Members of the Red Army Faction
The Baader-Meinhof Gang was one of the most significant terrorist organisations in post-war West Germany.
Betweens the sixties and eighties nearly 100 Germans joined terrorist organisations in the fight against capitalism and they had hundreds of supporters and sympathisers. Terrorist organisations like J2M and The SPK were very closely linked to the Baader-Meinhof Gang and indeed many of their members mixed and at times these terrorist organisations were synonymous with each other (e.g. The 1975 Occupation of the West German embassy)).
The Baader-Meinhof Gang grew larger and larger as its influence got bigger, resulting in second and third 'generations' of the gang. Below is a selected list of the main members of the gang.
First Generation Baader-Meinhof Gang
- Andreas Baader
- Gudrun Ensslin
- Jan-Carle Raspe
- Ulrike Meinhof
- Irmgard Moller
- Astrid Proll
- Holger Meins
- Horst Mahler
- Ingrid Schubert
- Monica Berberich
- Petra Schelm
- Brigitte Asdonk
- Häns-Jürgen Backer
- Horst Söhnlein
- Thorwald Proll
- Ilse Stachowiak
- Irene Goergens
- Ingeborg Barz
- Karl-Heinz Ruhland
- Werner Hoppe
- Beate Sturm
- Eric Grusdat
- Heinrich Jansen
- Katharina Hammerschmidt
- Manfred Grashof
- Marianne Herzog
- Peter Homann
- Ulrich Scholze
- Wolfgang Grundmann
- Thomas Weissbecker