Andrea Klump

Andrea Martina Klump (born May 13, 1957 in Wiesbaden ) is a former German terrorist . In 2004 she was sentenced to a total of 12 years imprisonment for complicity in attempted murder in 32 cases and for deliberately causing an explosive explosion.

Life

Klump studied ethnology with sociology and political science in Frankfurt am Main from 1976 to 1981 ; she did not complete her studies. In July 1984 she went into hiding.

According to her own statements, she went to Syria in 1987 with Christoph Seidler, Horst Ludwig Meyer , Barbara Meyer and Thomas Simon, where she lived in the capital Damascus before she disappeared to Lebanon for a year . Together with Horst Ludwig Meyer, she was temporarily back in Germany in 1993. Since 1995 she lived in Vienna. It was there in autumn 1999 that Klump and Meyer noticed how they were always in the same place near several banks for several days in conspicuous clothing that did not match the season, as if they were trying to spy on something. They were photographed in the process. A note to the authorities prompted the police to conduct a personal check on September 15, 1999, during which there was an exchange of fire and Klump's companion Horst Ludwig Meyer was shot by the Austrian police . Klump voluntarily got rid of her weapon, was arrested and was finally extradited to Germany on December 23, 1999.

With the exception of 1993, it is still unclear where Klump stayed between 1988 and 1995.

For a long time, Klump was considered a member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and was wanted as such. Investigators speculate that she was a possible link between the RAF and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). A membership in the RAF could not be proven. Therefore, the accusation of membership in a terrorist organization according to § 129a StGB against them according to § 154a StPO was discontinued .

Klump was charged with the 1989 fatal assassination attempt on Alfred Herrhausen . However, the charges against her and her alleged accomplice at the time, Christoph Seidler, could not be upheld after the incriminating key witness withdrew his testimony.

In 2001, Klump was sentenced to nine years in prison for a failed 1988 attack in Rota , Spain , in which a British family was taken hostage.

On September 28, 2004, Andrea Klump, after having made a partial confession, was sentenced by the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court to a total of twelve years imprisonment for aiding and abetting attempted murder. She had admitted that she knew about the bomb attack on Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union in Budapest , in which four bus passengers were slightly injured and two Hungarian police officers were seriously injured on December 23, 1991. The investigators were able to assign a DNA trace to her in an apartment in Budapest, where she and Meyer had been before the attack.

Reports

• Andrea Klump was imprisoned for twelve years. In: Analysis & Criticism . No. 488, October 15, 2004.

Web links

• Critical background text on the attack in Hungary ( Memento from January 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Either way .
• Christoph Schlegel: See you again in Stammheim. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 17, 2000.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Egmont R. Koch : New findings in the Herrhausen murder case , ARD report from December 1, 2014 ( YouTube ).
2. ↑ Tolmein | left-history | Andrea Klump. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 1, 2007 ; Retrieved October 9, 2007 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ RAF Terror: Nine years imprisonment for Andrea Klump. In: Der Spiegel , May 15, 2001 ( DPA report).
4. ↑ State Security Senate condemns Andrea Martina Klump for complicity in the attempted murder of Jewish emigrants. In: OLG Stuttgart , September 28, 2004.