Thomas Weisbecker

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Thomas Weisbecker (born February 24, 1949 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 2, 1972 in Augsburg ) was a German militant leftist and member of the left-wing extremist terrorist group Movement June 2nd . He was shot while trying to arrest him.

Life

Tommy-Weisbecker-Haus in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Weisbecker was the son of professor Ludwig Weisbecker from Kiel . After being expelled from the Kiel School of Academics , he graduated from high school on June 30, 1968 in Karlsruhe. He then moved to West Berlin and came into contact with Commune I and the Tupamaros West Berlin . From the latter, the June 2nd movement emerged in March 1972 .

The Tupamaros West Berlin, also known as Schwarze Ratten u. a. trading company, were responsible for several explosives and arson attacks at the end of 1969 and beginning of 1970, including the apartment of the district court director Hansen, senior public prosecutor Severin, the KaDeWe , the head of the central prison in Berlin-Tegel and the apartment of the president of the penal system Schmiedecke. In February 1970 Thomas Weisbecker and his former schoolmate Georg von Rauch as well as Michael Baumann , Hans-Peter Knoll and Anne-Katrin Bruhns beat up the Quick reporter Horst Rieck as a revenge for one in January under the title All Germany must burn in the Quick published photo report about the bomb attacks in Berlin. It is unclear whether Rieck really was the author of the article.

On July 8, 1971, Thomas Weisbecker, Georg von Rauch and Michael Baumann had to answer for this attack before the Moabit Criminal Court . The hearing was postponed to July 16, 1971 because of further requests for evidence, and the court granted Baumann and Weisbecker's request for exemption from detention. Only smoke had due to the arson attack on the Supreme Court and one opium procedure back to the pre-trial detention . Since Weisbecker and von Rauch were somewhat similar, the two swapped roles in the courtroom. When the judge called Baumann and Weisbecker to leave the courtroom, von Rauch left for Weisbecker. Weisbecker later revealed his identity, was let go and arrested again a day later for aiding and abetting the escape. However, he managed to go into hiding again, although he was now wanted with two arrest warrants.

The police in Augsburg finally found him , where they observed him for four weeks at Georgenstrasse 14 ( Lage ). On March 2, 1972, Weisbecker left the house with Carmen Roll . They drove into downtown Augsburg in a stolen car and then went together to the “Thalia” hotel. When they returned to the car after a few minutes, the police attacked. In front of the Stadtwerkehaus Hoher Weg 1 ( Lage ), Weisbecker was fatally injured by a shot in the heart. According to the later statements of the police officers, they acted in self-defense because Weisbecker tried to pull his weapon.

Weisbecker's mother filed a criminal complaint on suspicion of willful homicide ; the preliminary investigation by the Augsburg public prosecutor was closed on August 28 of the same year.

In the course of the so-called May Offensive of the RAF in 1972 , a command named after Weisbecker carried out bomb attacks on the police headquarters in Augsburg and on the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office in Munich.

On March 2, 1973, a self-administered youth leisure, youth welfare and Trebegängerhaus was named after him, the Tommy-Weisbecker-Haus in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz Korndörfer: Terrorist Alternative in the FRG: The June 2nd Movement . In: Alexander Straßner (Ed.): Social revolutionary terrorism . VS Verlag, 2008, p. 243
  2. ↑ A look into the story, No. 107, June 19, 2015, p. 3.
  3. ^ Fatal shot in front of the Stadtwerke-Haus , Augsburger Allgemeine, September 4, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Weisbecker, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weisbecker, Tommy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the "June 2nd Movement"
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd 1972
Place of death augsburg