Manfred Grashof

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Manfred Grashof (born October 3, 1946 in Kiel ) is a former German terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF). After his arrest in 1972, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1977 and pardoned in 1988.

Life

Grashof deserted from the Bundeswehr in the summer of 1969, together with eleven others, whereupon they were arrested and taken to the Federal Republic of Germany. A little later he went back to West Berlin and moved into Commune 2 . After the liberation of Baader , he joined the RAF. Together with his girlfriend, RAF member Petra Schelm , and about 20 other group members, he received military training in an Al Fatah camp in Jordan in the summer of 1970 .

On February 10, 1971 there was the first exchange of fire with the police in Frankfurt, during which he and Astrid Proll escaped. Until 1972, Grashof participated in the development of the RAF's logistics and in several bank robberies in Berlin. Grashof was a specialist in forged identity papers, which he produced in such good quality that they were never noticed during identity checks. He was part of the command level and the hard core around Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin , Holger Meins , Jan-Carl Raspe and Ulrike Meinhof . On March 2, 1972, Grashof was arrested by the police in a conspiratorial apartment in Hamburg that housed a forgery workshop. There was an exchange of fire in which Grashof shot the head of SOKO "Baader / Meinhof", Hans Eckhardt, with two dum-dum bullets in the shoulder and stomach. The tips of these bullets had been filed away, and the bullets tore huge wounds. Eckhardt succumbed to his injuries after a twenty day coma with brief moments of consciousness and great pain. Grashof himself was shot and injured. He was arrested together with Wolfgang Grundmann .

After his arrest, Grashof was moved , seriously injured, from the detention hospital to the pre-trial detention center on the instructions of the investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice , Wolfgang Buddenberg . Grashof felt this measure was too early. In an interview with the taz in 2008, he complained about the poor hygienic conditions in his prison cell at the time and mentioned the doctors' alleged protest against the transport. In May 1972, Buddenberg's wife was seriously injured by a car bomb in Buddenberg's VW 1300 L. Against all custom, she had used the vehicle that day. The RAF's "Manfred Grashof Command" claimed responsibility for this.

During his trial in Kaiserslautern , he was represented by up to 15 defense lawyers, which contributed significantly to the fact that the code of criminal procedure was changed. Since then, a defendant has had a maximum of three defense counsel in all German criminal proceedings. On June 2, 1977, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.

While in custody, Grashof complained about his detention conditions and described them as isolation. The Rhineland-Palatinate authorities spoke of "strict solitary confinement". In 1975 and 1977 members of the second generation of the RAF tried unsuccessfully to free Grashof and others through the hostage-taking of Stockholm and the Schleyer kidnapping .

In 1984 Grashof married the Berlin doctor and former commune Dorothea Ridder in prison . In the mid-1980s, Grashof broke away from the RAF and non-publicly showed remorse and distance from the RAF - but never directly or indirectly towards the relatives of the murdered police officer Eckhardt. This was confirmed by the widow in an interview with Spiegel in May 2007 . In the autumn of 1988, the then Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bernhard Vogel (CDU), pardoned Manfred Grashof after 16 years in prison. Vogel had previously visited Grashof in prison. A hearing or briefing of the police widow was not considered necessary by Vogel - contrary to his own claims. In March 1989, Grashof was released after 17 years in prison.

Manfred Grashof has been working at the Grips Theater in Berlin since 1987 . The condemned man came to the theater as an outdoor worker , later he was hired as a technician. In 2005 he played a policeman in the successful play "Going Baden".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff , Lars-Broder Keil: Rumors make history: Serious false reports in the 20th century , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3861533863 , p. 184
  2. ↑ Wolfgang de Boor, Hans-Dieter Schwind: Causes of Terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany , Walter de Gruyter, 1978, ISBN 978-3110077025 , p. 20
  3. ^ A b Hoffmann, B .: Red Army Fraction - Texts and materials on the history of the RAF. ID-Verlag, Berlin 1997
  4. ↑ He totally ripped me off by Ruth Schneeberger on sueddeutsche.de
  5. ↑ a b Gabriele Goettle: Who is Dorothea Ridder? In: TAZ v. April 28, 2008; This: the practice of the galaxy. In: TAZ v. July 28, 2008 (with wedding photo Ridder / Grashof 1984); = This: Who is Dorothea Ridder? Reconstruction of a damaged memory. Berlin 2009, pp. 7-26, pp. 47-66.
  6. ^ A b Anne Siemens : "How can you turn a person into a pig?" , Spiegel online , May 9, 2007
  7. ↑ Michael Grabenströer: Remorse played no role for Bernhard Vogel , In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 27, 2007
  8. ^ Lars von Törne: Big theater about the ex-terrorist Christian Klar , Tagesspiegel , March 23, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Grashof, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel