on Berlin Wall
(4th generation, Grenzmauer 75)
Official name
Stützwandelement UL 12.41
Measures per element
height: 3.60 m • width: 1.20 m • weight: 2.7t
Unit price (for fabrication)
359 Mark
(for comparing: ø gross earnings full-time staff 1975 = 889 Mark/mthly.)
Length of innercity border
43.1 km • ca. 45,000 segments
Length of border West Berlin/GDR
111.9 km
Length of border fortifications
155 km
Watch towers
302
Dog runs
259
Contact/signal fence
127.5 km
Anti-vehicle trenches
105.5 km
Border command Mitte
(from July 1971 responsible for border management in Berlin and surrounding area incl. district of Potsdam)
1,400 Officers
2.800 Sergeant
9,000 Soldiers (predominant conscripts)
Victims
In the time between 1961 and 1989, at least 140 humans were killed at the Berlin Wall or lost their lifes in direct relation to the GDR border regime. Additionally, at least 251 travellers from East and West died before, during, or shortly after a controll at Berlin border crossings. The information presented her does not include the unknown number of people, who died from grief and despair caused by the effects the building of the Wall had on their individual living situations.
Berlin Wall Animations from Till Nowak on Vimeo.
Sources
Chronik der Mauer
Berliner Mauer Online
Berlin.de
Bundeswehr
Die Berliner Mauer. Vom Sperrwall zum Denkmal. Schriftenreihe des Deutschen Nationalkomitees für Denkmalschutz. Band 76/1
Statistik-Portal
Photo
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