Courtyard of Strelitzer Straße 55 52°32′10″N13°23′39″E / 52.536007°N 13.394029°E / 52.536007; 13.394029 (Rostock Neuer Friedhof/ Courtyard of Strelitzer Straße 55, location of where Egon Schultz was shot)
Resting place
Neuer Friedhof, Rostock 54°04′15″N12°05′29″E / 54.07086°N 12.091269°E / 54.07086; 12.091269 (Rostock Neuer Friedhof/location of Egon Schultz's grave)
Monuments
Memorial plaque on the side of the building at Strelitzer Straße 55, Berlin
Known for
Killed in the line of duty as an East German Border Troops while responding to the discovery of "Tunnel 57"
Political party
(Candidate for the) Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED).
Memorial service at the scene of Egon Schultz's death, on the tenth anniversary of the Wall (13 August 1971)Memorial plaque at Strelitzer Straße 55, Berlin-MitteThe grave of Egon Schultz (2018 photo)Dethardingstraße 16 (formerly Karl-Marx-Straße 16), Rostock. Last home of Egon Schultz before his death.
Egon Schultz (4 January 1943 – 5 October 1964) was a German sergeant of the East German Border Troops who became the fifty-second known person to die at the Berlin Wall. While responding to the discovery of "Tunnel 57," Schultz was killed during a shootout with the tunnelers. Schultz subsequently became a national hero in East Germany, with hundreds of memorials and schools named in his honor. His death caused a public sensation in both East Germany and West Germany. Following the reunification of Germany and the report that Schultz was actually killed as a result of friendly fire, many of the memorials to Schultz were removed, although a new memorial plaque was erected at his death site at Strelitzer Strasse 55, Berlin, in 2004.
EgonSchultz (4 January 1943 – 5 October 1964) was a German sergeant of the East German Border Troops who became the fifty-second known person to die at...
guards, one of the helpers, Christian Zobel, shot at the guards, hitting EgonSchultz on the shoulder. He fell to the ground, and, while trying to get up again...
Machine, Berlin Wall Memorial. Accessed 30 August 2011. Nooke, Maria. EgonSchultz Archived 9 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Berlin Wall Memorial...
officers was held at the Unteroffiziersschule der Grenztruppen der DDR "EgonSchultz" in Perleberg. Training for dog handlers was conducted in Wilhelmshorst...
Germany, Erich Honecker, resigned on 18 October 1989 and was replaced by Egon Krenz that day. The wave of refugees leaving East Germany for the West kept...
East Germany was struggling to meet loan payments on foreign borrowings; Egon Krenz sent Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski to unsuccessfully ask West Germany...
despite his resistance, at the insistence of the regime's number-two-man, Egon Krenz, a public statement was issued that called for "suggestions for attractive...
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