Bernhard Rössner

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Bernhard Rössner (born October 15, 1946 in Munich ; also Bernd Rössner ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF). He belongs to the second generation, was involved in the Stockholm hostage-taking in 1975 and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1977 for two murders, among other things . In 1994 he was pardoned.

Life

By 1974 Bernhard Rössner completed training in the Frankfurt stage studio Heidi Höpfner for pantomime, improvisation and studies. He broke off this training. In April 1973 Rössner took part in the occupation of the house at Ekhofstrasse 39 in Hamburg together with the later RAF members Karl-Heinz Dellwo , Christine Dümlein , Wolfgang Beer and Christa Eckes . The occupation, which saw itself as a protest against excessive renting and building demolition with the demand for social housing, was also supported by Susanne Albrechtwho later lived with Rössner, Karl-Heinz Dellwo and Christine Dümlein for a short time. On May 23, 1973 the police force ended the occupation and Rössner and other occupiers were briefly imprisoned. A committee was formed to support those arrested. Some of the members of this committee joined the Hamburg Committee against Torture of Political Prisoners in the FRG in 1974, including Bernd Rössner. The third hunger strike by RAF prisoners began on September 13, 1974 and lasted until February 5, 1975. After Holger Meins, who was involved in the hunger strike, died on November 9, 1974, Rössner and Dellwo resigned themselves from the committee and went illegally.

On April 24, 1975, Rössner was involved in the hostage-taking of Stockholm together with Dellwo . Rössner was later suspected of murdering two hostages, economic attaché Heinz Hillegaart and military attaché Lieutenant Colonel Andreas von Mirbach . The hostage-taking ended with the explosion of an explosive charge placed by the hostage-takers, the cause of which remained unclear and which set the building on fire.

Rössner was arrested and a short time later extradited to the Federal Republic of Germany. On July 20, 1977, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court sentenced him to life imprisonment for two murders . In the so-called German Autumn , the RAF tried to press Rössner and other prisoners free through the Schleyer kidnapping . Rössner remained in custody. He participated in several hunger strikes. During his imprisonment, Rössner fell critically ill. He and his lawyers described his conditions of detention until the 1990s as isolation. The tenth hunger strike by 47 RAF prisoners from February 1 to May 12, 1989 was linked, among other things, with the demand that Bernd Rössner be released because health "restoration [...] under prison conditions is excluded." Seriously ill Rössner was granted 18 months' penalty by the then Justice Minister Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger . In the spring of 1994 he was pardoned by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker . In a ZDF interview in 2007, Rössner spoke of a war in which there were victims. He did not distance himself from his actions.

literature

  • Stefan Aust : The Baader Meinhof Complex . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-455-09516-X .
  • Documentation on the prison conditions of the prisoners from the RAF and from the resistance. March 1985. Published by the lawyers Dieter Adler, Elard Biskamp u. a. Self-published, Hanover 1985.
  • Wolfgang Kraushaar (Ed.): The RAF and left-wing terrorism . Edition Hamburg, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-936096-65-1 .
  • Butz Peters : RAF - Terrorism in Germany. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-80019-5 .
  • Butz Peters: Deadly mistake. The history of the RAF . Argon-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87024-673-1 .
  • Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997 ISBN 3-531-13088-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Noch-fuenf-zu-lebenslang-verendungte-RAF-Terroristen-in-Haft-article99246.html
  2. ↑ The RAF is doing the imprisoned terrorists a disservice: waiting for a letter . In: The time . No. 14/1993 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg and Paul Lersch: When the hands speak . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1999 ( online ).
  4. ↑ http://archiv.rhein-zeitung.de/on/98/05/19/topnews/pohlhin.html
  5. ↑ Klaus Fitschen : The politicization of Protestantism: Developments in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1960s and 70s, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011, p. 78 [1]
  6. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997 ISBN 3-531-13088-9 , p. 212
  7. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997 ISBN 3-531-13088-9 , p. 209
  8. ^ Declaration of hunger strike for prisoners from the RAF by Helmut Pohl on February 1, 1989, cited above. n. Butz Peters: RAF - Terrorism in Germany. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-80019-5 , p. 374
  9. ↑ Bernhard Rössner in an interview with ZDF, broadcast in ZDF-History, RAF, episode 3 on May 27, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Rössner, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich