Elisabeth von Dyck

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Elisabeth von Dyck (born October 11, 1950 in Borstel-Hohenraden , † May 4, 1979 in Nuremberg ) was allegedly a member of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF). She was assigned to the second generation and shot dead in 1979 while attempting to arrest her.

Life

Von Dyck was born the daughter of a mechanic. After completing secondary school, she became a medical assistant. In 1971 she met the RAF member Klaus Jünschke and became engaged to him. With the Mennonites she was involved in church youth work . In 1974 in Heidelberg she joined the Socialist Patient Collective (SPK), which showed solidarity with the imprisoned terrorists of the first generation of the RAF Andreas Baader , Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin and others. Many SPK members later joined the RAF, including Hanna Krabbe , Ralf Baptist Friedrich and Siegfried Hausner . Later von Dyck was a member of the Heidelberg group of the "Committee against Torture of Political Prisoners in the FRG", which also included the later terrorists Sieglinde Hofmann , Lutz Taufer and Baader's attorney at the time, Siegfried Haag .

When several members of the Heidelberg Support Committee were involved in the hostage-taking of Stockholm in April 1975 , von Dyck was also investigated on suspicion of supporting a terrorist organization , the RAF. In 1975, an arrest warrant was issued against her for smuggling arms from Switzerland to Germany. This was suspended after six months of pre-trial detention in the prison in Cologne-Ossendorf . At the end of 1975 she traveled with Haag and others to Aden in South Yemen , where she met the five RAF members who had previously been released by the Lorenz kidnapping in a training camp run by the Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in order to plan further terrorist attacks with them. In the summer of 1977 the arrest warrant was reinstated and the accusation of membership in a terrorist organization was added. Von Dyck escaped the warrant by escaping. On September 22, 1977, during the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer , she stayed with Knut Folkerts in Utrecht, the Netherlands . When both were exposed and were about to be arrested, Folkerts shot and killed a police officer, was subsequently arrested and later sentenced to life imprisonment. Von Dyck was able to escape.

The witness Monika von Seckendorff testified on October 26, 1997 in the main hearing against Monika Haas , who had been convicted as a supporter of the RAF , that after the Schleyer kidnapping in 1977 she lived with Friederike Krabbe and Elisabeth von Dyck in a house in Baghdad . Anna-Laura Braghetti, a former member of the Italian terrorist organization Red Brigades , stated in 1998 that she met von Dyck together with two other RAF members in Paris in the late 1970s. The RAF, which was greatly weakened after 1977, was supported by the Red Brigades with money and weapons.

In an apartment in the Stephanstrasse 40 building in Nuremberg, which had been under surveillance for a long time by the police, von Dyck was shot while attempting to arrest on May 4, 1979 after entering it. According to the police, when she was asked to raise her hands, she picked up the holster in which she carried a large-caliber pistol. According to the autopsy report, she was shot in the back.

Von Dyck was buried in Enkenbach-Alsenborn in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Kaiserslautern .

The French terrorist organization Action Directe , which temporarily cooperated with the RAF, signed a letter of confession in January 1985 with "Command Elisabeth von Dyck." Shortly before, the group had murdered a leading employee of the French Defense Ministry near Paris.

In the RAF's declaration of dissolution of April 20, 1998, her name is given as Elisabeth van Dyck.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhofs children: The second generation of the RAF . Springer-Verlag, August 13, 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-11970-8 , p. 232–.
  2. ↑ Archive of the Present 1980, p. 23554, paras. 2, 3
  3. ↑ a b c Frankish cleared away . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1979 ( online ).
  4. ↑ I ask for forgiveness: SPIEGEL interview with the dropout Baptist Ralf Friedrich about his life with the RAF. In: Der Spiegel from August 20, 1990, accessed on August 7, 2015
  5. ↑ Michael Sontheimer: RAF history: The shooting of singing. In: Spiegel Online of August 14, 2007, accessed on July 14, 2015
  6. ↑ Splinters in the souls. In: Focus from October 13, 1997, accessed on August 7, 2015
  7. ↑ September 22: One million for a tip. In: Focus from September 22, 2007, accessed on August 7, 2015
  8. ↑ Christiane Kohl and Warner Poelchau: The answer was: murder. In: Der Spiegel of March 9, 1998, accessed on July 14, 2015
  9. ↑ Andreas Gohr: The victims ; rafinfo.de of April 23, 2007
  10. ^ A b Heinz Höfl, Hans-Wolfgang Sternsdorff: You can't shoot in the toe . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1979 ( online ).
  11. ^ RAF attack on Ernst Zimmermann: Deadly Post. In: Spiegel Online from January 30, 2015, accessed on July 14, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Dyck, Elisabeth von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, presumably member of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Borstel-Hohenraden
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 1979
Place of death Nuremberg , Germany