Peter-Jürgen Boock

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Peter-Jürgen Boock (born September 3, 1951 in Garding ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF). He was involved in the kidnapping and murder of employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer and the murder of banker Jürgen Ponto . Before his arrest in January 1981, he broke away from the RAF. He was imprisoned until 1998. He has been an author since his imprisonment.

Life

After finishing secondary school in 1968, Boock began an apprenticeship as a machine fitter, which he broke off after a few weeks. Also because of constant quarrels with his father - according to Boock a "staunch Nazi " - he left his parents' home and moved in June 1968 to a municipality in the Netherlands . After an arrest for drug possession and a suicide attempt , Boock was admitted to the Glückstadt State Welfare Home. After an uprising, he was transferred to other educational homes, including the Beiserhaus youth home in Rengshausen . There the 17-year-old met Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Astrid Proll in June 1969 . At that time, while their arson proceedings were being revised, they were involved in a project ( home campaign ) by educational students for home children. Boock was particularly impressed by Baader, ran away from the reform home and, with the support of Baader and Ensslin, moved to Frankfurt am Main in their surroundings . In Frankfurt Boock took increasingly hard drugs, from which he said he got rid of in 1972, which is widely denied. In 1973 he married Waltraud Liewald.

Member of the RAF

The rocket launcher built by Boock was left at the scene. It is exhibited in the House of History in Bonn.

During the Stammheim trial , Boock again contacted the RAF. He had been underground by 1975 at the latest. In 1975 he received terrorist-military training in South Yemen , which included hostage-taking and aircraft hijacking. According to controversial reports, Boock was addicted to heroin until 1976 .

On July 30, 1977, Boock acted as a getaway driver in the planned kidnapping murder of Jürgen Ponto . As a RAF technician , Boock helped prepare the attack on the federal prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe on August 25, 1977 by building a rocket launcher . This failed, however, because the mechanical alarm clock that triggered the detonator was not wound. Boock later stated that he had doubts about the action beforehand and that he had deliberately sabotaged the action. However, the court did not believe him.

The Siegfried Hausner Command of the RAF, to which Boock also belonged, kidnapped the employers' president Hanns Martin Schleyer in Cologne on September 5, 1977 in order to force the release of the arrested RAF terrorists. Schleyer's companions were shot. Boock was then one of Schleyer's guards for 14 days. Then he went to Baghdad , where he helped to prepare the hijacking of the Lufthansa Landshut plane. In September 2007, Boock admitted to having agreed to the murder of Schleyer after storming the Landshut, which was then carried out by Rolf Heissler and Stefan Wisniewski . On May 11, 1978 Boock was arrested in Yugoslavia together with Brigitte Mohnhaupt , Sieglinde Hofmann and Rolf Clemens Wagner . The Yugoslav government did not extradite them to the Federal Republic, but instead had them flown to Aden in Yemen in November 1978 .

Arrest and exit

In February 1980, Boock broke away from the RAF. On January 22, 1981, he was arrested in Hamburg . Boock claimed to have been a "little light" with the RAF and protested his innocence. He was sentenced to multiple life imprisonment for membership in a terrorist organization , involvement in the murder of Jürgen Ponto and the kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer on May 7, 1984 and November 1986, respectively . While in custody, Boock began to write down his memories. In 1988 he applied for a pardon . Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker had a conversation with Boock in the prison, but subsequently refused a pardon because of doubts about his repentance.

On the basis of statements made by the RAF terrorists who fled to the GDR and arrested after the end of the SED dictatorship in the GDR in June 1990, the Federal Public Prosecutor again brought charges against Boock in June 1991. In May 1992 Boock confessed to having lied about his involvement in the Schleyer kidnapping. He was one of the kidnappers who had opened fire on Schleyer's companion with automatic rifles.

After 17 years in prison, Boock was released on March 13, 1998 from the social therapeutic institution in Hamburg-Bergedorf , where he was last imprisoned. The release on probation was based on a decision of the 2nd Criminal Senate of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court on March 7, 1995.

Peter-Jürgen Boock lives as a freelance author in Italy. His appearance and statements are often called into question. According to Heribert Prantl Boock, the Federal Criminal Police Office was the " Karl May of the RAF". Kurt Rebmann repeatedly accused him of having a "tactical relationship to the truth". Boock made statements about those involved in the murder of Siegfried Buback and the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer.

Publications

literature

  • Michael Sontheimer: "You shouldn't kill" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 2017, p. 14-27 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ criticism of the "Bereuer from duty" In: Focus , September 13 of 2007.
  2. ↑ Former RAF terrorist Boock hid in the Ihme Center. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Butz Peters : Deadly error. In: Argon Verlag , Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-87024-673-1 , p. 126 ff
  4. ↑ Heike Haarhoff: The suffering of Glückstadt. In: Die Tageszeitung , January 18, 2008.
  5. ↑ Beatings, Forced Labor, and Nazi Uniforms . In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 13, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Boock names Schleyer's alleged murderers. In: Spiegel Online , September 7, 2007.
  7. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen : To our brother's murderers. In: Der Spiegel , edition 22/1992.
  8. ↑ Stern 26/1997 of June 19, 1997, Der Deutsche Herbst
  9. ^ Jochen Leffers: RAF terrorism: The day when Jürgen Ponto died. In: Spiegel Online . July 29, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Heribert Prantl : Wisniewski? Stefan Wisniewski? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 22, 2007.
  11. ↑ ARD: The RAF, Part 2 - The Autumn of Terror (September 9, 2007)
personal data
SURNAME Boock, Peter-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Garding