Winfried Freudenberg

Quick Facts

Full Name	Winfried Freudenberg
Occupation	Electrical Engineer
Date Of Birth	Aug 29, 1956(1956-08-29)
Age	68
Date Of Death	March 8, 1989, Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany
Birthplace	Osterwieck
Country	Germany
Birth City	Saxony-Anhalt
Horoscope	Virgo

Winfried Freudenberg Biography

Winfried Freudenberg is one of the most popular and richest Electrical Engineer who was born on August 29, 1956 in Osterwieck, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Freudenberg was born in Osterwieck and grew up in the Saxony-Anhalt town of Lüttgenrode, near what was then the border between West Germany and his native East Germany, a part of the communist Eastern Bloc, as a satellite state of the Soviet Union. After completing an apprenticeship as an electrician, he obtained his secondary education diploma in night school, then trained in information technology and received a diploma as an electronics engineer. In the autumn of 1988 he married his wife Sabine, a chemist he had met while both were students at Ilmenau University.

After the incident, East German police investigated Freudenberg’s friends, family, acquaintances, colleagues, and wife, to determine whether any had participated in the escape attempt. Because of international attention and pressure over the recent shooting of Chris Gueffroy, the last refugee to be shot by East German border guards, Sabine was given the relatively lenient sentence of three years of probation and then granted amnesty in October 1989. The next month, East Germany began allowing its citizens to travel to the west, and several months later, the Berlin Wall was dismantled and the two countries reunified.

Winfried Freudenberg Net Worth

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

Winfried Freudenberg (29 August 1956 – 8 March 1989) was the last person to die in an attempt to escape from East Germany to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall as he fell from an improvised gas balloon at high altitude over West Berlin.

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Facts & Trivia

Shilpa Ranked on the list of most popular Electrical Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Winfried Freudenberg celebrates birthday on August 29 of every year.

Top Facts about Winfried Freudenberg

1. Winfried Freudenberg died trying to cross the Berlin Wall in 1989.
2. He was an East German citizen and a trained engineer.
3. Freudenberg used a homemade hot air balloon to attempt his escape.
4. The balloon crashed into power lines, killing him and his girlfriend.
5. His death was one of the last before the fall of the wall.
6. Over 100 people died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
7. The wall separated East and West Germany from 1961-1989.
8. It was heavily guarded with barbed wire, guard towers, and soldiers.
9. The wall was dismantled after protests in November 1989.
10. Today, only small sections of the wall remain as a memorial.