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On the night of August 22, an oncoming driver on the A3 near Königswinter caused a serious accident. Shortly before the Siebengebirge crossing, a 73-year-old man collided with an oncoming Mercedes in his VW Polo, which caught fire. First responders were still trying to put out the burning vehicle. But any help came too late for the driver. She died. The person who caused the accident was thrown from her car and also died.
According to witnesses, the 73-year-old man drove badly down the road at a rest stop. The police had tried in vain to contact the man on the railing.
A DNA comparison is said to have determined the identity of the woman who died in the accident. According to media reports, the deceased person is said to be a member of the “Mäurer & Wirtz” company, which sells brands such as “Baldessarini”, “Tabac” and “4711”.
“Bild” -Zeitung and Kölner “Express” quote an obituary on the death of Hannemarie Wirtz, which appeared in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” on August 29: It says about the woman who died on August 22: “The world stands still. You have been torn from life and from us. “
Hannemarie Wirtz was the widow of the chemist Franz A. Wirtz, who died in 2017 and who for many years was CEO of the pharmaceutical company Grünenthal GmbH, which is linked to the Contergan scandal. In the fall of 1957, the company released the sleeping pill and sedative Contergan. Thousands of pregnant women took the drug with the active ingredient thalidomide, which was advertised as harmless, and subsequently gave birth to severely malformed babies. In 1961 the drug was banned. Legal disputes over the fatal damage to health caused by the preparation ended in 1970 with an agreement.
