Thomas Kretschmer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thomas Kretschmer
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Dec 18, 1955(1955-12-18)
Age	69
Birthplace	Dornburg
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Thomas Kretschmer Biography

Thomas Kretschmer is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on December 18, 1955 in Dornburg, Germany.

Kretschmer was born in Dornburg, a small hilltop town some 12 km (7 miles) northeast of Jena. His father was a biologist: his mother was an education specialist. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family and in 1970, at the age of 14 refused to participate in a Jugendweihe, a secular “coming of age” ceremony which in the German Democratic Republic had some of the features of a church confirmation. He started a professional trade apprenticeship in 1970, but was excluded from further training or schooling in 1972 after he left the Young Communists (FDJ / Freie Deutsche Jugend) and announced his refusal to undertake military service with the National People’s Army: the German Democratic Republic made no accommodation for Conscientious objectors. At the end of a turbulent year he was able to start a new traineeship, as a care assistant at the city hospital in Jena.

In June 1973 Kretschmer, still aged only 17, attempted to escape from East Germany, “in order to avoid military service” (“um sich dem Wehrdienst zu entziehen”). Human losses during World War II, exacerbated by a steady stream of migration to the west during the 1950s, had left the country desperately short of working age population, and after 1961 there were effective measures in place to prohibit and prevent emigration. Kretschmer hitchhiked via Dresden to the border with Czechoslovakia which he was able to cross, and continued on his way towards Austria. However, 500 meters short of the border dividing Czechoslovakia from Austria he was caught by Czechoslovak soldiers, blindfolded, placed on the back seat of a jeep like vehicle next to a large dog whose noisy panting and odour he would remember long afterwards, and returned to the German Democratic Republic. The district court in Jena sentenced him to a fifteen-month jail term for attempting illegal emigration. During his incarceration in the Ichtershausen Youth Correction Facility [de] he was repeatedly interrogated and pressured by officers from the Ministry for State Security. Kretschmer was persuaded to sign a declaration in which he undertook to collaborate with Stasi. Kretschmer had been identified as a committed Roman Catholic with good contacts among the youth community: he had told his interrogators that he wanted to become a priest. He appears in Stasi records as “Agent Kaplain”, along with a note by his handler that he was of “above average intelligence”. Unusually, however, he had a change of heart a few days after his recruitment and wrote to his handler withdrawing the undertaking to collaborate. He was nevertheless released in 1974 at the end of his fifteen-month sentence. The Stasi continued, without success, to try and persuade him to collaborate with them.

Thomas Kretschmer Net Worth

Thomas Kretschmer is one of the richest Artist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas Kretschmer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Thomas Kretschmer (born 18 December 1955) is a German self-taught artist, specialising in carved wood “picture-images” (Bildschnitzer [de] ).

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and the ensuing evidence that the Mikhail Gorbachev had issued no orders to the military for the violent suppression of the burgeoning revolution, opened the way for a succession of events that would lead to the demise, as a standalone one-party dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic and, in October 1990, German reunification. In regional Stasi establishments across the country one feature of the Peaceful revolution was a desperate scramble to destroy the paper records that the Stasi had built up and safeguarded during nearly four decades. Protestors rushed across the country to prevent the destruction of the Stasi records, with varying degrees of success. Kretsschmer participated in the occupation of the Stasi regional office at the town of Bad Lobenstein and he was a member of the Thuringian Citizens’ Committee for Resolving Stasi issues (“thüringischen Bürgerkomitee zur Auflösung des MfS”). He participated in local politics as a member of the Bad Lobenstein “Ecclesiastical Electorate Community” (“Kirchliche Wählergemeinschaft”).

Facts & Trivia

Ken Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Thomas Kretschmer celebrates birthday on December 18 of every year.

In 2014 his civil resistance record was honoured in a Stasi Records Agency exhibition at the Heinrich Böll Foundation.