Hegaard Rohweder is a lawyer by training and a judge at the Asylum Tribunal of the Administrative Court of Düsseldorf, Germany. Her husband was German manager, politician and chairman of Treuhand, Detlev Rohweder, who was assassinated in his home on April 1, 1991.
Wiki/Biography
Hergard Rohwedder was born Hergard Toussaint (died at the age of 85) on Sunday, June 11, 1933 in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and originally from Bonn, Germany. She studied for a law degree at the University of Chicago Law School in the United States. After her marriage in 1980, she moved to Düsseldorf.
address
Hergard Rohwedder lives at Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 72 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Detlev and Hergard Rohwedder’s home
family
Relationships, Wife/Husband and Children
In 1960, Hegard Roveider married Detlev Roveider, a German manager, politician and chairman of Treuhand, an agency set up by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) government after the fall of the Berlin Wall to protect, restructure and privatize the assets of GDR state-owned enterprises. The couple had two children, Philip Roveider, who was CEO of Warner Bros. German, and Kathy Roveider, a journalist for an American business newspaper.
Detlev Rohwedder and his wife Hergard Rohwedder
Profession
Hegard Rohweder was a judge at the Asylum Tribunal of the Administrative Court of Düsseldorf. In 1999, Hegard Rohweder founded the “Freedom Network Foundation”, a cross-party, nationwide association of independent critical citizens dedicated to strengthening the position of liberalism in politics and society.
die
Hegard Roveide died on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was reportedly a natural death.
dispute
- At 11:30 pm on April 1, 1991, Hegaard Rohweder’s husband, Detlef Rohweder, was assassinated by a sniper in his office on the first floor of the villa in Düsseldorf-Niederkassel. The gunman fired three shots at him from a distance of 63 meters from the opposite vegetable garden with a Belgian G 1 rifle. The first shot killed Detlef Rohweder who stood up from his desk. The second shot hit Hegaard’s arm, and the third shot hit a bookshelf.
Bullets in the window of Hergard Rohwedder’s home.
A confession signed by Ulrich Wessel, a Red Army Commando (RAF) commando, was found at the crime scene. The RAF was an extremist terrorist organization in the Federal Republic of Germany.
- Just three minutes after the shooting, Düsseldorf police launched a massive manhunt, but the attacker escaped without leaving any trace of the murder weapon. In an interview, Hegaard Rohweder accused the East German Democratic Republic’s secret police, the “Stasi”, of assassinating her husband, Detlev Rohweder, while he was allegedly looking for missing Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) party assets worth 800 million German marks. This supports the theory that the Stasi assassinated Rohweder and blamed the murder on the RAF. Suspicion arose in Hegaard’s mind because in previous assassinations by the RAF, they had never shot the victim’s family members. In an interview, she said,
The RAF had never shot at the family members of the victims in previous assassinations, never! They shot us several times; my husband fell down immediately, and a few seconds later I walked into the room and they aimed and shot me… It was perfectly planned – just at the moment he got up from his desk to go to bed. Anyone with experience in security policy believed that this could not have been done by the RAF alone.
Facts/Trivia
- Three to four days before her husband was murdered, suspicious activity, such as late night phone calls and doorbells ringing in the middle of the night, gave Hegad Rovede a sense that something was brewing. In an interview, she said,
They came at two or three in the evening…No one came. It was quiet. Then the doorbell rang again in the evening—I didn’t open the door. But I looked down. There was nothing, no one.”
- During the interview, she also revealed that a large car with a couple sitting in it was parked in an adjacent parking lot the day before the murder.
We spent Sunday in Essen and handed out big bouquets of flowers to everyone… When we got home, I made a mistake that I still regret today. There was a big car parked in the parking lot next door with a young couple in it. It was Sunday afternoon. There was a law firm in the house and there was no reason to go there on a Sunday. I wanted to go, but my husband said: “Come on, forget it, who cares, we’re going in!” It must have been a murderer! At least I could have written down the license plate number. I really blamed myself.
Categories: Biography
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