Talk:Winfried Freudenberg

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Did you know... that Winfried Freudenberg was the last person to die in an attempt to escape across the Berlin Wall?

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Unreliable source[edit]

The Weekly World News (source 2) is CLEARLY not a reliable source. Unless you believe that the space shuttle was invaded by aliens and a vampire victim has awoken from the dead (take a look at the link provided to the source...) 78.32.103.197 (talk) 02:54, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name of wife incorrect[edit]

"Diplomchemikerin" was not the name of Freudenberg's wife. Somebody has mistranslated the German source http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Detail/id/593906/page/2 - where the relevant sentence is "Während seiner Studienzeit lernt er die spätere Diplomchemikerin Sabine W. in einem Studentenklub kennen." This is the only appearance of the word "Diplomchemikerin" in that article. Unfortunately that is not the surname of Sabine W. Diplomchemikerin, but rather the title of the qualification she was studying for (a diploma in chemistry). Rather worryingly, this page is now the top-ranked for a google search of "Diplomchemikerin". :( 78.32.103.197 (talk) 03:00, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Contradictory Statements[edit]

"Unable to find work, " and a few lines later: "As part of their plan Freudenberg took a job in a local gas refinery" So he was unable to find a job, but he took one in a refinery?212.204.48.221 (talk) 19:06, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Given that there was supposedly no unemployment/labour shortages in the GDR it seems odd that both of them had difficulty finding work unless their disenchantment with the GDR had become known to the authorities denying then opportunities within their chosen field ? 90.200.110.103 (talk) 22:17, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Zehlendorf[edit]

Freudenberg spent several hours aloft. He passed over the Berlin Tegel Airport in West Berlin, where he apparently had intended to land, at an altitude of 2,000 m. At 7:30 the next morning he fell into the garden of a villa in the suburb of Zehlendorf. Article doesn't state whether Zehlendorf is in West Berlin or whether Freudenberg had crossed back into the East before crash landing. This should be clarified for readers unfamiliar with the geography of cold war Berlin. 90.200.110.103 (talk) 22:17, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]