Overview
- Family, friends and colleagues gathered at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Hamburg’s St. Georg district on January 7 to bid farewell.
- Son Ben Becker delivered an emotional eulogy and sang “Heaven Stood Still” by Willy DeVille.
- Attendees included widow Sylvia Wempner and cast members from the ARD series In aller Freundschaft, with colleague Bernhard Bettermann praising Becker’s collegial spirit.
- Lutheran Bishop Kirsten Fehrs and representatives of political organizations lauded his generosity, refugee support and work against forgetting the Nazi past.
- Becker, born in Leipzig in 1935, died on December 12 at age 90 in a Hamburg hospice; his urn is to be interred at Ohlsdorfer Friedhof on the Geschwister-Scholl field.