Michael Knoll (RAF member)

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Michael Knoll (* 1957 ; † October 8, 1978 in Dortmund ) was a member of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF) and is part of its second generation. He died as a result of an exchange of fire with the police.

Life

On September 24, 1978 Angelika Speitel , Werner Lotze and Knoll were surprised by two police officers during target practice in a forest near Dortmund-Löttringhausen. During an exchange of fire, the police officer Hans-Wilhelm Hansen was shot. His colleague was injured. Speitel and Knoll were also shot and arrested. Knoll died two weeks later from his serious injuries. Lotze managed to escape.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/themen/4CWFJW,0,Die_Namen_der_Toten.html
  2. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children. The second generation of the RAF. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997 ISBN 3-531-13088-9 , p. 227;
    Margot Overath: Dragon teeth. Conversations, documents and research from the reality of the high-security justice system. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87975-577-9 , p. 179;
    Michael Müller, Andreas Kanonenberg: The RAF-Stasi-Connection. Rowohlt, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87134-038-3 , p. 63ff. [In part of the 1st edition, some passages have been blacked out due to an injunction by the Berlin Regional Court .]
personal data
SURNAME Knoll, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist, member of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1978
Place of death Dortmund