Hanns Martin Schleyer was the only son of the judge Ernst Schleyer and his wife Helene. His great-great uncle Johann Martin Schleyer, a catholic priest, invented the constructed language Volapük.
He took pleasure in national socialism and after a while in the Hitler youth he joined the SS.
After World War II, in 1951 he joined Daimler-Benz and became member of the board of directions.
Schleyer got more involved in employer associations and 1973 we was elected as president of the "Bundesvereinigung der Arbeitgeberverbände".
On September 5,1977 he was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction (RAF) in Cologne. After 43 days as prisoner he was killed by the RAF, becuase the German Government didn't response to the demands of the RAF and as an act of revenge for the dead chief-members of the RAF, who made suicide in prison.
Schleyers body was thrown in a car, which is parked in Mulhouse, near the frontier of France, where he was found on October 19, 1977. His murderers aren't found until now.
He is buried in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch.
He took pleasure in national socialism and after a while in the Hitler youth he joined the SS.
After World War II, in 1951 he joined Daimler-Benz and became member of the board of directions.
Schleyer got more involved in employer associations and 1973 we was elected as president of the "Bundesvereinigung der Arbeitgeberverbände".
On September 5,1977 he was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction (RAF) in Cologne. After 43 days as prisoner he was killed by the RAF, becuase the German Government didn't response to the demands of the RAF and as an act of revenge for the dead chief-members of the RAF, who made suicide in prison.
Schleyers body was thrown in a car, which is parked in Mulhouse, near the frontier of France, where he was found on October 19, 1977. His murderers aren't found until now.
He is buried in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch.
Hanns Martin Schleyer was the only son of the judge Ernst Schleyer and his wife Helene. His great-great uncle Johann Martin Schleyer, a catholic priest, invented the constructed language Volapük.
He took pleasure in national socialism and after a while in the Hitler youth he joined the SS.
After World War II, in 1951 he joined Daimler-Benz and became member of the board of directions.
Schleyer got more involved in employer associations and 1973 we was elected as president of the "Bundesvereinigung der Arbeitgeberverbände".
On September 5,1977 he was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction (RAF) in Cologne. After 43 days as prisoner he was killed by the RAF, becuase the German Government didn't response to the demands of the RAF and as an act of revenge for the dead chief-members of the RAF, who made suicide in prison.
Schleyers body was thrown in a car, which is parked in Mulhouse, near the frontier of France, where he was found on October 19, 1977. His murderers aren't found until now.
He is buried in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch.
He took pleasure in national socialism and after a while in the Hitler youth he joined the SS.
After World War II, in 1951 he joined Daimler-Benz and became member of the board of directions.
Schleyer got more involved in employer associations and 1973 we was elected as president of the "Bundesvereinigung der Arbeitgeberverbände".
On September 5,1977 he was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction (RAF) in Cologne. After 43 days as prisoner he was killed by the RAF, becuase the German Government didn't response to the demands of the RAF and as an act of revenge for the dead chief-members of the RAF, who made suicide in prison.
Schleyers body was thrown in a car, which is parked in Mulhouse, near the frontier of France, where he was found on October 19, 1977. His murderers aren't found until now.
He is buried in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch.
