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			{{Short description\|President of the Treuhandanstalt}}
	'''Detlev Karsten Rohwedder ''' (], ] - ], ]) was a ] manager and ], as member of the ]. He was manager of ].
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		⚫	\| name = Detlev Karsten Rohwedder
			\| honorific-suffix =
			\| office = President of the '']''
			\| appointer = ]
			\| term_start = 29 August 1990
			\| term_end = 1 April 1991
			\| predecessor = Reiner Maria Gohlke
			\| successor = ]
			\| office1 = ]
			\| 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 = ]
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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 ],<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 former communist ] he was murdered by a military-grade sharp-shooter while standing at the window of his highly guarded house in ]. Though never convicted, several members of the leftist terrorist organisation ] are assumed to be responsible for the murder.
			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>
	Reportedly opposed to an unrestricted sell-out of GDR's ] he may have occasionally favoured a worker-owned solution.

			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.
	His successor ], daughter of a millionaire banker, was more in favour of a speedy sell-off to investors.

			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.

			==Films==
			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==
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			==References==
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Latest revision as of 06:20, 21 December 2024

President of the Treuhandanstalt

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder
Rohwedder in 1990

President of the Treuhandanstalt
In office 29 August 1990 – 1 April 1991
Appointed by	Lothar de Maizière
Preceded by	Reiner Maria Gohlke
Succeeded by	Birgit Breuel
State Secretary in the Ministry for Economics
In office 22 October 1969 – 16 February 1978
Chancellor	Willy Brandt Helmut Schmidt
Minister	Karl Schiller Helmut Schmidt Hans Friderichs Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Preceded by	Klaus von Dohnanyi
Succeeded by	Dieter von Würzen (1979)

Personal details
Born	(1932-10-16)16 October 1932 Gotha, Free State of Thuringia, Weimar Republic
Died	1 April 1991(1991-04-01) (aged 58) Düsseldorf-Niederkassel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Political party	Social 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.

References

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

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