González Catán
González Catán is a city in Argentina that belongs to the La Matanza administrative district in the southwestern metropolitan area of Buenos Aires . It has around 165,000 inhabitants with an area of over 50 km².
González Catán is the oldest part of La Matanza, which goes back to the conquests of Juan de Garay and Ruiz de Ocaña against the "telominos" of the cacique Telomián Condie in 1570. It was founded by Enrique Simón Pérez, who named the settlement after the odontologist Mauricio González Catán. It was declared a city on September 19, 1974.
economy
Among other things, a Daimler AG Argentina SA (formerly DaimlerChrysler AG) plant has been located in González Catán since 1951 . In 1954, the then German Minister of Economic Affairs and later Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard came to González Catán specifically to put the company's power station into operation . Until he was kidnapped by the Israeli secret service Mossad , the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann worked as an electrician in the truck manufacturing plant at the time. In 1999 the plant hit the global headlines again after allegations were made against the former production manager Juan Tasselkraut of possible involvement in numerous arrests and in the " disappearance " of 14 opposition unionists in the company in 1976/1977, shortly after the Argentinian one Military coup. Most of them were taken to the Campo de Mayo torture center in Argentina . However , the criminal complaint filed on the initiative of the Coalition Against Impunity and the Republican Lawyers' Association in Germany was discontinued in 2004. In January 2004, the bereaved relatives of the alleged murder victims brought a civil lawsuit in California under the Alien Tort Claims Act , which allows foreigners to bring violations of international law to US courts; In 2013, the US Supreme Constitutional Court discussed the admissibility of the lawsuit.
Today the plant produces chassis for city buses and the NCV3 van (body and assembly) for the South American market, and in the future also for export to Europe (capacity of up to 20,000 units per year).
There is also a large production facility for the French animal feed company Royal Canin at the site .
Web links
- Official website of the La Matanza district of González Catán
- History of Mercedes-Benz in Argentina (span.)
- Gaby Weber: "If you call it money laundering" (about the construction of the Mercedes plant in González Catán), the daily newspaper of July 3, 2004
- Further information on the Tasselkraut case , labournet.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Staas: Murder on Order? In: Die Zeit No. 03 .
Coordinates: 34 ° 46 ′ S , 58 ° 39 ′ W