Detlev Karsten Rohwedder

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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
Social Democratic Party

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (16 October 1932 – 1 April 1991)

terrorist organization, the Red Army Faction, in April 1991. He had also been CEO of the steel manufacturer Hoesch AG since 1980.[5]

Death

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

Ulrich Wessel, a minor RAF figure who had died in 1975. The shooter has never been identified.[6][7]

In 2001, a

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

  • List of unsolved murders

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. TheGuardian.com
    . 23 September 2020.

External links

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