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Dieter Freese's Hideout on Eierberg

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Dieter Freese's Hideout on Eierberg

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Dieter Freese's Hideout on Eierberg

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Location: Boppard, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Pützblick Viewpoint – Steinerner Mann Viewpoint loop from Boppard Hbf

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2. Rheingoldblick loop from Boppard Hbf

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3. Steinerner Mann Viewpoint – Baedeker's Rest loop from Boppard Hbf

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joetobn

November 14, 2018

The bank robber Dieter Freese hid with his band in 1962 on the "Eierberg". The remains of the hiding place can still be seen today ...

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September 4, 2021

1962: Boppard in the perspective of German criminal history - Spectacular escape of bank robber Dieter Freese

At the inglorious peak of their criminal career, the five-member Fresse gang attacked the branch of the Kreissparkasse in Winningen near Koblenz on Wednesday, February 14, 1962, and one person was killed. The police's trail quickly led to Boppard, where the gang members were hiding in a hut on the "Elerberg". A large police force tracked down the bank robbers quite quickly, but when he was arrested the very next day, the 22-year-old gang leader managed to escape his pursuers in a spectacular manner. A nationwide chase followed, the likes of which post-war Germany had never seen before. Repeatedly in the apparently safe net of his pursuers, Fresse managed several times to escape the large contingent of police officers, including special commissions, deployed helicopters and hundreds of ground personnel. After a three-week large-scale manhunt by the West German police, supported by sensational television, radio and press reports, "Inspector Coincidence" helped. On Friday, March 9, 1962, two border police officers pursuing a suspected car thief found the completely exhausted and sleeping Fresse in a snow cave just 100 meters from the Czech border in the Bavarian Forest. A fatal error cost Freese his freedom: he thought he was already on the other side of the Iron Curtain. It is certain that, taking into account the East-West relationship at the time, extradition would never have taken place. On November 2, 1962, the Koblenz jury sentenced the "dangerous habitual criminal" Dieter Freese to life imprisonment. Source: Text information board

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December 3, 2019

Even the post-war period has exciting stories to offer.

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Location: Boppard, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Dieter Freese's Hideout on Eierberg

1. Pützblick Viewpoint – Steinerner Mann Viewpoint loop from Boppard Hbf

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3. Steinerner Mann Viewpoint – Baedeker's Rest loop from Boppard Hbf

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