Norbert Schmid
Norbert Schmid (born April 12, 1939 in Hamburg ; † October 22, 1971 there ) was a Hamburg police officer who was shot while attempting to arrest terrorists of the Red Army Faction (RAF). Schmid was the RAF's first murder victim .
In the early morning of October 22, 1971, 32-year-old Schmid and his colleague Heinz Lemke tried to check a suspect in front of the Alstertal shopping center in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel as part of a civil manhunt; as it later turned out, it was Margrit Schiller . This eluded the examination and fled. There was a chase on foot, in which RAF members Gerhard Müller and Ulrike Meinhof , who had been in the vicinity and were not recognized by the police, also intervened. Firearms were used and the police officer Schmid was fatally wounded.
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Margrit Schiller was arrested later that day. The fatal shot did not come from her weapon, however, and the officer Lemke had seen a man shoot at Schmid. Through this and other information, the terrorist Müller was identified as a shooter. However, Müller and Meinhof escaped and were not arrested until the following year. Margrit Schiller also later accused Müller of the act.
Gerhard Müller later became the chief witness of the federal prosecutor's office in the Stammheim trial . The murder charges against him were dropped because the dead man's colleague weakened his testimony and was no longer sure. Likewise, testimony protocols in which Müller incriminated himself seriously were not forwarded to the competent court due to Section 96 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which prohibits the extradition of documents if it contradicts the “good of the federal government”. After the judgment of the LG Hamburg on March 16, 1976, the taking of evidence did not provide sufficient evidence for Müller's perpetration, despite serious suspicions.
In the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel , Norbert-Schmid-Platz was named after him. The grave is located in the Volksdorf cemetery in Hamburg.
literature
- Stefan Aust : The Baader Meinhof Complex . expanded and updated edition, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3442129532
- Anne Siemens: "For the RAF he was the system, for me the father", Piper Verlag, paperback edition with a detailed interview with the widow of Norbert Schmid
- Anne Siemens / Henning Rütten: "Who gave you the right to murder?" Documentation, NDR / ARD 2007
- Sabine Rückert : Living with the RAF. In: The time. No. 13/2007
- Butz Peters: Deadly mistake. The history of the RAF. Argon-Verlag , Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87024-673-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The names of the dead by Stephan Trinius, Federal Agency for Civic Education
- ↑ Peters, Butz, p. 254ff
- ^ Aust, Stefan p. 281 ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmid, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German policeman; first RAF murder victim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1971 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |