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Detlev Karsten Rohwedder

President of the Treuhandanstalt

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 1991.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Oct 16, 1932, died Apr 1, 1991.¹

About

He had also been CEO of the steel manufacturer Hoesch AG since 1980.

From Wikipedia’s article on Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Hoesch AGBoard member 1979 to 1991¹¹

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Hamburg³

Career

Occupation: politician.⁵

1979 to 1991Board member, Hoesch AG⁴

Personal life

BornOct 16, 1932, Gotha⁶
DiedApr 1, 1991, Düsseldorf⁷
CitizenshipGermany⁸

Legal issues and controversies

Investigation

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 in the killing. Grams was killed in a shootout with police in Bad Kleinen in 1993.

On 10 April 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.