List of victims of the Red Army faction

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Between 1971 and 1993, 33 people were murdered or killed by the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction . The target of the terrorist attacks were executives in politics, business and administration as well as American soldiers. Police officers, customs officers and drivers were also murdered in bank robberies, controls, arrest attempts and kidnappings. Fatalities are counted here; seriously or critically injured persons are not recorded.

date place Victim event
October 22, 1971 Hamburg Norbert Schmid (32), police officer Shot while attempting to arrest.
22nd December 1971 Kaiserslautern Herbert Schoner (32), police officer Shot in a bank robbery.
March 2nd 1972 Hamburg Hans Eckhardt (50), police officer, head of SOKO "Baader / Meinhof" in Hamburg With the arrest of Manfred Grashof and Wolfgang Grundmann seriously injured, died on 22 March 1972 at the hospital.
May 11, 1972 Frankfurt am Main Paul A. Bloomquist (39), US officer Killed in the bombing of the 5th US Corps headquarters.
May 24, 1972 Heidelberg Clyde R. Bonner (29)
Ronald A. Woodward (26)
Charles L. Peck (23); US soldiers 		During the bombing of the headquarters of US forces in Europe killed.
April 24, 1975 Stockholm Andreas von Mirbach (44), military attaché
Heinz Hillegaart (64), economic attaché		 Shot while hostage-taking in Stockholm .
May 7, 1976 Sprendlingen (Hesse) Fritz Sippel (22), police officer Shot during an identity check.
April 7, 1977 Karlsruhe Siegfried Buback (57), Federal Prosecutor General
Wolfgang Göbel (30), driver
Georg Wurster (33), head of the driving service of the Federal Prosecutor's Office 		Shot by the Ulrike Meinhof commando .
July 30, 1977 Oberursel Jürgen Ponto (53), Board Spokesman of Dresdner Bank AG Shot in an attempted kidnapping.
5th September 1977 Cologne Heinz Marcisz (41), driver
Reinhold Brändle (41), police officer
Helmut Ulmer (24), police officer
Roland Pieler (20), police officer 		Shot during the Schleyer kidnapping .
September 22, 1977 Utrecht Arie Kranenburg (46), Dutch police officer Shot while trying to arrest Knut Folkerts .
October 18, 1977 Alsace Hanns Martin Schleyer (62), employer president Shot as a hostage .
September 24, 1978 Dortmund Hans-Wilhelm Hansen (26), police officer While attempting to arrest Angelika Speitel , Michael Knoll and Werner Lotze fatally injured by shots fired.
November 1, 1978 at Kerkrade Dionysius de Jong (19)
Johannes Petrus Goemans (24), Dutch customs officer 		Killed by Rolf Heissler and Adelheid Schulz during a passport control .
19th November 1979 Zurich Edith Kletz Händler (56), housewife Killed in an exchange of fire with the police by a ricochet from an RAF terrorist or police officer. Counted as the 34th fatality in some sources.
February 1, 1985 Gauting Ernst Zimmermann (55), industrialist Murdered by Patsy O'Hara Squad.
August 8, 1985 Wiesbaden Edward Pimental (20), US soldier Shot while preparing the bomb attack on Rhein-Main Air Base .
August 8, 1985 Frankfurt am Main Frank Scarton (20), US soldier
Becky Jo Bristol (25), civilian employee 		Murdered in the bomb attack on Rhein-Main Air Base.
July 9, 1986 Straßlach Karl Heinz Beckurts (56), physicist and manager
Eckhard Groppler (42), driver 		Murdered by an explosive device.
October 10, 1986 Bonn Gerold von Braunmühl (51), Ministerial Director Ingrid Schubert shot dead by the commando .
November 30, 1989 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe Alfred Herrhausen (59), CEO of Deutsche Bank Murdered by an explosive device.
April 1, 1991 Dusseldorf Detlev Rohwedder (58), manager and politician, President of the Treuhandanstalt Shot by a sniper.
June 27, 1993 Bad little ones Michael Newrzella (25), GSG-9 officer Shot by Wolfgang Grams during the GSG-9 mission in Bad Kleinen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Dietl , Kai Hirschmann, Rolf Tophoven : The terrorism lexicon: perpetrators, victims, backgrounds. Frankfurt / Main 2006, pp. 69-83.
  2. ↑ The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court on November 24, 2008 in the reasoning of Christian Klar's release from prison (Az. 2-2 StE 5/91): "Here the passer-by Edith Kletz Händler got into the exchange of fire between the three perpetrators and Pfister and was - possibly shot fatally hit by the policeman. "