Herbert Schoner

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Herbert Schoner (* 1939 ; † December 22, 1971 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German police officer who was shot by terrorists of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in a bank robbery . After the police officer Norbert Schmid, he was the RAF's second murder victim .

Schooner had the rank of chief police officer . In 1968 he was the squadron leader of a police dog squadron in the Kaiserslautern police district.

On December 22, 1971, seven RAF members attacked the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank in Kaiserslautern, Fackelstrasse 29, and stole 134,000 DM. The then 32-year-old schooner noticed a red minibus in front of the bank branch that was prohibited from stopping . When he wanted to check the driver, he shot immediately. The policeman managed to drag himself injured to the front door. There he met the terrorists rushing out and shot him.

The day after the attack, when the culprit had not yet been clarified, the newspaper Bild ran the headline “Baader-Meinhof gang continues to murder”. The German writer Heinrich Böll took this as an opportunity for the critical article Will Ulrike Grace or safe conduct? in the magazine Der Spiegel , in which he described the picture headline about the murder of Schooner as an “invitation to lynch justice”, since the police at that time had only made cautious assumptions about a perpetrator of the RAF. After the investigation was over, only Klaus Jünschke was able to prove that he was involved in the attack. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1977 for collective murder and other crimes.

Schooner left a wife and two children. He was buried on December 24, 1971 in Weilerbach near Kaiserslautern. About 1,000 people attended his funeral, including 400 police officers. Heinz Schwarz , the then interior minister of Rhineland-Palatinate , promised better protection for police officers in his speech at Schooner's grave.

The bank robbery and Schooner's murder are portrayed in the 2002 feature film " Baader ".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Kaiserslautern dog squad ( memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. CRIME: Mao in the passport . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1972 ( online ).
  3. http://www.polizei.rlp.de/internet/nav/9a8/9a8509c6-071a-9001-be59-2680a525fe06%26_ic_uCon%3D31f2005a-0493-1101-44b9-4615af5711f8%26conPage%3D1%263conPageSize% ( Memento from February 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Splitter in the Souls , Focus magazine v. October 13, 1997, p. 68
  5. Andreas Musolff: Terrorism in public parlance: its reinterpretation of war events and the consequences ( memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 76 kB), contribution to the conference "Terrorism and internal security in the Federal Republic of the 1970s", Bielefeld University in October 2004, page 7 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dur.ac.uk
  6. Nobody talks about the victims , Stuttgarter Zeitung v. February 7, 2007, p. 29.
  7. ^ Message from the dpa v. December 24, 1971