Waltrude Schleyer
Waltrude Schleyer (born Ketterer ; born January 21, 1916 in Munich , † March 21, 2008 in Stuttgart ) was a German physiotherapist who became known as the wife of Hanns Martin Schleyer .
Life
Waltrude Ketterer was born as the daughter of the doctor Emil Ketterer (later SA-Obergruppenführer and city councilor in Munich). On June 11, 1937, she applied to the NSDAP local group Habnith (Fichtelgebirge) for party membership and was admitted to the NSDAP with membership number 4,093,846. Nothing is known about their denazification .
Ketterer completed training as a physiotherapist. In 1939 she married the lawyer Hanns Martin Schleyer . The marriage produced four sons were born, including the future Secretary General of the Confederation of German Trade , Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer .
On October 18, 1977, Hanns Martin Schleyer was murdered by members of the Red Army faction after being deprived of his liberty for 43 days (see Deutscher Herbst ). Waltrude Schleyer accused the then social-liberal federal government of having "sacrificed" her husband: "I have to accept that, but I can't understand it."
Later, too, she repeatedly spoke out in public as a representative of the RAF victims, for example in the discussion about an exhibition about the RAF that took place from January to May 2005 in Berlin. In 2007, she appealed to Federal President Horst Köhler not to pardon RAF member Christian Klar because he had not shown insight and had never apologized to her.
The last film interview with Waltrude Schleyer can be found in the documentary Schleyer. A German story (Director: Lutz Hachmeister , 2003). In it, she describes the time together with her husband in Prague, when the Czech capital was ruled by SS cadres.
Waltrude Schleyer is buried in the same grave as her husband Hanns Martin Schleyer in the Ostfilder cemetery in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ralf Husemann: Unbending widow . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 26, 2008, p. 5.
Web links
- Erich later : Schleyer's wife. In: Context: weekly newspaper , September 19, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schleyer, Waltrude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ketterer, Waltrude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physiotherapist, wife of Hanns-Martin Schleyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 2008 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |