After 43 days , the German government had not given in to the demands of the kidnappers . Hours after the German counterterrorism unit GSG 9 ended the Palestinian hijack of Lufthansa Flight 181 , the imprisoned RAF members Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe were found dead in their prison cells . After Schleyer 's kidnappers received the news of the death of their imprisoned comrades , Schleyer was taken from Brussels on 18 October 1977 , and shot dead en route to Mulhouse , France , where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy
Lufthansa Flight 181
Lufthansa Flight 181
Kidnapping and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer