Siegfried Hausner

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Siegfried Hausner (born January 24, 1952 in Selb ; † May 5, 1975 in Stuttgart-Stammheim ) was a German terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF).

Life

Hausner was a member of the left- wing terrorist socialist patient collective (SPK) in Heidelberg . In the 1st SPK trial he was sentenced to three years' youth imprisonment on December 19, 1972. After his release in 1974, like other members of the SPK, he turned to the RAF .

On April 24, 1975 he took part in the action of the Holger Meins command , the hostage-taking of Stockholm , in which the two diplomats Heinz Hillegaart and Andreas von Mirbach were murdered . The project ended with the unintentional detonation of a bomb, with Hausner being severely burned. He received medical care briefly in Sweden , but then flown to Germany. Hausner was relocated with the approval of three Swedish doctors; another Swedish medic described the transfer as a “death sentence”. On May 5, Siegfried Hausner died of pulmonary edema in the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison hospital .

"Command Siegfried Hausner"

The RAF named their command, which kidnapped the employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer in Cologne on September 5, 1977 and killed his bodyguards and his driver, after Siegfried Hausner.

Individual evidence

  1. Barry M. Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin: Chronologies of Modern Terrorism . P. 44
  2. Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Left-wing extremism in Germany: A critical inventory. Springer, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04506-7 , p. 168
  3. Some get through . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1975, p. 62 ( online ).