Walter Kexel

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Walter Kexel (born October 8, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 15, 1985 there ; alternative spelling Walther Kexel ) was a German right-wing extremist and, along with Odfried Hepp, part of the Hepp Kexel group , which carried out terrorist attacks against US workers stationed in Germany. Soldiers committed.

Kexel was a member of the People's Socialist Movement Germany / Labor Party and the military sports group Hoffmann . Together with Hepp, he wrote a programmatic paper for the right with the title Farewell to Hitlerism . In it they called for an anti-imperialist liberation struggle and offered the RAF to join forces in a common struggle. Together with Peter Naumann and Odfried Hepp, he planned an explosives attack on the Spandau war crimes prison in 1982 . The plan failed because of disputes within the group. In 1983 he was arrested in Frankfurt after five bank robberies and several attacks.

The night after he was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court, he hanged himself in his cell.

Individual evidence

  1. Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic , CH Beck, 2001, p. 74
  2. ^ Noemi Gal-Or: Tolerating Terrorism in the West: An International Survey , Routledge, 2004, p. 55