16 Facts About Jutta Fleck

Jutta Fleck was born on 1946 and is an attempted escapee and former political prisoner of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Jutta Fleck is known as "The Woman from Checkpoint Charlie".

Jutta Fleck was known as Jutta Gallus by her first marriage.

Jutta Fleck asked a stewardess to call her uncle who was living in West Germany, so that the West German authorities could be informed.

Jutta Fleck was held in custody for one day at the Ministry for State Security in Berlin, then transferred to the Stasi detention center on Bautzner Strasse in Dresden.

Jutta Fleck was sentenced to serve three years in Hoheneck Women's Prison for attempting to escape from the republic, where she was twice placed in isolation.

Jutta Fleck's children were initially sent to a children's home near Dresden where their movement was restricted.

Jutta Fleck was a staunch supporter of the GDR and told them that Fleck was an enemy of the state.

Jutta Fleck began to make public demonstrations with the help of the International Society for Human Rights to demand for the German Democratic Republic to return her daughters.

Jutta Fleck's campaign resulted in a meeting with foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and an audience with John Paul II at St Peter's Square in April 1985.

Jutta Fleck demonstrated in front of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Helsinki in August 1985 by chaining herself to a railing.

Jutta Fleck was warned about a potential assassination attempt at a press conference on a ship and consequently did not take part.

At the 25th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, at the Reichstag on 13 August 1986, Jutta Fleck took an opportune moment to protest in front of a 1,500 live audience and television audience to call upon politicians to help end her separation from her daughters but received no response from chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Jutta Fleck was reunited with her two daughters in West Berlin on 25 August 1988.

Jutta Fleck moved to Bavaria, remarried and settled in Wiesbaden with her husband and daughter Beate.

In 2009, Jutta Fleck was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by President Horst Kohler.