Waltrude Schleyer

Waltrude Schleyer (nee Ketterer, born January 21, 1916 in Munich, † March 21, 2008 in Stuttgart) was a German physiotherapist, which 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 council in Munich). On June 11, 1937, she applied for party membership in the NSDAP group Habnith ( Fichtelgebirge) and was included with membership number 4,093,846 in the NSDAP. About their denazification is not known.

Ketterer trained as a physiotherapist. In 1939 she married the lawyer Hanns Martin Schleyer. Of their four sons were born, among them the later General Secretary of the Central Association of the German Trade, Hanns -Eberhard Schleyer.

On October 18, 1977 Hanns Martin Schleyer was after 43 days of detention by members of the Red Army Faction murder ( cf. German autumn). Waltrude Schleyer accused the former social-liberal government before, "sacrificed" to have her husband: "I have to accept that, but I can not understand it. "

Later she reported again and again as the representative of the RAF's victims in public to speak to an exhibition about the RAF, which took place approximately in the discussion from January to May 2005 in Berlin. In 2007, she appealed to the Federal President Horst Köhler, the RAF member Christian Klar not to pardon, because these show no insight nor had they never apologized to her.

The last film interview with Waltrude Schleyer is found in the documentary Schleyer. A German Story (directed by Lutz Hachmeister, 2003). The article describes also the time together with her husband in Prague as the Czech capital was ruled by SS cadres.