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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.
Sep 13, 2023 · Tue 12 Sep 2023 at 23:15. Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his Belfast home in 1973. There was no ransom demand, no information; he just disappeared. His family endured rumours, lies and...
- Belfasttelegraph.Co.Uk
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...
He was kidnapped from his home by the Provisional IRA on 27 December 1973 during the Troubles.
Dec 27, 2023 · Within days of his kidnap Thomas was dead – understood to have been killed by the IRA when he tried to escape. They secretly buried his body and denied any involvement.
- Gerry Gregg
- Kelda McCann
- Vinny Beirne
- December 26, 2024
Aug 12, 2023 · A major new documentary explores how the brutal IRA abduction and murder of a prominent German industrialist 50 years ago blighted the victim’s family for three generations.
Aug 12, 2023 · Thomas Niedermayer, German manager of the Grundig electronics factory in Dunmurry, was abducted from his Belfast home just after Christmas 1973. What followed stood out as grimly confused...
