Editing Hiddensee (section)

=== 1945 until 1989 ===
On 4-5 May 1945 [[Red Army|Soviet troops]] occupied the island. In the same year as in the following year, the Hiddensee estate was divided into 18 [[new farms]] as part of the [[land reform]].

On 28 July 1946 [[Gerhart Hauptmann]] was buried in the cemetery in [[Kloster (Hiddensee Island)]]. The memorial stone was unveiled exactly five years later, on 28 July 1951.

In 1952, the second ferry service between Seehof on Rügen and the ferry island had to be discontinued.

Between 1958 and 1959, the ''[[VEB Fahrzeug- und Jagdwaffenwerk "Ernst Thälmann"]]'' built a vacation village for its employees in Dünenheide. Right next to it, the ''Bau- und Montagekombinat Industrie- und Hafenbau Stralsund'' built another vacation village for its employees in 1980/81.

From 1952 to 1955, Hiddensee belonged administratively to the [[Bergen]] district. In 1953, during ''[[Aktion Rose]]'', some hoteliers fled to the West, others were arrested. After this action, all hotels on the island were expropriated and handed over to the [[Free German Trade Union Federation|FDGB]]. In the fifties the local history museum and the Gerhart Hauptmann Haus opened; the [[Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft|LPG]] Dornbusch was founded.
[[File:Erdölbohrturm Hiddensee 1967.jpg|thumb|Oil rig in May 1967 north of Grieben]]
In 1962, dike construction began between Kloster and Vitte. With the diking of the meadows and pastures along the Bodden coast, the largest transformation of Hiddensee began. In Vitte, the Bodden water previously went as far as the streets ''Wiesenweg'', ''Norderende'' and ''Zum Seglerhafen''. Large parts of today's harbor of Vitte as well as the whole area with today's sports field, the heliport and the sailing harbor Lange Ort were artificially washed up or drained. Also in Kloster parts of the Bodden were drained, which before the dike construction had still extended from the harbor to far behind ''Höhe Postweg''.<ref>Herbert Ewe: ''Hiddensee'', VEB Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1986.</ref>

The [[Weiße Flotte (Stralsund)|Weiße Flotte Stralsund]] took over the cooperative shipping company and the fishermen founded the [[FPG'n]] ''De Süder'' in Neuendorf and Swantevit in Vitte.

On 10 April 1967 [[Hydrocarbon exploration|petroleum exploration]] began as a result of seismic surveys in the north of the island of Hiddensee with the ''E Rügen 2/67'' research well. This 4,602 m deep well, as well as the wells ''E Hiddensee 3/67'', ''4/68 and 5/68'' that followed until December 1968, did not yield any exploitable oil deposits. The 5th well, which had already been prepared, was cancelled, and all wells were plugged in the summer of 1971.<ref>''Schatzsucher. Eine Chronik des Grimmener Erdölbetriebes.'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130209000234/http://www.erdoelmuseum-reinkenhagen.de/geruest.htm Erdölmuseum Reinkenhagen] (Saved 9 February 2013 in ''Internet Archive'')</ref> The crude oil produced up to that point was shipped by tanker from a temporary port near Kloster to the Soviet Union for examination and processing.

Until 1971, the site of the ''5. Technische Beobachtungskompanie Dornbusch'' of the [[NVA (arts organisation)|NVA]] was built between the pension Zum Klausner and the [[Dornbusch Lighthouse|Dornbusch lighthouse]]. Behind a double fence, with dog run in between, there was an ammunition bunker and other buildings. The facility was dismantled in 1993 and the bunker was covered with earth. Since then, the former access road, the plate road from Kloster, which forks shortly before Klausner, leads to the right into "nothingness".

In 1972/73, the connecting roads between the villages were paved with concrete slabs, except for a gap of about 500 m between Vitte and Kloster, which existed for many years due to an incipient shortage of building material, and which is still recognizable today as the only asphalted road section. In 1974, the domestic waste dumps on the outskirts of all localities were covered and a central waste dump was built for them near ''Swantiberges''. This was exhausted in the early nineties. Since 1993, all garbage is collected in the port of Vitte and transported to Rügen.

On 7 May 1989, 4.7 percent of the votes cast in the GDR local elections on Hiddensee were against the government. Hiddensee was considered a niche for dissidents and dropouts, who often worked in hotels, restaurants or as lifeguards in the summer. On the small island, they were easy to control, and despite sometimes open Stasi surveillance, some incidents and meetings were accepted. An intellectual climate prevailed on Hiddensee, and artists, writers, actors, musicians and scientists retreated there, such as [[Jo Harbort]], [[Christine Harbort]], [[Günter Kunert]], [[Kurt Böwe]], [[Harry Kupfer]], [[Inge Keller]], [[Günther Fischer]], [[Armin Mueller-Stahl]], [[Christoph Hein]], [[Robert Rompe]] or members of the punk band [[Feeling B]].<ref>Marion Magas: ''Hiddensee – Versteckte Insel im verschwundenen Land. DDR-Zeitzeugnisse von Inselfreunden und Lebenskünstlern''. 2. Auflage. Berlin 2010, {{ISBN|3-00-018132-6}}, pp. 31–40, 57–59, 171–174.</ref>

The bodies of people who were shot during escape attempts across the Baltic Sea, mostly in a [[folding kayak]], or who perished without outside interference, were also found again and again on the beaches of Hiddensee, such as those of 18-year-old Friedrich Klein and Ernst August Utpaddel (both in February 1962) and 21-year-old Uwe Richter (in August 1987). But Hiddensee was also the starting point for one of the most spectacular escapes from the GDR and the only one with a [[surfboard]], in November 1986, by 30-year-old Karsten Klünder and 22-year-old Dirk Deckert one day later. In the early morning of each day, both of them sailed from Gellen to the Danish island of [[Møn]], 70 kilometers away, in a good four hours with homemade surfboards and sails.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/ddr-flucht-auf-dem-surfbrett-a-997114.html |author=Anja Reumschüssel |website=Spiegel Geschichte |title=Surfer im Todesstreifen |date=2014-10-20 |language=de |access-date=2021-01-11}}</ref>