Rolf Heissler

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Rolf Gerhard Heissler (born June 3, 1948 in Bayreuth as Rolf Gerhard Leberwurst ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1982 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two Dutch customs officers and released in 2001.

Life

Before and at the RAF

After graduating from high school Andreanum in Hildesheim , Rolf Heissler committed himself to two years of military service in the armed forces, from which he was released early in April 1967 for health reasons. He then began studying at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Munich. He met Brigitte Mohnhaupt , with whom he was married from 1968 to 1970, and became a member of the Tupamaros Munich . He came to the RAF through Mohnhaupt and carried out a bank robbery on April 13, 1971 , for which he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in 1972. Together with members of the June 2nd Movement , Rolf Heissler was released by the kidnapping of the Berlin CDU politician Peter Lorenz and flown to Aden in Yemen on March 2nd, 1975 . In October 1976 he returned undetected to the Federal Republic, although he was wanted on a wanted list, and turned again to the RAF. On November 1, 1978, he and Adelheid Schulz shot two Dutch customs officers at a passport control on the Nieuwstraat in Kerkrade . Hotler and Schulz fired fatal shots at close range at the officers who had already been injured. Michael Rutschky reports that it has been proven that Heißler killed one of the officers with a shot in the neck when he was already severely injured by his company car. Two other customs officers were seriously injured. When he was arrested on June 9, 1979 in Frankfurt am Main , Rolf Heissler was seriously injured by a shot in the head. He was found by means of a raster search .

Conviction and dismissal

On November 10, 1982 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the Dutch customs officials.

On October 25, 2001, Rolf Heissler was released on probation from the Frankenthal prison by order of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court.

In an exhibition in 2007 in Frankfurt, he presented items from his imprisonment. At the time, he said at the exhibition that he had no regrets and stood by what he called the "armed struggle" several times. On September 7, 2007, Peter-Jürgen Boock claimed to journalists that Heissler, together with Stefan Wisniewski, fired the fatal shots at the employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer on October 18, 1977. The Federal Prosecutor's Office stated on October 20, 2013 that they had stopped the investigation against Heißler because of the murder of Schleyer, as the Federal Prosecutor's Office had not been able to prove that Heissler himself murdered the employer president.

Movie

  • Film: the last 6 prisoners from the RAF have to go! 1999, by Margit Czenki

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Squat inside . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1979 ( online ).
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Krumm: A revolver, a notebook, two passports. In: fr-online.de. December 6, 2002, accessed December 15, 2014 .
  3. ^ RAF terrorist Rolf Heissler is released. In: welt.de . July 26, 2013, archived from the original on August 1, 2013 ; accessed on December 15, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Schleyer murder: investigations against RAF terrorists Heißler stopped. In: zeit.de. October 20, 2013, accessed December 15, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kraushaar : “When will the fight against the holy cow Israel finally begin?” Munich 1970: on the anti-Semitic roots of German terrorism . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-49803411-5 , short biography p. 781
  6. ↑ Michael Rutschky: Mitgeschrift - The sensation of the ordinary . Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-937834-82-5 . P. 213.
  7. ↑ Shots and flowers - the murder trial against Rolf Heissler begins in Düsseldorf. Investigators consider him one of the most active of the RAF activists. Spiegel 7th September 1981.
  8. ↑ Hunt for the SLEEPERS , focus No. 40 from October 1, 2001
  9. ↑ Peter Engelbrecht: Former terrorist from Bayreuth. Nordbayerischer Kurier, September 20, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2018 .
  10. ^ RAF terror: Boock names Schleyer's suspected murderers. In: Spiegel Online . September 7, 2007, accessed December 15, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Investigation against Heissler for the Schleyer murder suspended. ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: tagesschau.de . 20th October 2013.
  12. ↑ Czenki, together with Heissler, attacked the bank in Munich as Tupamaros Munich in 1971 . One of the characters named in the title is Heißler. online: ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Oliver Tolmein in jungle world
personal data
SURNAME Hotler, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hotler, Rolf Gerhard (full name); Leberwurst, Rolf Gerhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth