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'''Detlev Karsten Rohwedder''' (16 October 1932 – 1 April 1991)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/der-mordanschlag-im-zdf-ueber-raf-anschlag-auf-detlev-karsten-rohwedder-a-1236734.html&prev=search|title=Google Translate|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=5 November 2018 |access-date=2019-04-04|last1=Siemens |first1=Ansgar }}</ref> was a German manager and [[politician]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://looks.film/en/shots-garden|title=SHOTS FROM THE GARDEN|website=looks.film|date=31 December 2010 |language=en|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref> as member of the [[Social Democratic Party (Germany)|Social Democratic Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://lassalle-kreis.de/node/1003&prev=search|title=Google Translate|website=translate.google.com|access-date=2019-04-04}}</ref> He was named president of the [[Treuhandanstalt]], responsible for the privatisation of state-owned property in the former [[East Germany|German Democratic Republic]] (GDR), in September 1990, and served until his assassination in April 1991. He had also served as CEO of steel manufacturer [[Hoesch AG]] since 1980.<ref>[https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14348305.html Spiegel.de:Unzumutbarer Partner (October 4, 1982)] (german)</ref>
'''Detlev Karsten Rohwedder''' (16 October 1932 – 1 April 1991)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/der-mordanschlag-im-zdf-ueber-raf-anschlag-auf-detlev-karsten-rohwedder-a-1236734.html&prev=search|title=Google Translate|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=5 November 2018 |access-date=2019-04-04|last1=Siemens |first1=Ansgar }}</ref> was a German manager and [[politician]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://looks.film/en/shots-garden|title=SHOTS FROM THE GARDEN|website=looks.film|date=31 December 2010 |language=en|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref> as member of the [[Social Democratic Party (Germany)|Social Democratic Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://lassalle-kreis.de/node/1003&prev=search|title=Google Translate|website=translate.google.com|access-date=2019-04-04}}</ref> He was named president of the [[Treuhandanstalt]], responsible for the privatisation of state-owned property in the former [[East Germany|German Democratic Republic]] (GDR),<ref>[https://www.orte-der-einheit.de/en/treuhandanstalt ''Treuhandanstalt: Privatisation, Unemployment, Protests''.] In: [https://www.orte-der-einheit.de/en/ Sites of Unity] ([[Haus der Geschichte]]), 2022.</ref> in September 1990, and served until his assassination in April 1991. He had also served as CEO of steel manufacturer [[Hoesch AG]] since 1980.<ref>[https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-14348305.html Spiegel.de:Unzumutbarer Partner (October 4, 1982)] (german)</ref>


==Murder==
==Murder==

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Detlev Karsten Rohwedder
Rohwedder in 1990
President of the Treuhandanstalt
In office
29 August 1990 – 1 April 1991
Appointed byLothar de Maizière
Preceded byReiner Maria Gohlke
Succeeded byBirgit Breuel
State Secretary in the Ministry for Economics
In office
22 October 1969 – 16 February 1978
ChancellorWilly Brandt
Helmut Schmidt
MinisterKarl Schiller
Helmut Schmidt
Hans Friderichs
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Preceded byKlaus von Dohnanyi
Succeeded byDieter von Würzen (1979)
Personal details
Born(1932-10-16)16 October 1932
Gotha, Free State of Thuringia, Weimar Republic
Died1 April 1991(1991-04-01) (aged 58)
Düsseldorf-Niederkassel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (16 October 1932 – 1 April 1991)[1] was a German manager and politician,[2] as member of the Social Democratic Party.[3] He was named president of the Treuhandanstalt, responsible for the privatisation of state-owned property in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR),[4] in September 1990, and served until his assassination in April 1991. He had also served as CEO of steel manufacturer Hoesch AG since 1980.[5]

Murder

On Monday, April 1, 1991, at 23:30, Rohwedder was shot and killed through a window on the second floor of his house in the suburb of Düsseldorf-Niederkassel (Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 71) by the first of three rifle shots. The second shot wounded his wife Hergard; the third hit a bookcase.

The shots were fired from 63 m away from a rifle chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO. It was also the same rifle that was used during a sniper attack on the American embassy in February committed by the Red Army Faction, a West German far-left terrorist group. An inspection of the scene found three cartridge cases, a plastic chair, a towel, and a letter claiming responsibility from an RAF unit named after Ulrich Wessel, a minor RAF figure who had died in 1975. The shooter has never been identified.[6][7]

In 2001, a DNA analysis found that hair strands from the crime scene belonged to RAF member Wolfgang Grams. The Attorney General did not consider this evidence sufficient to name Grams as a suspect of the killing. Grams was killed in a shootout with police in Bad Kleinen in 1993.

On April 10, 1991, Rohwedder was honoured in Berlin with a day of mourning by German President Richard von Weizsäcker, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau, and Chairman of the Board of Treuhandanstalt Jens Odewald. The Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus, the seat of the Federal Finance Ministry, is named in his honour.

Films

In 2020, A Perfect Crime, a documentary about the Rohwedder assassination, was released by Netflix.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Siemens, Ansgar (5 November 2018). "Google Translate". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  2. ^ "SHOTS FROM THE GARDEN". looks.film. 31 December 2010. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  3. ^ "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  4. ^ Treuhandanstalt: Privatisation, Unemployment, Protests. In: Sites of Unity (Haus der Geschichte), 2022.
  5. ^ Spiegel.de:Unzumutbarer Partner (October 4, 1982) (german)
  6. ^ "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
  7. ^ Der Fall Rohwedder, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2019-10-30
  8. ^ "A Perfect Crime: Netflix to examine Germany's answer to JFK assassination". TheGuardian.com. 23 September 2020.
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