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Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
About Werner Weinhold
- Werner Weinhold (born 8 August 1949 in Dresden, East Germany) was a former NVA soldier who shot and killed two East German border guards on 19 December 1975 during a successful attempt to cross the Inner German border from the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to the Federal Republic of Germany (then called West Germany).
- The escape took place near the town of Hildburghausen, Thuringia. Weinhold was tried in the West German courts and was at first acquitted.
- At a second trial in 1978 he received a sentence of five-and-a-half years for the killings, which was later reduced to three-and-a-half.
- The incident received much press coverage at the time in both German states. In 2005 he was arrested by German police for attempted murder.
- On 8 January 2005 he allegedly shot and seriously injured a 43-year-old acquaintance.
- Later he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years for actual bodily harm.
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