Hanns Martin Schleyer (* 1. May 1915 in open castle; "† 18 October 1977 with Mulhouse France) was a German manager and restaurant functionary. By its National Socialist past and its role as an employer president he was in particular exposed to the criticism by the 68er-Bewegung. Its kidnapping and murder by the terrorist organization the Red Army parliamentary group during the German autumn in such a way specified were the high point of one of the heaviest crises in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Hanns Martin is the only son of the Landgerichtsdirektors Ernst Schleyer and his Mrs. Helene (geb. Rheitinger). In the birth certificate still Hans Martin Schleyer with a "n" is registered. It is written time life however Hanns Martin Schleyer. Its parents' house is nationalconservatively gesinnt.

After the Abitur 1933 in Rastatt Schleyer begins a study of the jurisprudence in Heidelberg, where he joins the Corps Suevia Heidelberg, a striking connection.

He is already early a convinced national socialist. After membership in the Hitler Youth since 1931 it becomes on 1 July 1933 member of the SS. During the study it engages in the LV student movement and is in the Heidelberger student leader Gustav Adolf cross-eyed a first important Mentor. In the summer 1935 Schleyer accuses "National Socialist convicition lacking" to its Corps and withdraws under public protest from the connection, when the superordinate sports club federation refuses itself excluding all Jewish old person gentlemen from the Corps. Schleyer commentates this with the words "I it to never understand will be able that a Corps from the edition makes to remove two Jews from the community a question of survival". Whereupon it is excludiert by the CC of the Suevia c.i. (exclusio cum infamia, dh. Exclusion with insult and dishonor). This is to today the highest punishment, which is imposed by student connections. With it Schleyer are agreed upon on the part of the Suevia the weapon-student civil rights. After the war it is accepted nevertheless again, chairmen of the old persons gentlemen and Ehrenmitglied.Schleyer begins its first career as a functionary in the National Socialist studentses. It steps at the 1. May 1937 into the NSDAP and becomes starting from the summer semester of the same yearly director/conductor of the Heidelberger of student council. 1938 it terminates its study with the first legal state examination. After the "connection" of Austria he is starting from the summer semester 1938 on special desire Scheels, meanwhile realm student leader, director/conductor of the student council in Innsbruck. 1939 there its graduation takes place to the Dr. jur. after Austrian right. From summer 1940 to June 1941 it carries its military service out at the west front off, from which it will dismiss because of an injury as unfit for service.

He transfers then the line of the student council of the university to Prague. On 1 April 1943 it occurs as a specialist the central association of the industry for and Here he becomes then late director/conductor of the and personal secretary of the president Dr. Bernhard Adolf, who is considerably for the "Arisierung" and Germanisierung of the industry responsible.

After death Schleyers in the left scene the rumor, he was circulated a close trusted friend pure hard Heydrichs. Bernt angel man designs the possibility that Schleyer was involved in shootings of hostages in the Prague of the last war days. These reproaches are not occupied however by historical sources.

At the beginning of of May 1945, or briefly before outbreak of the Czech rebellion, leaves Schleyer Prague and flees to its parents after Konstanz. Here he is arrested on 18 July 1945 by the French military. It remains three years long in bathing interned, there it within the SS an officer rank , which correspond, had dressed to the rank of a second lieutenant. On 24 April 1948 it will dismiss from the war shank. In the Entnazifizierungsverfahren it is classified first as less-loaded. Hiergegen inserts Schleyer contradiction, in appeal proceedings it in December 1948 as a is classified.

At the 1. March 1949 it begins its activity as an adviser at the Chamber of Commerce and industrie Baden-Baden.

To 1 October 1951 it changes as a specialist to Daimler Benz AG. Here he transfers the line of the main secretariat in May 1953 and is at the same time an assistant of the chairman of the board Dr. Fritz By Protektion it ascends rapidly; starting from 1 January 1956 he is director/conductor of the personnel department, and as 1 January 1959 he will appoint as a deputy member into the executive committee. Since 1 October 1963 it is then tidy member of the board, responsible for the department personal and social welfare matters. From 1968 to 1971 it in addition the department business planning is transferred, which it however because of the choice of Joachim tooth to the chairman of the board - an office, which likewise aims at Schleyer - delivers.

After this defeat Schleyer, which wanted to force differently than tooth the development of the commercial motor vehicle section with Daimler, concentrates strengthened on its work for the employers' associations. From 1962 to 1968 he is a chairman of the federation of the metallurgy Baden-Wuerttemberg. On 6 December 1973 Schleyer is selected to the president of the Federal union of the German employers' associations (Federal Employers Association). Starting from 1 January 1977 he officiates additionally as a president of the Federal association of the German industry (BDI).

Since 1970 Schleyer member of the CDU.Am is 12 February 1970 he the honour senator of the University of Innsbruck is appointed.

By its hard attitude in the labor disputes of the 1960er years - disputed for instance the lockouts are 1963 -, aggressively working outside feature (the New York Time described it as "caricature of the ugly capitalist") Schleyer ideal an enemy picture for the 68er-Bewegung delivers its National Socialist past and probably by its - particularly on the television -. By the representation in Bernt of angel man fact novel from the year 1974 Schleyer moves large Order of Merit additional as key figure of an alleged right-conservative network in the light of the public, with whose assistance the tandem Helmut Kohl and Kurt Biedenkopf is to be brought in Bonn to power.

Kidnapping and murder

Major item: German autumn

On the occasion of its choice to the president of the BDI Schleyer in a transmission of the German television is responded to its LV past (officer rank in the SS). It avowedly and consciously provoking, it is proud on this past. That moved it definitely into the focus of the RAF (the Red Army parliamentary group). Schleyer is kidnapped on 5 September 1977 of the RAF in Cologne, in order to extort the release from arrested RAF members to.

The policemen Helmut Ulmer, Reinhold and Roland Pieler, as well as Schleyers Chauffeur Heinz Marcicz are killed with the kidnapping.

Schleyer is hidden among other things in a multistoried building in Erftstadt Liblar with Cologne, brought later it over the green border into the Netherlands. The Nichtentdeckung Schleyers is one of the largest search failures of German police history: Several local policemen were convinced of the fact that Schleyer in the multistoried building in motorway proximity is kept imprisoned - a civil servant even already rang at the door of the dwelling - and announced this also to the responsible crisis staff, that did not follow to this message however, since she went down regarding the tide of the references from the population.

After the kidnappers Schleyers of the death of the prisoners in Stuttgart master home had experienced, it was found on 19 October 1977 shot in in the Elsass/France. The identity of the murderer is kept secret by the still living involved ones of the kidnapping until today.

After Schleyers death

Before the funeral Schleyers on the cemetery Stuttgart Sillenbuch takes place on 25 October 1977 in Stuttgart under large attention of the media an act of state, with which nearly all prominent German politicians are present. The condolence stating of Federal Chancellor Schmidt with Schleyers widow is understood partly also as a kind apology - the members Schleyers do not agree with the hard attitude of the Federal Government. They already made a ransom available of 15 million DM; when its delivery is prevented by the authorities, Schleyers son Hanns Eberhard places a request for arrangement of the release of the RAF prisoners at the Federal Constitutional Court, which few hours before expiration of the last RAF ultimatum one rejects.

1977 creates the Federal Employers Association and the BDI the Hanns Martin Schleyer donation, which promotes today mainly young scientists in the range of on the right of, restaurant and culture sciences. In bath CAN place is inaugurated 1984 Hanns Martin Schleyer resounding, which is led by in Stuttgart meeting company ltd. & Co.KG. In many cities of West Germany roads are designated after Schleyer.

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