Jan-Carl Raspe

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Jan-Carl Raspe (born July 24, 1944 in Seefeld in Tirol , † October 18, 1977 in Stuttgart-Stammheim ) was a German terrorist and one of the leading members of the first generation of the Red Army Faction (RAF). He was involved in five bomb attacks, killing four people, was arrested in 1972, sentenced to life imprisonment and died of suicide in custody in 1977 .

Life

Grave site of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe in the Dornhaldenfriedhof in Stuttgart-Degerloch

Youth and student days

Jan-Carl Raspe was born the son of a manufacturer; his father died in 1944. Jan-Carl Raspe spent his childhood in East Berlin , after 1961 he lived with relatives in West Berlin and passed his Abitur in 1963. He first studied chemistry at the Free University , later sociology.

In 1967 Raspe joined the Socialist German Student Union and became a co-founder of Kommune 2 . He later completed his studies with a diploma and moved in with his girlfriend Marianne Herzog , who was friends with Ulrike Meinhof .

RAF activities

In 1970 their apartment became a refuge for the group, but soon they also took part in actions by the Red Army faction . Raspe had technical skills. Presumably he made the bombs for the May 1972 offensive . That year, Raspe was involved in five bomb attacks in which four people were killed and over 50 were injured. He was also involved in at least one bank robbery in Berlin and a document theft break-in in Stuttgart .

Imprisonment, trial and death

Raspe was arrested on June 1, 1972 together with Andreas Baader and Holger Meins in Frankfurt am Main . After his arrest in 1972, Raspe was initially imprisoned in Cologne-Ossendorf and was finally transferred to the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison in autumn 1974. Here he was sentenced  to life imprisonment on April 28, 1977 after almost two years of trial in the Stammheim trial - the first day of trial was May 21, 1975 - and 192 days of trial. Raspe was found seriously injured in his cell on the morning of October 18, 1977 after the night of his death in Stammheim after he had shot himself in the head with a pistol. He died the same day from his injuries. Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin also killed themselves.

Jan-Carl Raspe was buried together with Baader and Ensslin in the Dornhaldenfriedhof in Stuttgart .

Fonts

  • 1. Berlin breach of the peace book. Oberbaumpresse Berlin, (probably Berlin 1967).
  • For the socialization of proletarian children. Verlag Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main, 1972, ISBN 978-3-87877-037-4 .

See also

Movie

literature

  • Ulf G. Stuberger : The days in Stammheim - As an eyewitness to the RAF trial. Herbig Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7766-2528-8 .
  • Ulf G. Stuberger: The RAF files - deeds and motives. Perpetrator and victim. Herbig-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7766-2554-7 .
  • Ulf G. Stuberger (ed.): In the criminal case against Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Jan-Carl Raspe, Gudrun Ensslin for murder and the like. a. - Documents from the process. European Publishing House Hamburg, 2nd edition 2007 (1st edition Syndikat Buchgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 1977), ISBN 978-3-434-50607-2 .
  • Stefan Aust : The Baader-Meinhof complex. Goldmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-12953-2 .
  • Pieter Bakker Schut : Stammheim. The trial of the Red Army Faction. The necessary correction of the prevailing opinion. (2nd ed. 1997). Pahl-Rugenstein, ISBN 3-89144-247-5 .

Web links

Commons : Jan-Carl Raspe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New photos of the RAF terrorists emerged stern.de, accessed on September 7, 2018
  2. ↑ Jan-Carl Raspe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Raspe, Jan-Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Seefeld in Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1977
Place of death Stuttgart-Stammheim