Alfred Herrhausen (30 January 1930, Essen 30 November 1989) was a German banker and

Chairman of Deutsche Bank. From 1971 onwards he was a member of the bank's board of directors.
He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.[1]

Assassination
Herrhausen fell victim to a sophisticated roadside bomb shortly after leaving his home in Bad
Homburg on 30 November 1989. He was being chauffeured to work in his armoured MercedesBenz, with bodyguards in both a lead vehicle and another following behind. The bomb had been
hidden in a saddle bag on a bicycle next to the road that the assassins knew Herrhausen would be
traveling in his three-car convoy. In the bag was a 7 kg bomb that was detonated when Herrhausen's
car interrupted a beam of infrared light as it passed the bicycle. The bomb targeted the most
vulnerable area of Herrhausen's car the door where he was sitting and required split-second
timing to overcome the car's special armour plating. The bomb utilized a Misznay-Schardin
mechanism. A copper plate, placed between the explosive and the target, was deformed and
projected by the force of the explosion. It is unlikely that this improvised explosive device had the
precise engineering required to form the liner into a more effective slug or "carrot" shape (as in a
shaped charge or an EFP)[citation needed] but in any case, the detonation resulted in a mass of
copper being projected toward the car at a speed of nearly two kilometers per second, effectively
penetrating the armoured Mercedes. Herrhausen's legs were severed and he bled to death.
No one has ever been charged with the murder. For a long time, the German federal prosecutor
office listed Andrea Klump and Christoph Seidler of the Red Army Faction as the only suspects.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany) presented a chief witness Siegfried Nonne who later
retracted his statements in which he claimed to have sheltered four terrorists in his home. His half-

brother Hugo Fller (died 23 January 1992) furthermore declared that no other persons had been at
the flat at the time. On 1 July 1992 German television broadcast Nonne's explanations of how he
was coached and threatened by the Verfassungsschutz, the German internal intelligence agency, to
become the main witness. In 2004 the federal prosecutor dropped the charges against the Red Army
Faction; the investigation was to continue without naming a suspect. Certain German and US media
connected the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen to the Staatssicherheitsdienst (Stasi) of the GDR.
The award-winning German documentary movie of 2001 Black Box BRD retells the lives and
deaths of Alfred Herrhausen and Wolfgang Grams, a Marxist terrorist who was a major suspect in
the attack on Herrhausen.[2]