Horst Ludwig Meyer

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Horst Ludwig Meyer (born February 18, 1956 in Schwenningen ; † September 15, 1999 in Vienna ) was a suspected terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF).

Life

Meyer learned the profession of heavy current technician. From 1975 to 1979 he worked as an electrician , then as a kiosk seller.

From 1984 he disappeared with his then wife Barbara Meyer . According to Barbara Meyer, he had been temporarily in Lebanon since 1987 . The BKA counted him at the command level of the third generation of the RAF . He was suspected of being involved in the murders of Karl Heinz Beckurts and MTU boss Ernst Zimmermann , which have not yet been fully investigated . The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , had the warrant sought Meyer actually belonged "to the group of illegals" since the mid-1990s, according to various newspaper reports doubt.

In September 1999, one year after the dissolution of the RAF, Meyer and Andrea Klump got into a police check in Vienna. According to police investigations, both had lived there since 1995. A resident had previously reported a suspicious couple to the police who were on a street corner. The duo tried to flee when a policewoman checked, and Meyer snatched the service pistol and car keys from him. He later opened fire on summoned Austrian officers from the WEGA special unit and was killed in the ensuing battle.

According to Klump, Meyer planned the bomb attack carried out in Budapest on December 23, 1991 on a coach occupied by 29 Soviet Jews - mostly families with young children - and two companions. The Jews were in transit from the Soviet Union to Israel . A car parked on the edge of the road with explosives was detonated by remote ignition. Due to a design flaw, the explosion did not have its full effect. The occupants of a police vehicle driving ahead of the bus were seriously injured and four Jewish bus occupants were slightly injured.

In the year Meyer's death, a group called “Action group horst ludwig meyer or raf, 4th generation” carried out an attack with Molotov cocktails on the Austrian embassy in Copenhagen . However, this group probably has nothing in common with the RAF.

Urn grave on the Dornhaldenfriedhof in Stuttgart

Meyer was buried in the Dornhaldenfriedhof in Stuttgart-Degerloch, where the common grave of Andreas Baader , Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin is also located.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Bönisch, Georg Mascolo: "Almost like a duel" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1999 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Vogel: Existential reflections on RAF members. (No longer available online.) In: Jungle World. August 5, 1998, archived from the original on July 2, 2016 ; Retrieved July 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jungle-world.com
  3. ^ Butz Peters: Deadly error. The History of the RAF ; ISBN 3-87024-673-1 ; Pp. 725-733.
  4. ↑ The old man and the RAF. focus.de, September 20, 1999, accessed December 4, 2011 .
  5. ^ Ex-terrorist Klump makes partial confession , Berliner Zeitung, August 13, 2004 ; Press release from the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office on September 10, 2003 ; see also Michael Sontheimer : "Of course you can shoot". A short history of the Red Army faction , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-342-10447-0-9 .
  6. ↑ Klump has to go to court again , Die Tageszeitung March 2, 2004.
  7. ↑ great-grandson of Raf? , Der Spiegel 43/1999, accessed on February 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Horst Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the RAF
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwenningen
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1999
Place of death Vienna