Eric Grusdat

Eric Grusdat (born April 1936 ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF). He is assigned to the first generation and was primarily responsible for vehicle procurement. He was imprisoned from 1970 to 1973 for bank robbery .

Life

In 1970, Eric Grusdat ran a used car dealership with a car workshop in Berlin. He was involved in numerous investigations into receiving stolen goods and vehicle theft. He was in contact with the left scene and in 1970 prepared a number of vehicles for the first generation of the RAF. The stolen vehicles or vehicles that were rented from car rental companies and not returned were overmoulded and given new engine and chassis numbers. In autumn 1970 he was recruited by the founding group of the RAF after their return from Jordan for a number of bank robberies. His employee, Karl-Heinz Ruhland, was also a member of the RAF and had received military training in Jordan. Grusdat was involved in the so-called "Dreierschlag", in which three banks in Berlin were attacked simultaneously on September 29, 1970. Grusdat, together with Andreas Baader , Horst Mahler , Karl-Heinz Ruhland and Irene Goergens, robbed the branch of the Berliner Bank on Rheinstrasse. The booty amounted to 154,182.50 marks. Grusdat was arrested in December 1970. According to his former employee Ruhland, who became a key witness after his arrest and gave numerous interviews, Grusdat was sentenced to four years in prison for bank robbery and other acts. In the grounds of the judgment, he was assumed to have a more criminal than political motivation. In 1973 Grusdat was released and had no further contact with the RAF.

literature

• 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 .
• Stefan Aust : The Baader Meinhof Complex. Hoffmann and Campe. New edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-50029-5