Angela Luther

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Angela Luther (* 1940 in Hamburg-Blankenese ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF). It has been considered lost since 1972 .

Life

Luther was born in 1940 as the daughter of the renowned Hamburg lawyer Martin Luther (1906–1985) and his wife Wiebke, b. v. Fischel, born 1917–1997, grew up in a well-off situation in Blankenese and was the first wife of the actor and director Hark Bohm .

In West Berlin, the filmmaker made after presentation Cristina Perincioli 1970 four women, including Luther, Verena Becker and Perincioli itself, the "Women kommune Cosimaplatz". As an anarchist part of the left movement, the women tried to use militant means to draw attention to the goals of the women's movement , which in West Germany was in its early phase. When they parted ways, Verena Becker joined the terrorist organization Movement June 2nd and Luther went into hiding because she was suspected of a bank robbery. Together with Becker, Ingeborg Barz , Inge Viett , Wolfgang Grundmann and others, Luther worked in the “Black Aid”, an anarchist group founded in 1971 to support imprisoned comrades.

In the autumn of 1971 she joined the RAF together with her friend Thomas Weisbecker . It is linked to the bomb attack on the European headquarters of the US Army in Heidelberg in May 1972, in which three soldiers died. Gerhard Müller , then also a member of the RAF, later testified that Luther felt lonely in the group after Weisbecker was shot in March 1972 and wanted to get out. However, Andreas Baader persuaded her to take part in depositing the bombs at the Augsburg police headquarters and the European headquarters of the US Army in Heidelberg. The GDR state security alleged that Luther had contacts with West German security authorities. In a “brief information” on Verena Becker, the MfS stated that there was a suspicion that her closest confidante, the terrorist Angela Luther, had “connections or contacts with the BfV ”.

Luther is assigned to the first generation of the RAF and was not caught. There is only speculation about their whereabouts and possible death. So did Brigitte Mohnhaupt a confidant once reported Angela Luther, had come in 1972 in an accident in which explosives accidentally blew up to death and was then buried under cover of darkness.

The Standard reported in 2007 that investigating authorities assume that Angela Luther is dead or living in Lebanon or under a false identity in Germany . According to media reports from 2007, Angela Luther is no longer on the wanted list of the Federal Criminal Police Office . The world wrote in 2019 that the Federal Criminal Police Office was still looking for her because the Heidelberg public prosecutor and the Federal Criminal Police Office had never been convinced of Luther's death. Similarly, Interpol involved.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ welt .de: The disappeared terrorists from February 15, 2007. Accessed on September 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d derstandard .at: Buback murder is re-illuminated May 7, 2007. Accessed on September 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b ksv-hamburg.de: From the Elbe suburbs: A nucleus of violence  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburger Klönschnack, issue 03/2007. Retrieved September 7, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ksv-hamburg.de  
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Der Spiegel : RAF series (IV): In the underground. Traitors and Disappeared Issue 40/2007, p. 78/79, here: p. 79.
  5. ↑ Cristina Perincioli : Why did the tomato have to fly so far? About 68ers, anarchism, lesbianism up to the women's center In: Gabriele Dennert, Christiane Leidinger , Franziska Rauchut (eds.): Stay in motion. 100 years of lesbian politics, culture and history. ISBN 978-3-89656-148-0 , pp. 62-67, here: pp. 64/65.
  6. ↑ Zeitgeschichte-online mentions July 1971, the time of Weisbecker's hiding. On the history of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and its contexts: A Chronicle ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 7, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de
  7. ↑ Der Spiegel : Zeitgeschichte: Wirrnis und Wahnsinn Volume 4/2007, p. 44/45, here: p. 44.
  8. ^ RAF: State-assisted chats , FOCUS Magazin, No. 37 (2009), September 7, 2009.
  9. ↑ Christian Schweppe: A ghost from the German underground . In: Welt.de , August 13, 2019, accessed on September 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Luther, Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist, former member of the RAF
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Blankenese