A front-row seat to history
Philip von Streicher served in Berlin during the Cold War.
Philip von Streicher knew he wanted to pursue his education. He had held a few jobs, but at 20 years old, he wanted to do something different.
He enlisted with the U.S. Army in the infantry in 1977 and soon found himself stationed in Berlin, Germany, with the Berlin Brigade during the Cold War with a front-row seat to history.
“We were living behind the Berlin Wall in a metropolitan city, but there were also British and French forces there,” says von Streicher, vice president of overseas operations for $4.4 billion asset Service Credit Union in Portsmouth, N.H. “And of course on the other side of the wall there were Soviet forces. I was living in a city where history was being made.”
He saw some of that history firsthand.
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