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{{Short description|President of the Treuhandanstalt}}
{{Infobox politician {{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|name = Detlev Karsten Rohwedder | honorific-prefix =
| name = Detlev Karsten Rohwedder
|honorific-suffix = | honorific-suffix =
|image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0821-025, Detlev Rohwedder, Präsident der Treuhandanstalt.jpg | office = President of the '']''
|caption = Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (1990) | appointer = ]
| term_start = 29 August 1990
⚫ |birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date|1932|10|16|df=y}}}}
| term_end = 1 April 1991
⚫ |birth_place = ], Germany
| predecessor = Reiner Maria Gohlke
⚫ |death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1991|4|1|1932|10|16|df=y}}}}
|death_place = | successor = ]
| office1 = ]
⚫ |party = ]
| chancellor1 = ]<br />]
| minister1 = ]<br />Helmut Schmidt<br />]<br />]
| term_start1 = 22 October 1969
| term_end1 = 16 February 1978
| predecessor1 = ]
| successor1 = Dieter von Würzen (1979)
| image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0821-025, Detlev Rohwedder, Präsident der Treuhandanstalt.jpg
| caption = Rohwedder in 1990
⚫ | birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date|1932|10|16|df=y}}}}
⚫ | birth_place = ], Free State of Thuringia, Weimar Republic
⚫ | death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1991|4|1|1932|10|16|df=y}}}}
| death_place = ], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
⚫ | party = ]
}} }}
'''Detlev Karsten Rohwedder''' (16 October 1932 – 1 April 1991)<ref>{{Cite web|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|website=translate.google.com|access-date=2019-04-04}}</ref> was a ] manager and ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://looks.film/en/shots-garden|title=SHOTS FROM THE GARDEN|website=looks.film|language=en|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref> as member of the ].<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 manager of the ]. '''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 ],<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 ].<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 ], the agency responsible for the ]/] of all state-owned property in the former ] (GDR),<ref> In: (]), 2022.</ref> in September 1990, and served until his assassination by a ] ], the ], in April 1991. He had also been CEO of the steel manufacturer ] since 1980.<ref> (german)</ref>


==Death==
⚫ Rohwedder was born in ]. While responsible for the privatisation of state-owned property in the former ] (GDR), he was assassinated by a ] while standing at the window of his house in ]. The ] ] militant group ] (RAF) has claimed responsibility for this act, but the shooter has never been identified.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/themen/detlev-karsten-rohwedder-4119466.html&prev=search|title=Google Translate|website=translate.google.com|access-date=2019-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Der Fall Rohwedder|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgIWU9LAJIA|language=en|access-date=2019-10-30}}</ref>
⚫ On Monday, 1 April 1991, at 23:30, Rohwedder was shot and killed through a window on the second floor of his house in the suburb of ] (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 ]. It was the same rifle that was used during a ] in February committed by the ] (RAF), a ] 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 ], a minor RAF figure who had died in 1975. The shooter has never been identified.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/themen/detlev-karsten-rohwedder-4119466.html&prev=search|title=Google Translate|website=translate.google.com|access-date=2019-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Der Fall Rohwedder|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgIWU9LAJIA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/JgIWU9LAJIA |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2019-10-30}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
==Murder==
⚫ On Monday, April 1, 1991, at 23:30, Rohwedder was shot and killed through a window on the first floor of his house in the suburb of ] (Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 71) by the first of three rifle shots. The second shot wounded his wife Hergard; the third hit a bookcase.


⚫ In 2001, a ] found that hair strands from the crime scene belonged to RAF member ]. The ] did not consider this evidence sufficient to name Grams as a suspect of the killing. Grams was killed in a shootout with police in ] in 1993.
The shots were fired from 63 m away from a rifle with ] standard calibre, the same rifle that was used during the RAF's ] in February. An inspection of the scene found three cartridge cases, a plastic chair, a towel, and a letter claiming responsibility from a RAF commando named after ], a minor RAF figure who had died in 1975. The shooter has never been identified.


⚫ On April 10, 1991, Rohwedder was honoured in Berlin with a day of mourning by German President ], Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, ], and Chairman of the Board of ] ]. The ], the seat of the ], is named in his honour.
⚫ In 2001, a ] found that hair strands from the crime scene belonged to RAF member ]. The ] did not consider this evidence sufficient to name Grams as a suspect of the killing.


==Films==
⚫ On April 10, 1991, Rohwedder was honoured in Berlin with a day of mourning by German President ], Minister-President of North-Rhine Westphalia, ], and Chairman of the Board of ] ].
In 2020, '']'', a documentary about the Rohwedder assassination, was released by ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/23/a-perfect-netflix-to-examine-germanys-answer-to-jfk-assassination|title=A Perfect Crime: Netflix to examine Germany's answer to JFK assassination|website=] |date=23 September 2020}}</ref>


==See also== ==See also==
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==References== ==References==
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==External links==
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President of the Treuhandanstalt
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) was a German manager and politician, as member of the Social Democratic Party. He was named president of the Treuhandanstalt, the agency responsible for the reprivatization/privatization of all state-owned property in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), in September 1990, and served until his assassination by a Far Left terrorist organization, the Red Army Faction, in April 1991. He had also been CEO of the steel manufacturer Hoesch AG since 1980.

Death

On Monday, 1 April 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 the same rifle that was used during a sniper attack on the American embassy in February committed by the Red Army Faction (RAF), 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.

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.

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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