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German banker and lawyer
Jurgen Ponto
(17 December 1923
Bad Nauheim
,
Hesse
- 30 July 1977
Frankfurt am Main
) was a German
banker
and since 1969 chairman of the
Dresdner Bank
board of directors.
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Previously, he had worked as a
lawyer
. He was murdered by members of the
Red Army Faction
in events leading up to the
German Autumn
. Actor
Erich Ponto
was his uncle.
Death
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On Saturday 30 July 1977, Ponto and his wife Ignes were at their
Oberursel
villa
packing for a
vacation
in
Rio de Janeiro
, but were also expecting a visit from
Susanne Albrecht
, the daughter of a good friend of the Pontos. They didn't know that Susanne belonged to the RAF and had gone underground some weeks before.
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She arrived at around 17:10 with two strangers, later identified as
Brigitte Mohnhaupt
and
Christian Klar
. Albrecht gave Ignes a
bouquet
of
red roses
, and all the guests were invited into the living room, where Ignes left them alone with Ponto.
From the living room, raised voices were heard and then gunshots. It is thought that Albrecht and her accomplices attempted to kidnap Ponto, and after he resisted they shot him. He was shot five times and later died in a hospital in Frankfurt of his wounds. The three killers fled the villa, and escaped with their
getaway driver
Peter-Jurgen Boock
. The killers took responsibility for the murder in the name of
Roter Morgen
(Red Morning).
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