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4 unusual facts about Hanns Martin Schleyer


Hanns Martin Schleyer

After Schleyer's kidnappers received the news of the death of their imprisoned comrades, Schleyer was taken from Brussels on October 18, 1977, and shot dead en route to Mulhouse, France, where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy.

At the end of the 1960s, he was almost appointed chairman of the board, but lost the position to Joachim Zahn.

On May 5, 1945, Schleyer escaped from the city shortly after the start of the Prague uprising.

In 1939, Schleyer married Waltrude Ketterer (1916–2008), daughter of the physician, city councillor of Munich and SA-Obergruppenführer Emil Ketterer.



see also

Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation

The foundation administers the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize (German: Hanns Martin Schleyer-Preis), an award established by automobile manufacturer Daimler AG in 1982 in honor of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, a former business executive of the BDA and BDI.