Raphael Keppel

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Raphael Keppel (born October 14, 1948 , † November 24, 2010 in Nausori ) was a German peace and environmental activist . He was best known for a plane hijacked in 1979.

Life

origin

Keppel grew up as the third of nine children in Halen near Cloppenburg , left elementary school after the sixth grade and was trained as an electric welder. After the failure of his first marriage at the age of 18, he married a second time in 1971 and moved to Rotenburg an der Fulda with his second wife . He began to write, couldn't find a publisher for his manuscripts, became unemployed and sought psychotherapeutic treatment.

The Lufthansa aircraft was hijacked on flight LH 850

On September 12, 1979, Keppel hijacked a Lufthansa airline on its flight from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne / Bonn. He threatened the crew with a toy gun , let the passengers disembark almost six hours after landing in Cologne / Bonn and kept the crew members under his control. Keppel asked for a personal interview with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , conducted negotiations with State Minister Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski for several hours and then gave up.

Imprisonment, activity for the Greens in Hesse

In 1980 Keppel was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court; the judges recognized a reduced culpability . After his early release from prison, Keppel joined the Greens in Hesse. His nomination as a candidate of the Greens for the state elections in 1982 was rejected by the state election officer. Keppel became an assistant to the Green parliamentary group and was one of the so-called Fundis . He rejected the participation of the Greens in Hesse , wrote a "Manifesto of the Fundamentalists" together with the parliamentary group assistant Jan Kuhnert and resigned from the party in October 1985, but remained a member of the parliamentary group. When Keppel could not be found for a few days in February 1986, Kuhnert and others published an appeal entitled "We are looking for Raphael Keppel", and the Wiesbaden public prosecutor's office opened an investigation "on suspicion of kidnapping, extortionate kidnapping and hostage-taking". The suspicion should not be confirmed; Keppel finally reported by letter from Paraguay and returned to Germany on February 26, 1986. He allegedly had no memory of how he got to Paraguay.

Other, activity as a non-fiction author, emigration to Fiji

In 1984 Keppel published a magazine called Liebe together with Dieter Duhm , Rainer Langhans and Wolfgang Neuss . The magazine for Being & Consciousness out. In 1985 he formed a pop duo with the English singer Geraldine Blecker, for which he also wrote the lyrics. From 1987 to 1989 Keppel published several non-fiction books on the history of German football. In 1989 he emigrated to Fiji with his two sons . He died on November 24, 2010 in Nausori.

Works

  • Abduction to Humanity , Volksverlag , Linden 1980
  • The humane future - and how it can be realized in practice , Volksverlag, Linden 1980
  • Memories of a botched life , Volksverlag, Linden 1980
  • The consequences of the kidnapping , Volksverlag, Linden 1981
  • 25 years of the Bundesliga , sports a. Spiel, Huerth 1988
  • The German Football League 1946 - 1963: 2 vols. , Sport- u. Spiel, Huerth 1991
  • Germany's international football matches. A documentary 1908 - 1989 , sport u. Spiel, Huerth 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Dormann: The Greens. Representative party of the New Left (diss.). University of Bonn 1992, p. 266.
  2. ↑ a b Gerhard Mauz: License No. 220 4913 648 993 1 . In: Der Spiegel 18/1980 , April 28, 1980. Retrieved May 28, 2012. 
  3. ↑ stern 39/79, quoted from: Keppel, Entführung zur Menschlichkeit , blurb
  4. ↑ That would be dubious, dear guest . In: Der Spiegel 38/1979 , September 17, 1979. Retrieved May 28, 2012. 
  5. ↑ a b Sandra Kaufmann: The kidnapper who just wanted to talk . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , December 11, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2017. 
  6. ↑ Professional: Raphael Keppel . In: Der Spiegel 21/1982 , May 24, 1982. Retrieved May 28, 2012. 
  7. ↑ Dräger, Klaus / Hülsberg, Werner: Aus für Grün ?: the green orientation crisis between adaptation and system opposition , Frankfurt am Main: ISP-Verlag 1986, p .296
  8. ↑ Strong finish. Wiesbaden public prosecutors are researching a psychological affair with the Hessian Greens . In: Der Spiegel 10/1986 , March 3, 1986. Retrieved May 28, 2012. 
  9. ↑ Joachim Bruhn: Bhagwan's love revolution , in: Ulrike Heider (ed.), Sadomasochisten, Chaste and Romantics. From the myth of new sensuality , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 1986, pp. 174-189
  10. ↑ Oh Cherie . In: Der Spiegel 6/1985 , February 4, 1985. Retrieved May 28, 2012. 
  11. ^ High Court of Fiji: Keppel v Attorney-General of Fiji (1998) FJHC 16; HBM0099j.1998s . February 13, 1998. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  12. ^ German sports club for soccer statistics: member news . September 19, 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  13. ↑ Fiji Times Classifieds: Funerals: Obituary Notice . In: Fiji Times , December 2, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2012. 
personal data
SURNAME Keppel, Raphael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German peace and environmental activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1948
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2010
Place of death Nausori