successfully fend off all requests for extradition of the GDR, he goes jogging on the airfield.
The trial of the Tiede-flight, however, is delicate. The U.S. had just signed an international agreement against air piracy. A reaction to the kidnapping of the Lufthansa airplane "Landshut" to Mogadishu a year ago. The Americans have to make her sympathetic to the hijackers process. For 100,000 D-Mark, they build it in the airport Tempelhof an American courtroom. Negotiations are under U.S. procedures, so the Americans out of 500 Berliners select twelve jurors. The Stasi may have a smuggle their agents. As advocates of the single juror to "guilty." The flown in from New Jersey judge Herbert J. Stern Tiede sentenced for hostage taking. But the penalty is already paid for with pre-trial detention.
Tiede was dismissed in May 1979 as in freedom, it starts at zero. He is not a type, the so makes little scared. Too much he has gone through recently. Only first night torment him nightmares. "I often dreamed that the secret police kidnapped me in the East." Nevertheless, he is living in West Berlin. He reconciled with his ex-wife, but again it only holds short. The relationship with his son is difficult. He works as a waiter again, the money remains scarce. The Golden West knows very new and different borders that can not simply fly over. But now can travel Tiede. At first invite him to his American friends often are. In Iowa, they want to marry him even once. America is like it much too far away. "My goal was always just West Berlin," he says. "That's all I wanted at that time not."
Source: focus.online
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