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- Thomas Niedermayer, OBE (8 March 1928 – 30 December 1973) was a German industrialist who was kidnapped and killed by the Provisional IRA in December 1973.
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Niedermayer was kidnapped on 27 December 1973, at around 11 pm, from his home in the Glengoland area of Suffolk in West Belfast. Two IRA members lured him outside his house on the pretext that they had accidentally crashed into his car.
Dec 23, 2023 · The granddaughter of a German businessman killed by the IRA 50 years ago has planted a tree in Belfast close to where his body was found. Thomas Niedermayer was manager of the Grundig factory...
Feb 19, 2013 · It was one of the darkest episodes of the Troubles – the German industrialist Thomas Niedermayer abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA – and nearly 40 years on, the full story of...
Dec 22, 2023 · Thomas Niedermayer was murdered by the Provisional IRA in 1973. Credit: UTV. The granddaughter of a German businessman who was killed by the IRA 50 years ago has said that the trauma...
Dec 20, 2023 · The IRA kidnapping and killing of a German businessman from his home in west Belfast 50 years ago is told in a new documentary. The RTÉ programme looks at how Thomas Niedermayer’s death cast a...
Feb 15, 2013 · In 1973, two nights after Christmas, the teenage daughters of Thomas Niedermayer - a 45-year-old German diplomat and boss of the Grundig electronics plant in Belfast - answered a knock on the...
Dec 27, 2023 · On 27 December 1973 Thomas Niedermayer, the manager of the Grundig Factory in West Belfast and Germany's Honorary Consul to Northern Ireland, was kidnapped from his home in Belfast.
