Willy Peter Stoll

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Willy Peter Stoll (born June 12, 1950 in Stuttgart , † September 6, 1978 in Düsseldorf ) was a terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF). He is considered one of the kidnappers of Hanns Martin Schleyer .

Life

Stoll was born in 1950 to a family of craftsmen based in Stuttgart-Vaihingen . According to his sister, he was a "very sensitive" boy. He attended the Vaihinger Hegel-Gymnasium until he was expelled from school in eighth grade for lack of discipline. He then graduated from a private business school, graduated in 1969 as a tax assistant and worked in this profession in neighboring Möhringen . When he ignored his draft for military service, police officers led him to the barracks. However, he later achieved his recognition as a conscientious objector .

Contact with the RAF

At the beginning of the 1970s, Stoll moved with his wife and their daughter into the Birkendörfle residential community below Killesberg , which also included Volker and Angelika Speitel . As part of the Red Aid , Stoll campaigned for relief for the prison conditions of RAF prisoners and served as a supervisor for RAF members imprisoned in the Stuttgart-Stammheim correctional facility . He got to know the lawyer Klaus Croissant and became an employee of his law firm, which gave him the decisive impetus to get closer to the RAF.

First offenses

On October 30, 1974, Stoll took part, like several other later RAF members, in the occupation of the Hamburg office of Amnesty International to protest against the conditions of detention of RAF members. Also in 1974 he committed a failed Molotov cocktail attack on the Stuttgart Medical Association . At the end of 1976 he went underground and left his family.

On July 1, 1977, Stoll was probably involved with Knut Folkerts in an attack on an arms shop in Frankfurt. The attack was probably part of the preparations for the kidnapping of the employer's president Hanns Martin Schleyer .

Schleyer's abduction and death

According to the knowledge that emerged from statements by Peter-Jürgen Boock and other persons involved in the crime, Stoll was directly involved in the kidnapping and murder of Schleyer and the murder of the four accompanying persons. On September 6, 1978, while visiting the then Chinese restaurant "Shanghai", Oststrasse 156 in Düsseldorf ( 51 ° 13 ′ 12.3 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 5 ″  E ), Stoll was recognized by other guests who immediately informed the police . When plainclothes investigators wanted to check Stoll, he drew a gun and was then shot deadly by a police officer with four shots. He died before he got to the university hospital.

There are indications that because of his participation in the murder of Schleyer's companions and the subsequent events in 1977, Stoll had changed mentally and internally distanced himself from the RAF. Therefore, Peter-Jürgen Boock later suggested that Stoll had provoked the situation in Düsseldorf and the police shots with suicidal intent .

burial

Stoll's body was transferred from Düsseldorf to Stuttgart. In the event of his death, Stoll asked for a burial at the Dornhaldenfriedhof near the grave site, where the RAF terrorists Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe were buried in 1977, following the intercession of Mayor Manfred Rommel . In Stoll's case, however, Rommel asked the family to quietly bury him in the old cemetery in Stuttgart-Vaihingen . The family complied with Rommel's wish; however, as a result of an indiscretion by a funeral director, many representatives of the press and bystanders appeared at the funeral on September 9th.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RAF terrorist Willy Peter Stoll "We all loved him very much". In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de
  2. ^ Düsseldorf undercover agent : GDR financed RAF in Düsseldorf. In: rp-online.de
  3. ↑ a b c d "We all loved him very much". In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , September 10, 2013
  4. ^ "Red Army Fraction" (RAF) ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Baden-Württemberg, State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, accessed on September 6, 2011.
  5. ^ Butz Peters : Deadly error. P. 404 f, Berlin 2004.
  6. ↑ Four shots - This is how Stoll died. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 7, 1978
  7. ↑ Peter-Jürgen Boock: The kidnapping and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer. Frankfurt / Main 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Stoll, Willy Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the RAF
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1978
Place of death Dusseldorf