Margrit Schiller

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Margrit Schiller (* 1948 in Bonn ) is a former member of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF).

Life

Schiller is the oldest child of a Bundeswehr - majors at the Military Counterintelligence Service and a teacher and CDU -Lokalpolitikerin. She studied psychology in Bonn and Heidelberg and through her participation in the Socialist Patient Collective (SPK) founded in 1970, she initially became a supporter and then an active member of the Red Army faction . On October 22, 1971, Schiller was arrested in Hamburg, where the police officer Norbert Schmid was shot, but not with Schiller's weapon. The alleged shooter Gerhard Müller later became the chief witness of the federal prosecutor's office .

According to her own Schiller was in prison several times in solitary confinement . She participated in several hunger strikes . After her release from custody in 1973 she went underground again, on February 4, 1974 she was arrested again and served a prison sentence until 1979. The offenses on the basis of which she was convicted included forgery of identity , illicit possession of weapons and membership and support of the RAF . In order to avoid being arrested again, she fled to Cuba in 1985 , where the government granted her political asylum. There she married a Cuban jazz musician and gave birth to twins. In 1993, at the height of the Cuban economic crisis after the expiry of the Soviet aid ( periodo especial ) , the effects of which she was able to cushion a little with an inheritance, she went to Uruguay with her family . There she got involved in political projects in cooperation with the former armed underground movement Tupamaros . After Uruguay was hit by an economic crisis, she returned to Germany with her children in 2003 and lives in Berlin. In 2011 she published an autobiographical short after her autobiography, which ended in 1979 when she was released from prison, was published.

In her autobiography, Schiller claimed to have lived for a few days in the same shared apartment in Frankfurt as Joschka Fischer in 1973 . This claim was denied by various witnesses during public prosecution investigations into the OPEC process in 2001. According to taz, Schiller actually stayed on the first floor of Bornheimer Landstrasse at the time, but not in Joschka Fischer and Daniel Cohn-Bendit 's flat share , but in the neighboring women's apartment. A former resident assured the taz: “She was not with Fischer, but with us. I came home late, and there she was in my bed. ”She did not remember the woman because she was famous or notorious. At the time, she only noticed unpleasantly that the visitor could never just say "USA" during the conversation, but always reel off the strange, the flow of speech clearly inhibiting "USA / SA / SS". Later Schiller also put her visit into perspective. She has "no more concrete memories of the living conditions found at the time".

In January 1974, after observations by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Schiller is said to have met with the journalist Günter Wallraff near Cologne , which later justified the suspicion of preparing high treason , which prompted the Federal Ministry of the Interior to approve a telephone monitoring of Wallraff , which the Office for the Protection of the Constitution had requested . After Wallraff was only informed about the two-month wiretapping in 1979, he affirmed in an affidavit that he neither knew nor had ever met Schiller. His lawsuit against the authorities responsible for the wiretapping was dismissed in 1982 on appeal by the Münster Higher Administrative Court .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Erich Hackl: Nothing that protects you . In: Die Presse on January 13, 2012, accessed on January 13, 2012
  2. ↑ Peter Nowak : Exil in Kuba in: Trend from October 2011, accessed on July 1, 2012
  3. ↑ Short biography on the website of the publishing house Association A, accessed on January 13, 2012
  4. ↑ http://www.taz.de/pt/2001/01/27/a0076.1/text
  5. ↑ http://www.123recht.net/article.asp?a=981&p=1 ( Memento from November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ A completely normal process in: Die Zeit vom August 3, 1979, accessed on July 1, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Schiller, Margrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the RAF
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn