Ralf Friedrich

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Baptist Ralf Friedrich (born November 30, 1946 in Landsweiler-Reden ) is a former terrorist . From 1977 to 1980 he was a member of the Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1992 he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

Life

Ralf Friedrich grew up in Landsweiler-Reden in the Saarland and graduated from high school in 1967. From 1972 he studied economics at the University of Heidelberg . There he moved into a shared apartment that also included members of the left-wing radical scene who were active in the socialist patient collective . With some of them he formed the Heidelberg group of the “Committee against Torture of Political Prisoners in the FRG”, which supported the imprisoned RAF terrorists through solidarity actions. The group comprised around two dozen members, including several later RAF terrorists such as Sieglinde Hofmann , Lutz Taufer , Siegfried Haag and Elisabeth von Dyck .

On October 30, 1974, he took part in the occupation of Amnesty International's Hamburg office . Susanne Albrecht and Christian Klar took part in the same campaign . Many of the participants in the occupation later joined the RAF, where they became known as the so-called "second generation". From 1975 onwards, Friedrich worked on the mediation of Elisabeth von Dyck in the Stuttgart office of the RAF lawyer Klaus Croissant . In 1977 Friedrich joined the Red Army faction and was assigned to the hard core by the authorities.

At the end of 1979 he and other terrorists decided to leave the RAF. In 1980 he went underground with Sigrid Sternebeck in the GDR and was naturalized there under the false name Eildberg. There they married and had a daughter in 1983. As an employee of a paper mill in Schwedt / Oder , he rose from an unskilled worker in the function of a forklift driver to a purchasing manager.

When the RAF terrorists were exposed after the end of the SED dictatorship in the GDR, he was arrested on June 15, 1990 and released shortly afterwards. The allegation of suspicion of membership in a terrorist organization had meanwhile expired . A detailed interview was published in the Hamburg news magazine Spiegel in August . He was arrested again on November 19, 1990 on suspicion of attempted murder , causing an explosive device to explode, and other crimes . He is also said to have been involved in the bomb attack on US General Alexander Haig on June 25, 1979 in Belgium . In 1992 he was sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment , taking into account the leniency program . After his early release, he lives under a different name in northern Germany.

literature

  • Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children: the second generation of the RAF. Springer Fachmedien Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-531-13088-9 , especially pp. 221-223.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A German nightmare. In: zeit.de . May 3, 1991, accessed December 15, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b Lars-Broder Keil , Sven Felix Kellerhoff : The rise and fall of the second RAF generation. In: welt.de . February 15, 2007, accessed December 15, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Edward F. Mickolus: Terrorism, 1992-1995. Limited preview in Google Book search, p. 16.
  4. ^ Biographies of the RAF members ( Memento from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Sigrid Sternebeck's biography on www.rafinfo.de
  6. ↑ mobil.nwzonline.de
  7. ↑ I ask for forgiveness. Interview with the dropout Baptist Ralf Friedrich about his life with the RAF. In: Der Spiegel. No. 34, Aug 20, 1990, pp. 52-62.
  8. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 1990 on the RAF at www.rafinfo.de
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Ralf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich, Baptist-Ralf; Friedrich, Ralf Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsweiler speeches