Lutz Taufer

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Lutz Manfred Taufer (born March 26, 1944 ) is a former terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF). He was sentenced to two life imprisonment in 1977, among other things, for two common murders in unity with hostage taking .

Life

Taufer had been a member of the SPK in Heidelberg since 1970 , had joined the RAF since 1971 and on April 25, 1975 took part in the action of the Holger Meins command , the hostage-taking of Stockholm , in which the two embassy members Andreas von Mirbach and Heinz Hillegaart murdered and the two terrorists Ulrich Wessel and Siegfried Hausner died. The four surviving commando members Karl-Heinz Dellwo , Hanna Krabbe , Bernd Rössner and Lutz Taufer were arrested; they were all sentenced to twice life imprisonment on July 20, 1977 . Taufer was convicted, among other things, of two joint murders in unity with hostage-taking and attempted coercion of a constitutional organ and served his sentence in the penal institutions of Celle and Schwalmstadt ; in the latter he was looked after by the later terrorist Eva Haule as a prisoner supervisor.

Taufer was one of the RAF members who had proclaimed a moratorium on violence in 1992 and thus helped to bring about the end of the RAF: Karl-Heinz Dellwo had declared the intention of the armed man on behalf of seven other RAF prisoners, including Lutz Taufer and Knut Folkerts Fight not to continue after her release. The Federal Prosecutor's Office assessed this declaration on the renunciation of force as positive.

The Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf rejected on 11 February 1993. The suspension of the sentences of Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Hanna crab and Lutz Taufer on probation because the condemned had refused to undergo prior to hearing a psychiatric examination.

Taufer was released from prison on April 26, 1995. Around 1999 Taufer moved to live with his sister in Uruguay, and from there to Brazil in 2002. At the beginning of 2012 he returned to Germany and lives in Berlin.

Taufer is a board member of the World Peace Service .

In June 2017 appeared with Über Grenzen. From the underground to the favela his autobiography at the Berlin publishing association A . ( ISBN 978-3-86241-457-4 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Not thought through to the end" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1998 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Hartmut Kistenfeger: RAF: The conditions are turning up. In: Focus Online . July 18, 2013, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Clear portrait - from citizen son to RAF hardliner. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  4. ^ Butz Peters : The terror of Stockholm :. In: welt.de . April 24, 2005, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Short biography at rafinfo.de
  6. ↑ Radio interview in SWR1 Baden-Württemberg from March 30, 2012
  7. ^ World Peace Service: Board of Directors
personal data
SURNAME Taufer, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taufer, Lutz Manfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1944