Rolf Clemens Wagner

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Rolf Clemens Wagner, 1970 (left)

Rolf Clemens Wagner (born August 30, 1944 in Hohenelbe , Sudetenland ; † February 11, 2014 in Bochum , Westphalia) was a German terrorist of the second generation of the Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1985 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer . In 2003 he was pardoned.

Life

Rolf Clemens Wagner was the son of a dentist. After graduating from high school, he studied economics in Hamburg, Bochum and Frankfurt from 1964 without obtaining a degree. Subsequently, he worked as a commercial clerk at various companies in the Frankfurt area, including Neckermann Reisen . In 1971 he was de-registered.

Wagner was a member of the Siegfried Hausner Command , which kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer on September 5, 1977 and later murdered him with three head shots (see: Schleyer kidnapping ). In his book Der Baader-Meinhof-Complex, Stefan Aust takes the opinion that, after analyzing the statements of the other members of the command Siegfried Hausner and with the help of the exclusion process, Wagner is most likely to be Schleyer's immediate murderer.

On May 11, 1978 Wagner was together with Brigitte Mohnhaupt , Sieglinde Hofmann and Peter-Jürgen Boock in Yugoslavia after a BKA objective investigation arrested. Despite political pressure from the Federal Republic of Germany, the Belgrade District Court ruled on November 17th that the arrested could not be extradited for lack of evidence. The Federal Republic of Germany had previously refused to extradite Croats in exile to Yugoslavia. The four RAF terrorists were able to travel to a country of their choice. They first flew to Aden in Yemen and immediately went underground again.

Together with Susanne Albrecht and Werner Lotze , Wagner carried out an explosive attack on the official car of NATO Supreme Commander General Alexander Haig on June 25, 1979 in Obourg near Mons in Belgium . Haig survived unharmed.

On November 19, 1979, Wagner and three other RAF members raided a branch of the Swiss Volksbank in Zurich . He was arrested on the same day in downtown Zurich after a shooting in Shopville , in which a 56-year-old passer-by was killed and an officer of the Zurich City Police was seriously injured. In Switzerland, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980 for this bank robbery and the murder that was committed. After Wagner's extradition to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Swiss judgment continued to be enforced in Germany.

Wagner was charged with numerous crimes by the federal prosecutor's office; In particular, he was charged with the murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer on October 18, 1977. On March 13, 1985, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In another trial in 1993, which was made possible by extensive statements by Werner Lotze using the leniency program , Wagner was sentenced to twelve years in prison for the assassination attempt on NATO General Haig. Taking into account the two life sentences that were already legally binding, the court again imposed a total life sentence, but determined the particular gravity of the guilt, which ruled out early parole after 15 years.

In 2003, Wagner was pardoned by Federal President Johannes Rau and released from prison on December 9, 2003, after a total of 24 years in prison. Most recently he was in the Schwalmstadt correctional facility .

In October 2007 Wagner defended the murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer in an interview with the daily newspaper Junge Welt : “Some of the results of our considerations remain correct even from today's perspective. Like the decision to kidnap Hanns Martin Schleyer. ”The kidnapping of Landshut, on the other hand, was“ the worst decision from today's point of view ”that he was involved in. Politicians from the Union and FDP were appalled by the “mockery of the victims”.

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  1. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhof's children: the second generation of the RAF. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Munich 1995, Westdt. Verlag, Opladen 1997, ISBN 978-3-531-13088-0 , p. 232 f., Doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-11970-8
  2. ↑ Barbara Möller: Grace for Rolf Clemens Wagner , Hamburger Abendblatt , December 4, 2003
  3. ^ De long arm van het Federal Criminal Police Office . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1978 ( online - June 5, 1978 ).
  4. ↑ Off to Baghdad? In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1978 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Michèle Schell: When the RAF robbed a bank in Zurich and fatal shots were fired in the Shop-Ville. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 19, 2019, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  6. ^ Ex-terrorist Wagner defends Schleyer kidnapping , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010, accessed on May 1, 2019.
  7. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Rau-begnadigt-Ex-Terroristen-article98728.html
  8. ↑ Hit by terror , on NZZ.ch, accessed on May 1, 2019.
  9. ^ RAF terrorist Wagner released. In: Spiegel Online. December 9, 2003, accessed November 27, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Ex-terrorist Wagner justifies the kidnapping of Schleyer. In: Spiegel Online. October 16, 2007, accessed November 27, 2014 .
  11. ^ Politicians outraged by the justification of ex-RAF terrorist Wagner. In: Spiegel Online. October 17, 2007, accessed November 27, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Rolf Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenelbe , Sudetenland
DATE OF DEATH 11th of February 2014
Place of death Bochum