1969–2025: Felix Baumgartner is dead

According to the local fire brigade, Baumgartner lost due to a suddenly opened Unnöhlsin dying control over the first thing I was still unnoticed. Baumgartner's paraglider crashed into a wooden structure next to a swimming pool. A hotel employee was made by a trurmer part on the neck.

Baumgartner was born on April 20, 1969 in Salzburg. He completed his first parachute jump at the age of 16. After a teaching on the machine locksmith only as a mechanic, the Bundesheer Zummerfahrer and later the pattern could be trained.

From trolley jumping to base jumping

In the 1990s, Baumgartner turned to base jumping. In 1997 he won the drinks group Red Bull as a sponsor. His registered brand, the logo with the flame and the number 502, was created by registering the American Base Association in 1998, where he received number 502. There every jumper is registered, which has jumped from all four object types base, also building (bows), antenna (antenna), span (bridge) and earth (cliffs).

With his reasons from the Petronas Teaintres in Kuala Lumpur, Baumgartner set up a new world record FR the highest base jump from a building in 1999. In the same year he completed a base jump from the Christ statue in Rio de Janeiro.

He collected further records with jumps from the Millau-Brückke in France (record for the highest Brucke) and from the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan (new hell of a giving birth). On July 31, 2003, Baumgartner was the first person to cross the English Channel in free fall. To do this, he jumped from 9,800 meters from a flight, equipped with carbon wings developed with my own.

World record with stratosphere jump

Baumgartner became known to a wide audience in 2012. Baumgartner jumped from the new Mexico desert from 38,969.40 Mater Höhe and through the first person in free autumn the sound barrier.

When he jumped, he made three world records: Baumgartner gave the maximum thread of Mach 1.25 or exactly 1.357.6 km / h, but completed the highest but 38,969.40 meters and freed and contempt for and luck and Luck Luck L with one and a lucks and lucks and lucks and lucks luck Luck Laub and Acher and Acher and Acher and 36,402.6 mater. Alan Eustace, who jumped from 41,419 meters of meters, the Hölhen record Derbrach two years later.

The stratospereal jump with its five -year development time brings new knowledge to maintain -Im space. Space suits offer huts a larger freedom of movement. Excesses existing new protocols to protect the life of pilots, die at great altitudes.

Controversy statements

Baumgartner also made the headlines of his project. “You can't apply anything in a democracy. We wander a moderate dictatorship, where there is once the privacy confusion that really interviews in one in one in one in an invise with the” kledezeitwung “. Baumgartner received the negative price “Rosa Handtastl” by Austrian women's networking media for women -considering Australians on the net.

With statements about the COV pandemic, the extreme athlete caused a controversy. Most recently, Baumgartner was guilty of the practice in the previous year after he had relegated “player” editor -in -chief Florian Klenk in Sozen Etzwerkherkherken as “celebration Trottel” and “and”.

In an APA interview in 2022, Baumgartner answered question whether it was statements that he is having a good man in public, regretted, with a clear “no”. He was steeped in everything he had posted. “I have the luxury and freedom in order to be able to tell me many, mine.” He also gets a lot of positive feedback on it.

Kickl: Baumgartner War “exceptional phenomenon”

FPÖ boss Herbert Kickl was dismayed by the death of the extreme athlete. “Felix Baumgartner will be remembered – as an exception, as an abent talter who was ready to outsource the limits of what is feasible and to move into new dimensions,” said Kickl.