Anton aircraft builder

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Anton Fliegerbauer (born March 5, 1940 in Westerndorf , Niederbayern ; † September 5, 1972 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German police officer in the Bavarian police who was on duty in the Munich Olympic assassination attempt , the hostage-taking and murder of Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists the Olympic Summer Games in Munich 1972 , was shot.

Life

Fliegerbauer grew up with his two siblings on a farm. He attended agricultural school before he started training with the Bavarian Police in 1963. In 1970 he was promoted to Chief Police Officer in the service of the state capital Munich. In 1964 Fliegerbauer met his future wife, whom he married in 1966 and with whom he had a son, Alfred, two years later.

Munich Olympic assassination attempt

During the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 , Anton Fliegerbauer, Chief Police Officer of the City of Munich, was subordinated to one of the Bavarian riot police .

On September 5, Fliegerbauer ordered the unit to the Fürstenfeldbruck air force base , where the Bavarian police had planned to rescue the nine Israeli hostages who had been brought into their power by eight terrorists from Black September . Fliegerbauer took up a post inside the airport building at the foot of the control tower directly across from where the two Bell UH-1 helicopters that were carrying the Israeli hostages and terrorists landed. When he discovered that the Lufthansa aircraft that had been provided had no crew and suspected a trap, the terrorist leader Issa (Luttif Afif) and his deputy Tony (Yusuf Nazzal) ran back to the two helicopters. Three shooters from the Bavarian police stationed on the roof of the control opened fire on the six terrorists in front of the two helicopters and on Afif and Nazzal, who were still running towards the helicopters. Fliegerbauer, who was still in the airport building at the foot of the control tower, opened fire on the terrorist leader and his deputy with a submachine gun. According to Simon Reeve , the author of One Day in September , Aviator had fired less than half the bullets in his magazine when an accidental shot from the Black September terrorist came through the window and hit the side of the head.

In a chapter entitled Death at the Munich Olympics (Death at the Olympics in Munich) wrote Kay Schiller, professor of cultural history at Durham University that Fliegerbauer was honored as a "hero who had the highest price paid for his attempt innocent Liberate hostages, ”arguing that this made it easier for the German public to cope with the deaths of the Israelis because it was clear that the reaction of the German security forces was incompetent.

Commemoration

Anton Fliegerbauer was buried on September 8th, after a state funeral service with many mourners. The Lord Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and the Bavarian Prime Minister Alfons Goppel laid down wreaths on behalf of Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt and Federal President Gustav Heinemann .

In a memorial service at Fürstenfeldbruck airfield in 2012 on the 40th anniversary of the Munich Olympic attack, Anton Fliegerbauers was commemorated in addition to the eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team murdered by the terrorists.

In 2016 , Anton Fliegerbauers was commemorated at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro .

The memorial for the victims of the 1972 Olympic attack , a sculpture by the German sculptor Fritz Koenig , is entitled Klagebarken and was erected in 1995 at the Olympic Stadium in Munich.

The Olympia-Attentat Memorial Site , which was erected in 2017 in the Munich Olympic Park , says: “The police failed in this attempt and the operation ended in a disaster. All hostages and the German police officer Anton Fliegerbauer and five of the terrorists died. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Anton Fliegerbauer . Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  2. ^ A b Simon Reeve: One day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God' . Faber, London 2005, ISBN 978-0-571-23181-2 , pp. 134 .
  3. ^ Alon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann: Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-century Germany . Berghahn Books, 2008, Death at the Munich Olympics.
  4. ↑ Richard Holt; Dino Ruta: Routledge Handbook of Sport and Legacy Meeting the Challenge of Major Sports Events . 1st edition. Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-0-415-67581-9 , pp. 358 .
  5. ↑ Tribute to victims of '72 Olympics massacre ( en ) September 5, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ Bach commemorates the Munich victims of 1972 , image. August 15, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2019. 
  7. ^ Germany Marks Munich Massacre With Memorial, but Still Avoids Taking Responsibility , Haaretz. September 6, 2016. Accessed June 27, 2018. 
  8. ↑ For some, a toboggan hill was more important , Welt am Sonntag . September 10, 2017. Accessed June 27, 2018. 
personal data
SURNAME Aviator builder, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer of the Bavarian police
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerndorf , Lower Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1972
Place of death Fürstenfeldbruck