Klaus Jünschke

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Klaus Jünschke (born September 6, 1947 in Mannheim ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF). He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1977 for jointly committed murder and pardoned in 1988. Since then he has been working as a non-fiction author.

Life

Jünschke was studying psychology in Heidelberg when he first joined the Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) in 1970 , a recruiting pool for the RAF. After the SPK was broken up, Jünschke joined the RAF as did other SPK members. According to his own statement, he had arrived at the "fighting troops", did "shopping", obtained license plates and apartments. Of Gudrun Ensslin , he received the code name "Late Harvest".

Jünschke was arrested on July 9, 1972 together with Irmgard Möller in Offenbach. He was charged with being involved with six other RAF members in a robbery on the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank in Kaiserslautern, in which 134,000 DM were looted. The police officer Herbert Schoner was shot dead in this attack. During the "small Baader-Meinhof trial " that followed, Jünschke was summoned as a witness on the 131st day of the trial.

On June 2, 1977 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for jointly committed murder, as was Manfred Grashof, who was also accused . The defendant Wolfgang Grundmann received four years' imprisonment.

While in custody, Jünschke took part in seven hunger strikes. He later distanced himself from the RAF and in 1986 wrote an open letter calling on them to stop the armed struggle. He received support from the Catholic side from the diocese of Limburg from the then Bishop Franz Kamphaus . While in detention, he successfully completed a distance learning degree in social sciences . After the Koblenz Regional Court had refused the usual dismissal after 15 years with reference to the particular gravity of the crime, Antje Vollmer campaigned for Jünschke's pardon, as he had clearly and credibly renounced terrorism. In 1988, Jünschke was pardoned by the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel and released from prison. It was the first pardon of an RAF member in Germany.

Since then, Jünschke has worked as a publicist and for social projects. The focus of his writings is the criticism of the form and function of the penal system . Since 1997 he has been a member of the advisory board of the prison in Cologne-Ossendorf . He was sent there for the Greens with a large majority of the Cologne City Council.

He also takes a stand in the daily media, for example in the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt and in the taz .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Bettina Paul (Ed.): Who determines our life? Contributions to the decriminalization of people without residence status. By Loeper Literaturverlag, Karlsruhe 2005
  • with Jörg Hauenstein and Christiane Ensslin: Pop Shop. Talks with young people in custody. Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89458-254-8 .
  • with Christoph Meertens: Internal security risk factor. Arguments against the law-and-order state. Knaur, Munich 1994
  • with Christiane Ensslin, Günter Erkeling a. a .: Action manual against racism. For a civil and human rights movement in Germany. Edition of the other bookshop, Cologne 1993
  • Late harvest. Texts about RAF and prison. New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Butz Peters: The Disappeared Terrorists , Die Welt, February 4, 2007
  2. ↑ a b Living Museum Online: Chronicle 1977
  3. ↑ Superior and flexible , Der Spiegel, No. 24/1977
  4. ↑ a b Cigdem Akyol: He came out , taz, February 7, 2013
  5. ↑ Poisoned roots. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Merciless Execution , Der Spiegel, No. 33/1987
  7. ↑ Way back , Der Spiegel, No. 29/1988
  8. ↑ See: Klaus Jünschke's website with references to newspaper articles, interviews, book articles and books.
  9. ^ Arm, in: Junge Welt, February 1, 2020, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Jünschke, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction, non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim