Waltrude Ketterer Schleyer (21 January 1916 – 21 March 2008) was the widow of Hanns Martin Schleyer, a high-ranking German business executive and former member of the SS, who was murdered by the Red Army Faction in 1977.
She was the daughter of the physician, city councillor of Munich and SA-Obergruppenführer Emil Ketterer.
Waltrude Schleyer was a trained physical therapist and joined the Nazi Party in 1937.
[2] Waltrude Schleyer advocated against clemency for RAF members who had killed her husband.
[1] One of Martin Schleyer's kidnappers, Christian Klar, was refused a pardon by German President Horst Koehler,[1] but was released on 19 December 2008.