Rudolf Schindler (terrorist)

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Rudolf Günter Schindler (born November 22, 1942 in German Hammer , municipality of Schawoine , district of Trebnitz in Silesia) is a former terrorist of the Revolutionary Cells (RZ). He was involved in several terrorist acts. After Hans-Joachim Klein's incriminating testimony about Schindler's alleged involvement in the OPEC hostage-taking , he and Klein stood before the Frankfurt district court in 2000 . The process ended for him in an acquittal. He then stood before a court in Berlin and received a prison sentence of three years and nine months for being a ringleader in a terrorist organization .

Life

Schindler was expelled with his parents as a toddler and came to the Gütersloh district. There he grew up with two sisters. After finishing school, he attended a commercial school and began an apprenticeship as a toolmaker in 1958 . Before moving to Frankfurt am Main in 1967, he worked for various companies in his learned profession. From 1960 he was involved in political organizations such as the Socialist Youth of Germany - Die Falken and from 1962 to 1967 also in the SPD .

In Frankfurt Schindler worked as managing director of the “ Easter March, Campaign for Democracy and Disarmament ” and was also active for the Socialist Federation . From 1969 until he went into hiding in August 1978, he worked for various companies in various positions. Together with his future wife Sabine Eckle, he went abroad. He gave police surveillance as the reason. They lived underground until 1991 when he registered with the residents' registration office in Gütersloh. From 1986 to 1987 he was in Berlin and there with the Revolutionary Cells.

According to his own statements, he was involved in three attacks by the RZ, in which the later key witness Tarek Mousli also took part:

  • During the assassination attempt on the head of the Aliens Police , Harald Hollenberg , he was the second man on site without shooting.
  • He was gunk while Tarek Mousli installed an explosive device at the Central Social Welfare Office for Asylum Seekers (ZSA) in Berlin.
  • In the assassination attempt on the presiding judge of the Senate for Asylum Issues at the Federal Administrative Court Günter Korbmacher on September 1, 1987 - he was shot in the legs - he was the shooter. He sat on the pillion while Tarek Mousli rode the motorcycle.

On the basis of an arrest warrant for complicity in murder, Schindler was arrested in October 1999 in Heusenstamm , where he was working as a toolmaker.

He married his long-time partner Sabine Eckle in April 2000 while both were in custody.

Processes

Rudolf Schindler was one of the defendants in the so-called OPEC trial. In the process, which lasted 25 days until the judgment was announced on February 15, 2001, in which the then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and the member of the European Parliament Daniel Cohn-Bendit testified as witnesses, the defendant Hans-Joachim Klein accused Rudolf Schindler of being involved in the crime OPEC hostage-taking. Schindler is said to have provided "logistical assistance" for the action in December 1975. Parts of Klein's statements were refuted during the trial, so that the court questioned the credibility of the allegations. Among other things, Klein assigned two aliases to Schindler, which another former member of the data center confessed. For Schindler, the process ended with an acquittal because his involvement in the crime could not be proven. The prosecutor had asked for a prison sentence of 14 years and 5 months.

After the trial in Frankfurt, the federal prosecutor wanted to indict him in Berlin as the ringleader of the RZ and for the bomb attack on the ZSA. The attacks on Harald Hollenberg and Günter Korbmacher were statute-barred at the time of the indictment, as they were assessed as bodily harm . The higher court rejected the indictment at first, then from May 2001 brought a trial against Schindler and four other members of the RZ, including Rudolf Schindler's wife. The trial ended on March 18, 2004 when Schindler and his wife were sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for being ringleaders in a terrorist group. The co-defendants were also convicted. The conviction was largely based on the testimony of key witness Tarek Mousli, who was given a suspended sentence in a separate trial.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d RA Euler, RA Dr. König: Rudolph Schindler's admission in the data center process. trend online newspaper, January 16, 2002, accessed on March 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Alex Desselberger, Detlef Sieverdingbeck: Revolutionary chatterboxes. Focus Online , December 27, 1999, accessed March 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Dietl , Thomas Scheuer, Detlev Sieverdingbeck: Hard-working and ambitious: after a quarter of a century, the brave facade of a suspected ex-terrorist is crumbling . In: Focus , October 25, 1999, p. 48
  4. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen : Back to humanity . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 2001 ( online ).
  5. ↑ A process and its consequences. In: analysis & criticism . February 22, 2001. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Bayer: Antique with explosives . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 2001 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Sabine Deckwerth: Prison sentences for "revolutionary cells" . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 19, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schindler, Rudolf Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the revolutionary cells
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH German hammer , municipality of Schawoine