Treuhandanstalt
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The Treuhandanstalt, colloquially referred to as Treuhand, was a government agency of the German Democratic Republic from June to October 1990 and reunified Germany from 1990 to 1994, responsible for
The Treuhandanstalt headquarters at Alexanderplatz in Berlin.
Steel workers protest in Berlin in front of the Treuhand, December 1990.
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder
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Detlev Karsten Rohwedder was a German manager and politician, as member of the Social Democratic Party. He was named president of the Treuhandanstalt, the agency responsible for the reprivatization/pr
Treuhandanstalt
…privatisation process in the former East Germany, particularly for excessive liquidation and the resulting layoffs. On 1 April 1991, Treuhand chairman Detlev Karsten Rohwedder was assassinated by the Red Army Faction (RAF), a West German far-left terrorist group sponsored and supported by the East German Stasi. The shooter…
Rohwedder in 1990