Anton Fliegerbauer grew up with two siblings on their parents' farm in Westerndorf, Lower Bavaria. He initially attended agricultural school, then enrolled in training with the Bavarian State Police.
He met his later wife Maria in 1964 at a dance. They married in 1966; their son Alfred was born two years later.
During the 1972 Olympic Games, Fliegerbauer was assigned to a mobile squad of the rapid reaction police unit. On September 5, his squad was ordered to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, where the police were trying to free the hostages. A helicopter pilot was seriously injured during the gun fight that ensued on the night of September 5. Anton was fatally wounded shortly after the operation began.
Fliegerbauer was buried on 8 September after a "well attended" civic funeral attended by the Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and Prime Minister of Bavaria Alfons Goppel with wreaths laid on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and West German President Gustav Heinemann.
In a memorial service held at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in 2012, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre, Fliegerbauer was remembered alongside the eleven members of the Israeli delegation slain by the terrorists.
Fliegerbauer was buried on 8 September after a "well attended" civic funeral attended by the Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and Prime Minister of Bavaria Alfons Goppel with wreaths laid on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and West German President Gustav Heinemann.
During 2016 Fliegerbauer was memorialized at the Olympic Village in Brazil.
He met his later wife Maria in 1964 at a dance. They married in 1966; their son Alfred was born two years later.
During the 1972 Olympic Games, Fliegerbauer was assigned to a mobile squad of the rapid reaction police unit. On September 5, his squad was ordered to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, where the police were trying to free the hostages. A helicopter pilot was seriously injured during the gun fight that ensued on the night of September 5. Anton was fatally wounded shortly after the operation began.
Fliegerbauer was buried on 8 September after a "well attended" civic funeral attended by the Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and Prime Minister of Bavaria Alfons Goppel with wreaths laid on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and West German President Gustav Heinemann.
In a memorial service held at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in 2012, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre, Fliegerbauer was remembered alongside the eleven members of the Israeli delegation slain by the terrorists.
Fliegerbauer was buried on 8 September after a "well attended" civic funeral attended by the Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and Prime Minister of Bavaria Alfons Goppel with wreaths laid on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and West German President Gustav Heinemann.
During 2016 Fliegerbauer was memorialized at the Olympic Village in Brazil.
Anton Fliegerbauer grew up with two siblings on their parents' farm in Westerndorf, Lower Bavaria. He initially attended agricultural school, then enrolled in training with the Bavarian State Police.
He met his later wife Maria in 1964 at a dance. They married in 1966; their son Alfred was born two years later.
During the 1972 Olympic Games, Fliegerbauer was assigned to a mobile squad of the rapid reaction police unit. On September 5, his squad was ordered to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, where the police were trying to free the hostages. A helicopter pilot was seriously injured during the gun fight that ensued on the night of September 5. Anton was fatally wounded shortly after the operation began.
Fliegerbauer was buried on 8 September after a "well attended" civic funeral attended by the Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and Prime Minister of Bavaria Alfons Goppel with wreaths laid on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and West German President Gustav Heinemann.
In a memorial service held at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in 2012, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre, Fliegerbauer was remembered alongside the eleven members of the Israeli delegation slain by the terrorists.
Fliegerbauer was buried on 8 September after a "well attended" civic funeral attended by the Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and Prime Minister of Bavaria Alfons Goppel with wreaths laid on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and West German President Gustav Heinemann.
During 2016 Fliegerbauer was memorialized at the Olympic Village in Brazil.
He met his later wife Maria in 1964 at a dance. They married in 1966; their son Alfred was born two years later.
During the 1972 Olympic Games, Fliegerbauer was assigned to a mobile squad of the rapid reaction police unit. On September 5, his squad was ordered to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, where the police were trying to free the hostages. A helicopter pilot was seriously injured during the gun fight that ensued on the night of September 5. Anton was fatally wounded shortly after the operation began.
Fliegerbauer was buried on 8 September after a "well attended" civic funeral attended by the Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and Prime Minister of Bavaria Alfons Goppel with wreaths laid on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and West German President Gustav Heinemann.
In a memorial service held at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in 2012, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre, Fliegerbauer was remembered alongside the eleven members of the Israeli delegation slain by the terrorists.
Fliegerbauer was buried on 8 September after a "well attended" civic funeral attended by the Mayor of Munich Georg Kronawitter and Prime Minister of Bavaria Alfons Goppel with wreaths laid on behalf of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and West German President Gustav Heinemann.
During 2016 Fliegerbauer was memorialized at the Olympic Village in Brazil.
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