Henning Beer
Henning Beer (born September 30, 1958 in Hamburg ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF). He is assigned to the second generation of the RAF and was in hiding in the GDR from 1982 to 1990 . In 1990 he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for attempted murder, among other things , and was imprisoned until 1995.
Life
Henning Beer and his brother Wolfgang grew up in disrupted circumstances with their single, alcoholic mother. Henning Beer was radicalized from an early age and was active in the RAF environment at the age of 16. Around 1978 both brothers joined the second generation of the RAF.
On November 19, 1979, an RAF command consisting of Rolf Clemens Wagner , Christian Klar , Peter-Jürgen Boock and Henning Beer attacked what was then the Swiss Volksbank in Zurich . They looted 548,000 Swiss francs (approx. 343,111 euros). While escaping through the Shopville shopping center, there was an exchange of fire with the police, in which a passerby was shot in the neck and died. As he continued to escape, Klar shot a woman in the chest and seriously injured her while attempting to steal a car, and two police officers were injured by RAF riflemen. Wagner was arrested while still in Switzerland.
On September 15, 1980, Helmut Pohl , Adelheid Schulz , Inge Viett , Christian Klar and Henning Beer entered the GDR and held talks with representatives of the State Security in the forester's house on the flood in Briesen . At the beginning of October the group returned to the Federal Republic. Beer was involved in the preparations for the attack on US General Frederick James Kroesen in Heidelberg on September 15, 1981. Shortly afterwards, he left the RAF and on April 1, 1982 went to the GDR for good, where he lived under a false name until 1990.
When the RAF dropouts were exposed after the end of the SED dictatorship in the GDR, Beer was arrested on June 18, 1990 in Neubrandenburg . He made extensive statements and made use of the leniency program .
In July 1991, the Koblenz Higher Regional Court found Henning Beer guilty of attempted murder in seven cases, aiding and abetting 21 times attempted murder, involvement in bomb attacks, serious robbery and membership in a terrorist organization . Since the judge believed he was “almost a child” at the time of the offense, he was sentenced to six years' youth imprisonment under youth criminal law and the leniency program. After five years, Beer was paroled .
literature
- Stefan Aust : The Baader Meinhof Complex . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-455-09516-X .
- Wolfgang Kraushaar (Ed.): The RAF and left-wing terrorism . Edition Hamburg, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-936096-65-1 .
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The terrorist group. In: zeit.de . June 22, 1990, accessed March 6, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beer, Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German terrorist of the Red Army faction |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |