Stefan Wisniewski

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Stefan Werner Wisniewski (born April 8, 1953 in Klosterreichenbach near Freudenstadt ) is a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1981 he was sentenced to twice life imprisonment for murder , extortionate kidnapping and hostage-taking , robbery extortion , coercion of a constitutional body and membership in a terrorist organization - the RAF - and released on parole in 1999.

Life

Youth, training and employment

Stefan Wisniewski, son of a Polish slave laborer who was abducted to Germany during the Second World War , soon broke off an apprenticeship as an electrician in Baiersbronn that had begun in August 1968 and worked as a machinist at sea. In 1969/1970 she was placed in a home because of educational difficulties. In 1974 he took part in the occupation of the Amnesty International office in Hamburg .

In 1975 he was involved in the Stockholm hostage-taking .

Involved in the murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer

During the " German Autumn " 1977 he was involved in the kidnapping and murder of the employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer . On May 11, 1978 Wisniewski was arrested at Paris-Orly airport and extradited to the Federal Republic. After a long trial, he was sentenced by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court on December 4, 1981 to two life imprisonment for murder , extortionate kidnapping with hostage-taking , robbery extortion , coercion of a constitutional body and membership in a terrorist organization . On March 1, 1999, the sentence was under requirements for parole suspended and Wisniewski from the prison Euskirchen dismissed.

In an ARD report on the 30th anniversary of Schleyer's kidnapping, Peter-Jürgen Boock testified in 2007 that he had been told that Wisniewski and Rolf Heissler had fired the fatal shots at Schleyer. For a long time, the Federal Prosecutor's Office assumed that Rolf Clemens Wagner was involved in the murder of Schleyer alongside Wisniewski . None of the RAF members who were directly involved in the Schleyer's murder at the time have commented on the specific course of events or the journey with the hostage from Brussels across the Belgian-French border. In the award-winning documentary Schleyer (2003) by Lutz Hachmeister , Wisniewski merely said: "In this situation we would have felt it to be unjust if after all that he, who had never paid and accounted for his Nazi era - when he was released."

Alleged involvement in the Buback murder

Der Spiegel reported in its online edition on April 21, 2007 that the former RAF member Verena Becker had already named Wisniewski as the murderer of Siegfried Buback in the early 1980s, which was later confirmed by Boock. On the other hand, Heribert Prantl of the Süddeutsche Zeitung points out in its online edition on April 23, 2007 that there is no forensic evidence and that Boock is alsoconsidered untrustworthy bythe Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Wisniewski never testified to the authorities. On April 25, 2007, Attorney General Monika Harms initiatedan investigation against Wisniewski. On April 8, 2010, Becker was also charged with suspected involvement in the murder of Buback and his two companions. On September 27, 2010, Spiegel Online reportedthat according to the information provided by former RAF members Silke Maier-Witt and Boock - in an interview with Spiegel TV - Wisniewski was Buback's murderer. However, Maier-Witt denied having said this to Welt Online.

Stefan Wisniewski has lived in Cologne since his release from prison in 1999.

publication

  • Stefan Wisniewski: We were so incredibly consistent ... A conversation about the history of the RAF. ID-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89408-074-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanna Krall : Stefan Wisniewski, son of a forced laborer. In. Die Welt , April 27, 2007, accessed February 7, 2017.
  2. ^ Stefan Aust: The Baader-Meinhof-Complex , 1st edition of the new edition, expanded and updated edition. Edition, Hoffmann and Campe, 2017, ISBN 978-3-455-00033-7 , p. 518.
  3. ↑ Tagesschau.de: Ex-terrorist names the alleged shooters. (tagesschau.de archive) (September 7, 2007)
  4. ↑ Quoted from Lutz Hachmeister: Schleyer. A German story. CH Beck, Munich 2004, p. 397.
  5. ^ Spiegel: Wisniewski is said to be a Buback murderer.
  6. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Wisniewski? Stefan Wisniewski?
  7. ^ Ex-RAF terrorist Verena Becker indicted. welt.de, April 8, 2010, accessed December 2, 2011 .
  8. ^ Former RAF fighters call Buback murderers. in Spiegel online on September 27, 2010
  9. ↑ Doubts about secret documents in the Buback murder case. In: Welt Online from September 27, 2010
  10. ↑ "You won't find out from me" ksta.de of April 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wisniewski, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wisniewski, Stefan Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterreichenbach near Freudenstadt