Gerhard Müller (RAF member)

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Gerhard Müller (* 1948 in Saxony ) was a German terrorist of the first generation of the Red Army Faction (RAF). He is said to have died before 2007.

Life

Gerhard Müller grew up first in Saxony, then in West Germany. He broke off his apprenticeship as a telecommunications technician and lived for some time from casual work. He came into contact with the student movement and joined the Heidelberg Socialist Patient Collective (SPK) . Via this he found his way to the RAF in 1971 and went underground .

Müller was involved in a large number of terrorist acts by the RAF until he was arrested on June 15, 1972 together with Ulrike Meinhof in Langenhagen near Hanover . Müller was known to the police through a burglary and as a stick boy. On that day, Fritz Rodewald informed the police that he was afraid that RAF people would stay in his apartment. A presumed “Quartiermacher” of the RAF wanted to rent the apartment and was looking for accommodation for Meinhof. Police officers in plain clothes were checking the house for observation possibilities when they noticed two unknown people who asked the caretaker about Fritz Rodewald's apartment. They followed one of them to a nearby phone booth and arrested him there. It turned out that it was the wanted Gerhard Müller, who was also armed.

The most serious allegation was the murder of the police officer Norbert Schmid . The evidence against Müller seemed overwhelming; several witnesses, including the statements of colleague Schmid, spoke against him. But the murder charge was dropped and Müller appeared in the Stammheim trial as the federal prosecutor's key witness in 1975. His statements were the most important pillar in the trials against the first generation of the RAF terrorists. He himself was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1976 and released early in February 1979 after six and a half years. He was presumably given a new identity through acceptance into a witness protection program. According to his former defense attorney Leonore Gottschalk-Solger in March 2007, Müller is said to be dead, presumably as a result of suicide.

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  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kraushaar : The day on which Ulrike Meinhof rang the bell . Die Welt , December 30, 2009, accessed June 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Ulf G. Stuberger : The days of Stammheim - As an eyewitness to the RAF trial. Herbig-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7766-2528-8 , p. 110: “The Federal Prosecutor's Office was able to present evidence of the RAF's perpetration, but had no evidence that could prove that the Stammheim accused personally committed the crimes. This is mandatory according to the rules of German law. Müller's statement brought about the decisive turning point in the criminal work of the proceedings. "
  3. ↑ Helmut Kerscher: Terrorism - speculations about a missing RAF member . Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 7, 2008, accessed June 15, 2017.
  4. ^ Sabine Rückert : RAF: Living with the RAF. Die Zeit , March 22, 2007, accessed June 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the RAF
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Saxony