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Hanns Martin Schleyer

German manager and president of industry association, former ss officer and nazi party member; kidnapped by terrorist group raf in 1977 to force release of imprisoned terrorists, subsequently murdered.

Born May 1st, 1915 in Offenburg.

Died October 18th, 1977 at 62 years old in Mulhouse.

Occupations
factory owner, functionary, jurist, lobbyist, manager, military officer, politician

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.