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- Died
- Hanns Martin Schleyer was born on May 1, 1915 in Offenburg, Baden, Germany. He was married to Waltrude Schleyer. He died on October 18, 1977 in northern France.
- SpouseWaltrude Schleyer(October 21, 1939 - October 18, 1977) (his death, 4 children)
- Was kidnapped by the militant Red Army Fraction in Cologne and shot dead on the way from Brussels to Mulhouse, France after 43 days as hostage (18 October 1977).
- President of the Confederation of the German Employers' Associations from 6 December 1973 and the Federation of German Industries from 1 January 1977 until his death.
- Is portrayed by Hans Brenner in Todesspiel (1997) and Hans Werner Meyer in The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008).
- During World War II, he was a mid-ranking SS officer, first serving at the Western Front and later being an adviser of an economist in one of the territories occupied by Nazi Germany.
- He was murdered by shot in the neck on an unknown place in Northern France, near the Belgian border. His corpse was found some 300 km south-east in Mulhouse (France).
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