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- Birth nameVera Kohlen
- Vera Brühne was born on February 6, 1910 in Essen, Germany. She was married to Lothar Brühne and Hans Cossy. She died on April 17, 2001 in Munich, Germany.
- SpousesLothar Brühne (divorced)Hans Cossy(? - 1953) (divorced, 1 child)
- Mother of Sylvia Cosiolkofsky (born 1941, died October 5th, 1990), daughter of Ludwig Kohlen (born January 16th, 1870, died March 10th, 1951).
- Vera Brühne got famous throughout Germany as a victim of miscarriage of justice. In 1961/62, she was convicted, together with Johann Ferbach, of having murdered the physician Otto Praun and his lover. Ulrich Sonnemann considered the case as a new Dreyfus affair. In 1979, she was pardoned by Bavarian governor Franz Josef Strauss.
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