Werner Hoppe (RAF member)
Werner Arthur Hoppe (born February 7, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a former member of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraktion (RAF). He belongs to the first generation of the RAF and was imprisoned from 1971 to 1979.
Life
Werner Hoppe lived in Berlin in 1970 . As a member of the student organization "Lumpenproletariat" he came into contact with the first generation of the RAF. He belonged to the support scene in West Berlin and was one of the group's "car crackers". In 1970 Hoppe committed at least seven vehicle thefts for the RAF and was involved in at least one bank robbery and one burglary for the purpose of document theft in Berlin.
On July 15, 1971, Hoppe, who had not yet been searched for, was arrested in Hamburg during a large manhunt. At the time of his arrest, he was traveling with RAF member Petra Schelm . Schelm was shot dead while being arrested.
Hoppe was sentenced to ten years in prison in a controversial court case for triple attempted manslaughter in 1972 for shooting police officers when he was arrested. Second generation terrorists of the RAF tried in vain to free Hoppe and other prisoners in 1975 by taking hostages in Stockholm and in the German autumn of 1977. In 1979 Hoppe was released early because he was seriously ill while in custody. He had renounced the RAF around 1978.
literature
- Stefan Aust : The Baader Meinhof Complex . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-455-09516-X .
- Heinrich Hannover : The republic in court 1954-1975. Memories of an uncomfortable lawyer. Construction Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-351-02480-0 .
- Wolfgang Kraushaar (Ed.): The RAF and left-wing terrorism . Edition Hamburg, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-936096-65-1 .
- Butz Peters : RAF - Terrorism in Germany . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-80019-5 .
- Butz Peters: Deadly mistake. The history of the RAF . Argon-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87024-673-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terrorists: A Pod . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1979 ( online ).
- ↑ Hard means massacre . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1976, p. 23 ( online ).
- ↑ Sigrid Sternebeck : Then everyone will soon be dead . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1990, pp. 57 ( online - Sigrid Sternebeck, who dropped out from the RAF, on her way underground and via the GDR terminus).
- ↑ Thomas Darnstädt : A trial against the judiciary. Attorney Heinrich Hannover unpacks his files. In: Spiegel special , No. 10/1998, p. 88 ( PDF ).
- ↑ nadir.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoppe, Werner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoppe, Werner Arthur (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German terrorist of the Red Army faction |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |