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Vet Rescue Medal: Dr. Diepold and the conversation of his life

2022-09-23T18:09:43.380Z


Vet Rescue Medal: Dr. Diepold and the conversation of his life Created: 09/23/2022, 20:00 By: Thomas Zimmerly More comfortable than on the roof: lifesaver Dr. Dominik Diepold with his dachshund Gusti on a bench in front of his house/practice in Neuhimmelreich. © zimmerly dr Dominik Diepold will be awarded the Bavarian Rescue Medal next Monday. The 35-year-old risked his life when he helped a n


Vet Rescue Medal: Dr.

Diepold and the conversation of his life

Created: 09/23/2022, 20:00

By: Thomas Zimmerly

More comfortable than on the roof: lifesaver Dr.

Dominik Diepold with his dachshund Gusti on a bench in front of his house/practice in Neuhimmelreich.

© zimmerly

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Dominik Diepold will be awarded the Bavarian Rescue Medal next Monday.

The 35-year-old risked his life when he helped a neighbor down the ridge of a townhouse in Dachau.

The 79-year-old wanted to throw himself from the roof after his dog was run over.

Dachau – On the trip to Slovenia with the whole family a few days ago, Dr.

Dominik Diepold (35).

His wife Leni (35), the children Anton (9) and Alois (4) and five pairs of dog eyes looked at him.

After some hesitation, the veterinarian from Neuhimmelreich, who specializes in treating dogs, accepted the call.

It was Markus Söder's antechamber.

The lady at the end of the line whistled that the Prime Minister was thinking of presenting Mr. Diepold with the Bavarian Rescue Medal.

Dachau veterinarian receives Bavarian rescue medal

"Did I miss something?" the family man asked the attentive group in the car.

He has.

To open the letter that the State Chancellery had sent some time ago and that has been lying around somewhere in the family home ever since.

This stated that Mr. Diepold had saved a person from mortal danger at the risk of his own life.

To be more precise, the 35-year-old managed to stop his neighbor (79) from jumping to his death from the roof ridge of a town house in Dachau – after he had been squatting next to the life-weary man on the roof tiles for three quarters of an hour at a height of 14 meters and tirelessly on top of him had persuaded.

After dog was run over: 79-year-old wants to fall from the roof of the house to death

It's July 13, 2020. The story of the rescue begins with an accident and ends in an action that the county seat has rarely seen.

The neighbor, who suffers from dementia, walks his two royal poodles on a leash.

Lola, the third dog, trotts behind unleashed.

The 16-year-old mongrel, the old man's darling, is run over by a car at a zebra crossing.

At the same time, Dominik Diepold happened to be out and about nearby.

He lives just two houses away from the 79-year-old.

You've known each other for a long time.

He overhears what is happening and rushes to the scene of the accident.

"I saw him standing there helplessly," the 35-year-old recalls.

He informs Monika Trejo-Liedl, his neighbor's wife, helps her get the dead Lola into the car and goes home;

unaware that his help will soon be in demand again - and how.

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Monika Trejo-Liedl remembers that her husband was completely confused and thought that Lola would wake up again.

When his wife made it clear to him that the half-breed was dead, a world must have collapsed for the 79-year-old.

From then on, the seriously ill man had only one thought: to take his own life.

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It's hot in the old town of Dachau.

Laura Diepold, Dominik's mother, is sitting in the garden.

She lives in the house next door.

At some point she looks up - and gets the shock of her life.

Her neighbor is sitting at the top of the roof ridge, wearing only underpants.

When I saw it, I thought: It will fall down in the next few seconds and there will be a thud.”

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Dominik Diepold

Laura Diepold is a member of the Dachau Red Cross Crisis Intervention Team.

She doesn't notify Monika Trejo-Liedl, she doesn't call the fire department immediately, she calls her son.

Because he's faster than everyone else.

"He ran over the fence, through the garden into the house next door," she remembers.

As it turns out later, the suicidal man knew about a spare key from the owner of the apartment on the second floor.

He got this, reached the roof via the balcony of this apartment and from there via the chimney sweep steps all the way up to the ridge.

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To save neighbors: Dachau vet risks his own life

Dominik Diepold is lucky, the apartment door on the second floor is still open.

So he too can get onto the roof a little later.

However, he wears Crocs.

The slipper-like rubber shoes are comfortable, but completely unsuitable for gymnastics on house roofs.

So it's barefoot upstairs.

I was scared of sliding down there too!”

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Dominik Diepold

"When I saw it, I thought: It will fall down in the next few seconds and there will be a thud," recalls the 35-year-old.

And of course: "I was scared of slipping down there too!"

However, before he began studying veterinary medicine, he was a full-time paramedic for three years.

"I've seen a lot there.

For me it wasn't the extreme extreme situation!” Only: How should he now communicate with the man who is tired of life?

How is it possible that he doesn't jump?

The Dachau vet engages a suicidal neighbor in a conversation

While Diepold noticed from above how a large contingent of police, fire brigade, doctors and the emergency and fire brigade chaplain Albert Wenning, who is well known in the Dachau district and has since died, are gradually approaching and a jumping sheet being spread out, an idea occurs to him: “I knew that he likes to sail on the Ammersee.

So I talked to him about sailing.” That calms the neighbors down at first.

But then the old man suddenly slips towards the edge of the house.

And Diepold afterwards.

In small hops, the two men move closer and closer to the end of the roof.

Until Diepold asks: “What time is it?” The 79-year-old then holds out his arm with the wristwatch – and Diepold grabs it vigorously.

With one hand he holds the now tired of life, with the other he clutches the antenna mast.

With all his might, he manages to pull his neighbors towards him.

Diepold: "Then I said: Come on, let's go now.

And he said: You've always been a clever little fellow.” Slowly you walk back along the ridge and over the chimney sweep steps to the balcony.

There, the two are welcomed by firefighters, police officers and a doctor.

The helpers take the 79-year-old to the psychiatric clinic in Fürstenfeldbruck.

Dominik Diepold just hears with one ear: "You did well!" Then he slips into his Crocs and goes home.

Next Monday, Dr.

Dominik Diepold wear more elegant shoes, although one could definitely wear Crocs in the Antiquarium of the Munich Residenz.

At 3 p.m. he is given the rescue medal.

He won't miss the appointment, he says.

You can find more current news from the district of Dachau at Merkur.de/Dachau.

Source: merkur

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