[PowderMonkey]

This site seems to contain a fairly accurate accounting of Shumann’s life: Leap into History

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.

[Bigg Red]

Ack! Sorry I read the whole thing, viz.:

Following returning home from a from a family rowing trip, on 20 June 1998 the weight of his depression proved to great for the Cold War icon and Schumann committed suicide. He hung himself in his orchard near the town of Kipfenberg where his wife Kunigunde would find him hours later.