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Car News: Merc boss has his Merc nicked
by Kyle Fortune, last updated November 23 2004

Jurgen Schrempp, head of DaimlerChrysler has had his £500,000 armour-plated limousine stolen. In what must be a PR nightmare for the company, parent of Mercedes-Benz, the Mercedes S600 Guard, which weighs in at 3.5 tonnes and is considered one of the most secure vehicles in the range, was stolen while Herr Schrempp visited a business meeting in Stuttgart. The car is armour plated and can withstand attack from guns, landmines and can even be driven when the tyres have been shot out.

The theft is thought to have been undertaken by a specialist gang steeling such cars to contract for wealthy businessmen in either Russia or Eastern Europe. The Chairman of fellow-giant Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen, was murdered in November 1989 after terrorists from the Red Army Faction exploded a bomb next to his armoured Mercedes S-class near Frankfurt.
 
swl said:
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Car News: Merc boss has his Merc nicked
by Kyle Fortune, last updated November 23 2004

The Chairman of fellow-giant Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen, was murdered in November 1989 after terrorists from the Red Army Faction exploded a bomb next to his armoured Mercedes S-class near Frankfurt.

Yes, well very bad for them indeed in PR terms but that last bit is heaping the misery on MB a bit and suggesting that what is about the best armoured vehicle you can get is useless.

For "bomb" read 20kg shaped charge concealed in a luggage carrier on the back of a bike chained to a post. As Herr Doktor H. went past in his car (second in a convey of three with four bodyguards) it was detonated and most of the blast was taken on the rear passenger door which Herrhausen was sitting next to. A 20kg stand off shaped charge is a very serious item indeed.

Vehicle was badly damaged but stayed intact. Driver was only slightly injured but Herrhausen was unlucky. The armour plating did what it was supposed to, took the full force of the blast but the plate itself became dislodged. A part of the door mechanism came off and hit him in the thigh, breaking his leg and severing an artery. Just bled to death

In 1998 Georgian President Eduard Shervardnadze survived an attack when more than 10 gunmen opened fire upon his armored Mercedes using automatic rifles and rocket propelled grenades. Hence demand for nicked ones.
 
Satch said:
For "bomb" read 20kg shaped charge concealed in a luggage carrier on the back of a bike chained to a post. As Herr Doktor H. went past in his car (second in a convey of three with four bodyguards) it was detonated and most of the blast was taken on the rear passenger door which Herrhausen was sitting next to. A 20kg stand off shaped charge is a very serious item indeed.

Hi Satch,
Thanks for the VERY informative update. Unlucky for the Doktor, and I suppose he was not even a Doktor in Medicine.

That would be typical of my luck, getting badly hurt and someone turn up that was a Doctor in Business Studies.

Talk about Hamlet moment.

Thanks again,
John
 
The murder of Herrhausen is a classic example of how difficult it is to defend a land target against attack so you need a hardened vehicle.

Somebody can no doubt tell us what the vehicle was:
 
Satch said:
Yes, well very bad for them indeed in PR terms but that last bit is heaping the misery on MB a bit and suggesting that what is about the best armoured vehicle you can get is useless.
What that article didn't mention is that the S600 Guard was stolen by picking it up and loading it onto a transporter. I don't know of any security device that can prevent theft like that! Technically you can steal ANYTHING if you can physically pick it up, load it onto a truck and drive off with it, doesn't matter how secure it may be.
 
Satch said:
The murder of Herrhausen is a classic example of how difficult it is to defend a land target against attack so you need a hardened vehicle.

Somebody can no doubt tell us what the vehicle was:

Through my morphine adled eyes I will be the first to geuss and say perhaps a Rolls Royce or Bentley??

Regards,
John
 
glojo said:
Through my morphine adled eyes I will be the first to geuss and say perhaps a Rolls Royce or Bentley??

Regards,
John

A few clues:

Killed in Frankfurt

He was Chairman of Deutsche Bank AG

Deutsche Bank owned about 18% of Daimler-Benz AG at the time
 
Satch said:
A few clues:

Killed in Frankfurt

He was Chairman of Deutsche Bank AG

Deutsche Bank owned about 18% of Daimler-Benz AG at the time

Stupid me he came from East Germany so it must be a Trabant!!

I was looking at the back light cluster and trying to think of a 1989 car that had that?

Will I get disqualified if I say SEL?

Regards,
John
 
Shude said:
What that article didn't mention is that the S600 Guard was stolen by picking it up and loading it onto a transporter. I don't know of any security device that can prevent theft like that! Technically you can steal ANYTHING if you can physically pick it up, load it onto a truck and drive off with it, doesn't matter how secure it may be.


I heard that this car was fitted with a tracker device as well and they even managed to get around that.
 
...another example

The bit I like is the statement about the car in which the bomb was placed.

Putin ally survives attack by suicide bomber
By Jeremy Page

THE President of Ingushetia, a Russian republic bordering Chechnya, narrowly survived an assassination attempt yesterday when a suicide bomber detonated a Lada packed with explosives next to his armour-plated Mercedes.

The attack came the day after a court in Moscow convicted a Chechen woman of Ingush descent of an attempted suicide-bomb attack on a restaurant in the capital.

Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack yesterday, but local officials suggested that it was the work of Chechen rebels, who have organised a string of suicide-bomb attacks over the past year and promised more.

Yesterday the attacker drove his car into the motorcade of President Zyazikov as it was driving from the city of Nazran to Magas, the Ingush capital.

“The explosion was powerful. Nothing was left of the car with the suicide bomber, except for small fragments,” Mr Zyazikov, a former general in the FSB, the KGB’s successor, and a key ally of President Putin, said. “The terrorist drove from the right-hand side just where I was sitting. It is difficult to imagine what would have happened if the car had not been armour-plated.”


Nobody was killed except the bomber, but the President and three bodyguards suffered injuries, including slight burns, and were taken to hospital, officials said.

Rgds

Les
 
pluggers said:
I heard that this car was fitted with a tracker device as well and they even managed to get around that.

Our local news stated the thiefs actually had 'blocking equipment' that blocked any tracker type signal from being transmitted. They just hoisted the car onto a lorry and drove it away.

Does anyone know if the usual car lifting lorries are capble of lifting this 'tank' (supposedly reported to be at least 3.5tons in weight)

I wonder where the chaffuer was, and will the cost of the vehicle be deducted from his Christmas bonus?) With a high risk target, it seems silly leaving the vehicle parked unattended on the streets of a busy city??

John
King of Hind sight
 

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