Adelheid Schulz

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Adelheid Schulz (born March 31, 1955 in Lörrach ) is a former terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1985 she was sentenced to three life imprisonment , among other things for the murders of Ponto and Schleyer . In 2002 she was pardoned.

Life

In the early 1970s, Schulz moved into a shared apartment in Karlsruhe with Günter Sonnenberg , Christian Klar and Knut Folkerts , all of whom were later convicted as RAF terrorists .

In July 1977 Schulz rented a high-rise apartment under a false name near Jürgen Ponto's estate . The villa of the board spokesman of Dresdner Bank AG was observed from there.

Schulz was involved in the planning of the Schleyer kidnapping in the fall of 1977. During the attack on Hanns-Martin Schleyer and his companions, she was part of the telephone chain that reported the location of the vehicles to the four shooters.

On November 1, 1978, she and Rolf Heissler were involved in a shootout with four Dutch customs officers on the Nieuwstraat in the Dutch border town of Kerkrade . Two officers were murdered in the exchange of fire.

Together with Brigitte Mohnhaupt , Schulz was arrested on November 11, 1982 in a forest near Heusenstamm in Hesse. On March 13, 1985, she was sentenced to three life imprisonment for the murder of Ponto and Schleyer, among other things . Another conviction followed in 1994, among other things, for double murders and double attempted murders in connection with the shooting at the Dutch border, which could now be linked to Schulz through statements made by the RAF terrorists exposed in the GDR in 1990.

After 16 years in prison, Adelheid Schulz was provisionally released from prison in October 1998 because of her poor health and was finally pardoned by Federal President Johannes Rau on February 26, 2002 . Schulz then lived in Frankfurt am Main.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clearly still in custody. In: Abendblatt.de. February 12, 2007, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Description of the raid at jf-archiv.de
  3. ↑ Adelheid Schulz received a second life sentence in the Berliner Zeitung on September 6, 1994
  4. ^ Former RAF terrorist Schulz pardoned. In: faz.net. February 26, 2002, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Lars-Broder Keil and Sven Felix Kellerhoff : The rise and fall of the second RAF generation. In: welt.de. February 15, 2007, accessed December 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Adelheid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iris (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF)
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach