Hanna Krabbe

Hanna Elise Krabbe (born October 24, 1945 in Bentheim ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF) and was involved in the hostage-taking at the German embassy in Stockholm in spring 1975. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for community murder and pardoned in 1996.

Life

Hanna Krabbe grew up with her sister Friederike in the small town of Bentheim . She attended high school in the district town of Nordhorn and graduated from high school there. Her parents were wealthy textile manufacturers and self-confessed functionaries of the Nazi state ( Gau youth leaders , Nazi women ).

Krabbe began studying psychology and initially became a member of the Socialist Patients ' Collective (SPK), which wanted to create a classless society in the fight against the "medical class" and did not rule out the use of violence. When the SPK disbanded after 17 months, Krabbe joined the RAF like several other SPK members. Her younger sister Friederike Krabbe also later had contacts with the RAF.

Hanna Krabbe was involved in the RAF's Holger Meins command , which attacked and occupied the German embassy in Stockholm on April 24, 1975 (see Stockholm hostage-taking ) and demanded the release of 26 terrorists. Military attaché Andreas von Mirbach and economic attaché Heinz Hillegaart were murdered during the hostage-taking . Swedish police stormed the embassy after the hostage-taker's explosive device exploded. Hanna Krabbe was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court on July 20, 1977 for joint murder in two cases . In 1996 she was pardoned and released from prison in Lübeck-Lauerhof prison on May 10, 1996.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/apuz/30200/die-opfer-der-raf?p=all
2. ↑ Butz Peters: The disappeared terrorists ; Die Welt from February 4, 2007, last accessed on July 6, 2012