Hildegard Trabant


Hildegard Trabant, ne Pohl was a German woman killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall.

Hildegard Trabant was born in Berlin and grew up there. She was loyal to the East German regime she joined the Socialist Unity Party in 1949, which was the same year that the GDR was founded here, she was valued as an active party member. In 1954, she married a Peoples Police officer, who was employed in the passport and registration division. They lived in a rather upscale apartment complex on Tilsiter Strasse 64 , near Strausberger Platz, in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin. Possibly facilitating their residence there, she held a managerial position in a municipal housing administration. Whatever led her to attempt to flee East Germany was probably of a personal nature, involving domestic disputes. She had several large clashes with her husband, which got the attention of his supervisors within the police force.

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