Christine Kuby

Christine Kuby (* 1957 ) is a former German terrorist in the Red Army faction . She was arrested in Hamburg on January 21, 1978, and served a life sentence for attempted murder until her early release in 1995 .

Life

The daughter of pastor Alfred H. Kuby in Enkenbach lived in a shared apartment in Kaiserslautern in the 1970s . Kuby belonged to a group "Antifascist Struggle", which the RAF supported. In the summer of 1977 she went underground, as did Gert Schneider , also a member of this group. In addition to Kuby and Schneider, RAF members Elisabeth von Dyck and Detlev and Brigitte Schulz came from Enkenbach.

Kuby was involved in the preparations for the failed rocket launcher attack on the Federal Prosecutor's Office building in Karlsruhe on August 25, 1977. She was one of the twenty actors in the RAF who lived illegally at the beginning of September 1977. She rented a conspiratorial apartment in which she stayed until October 1977 with Silke Maier-Witt , Monika Helbing , Knut Folkerts , Elisabeth von Dyck , Susanne Albrecht and Ingrid Siepmann . During and immediately after the Schleyer kidnapping , she stayed with other RAF members such as Monika Helbing, Brigitte Mohnhaupt , Susanne Albrecht, Peter-Jürgen Boock and Schneider in Baghdad , where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine maintained training camps.

After Mohnhaupt's RAF members returned to Paris , Kuby was arrested on January 21, 1978 when she was trying to get painkillers for drug addict Boock using a fake prescription in a Hamburg pharmacy. She opened fire on the police officers and seriously injured one of them. She herself was hit by two gunshots, which had no serious consequences.

On May 2, 1979 Kuby was the Hamburg Higher Regional Court for attempted murder of two police officers to life imprisonment sentenced, they predominantly JVA Luebeck in solitary confinement was serving. In January 1993, her early release was denied. After being suspended for medical treatment, Kuby was released early on February 22, 1995, and the remainder of the prison sentence was suspended for five years .

In 1992, Kuby was one of the opponents of the RAF's new line of renouncing violence. After her release from prison, she settled in Hamburg.

literature

• The portrait: Christine Kuby . In: Die Tageszeitung , February 11, 1995.
• "For me it was about my own perspective on life". An interview by the Hamburger Frauenzeitung with Christine Kuby - former prisoner from the RAF . In: Relatives Info , October 30, 1997, pp. 2–6. ( PDF ).
• Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 9783531130880 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Order received . In: Der Spiegel 5, January 30, 1978.
2. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 9783531130880 , p. 253.
3. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 9783531130880 , p. 255.
4. ↑ Sabotage from crack frog to hijacking . In: Der Spiegel 34, August 21, 1978.
5. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 9783531130880 , p. 273.
6. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 9783531130880 , p. 293 f .; Klaus Pflieger : The Red Army Fraction -RAF-. May 14, 1970 to April 20, 1998. 2nd Edition. Nomos-Verl.-Ges, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 9783832922078 , p. 182 f.
7. ↑ Alexander Straßner: The third generation of the "Red Army Fraction". Formation, structure, functional logic and disintegration of a terrorist organization. West German Verl., Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 9783322910073 , p. 255.