Early Life and Career
Hohenberger was a West German national. In August 1972 he began working as an independent contractor with the German road construction company Strassen and Tearbau. Around July 1974, he forged road building orders from distant mountain towns and used them to order Strassen and Tearbau to build roads. No roads were ever built, and no earthworks or materials were ever bought. Hohenberger embezzled DM200,000 from the company.
He was on a skiing holiday in Italy at the time German police issued a warrant for his arrest. He never returned to Germany. Having gone out onto the slopes and not returned, it was thought he had died. Although German police were skeptical of his disappearance, believing that somebody had tipped him off to the investigation, the discovery of his bags over a year later reinforced the theory that he had either had an accident or committed suicide.
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