Ronald Augustin
Ronald Augustin (born November 20, 1949 in Amsterdam ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF). He is assigned to the first generation of the RAF . From 1973 to 1980 he served a prison sentence .
Life
Ronald Augustin comes from a Dutch- German family. After secondary school he did an apprenticeship as a graphic designer. In his youth he took part in demonstrations against the Vietnam War . From 1967 he worked in the editorial department of various alternative magazines in Holland and England. He moved from London to West Berlin in 1969 , where he joined the RAF in 1971. On July 24, 1973 he was arrested on the train from Utrecht to Hamburg and sentenced on April 24, 1975 to a total of seven and a half years imprisonment in a trial in Bückeburg for supporting a criminal organization and resisting law enforcement officers in connection with forgery of documents and offenses against the Weapons Act, which were contracted to six years. Furthermore, Augustin received a six-month detention for failure to testify in the trial against Bernhard Braun and Irmgard Möller as well as several fines in other proceedings.
After stays in the prisons of Cologne, Wittlich and Stammheim , Augustin was imprisoned in the Hanover penal institution from May 1974 , where he spent most of the time in solitary confinement until his release on March 7, 1980. Augustine took part in several hunger strikes . During the third hunger strike of the imprisoned RAF members, the water was withdrawn from him by order of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice from October 14 to 18, 1974. The measure was only lifted when the other prisoners went on a thirst strike out of solidarity.
The trial against him took place in a specially built multi-purpose hall in the prison in Bückeburg , as a “dress rehearsal” for the trial against Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, Meins and Raspe. His defense lawyers included the lawyers Pieter Bakker Schut , Klaus Croissant , Kurt Groenewold and Hans-Christian Ströbele .
Augustin has compiled an archive on the RAF at the International Institute for Social History .
literature
- Klaus Croissant u. a. (Ed.): Political Trials Without Defense? , Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-8031-1062-9
- International Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners in Western Europe (ivk) - Section BRD, Stuttgart (Ed.): Texts: der RAF . , Bo Cavefors Verlag , Lund 1977, ISBN 91-504-0685-X
- Pieter H. Bakker Schut (Ed.): The info. Letters from RAF prisoners 1973–1977. Documents. , Neuer Malik Verlag, o. O. [Kiel] 1987, ISBN 3-89029-019-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Kalz: Target people. tredition, 2008, ISBN 9783868501063 , p. 25. Limited preview in Google Book Search
- ↑ Christiane Schlötzer : The RAF legend of the traitor - pursued by the leaden shadow. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 19, 2010, accessed January 1, 2015 .
- ↑ a b B. van der Steen: Interview with Ronald Augustin Oral History, Universiteit van Leiden, January 2004
- ^ LG Osnabrück, judgment of April 24, 1975
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 25, 1975
- ↑ OLG Stuttgart, decision of August 3, 1976
- ^ LG Heidelberg, decision of July 24, 1978
- ↑ Klaus Croissant u. a. (Ed.): Political Trials Without Defense? Wagenbach Verlag, West Berlin 1976, pp. 33-34
- ↑ On the dump . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1974 ( online ).
- ↑ Press release and files on dehydration by Ron Augustin
- ^ Press on the processes - Social History Portal. In: socialhistoryportal.org. Retrieved January 1, 2015 .
- ^ Press on the processes - Social History Portal. In: socialhistoryportal.org. Retrieved January 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Red Army Faction Collection ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Augustin, Ronald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Dutch terrorist of the Red Army faction |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam , Netherlands |