Ingrid Siepmann

Ingrid (Ina) Siepmann , (born June 12, 1944 in Marienberg , † probably 1982 in Lebanon ) was a German terrorist of the June 2nd movement .

Life

Ingrid Siepmann grew up in Schwelm as the daughter of a pharmacist and began to study Greek in Tübingen . When she had a son in 1964, she began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist. In 1965 she married Eckhard Siepmann, with whom she moved to West Berlin in 1966 . After the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke , she became politically active.

It was 1969, the girlfriend of Dieter Kunzelmann , co-founder of the Commune I . From then on she left her son to her parents. After Kunzelmann was kicked out of the K1 in June 1969, both belonged to the Central Council of Roaming Hash Rebels . In the same year she is said to have gone to a guerrilla camp of the Palestinian Al Fatah together with Kunzelmann, Georg von Rauch and others for training .

In 1974 she was sentenced to 13 years in prison for robbing banks. In the following year, 1975, the federal government exchanged her with four other prisoners for the Berlin CDU politician Peter Lorenz , who was kidnapped by the June 2nd Movement, and left her with Verena Becker , Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann , Rolf Heissler and Rolf Pohle on May 3rd. March 1975 in the company of Heinrich Albertz to fly out to South Yemen .

Siepmann then lived in a training camp run by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). However, she is said to have been involved in the kidnapping of the Austrian textile industrialist Walter Michael Palmers in November 1977, with which the June 2nd Movement looted several million DM, which she shared with the PFLP and the RAF .

In 1981 she was one of the most wanted terrorists in Germany. She was believed to have died in the 1982 Lebanon War , and the arrest warrant was overturned. She is said to have been a member of a Palestinian women's brigade and died either in an Israeli bombing or during the fighting in the Sabra and Shatila massacres in September 1982. Her name is also mentioned in the list of victims in the RAF's declaration of dissolution in March 1998.

Web links

• Wanted poster from 1980

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Marion Schreiber: We just felt stronger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1981, p. 82-108 ( online ).
2. ^ Gerd Koenen : The red decade: Our little German cultural revolution 1967-1977 . 2012, p. 181
   Klaus Stern, Jörg Herrmann: Andreas Baader: the life of a public enemy . 2007, p. 138.
   Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann: Women, Terrorism and Justice: Trials against female members of the RAF and the Movement June 2nd . 2009, p. 254
3. ↑ Barbara Sichtermann: Everything went great. Die Zeit , February 24, 2000, accessed on July 22, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Kraushaar : “When will the fight against the holy cow Israel finally begin?” Munich 1970: on the anti-Semitic roots of German terrorism . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-49803411-5 , short biography p. 797f.
5. ^ Ulrich Enzensberger : The Years of the Commune I: Berlin 1967–1969 . Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2004
6. ↑ On the 30th anniversary of Georg von Rauch's death . riolyrics.de, accessed July 22, 2016.
7. ↑ Now a plotz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1991, pp. 112-113 ( online ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} Gabriele Rollnik, Daniel Dubbe: Don't be afraid of nobody. About the Seventies, the June 2nd Movement and the RAF . Edition Nautilus 2004.
9. ↑ Peter Zakravsky: When it was all over . Die Presse , September 14, 2007, accessed July 22, 2016.
10. ↑ Lars-Broder Keil , Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Terrorism: Rise and Fall of the Second RAF Generation. Die Welt , February 15, 2007, accessed July 22, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Lars-Broder Keil, Sven Felix Kellerhoff: That's what the RAF women do today. Berliner Morgenpost , February 20, 2007, archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; Retrieved July 22, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Butz Peters: The missing terrorists. Die Welt , February 4, 2007, accessed November 29, 2014 .