Ingeborg Barz

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Ingeborg Barz (born July 2, 1948 in Berlin , † unknown) was a suspected member of the first generation of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF). She has been missing since 1972. According to a controversial statement by former RAF member Gerhard Müller , she was murdered by Andreas Baader that year .

Life

Barz worked as a secretary in Berlin in 1970. In 1971 she was a co-founder of the Black Aid, an association to support left-wing prisoners. She first supported the June 2nd Movement until she and her friend Wolfgang Grundmann were recruited by Gudrun Ensslin for the first generation of the RAF in autumn 1971 . Barz is said to have been involved in a bank robbery in Berlin at the end of February 1972 . Ingrid Siepmann , a member of the June 2 Movement, suspected Barz of working for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . On February 21, 1972, the then 23-year-old called her mother and said she wanted to leave the RAF.

The former RAF member Gerhard Müller testified in custody in 1975 that Baader had shot Barz in the neck shortly before his arrest in 1972, for fear that she might betray the group. This version is also supported by a letter from Götz Tilgener to Baader intercepted by the police . Searches in a forest near Gernsheim , where the body of Barz is said to have been buried afterwards, however, remained inconclusive. In July 1973, a skeletonized female corpse was found in the Höhenkirchener Forest south of Munich . The deceased was examined more closely in 1975 as a result of Müller's testimony, and with the help of the so-called photo-fitting method, matches with Barz could be established. However, this identification was very controversial within the responsible police authorities. The unknown dead person was also not shot.

The RAF member Inga Hochstein also contradicted the representation that Barz had been murdered by Baader. She said she met Barz in the spring of 1975 in a bar in Hamburg . Barz is said to have suffered from a serious illness at the time and died that same year. Ensslin claimed that she could “if necessary even prove” that Baader had not shot Barz. In 1974 Barz's fingerprints were found on a box of birth control pills in a hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland . It is unclear whether the pack was actually still being used by Barz at the time. The author Butz Peters , citing the BKA , suspects that Ingeborg Barz has fled to Iraq with a new identity .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Traitors and Disappeared . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2007 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Butz Peters : The missing terrorists. Die Welt , February 15, 2007, accessed April 16, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b Who are we looking for? In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1977 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b c measuring points on the nose . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1975 ( online ).
  5. ^ Stefan Aust : The Baader Meinhof Complex . Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-455-11230-7 , p.  406 .
  6. ^ Butz Peters: Deadly error: The history of the RAF . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17265-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Barz, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and member of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin