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| On Monday, April 1 1991, at 23:30 clock, Rohwedder was shot through a window on the first 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 and the third hit a bookcase. | On Monday, April 1 1991, at 23:30 clock, Rohwedder was shot through a window on the first 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 and the third hit a bookcase. | ||
| The shots came from 63 meters away from a rifle with NATO standard caliber ]. An inspection of the scene found three cartridge cases, a plastic chair, a towel and a letter claiming responsibility from RAF member ](who had died in 1975). The shooter has still not been determined. | The shots came from 63 meters away from a rifle with NATO standard caliber ]. An inspection of the scene found three cartridge cases, a plastic chair, a towel and a letter claiming responsibility from RAF member ] (who had died in 1975). The shooter has still not been determined. | ||
| In 2001 a DNA analysis was carried out of hair strands at the scene of the murder Rohwedder, suggested that ] was responsible for the killing. The Office of the Attorney General did not name Grams as a suspect, and has not sufficiently evaluated the evidence. Additionally, there are some doubts about the authenticity of the hair found along with doubts about the scientific quality of the investigation results, made eight years after Grams' death. On a request from the ], the Attorney General explained that a review of hair even at an earlier date without a DNA analysis would have been possible, but this was not performed because no hair sample was taken from Gram after his death. | In 2001 a DNA analysis was carried out of hair strands at the scene of the murder Rohwedder, suggested that ] was responsible for the killing. The Office of the Attorney General did not name Grams as a suspect, and has not sufficiently evaluated the evidence. Additionally, there are some doubts about the authenticity of the hair found along with doubts about the scientific quality of the investigation results, made eight years after Grams' death. On a request from the ], the Attorney General explained that a review of hair even at an earlier date without a DNA analysis would have been possible, but this was not performed because no hair sample was taken from Gram after his death. | ||
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| Reportedly opposed to an unrestricted sell-out of GDR's ] he may have occasionally favoured a worker-owned solution. | Reportedly opposed to an unrestricted sell-out of GDR's ] he may have occasionally favoured a worker-owned solution. | ||
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Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (October 16, 1932 - April 1, 1991) was a German manager and politician, as member of the Social Democratic Party. He was manager of Treuhandanstalt.
Rohwedder was born in Gotha. While responsible for the privatisation of former communist East Germany he was murdered by a military-grade sharp-shooter while standing at the window of his highly guarded house in Düsseldorf. Though never convicted, several members of the leftist terrorist organisation RAF are assumed to be responsible for the murder.
Murder
On Monday, April 1 1991, at 23:30 clock, Rohwedder was shot through a window on the first 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 and the third hit a bookcase.
The shots came from 63 meters away from a rifle with NATO standard caliber 7.62x51mm NATO. An inspection of the scene found three cartridge cases, a plastic chair, a towel and a letter claiming responsibility from RAF member Ulrich Wessel (who had died in 1975). The shooter has still not been determined.
In 2001 a DNA analysis was carried out of hair strands at the scene of the murder Rohwedder, suggested that Wolfgang Grams was responsible for the killing. The Office of the Attorney General did not name Grams as a suspect, and has not sufficiently evaluated the evidence. Additionally, there are some doubts about the authenticity of the hair found along with doubts about the scientific quality of the investigation results, made eight years after Grams' death. On a request from the SPD, the Attorney General explained that a review of hair even at an earlier date without a DNA analysis would have been possible, but this was not performed because no hair sample was taken from Gram after his death.
On April 10, 1991 Detlev Karsten Rohwedder was honored in Berlin with a day of mourning by German President Richard von Weizsäcker, North-Rhine/Westphalian Prime Minister Johannes Rau, and Chairman of the Board of Treuhandanstalt Jens Odewald.
His successor Birgit Breuel, daughter of a millionaire banker, was more in favour of a speedy sell-off to investors.
Reportedly opposed to an unrestricted sell-out of GDR's public-owned factories he may have occasionally favoured a worker-owned solution.