Wolfgang Beer (RAF member)

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Wolfgang Beer (born December 5, 1953 in Hamburg , † July 25, 1980 near Bietigheim-Bissingen ) was a member of the terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF). He was killed in a traffic accident in 1980.

Life

Wolfgang Beer has a younger brother Henning , who was also active in the RAF. Wolfgang dropped out of school - most recently he attended a business school - in the spring of 1973 and took part in a squatting in Hamburg . He was arrested while evacuating the occupied house. An arrest warrant was issued against him for membership in a criminal organization , trespassing and trespassing ; after this was exposed, Beer went into hiding. He was arrested on February 4, 1974 together with Margrit Schiller in Frankfurt am Main . On the same day Helmut Pohl , Ilse Stachowiak, Christa Eckes and the lawyer Eberhard Becker were arrested in Hamburg . Firearms, explosives and papers were seized in both Hamburg and Frankfurt. Beer was sentenced to a youth sentence of four years and six months for involvement in a criminal organization involving the joint unauthorized acquisition of war weapons, joint unauthorized possession of weapons, joint preparation of an explosives crime and continued forgery of documents, and after serving her on August 4, 1978, he was sentenced to a juvenile sentence dismiss.

On November 6, 1978 he occupied the DPA office in Frankfurt together with Peter Alexa, Mathias Böge, Simone Borgstede, Ingrid Jakobsmeier, Rosmarie Prieß, Helga Roos and four other people . The group wanted to force the DPA to distribute a statement about the situation of the RAF prisoners Karl-Heinz Dellwo and Werner Hoppe . All the occupiers were arrested and sentenced to one year in prison.

Wolfgang Beer died on July 25, 1980 together with Juliane Plambeck in a traffic accident. The accident occurred near the village of Unterriexingen . At around 7:15 a.m., the stolen wine-red VW Golf got onto the left side of the lane for an unexplained cause, where it collided with an oncoming gravel transporter. In addition to forged identity documents and license plates , several weapons were found in the vehicle involved in the accident , one of which is said to have been used in the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer in 1977. The trip is said to have been part of the preparations for the later attack on the Commander-in-Chief of the US Land Forces in Europe (7th US Army) General Frederick J. Kroesen in Heidelberg . Plambeck and Beer were buried in the Dornhaldenfriedhof in Stuttgart-Degerloch . Both graves no longer exist.

At the scene of the murder of the board spokesman of Deutsche Bank , Alfred Herrhausen, on November 30, 1989, a DIN A4 sheet of paper was found under the explosive device, on which the RAF logo and the inscription "Kommando Wolfgang Beer" were .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b according to the judgment of the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court of July 25, 1979 ( Memento of March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 526 kB)
  2. ↑ Peter Henkel: Juliane Plambeck killed in accident. In: fr-online.de. December 6, 2002, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Mechthild Küpper: “How can you live with this past?” In: FAZ.net . June 12, 2007, archived from the original on December 25, 2014 ; accessed on December 16, 2014 .
  4. ↑ The federal states are responsible for the release of terrorists. In: fr-online.de. December 6, 2002, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  5. ^ The Fasching Ball on Saturday, February 28th . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1981 ( online ).
  6. ^ Butz Peters : Deadly error. The history of the RAF. Argon, Berlin 2004, p. 654.
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1980
Place of death near Bietigheim-Bissingen