Werner Lotze
Werner Bernhard Lotze (born February 22, 1952 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a former member of the second generation of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF). In 1980 Lotze went to the GDR as a RAF dropout and was arrested there in 1990. During his trial, he made use of the leniency program and was sentenced in 1992 to 11 years imprisonment for, among other things, murder .
Life
After leaving school, the son of a shoemaker and a nurse began studying English and sports science at the Ruhr University in Bochum . For many years he was a successful rower in the Mülheim racing and rowing community. He later worked as a teaching assistant for German at a high school in Manchester (England) before continuing his studies in Bochum, but finally dropped out in the spring of 1976.
Lotze had been working in the RAF environment since 1976, and in August 1978 he rose to its management level.
Lotze worked as a courier for the RAF during the Schleyer kidnapping . He was identified by the trawl search, but could not be arrested.
In a forest near Dortmund there was an exchange of fire on September 24, 1978 between two police officers and Lotze as well as Angelika Speitel and Michael Knoll . Knoll and the police chief Hans-Wilhelm Hansen were killed; Speitel was arrested, Lotze was able to escape.
Together with Christian Klar , Adelheid Schulz and Elisabeth von Dyck , he attacked a bank in Darmstadt on March 19, 1979 .
On June 25, 1979, together with Susanne Albrecht and Rolf Clemens Wagner , he carried out an explosive attack on the car of the then NATO commander-in-chief, General Alexander Haig , in Obourg, Belgium , which he survived unharmed.
In 1980 Lotze went to the GDR together with five other RAF members as an RAF dropout and was given a new identity there by the GDR State Security .
After the end of the SED dictatorship in the GDR , Lotze was arrested on June 14, 1990 together with Christine Dümlein in Senftenberg ( Cottbus district ). In the following month the GDR transferred him to the authorities of the Federal Republic at its own request.
Subsequently, he was the first of the RAF members arrested after the fall of the Berlin Wall, citing the leniency program of June 9, 1989, to make a comprehensive confession. On the basis of Lotse's testimony, charges were brought against the already imprisoned Rolf Clemens Wagner , which in 1993 led to a conviction by the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court to a further twelve years imprisonment.
Lotze was sentenced on January 31, 1991 to twelve years imprisonment for murder , attempted murder on several counts, two bank robberies and one bomb attack. In the 1992 revision , the sentence was reduced to eleven years.
literature
- Tobias Wunschik : Werner Lotze: Biographisches Portrait, in: Uwe Backes , Eckhard Jesse Ed .: Yearbook Extremism & Democracy 1993, 5th year Bouvier, Bonn 1993 ISSN 0938-0256 pp. 177-189
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Der Spiegel: "The position of the RAF has improved" , September 8, 1986
- ^ Chronology of the RAF history
- ↑ Extract from the Constitutional Protection Report 1990
- ↑ Ex-RAF terrorist Wagner is to be pardoned ( Memento from February 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (WDR)
- ↑ RAF dropouts do not shed any light on April 8, 2011, Stuttgarter Zeitung
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lotze, Werner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lotze, Werner Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German terrorist of the Red Army faction |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mülheim an der Ruhr |