Irene Goergens
Irene Goergens (born April 29, 1951 ) is a founding member of the Red Army faction . She was involved in the freeing of Andreas Baader and a bank robbery and was imprisoned from 1970 to 1977.
Life
Irene Goergens is the illegitimate daughter of a US GI and a German; she grew up in a children's home. While filming the film Bambule, she met Ulrike Meinhof there . Goergens later looked after Meinhof's daughters as a nanny. In 1970, Goergens joined the Baader-Meinhof Group , which started terrorist attacks in 1971 under the name of the Red Army Fraction (RAF).
As a 19-year-old, Goergens played a key role in the liberation of Baader on May 14, 1970, by procuring weapons together with Astrid Proll and spying on the German Central Institute for Social Issues with Ingrid Schubert in order to guarantee that the liberation would run smoothly. On September 29, 1970, she was involved in a bank robbery, known as the Dreierschlag, in Berlin. On October 8, 1970, Goergens was arrested together with RAF lawyer Horst Mahler , Brigitte Asdonk , Monika Berberich and Ingrid Schubert at Knesebeckstrasse 89, the front building, in Berlin. In March 1971 she was sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment for participating in the Baader liberation, from which she was released on May 13, 1977. After that she was no longer active for the RAF.
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 .
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| SURNAME | Goergens, Irene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German terrorist and founding member of the Red Army faction |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1951 |