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 |
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (16 October 1932 – 1 April 1991)[1] was a German manager and politician,[2] as member of the Social Democratic Party.[3] 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),[4] 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.[5]