Reinhard Pitsch

Reinhard Pitsch (* 1953 in Vienna ) is a former supporter of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Movement June 2nd . He was involved in the kidnapping of the Austrian entrepreneur Walter Palmers in November 1977.

He was recruited as a student in Vienna in May 1977 by the terrorists Gabriele Rollnik , Inge Viett and Juliane Plambeck . Although he did not join the "June 2nd Movement", he performed auxiliary services in the Palmers kidnapping. In addition to him, two other Austrians, Thomas Gratt and Othmar Keplinger, were involved in the kidnapping. After his arrest on November 28, 1977, he was sentenced to five years in prison and released early after three years and eight months. During and after his detention, he continued to study and then went to France. He lives in Vienna and Florence.

Web links

How did you become a terrorist, Mr. Pitsch? ( Memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Reinhard Pitsch by Robert Misik in the taz from June 2, 2007
Erna Lackner: Terrorism: Austria - the hinterland of the RAF terror. In: FAZ of May 14, 2007

Individual evidence

↑ 1988 Dr. phil. on the basis of the dissertation studies on the tragic and pantragism - ontological-aesthetic investigations based on the methods of Georg Lukács and Nicolai Hartmann . Vienna, Univ., Diss., 1988, Permalink Austrian Library Association .

personal data
SURNAME	Pitsch, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian supporter of the terrorist organization Movement June 2nd
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austria

[1] 1988 Dr. phil. on the basis of the dissertation studies on the tragic and pantragism - ontological-aesthetic investigations based on the methods of Georg Lukács and Nicolai Hartmann . Vienna, Univ., Diss., 1988, Permalink Austrian Library Association .