Detlev Karsten Rohwedder
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder | |
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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 | 16 October 1932 Gotha, Free State of Thuringia, Weimar Republic |
| Died | 1 April 1991 (aged 58) Düsseldorf-Niederkassel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Manner of death | Assassination by gunshots |
| Party | Social Democratic Party |
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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.