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Detlev Karsten Rohwedder
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (1990)
President of the Treuhand
In office
1 September 1990 – 1 April 1991
Preceded byReiner Maria Gohlke
Succeeded byBirgit Breuel
Personal details
Born(1932-10-16)16 October 1932
Gotha, Germany
Died1 April 1991(1991-04-01) (aged 58)
Düsseldorf-Niederkassel, 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 manager of the Treuhandanstalt.

Rohwedder was born in Gotha. While responsible for the privatisation of state-owned property in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), he was assassinated by a sniper while standing at the window of his house in Düsseldorf. The West German far-left militant group Rote Armee Faktion (RAF) has claimed responsibility for this act, but the shooter has never been identified.

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 with 7.62×51mm NATO standard calibre, the same rifle that was used during the RAF's sniper attack on the American embassy 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 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.

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.

Films

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

See also

References

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  2. "SHOTS FROM THE GARDEN". looks.film. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  3. "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
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  5. Der Fall Rohwedder, retrieved 2019-10-30
  6. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/23/a-perfect-netflix-to-examine-germanys-answer-to-jfk-assassination

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