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- A sometime member of the IRA army council, Keenan, who had been a trade union representative at Grundig, is believed to have planned the kidnap.
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Dec 20, 2023 · IRA leader Brian Keenan, who had worked at Grundig’s factory in Dunmurry, is thought to have planned the kidnap.
THE IRA abduction and murder of Thomas Niedermayer, the German manager of the Grundig electronics plant on the outskirts of Belfast in 1973, set off a tragic chain of events that would see his entire family wiped out. Niedermayer was seized from his west Belfast bungalow on December 27 1973.
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...
Jun 29, 2019 · Just after Christmas 1973, Thomas Niedermayer, manager of Grundig's Dunmurry factory, was bundled into a car by an IRA gang outside his west Belfast home. He was never seen again. The German...
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Aug 12, 2023 · A sometime member of the IRA army council, Keenan, who had been a trade union representative at Grundig, is believed to have planned the kidnap. “At that time the IRA were fighting a so-called...
Dec 22, 2023 · Mr Niedermayer, the manager of the Grundig factory in Belfast and the West German honorary consul for Northern Ireland, was kidnapped by the provisional IRA on December 27 1973. His body was not found until seven years later in 1980, when he was discovered in a shallow grave in Colin Glen, Belfast.
Dec 23, 2023 · Thomas Niedermayer was manager of the Grundig factory in the city and was the West German honorary consul for Northern Ireland. He was kidnapped from his home by the Provisional IRA on 27...
