List of victims of the Red Army faction
Between 1971 and 1993, 33 people were murdered or killed by the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction . The target of the terrorist attacks were executives in politics, business and administration as well as American soldiers. Police officers, customs officers and drivers were also murdered in bank robberies, controls, arrest attempts and kidnappings. Fatalities are counted here; seriously or critically injured persons are not recorded.
date | place | Victim | event |
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October 22, 1971 | Hamburg | Norbert Schmid (32), police officer | Shot while attempting to arrest. |
22nd December 1971 | Kaiserslautern | Herbert Schoner (32), police officer | Shot in a bank robbery. |
March 2nd 1972 | Hamburg | Hans Eckhardt (50), police officer, head of SOKO "Baader / Meinhof" in Hamburg | With the arrest of Manfred Grashof and Wolfgang Grundmann seriously injured, died on 22 March 1972 at the hospital. |
May 11, 1972 | Frankfurt am Main | Paul A. Bloomquist (39), US officer | Killed in the bombing of the 5th US Corps headquarters. |
May 24, 1972 | Heidelberg | Clyde R. Bonner (29) Ronald A. Woodward (26) Charles L. Peck (23); US soldiers |
During the bombing of the headquarters of US forces in Europe killed. |
April 24, 1975 | Stockholm |
Andreas von Mirbach (44), military attaché Heinz Hillegaart (64), economic attaché |
Shot while hostage-taking in Stockholm . |
May 7, 1976 | Sprendlingen (Hesse) | Fritz Sippel (22), police officer | Shot during an identity check. |
April 7, 1977 | Karlsruhe |
Siegfried Buback (57), Federal Prosecutor General Wolfgang Göbel (30), driver Georg Wurster (33), head of the driving service of the Federal Prosecutor's Office |
Shot by the Ulrike Meinhof commando . |
July 30, 1977 | Oberursel | Jürgen Ponto (53), Board Spokesman of Dresdner Bank AG | Shot in an attempted kidnapping. |
5th September 1977 | Cologne | Heinz Marcisz (41), driver Reinhold Brändle (41), police officer Helmut Ulmer (24), police officer Roland Pieler (20), police officer |
Shot during the Schleyer kidnapping . |
September 22, 1977 | Utrecht | Arie Kranenburg (46), Dutch police officer | Shot while trying to arrest Knut Folkerts . |
October 18, 1977 | Alsace | Hanns Martin Schleyer (62), employer president | Shot as a hostage . |
September 24, 1978 | Dortmund | Hans-Wilhelm Hansen (26), police officer | While attempting to arrest Angelika Speitel , Michael Knoll and Werner Lotze fatally injured by shots fired. |
November 1, 1978 | at Kerkrade | Dionysius de Jong (19) Johannes Petrus Goemans (24), Dutch customs officer |
Killed by Rolf Heissler and Adelheid Schulz during a passport control . |
19th November 1979 | Zurich | Edith Kletz Händler (56), housewife | Killed in an exchange of fire with the police by a ricochet from an RAF terrorist or police officer. Counted as the 34th fatality in some sources. |
February 1, 1985 | Gauting | Ernst Zimmermann (55), industrialist | Murdered by Patsy O'Hara Squad. |
August 8, 1985 | Wiesbaden | Edward Pimental (20), US soldier | Shot while preparing the bomb attack on Rhein-Main Air Base . |
August 8, 1985 | Frankfurt am Main | Frank Scarton (20), US soldier Becky Jo Bristol (25), civilian employee |
Murdered in the bomb attack on Rhein-Main Air Base. |
July 9, 1986 | Straßlach |
Karl Heinz Beckurts (56), physicist and manager Eckhard Groppler (42), driver |
Murdered by an explosive device. |
October 10, 1986 | Bonn | Gerold von Braunmühl (51), Ministerial Director | Ingrid Schubert shot dead by the commando . |
November 30, 1989 | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe | Alfred Herrhausen (59), CEO of Deutsche Bank | Murdered by an explosive device. |
April 1, 1991 | Dusseldorf | Detlev Rohwedder (58), manager and politician, President of the Treuhandanstalt | Shot by a sniper. |
June 27, 1993 | Bad little ones | Michael Newrzella (25), GSG-9 officer | Shot by Wolfgang Grams during the GSG-9 mission in Bad Kleinen . |
Web links
- List with short descriptions from the Federal Agency for Civic Education
- Anne Siemens : The victims of the RAF
- Splinters in the Soul , Part 2 , Part 3 Focus , October 13, 1997
- Compare : Fatalities from right-wing extremist violence in the Federal Republic of Germany
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Dietl , Kai Hirschmann, Rolf Tophoven : The terrorism lexicon: perpetrators, victims, backgrounds. Frankfurt / Main 2006, pp. 69-83.
- ↑ The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court on November 24, 2008 in the reasoning of Christian Klar's release from prison (Az. 2-2 StE 5/91): "Here the passer-by Edith Kletz Händler got into the exchange of fire between the three perpetrators and Pfister and was - possibly shot fatally hit by the policeman. "