Timeline Red Army Faction

Data on the history of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF)

Time table for the RAF

date	place	event
April 2nd, 1968	Frankfurt am Main	Arson in two Frankfurt department stores as a protest against the Vietnam War .
3rd April 1968	Frankfurt am Main	The perpetrators of the department store arson the day before are arrested.
October 14, 1968	Frankfurt am Main	The department store arsonist trial begins.
October 31, 1968	Frankfurt am Main	The department store arsonists are to three years in prison convicted. Only Horst Söhnlein begins his sentence later.
June 13, 1969	Frankfurt am Main	The arrest warrants from the department store arson foundations are suspended. After the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected the appeal on October 27, 1969, Baader, Ensslin and Thorwald Proll, accompanied by Astrid Proll , flee to France and later to Italy. Thorwald Proll separates from the group in Paris.
5th February 1970	Wiesbaden	The clemency by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin is the Hessian Minister of Justice Charles Hemfler rejected.
Early February 1970	West Berlin , Kufsteiner Strasse 12	Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin return to the city and live there in illegality with Ulrike Meinhof.
April 4th 1970	West Berlin	Andreas Baader was arrested after a hint from "S-Bahn-Peter", the undercover agent Peter Urbach .
May 14, 1970	West Berlin	Baader liberation : Andreas Baader is liberated at gunpoint during an execution. Two injured. This day is considered the founding date of the RAF.
5th June 1970	West Berlin	The journalist Michèle Ray interviews Ulrike Meinhof at a secret meeting. Excerpts appear in Der Spiegel No. 25, June 15, 1970. The RAF writes in April 1971 in Das Konzept Stadtguerilla about the interview that it was “not authentic anyway” and that it came “from the context of private discussion.” On the same day appears in of the magazine Agit 883 the declaration of the RAF The Red Army build up .
June 5 to August 8, 1970	Jordan	Military training in an Al Fatah camp . The contact person for Arafat's guerrilla force was the Palestinian student Said Dudin .
29th September 1970	West Berlin	“Dreierschlag” - the simultaneous attack on three banks, Depositenkasse 4 of Berliner Bank AG and branches 22 and 92 of the Sparkasse, looted the RAF together 217,000 DM. A fourth bank had spied on the RAF, but did not attack them due to construction work taking place there .
October 8, 1970	West Berlin, Knesebeckstrasse 89	Brigitte Asdonk, Monika Berberich, Irene Goergens, Horst Mahler and Ingrid Schubert are arrested.
15th January 1971	Kassel , Georg-Stock-Platz and Akademiestraße	Simultaneous attack on two banks, loot 114,715 DM.
February 10, 1971	Frankfurt am Main, Bockenheimer Landstrasse, corner of Unterlindau	Manfred Grashof and Astrid Proll escape after an exchange of fire with the police. This leads to the first major nationwide manhunt.
March 1, 1971 to May 21, 1971	West Berlin Moabit	Trial because of the Baader exemption against Irene Goergens, Horst Mahler and Ingrid Schubert in the Moabit criminal court . Judgment for jointly attempted murder and release of prisoners: for Schubert (six years) and Goergens (four years according to juvenile criminal law). The BGH later overturned Mahler's acquittal.
April 1971		The first position paper of the RAF The Urban Guerilla Concept appears as an underground text.
May 6, 1971	Hamburg , Uhlandstrasse at the corner of Lessingstrasse	Astrid Proll is arrested.
15th July 1971	Hamburg, Reineckestrasse	Petra Schelm is shot dead by the police while attempting to arrest her during a major manhunt throughout northern Germany. Her companion Werner Hoppe , who has not yet been searched for, is arrested.
1971/1972	Heidelberg	The members of the socialist patient collective Klaus Jünschke , Margrit Schiller , Lutz Taufer , Bernhard Rössner , Hanna Krabbe , Siegfried Hausner , Elisabeth von Dyck , Ralf Baptist Friedrich , Sieglinde Hofmann and presumably Friederike Krabbe become members of the RAF.
September 1, 1971 to March 31, 1981	Wiesbaden	Horst Herold becomes President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
October 22, 1971	Hamburg	Civil investigator Norbert Schmid is shot dead by an RAF member during an arrest attempt.
4th December 1971	West Berlin Schöneberg , Eisenacher Strasse, near Kleiststrasse	Georg von Rauch is shot by the police.
22nd December 1971	Kaiserslautern , Fackelstrasse 29	Assault on the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank , the police officer Herbert Schoner is shot, loot 133,986.82 DM.
January 10, 1972	Hamburg	The essay So much love at once by Heinrich Böll appears in the news magazine Der Spiegel under the title Will Ulrike Grace or free passage? .
January 27, 1972	Bonn	The Standing Conference of Interior Ministers resolves to set up a joint, work-sharing, electronic information and inquiry system for the entire police force (INPOL) in the Federal Republic with the BKA as the central office.
March 1, 1972	Herrenberg - Affstätt , Kuppinger Strasse	The uninvolved apprentice Richard Epple is mistakenly shot by the police.
March 2nd 1972	Augsburg , Hoher Weg 1	Thomas Weisbecker is shot dead by the police.
March 2nd 1972	Hamburg, Heimhuder Strasse 82	RAF member Manfred Grashof shoots head of SOKO "Baader / Meinhof" Hans Eckhardt when attempting to arrest , is seriously injured himself and arrested together with Wolfgang Grundmann .
April 1972		The position paper of the RAF Serving the People - Urban Guerrilla and Class Struggle appears as an underground publication.
May 11, 1972	Frankfurt am Main	Beginning of the “ May Offensive ”: Bomb attack on the headquarters of the 5th US Corps by the RAF's Petra Schelm Command. Paul A. Bloomquist , US officer, is killed and 13 wounded.
May 12, 1972	Augsburg, Munich	Bomb attacks on a police headquarters and the LKA by the RAF "Command Thomas Weisbecker", 17 injured.
May 15, 1972	Karlsruhe , Klosestrasse	Car bomb attack on Federal Judge Wolfgang Buddenberg by the RAF "Manfred Grashof Command", his wife is seriously injured.
May 19, 1972	Hamburg	Bomb attack on the publishing house of Axel Springer AG, RAF "Command June 2nd", 17 injured.
May 24, 1972	Heidelberg	Bomb attack on the European headquarters of the United States Army , RAF "July 15 Command" (July 15, 1971, anniversary of Petra Schelm's death), which will become US soldiers Clyde R. Bonner, Charles L. Peck, Ronald A. Woodward killed, five wounded.
June 1, 1972	Frankfurt am Main, Hofeckweg 2-4	Andreas Baader, Holger Meins and Jan-Carl Raspe are arrested.
June 7, 1972	Hamburg, Jungfernstieg	Gudrun Ensslin is arrested in the "Linette" boutique.
June 9, 1972	West Berlin	Bernhard Braun and Brigitte Mohnhaupt are arrested .
June 15, 1972	Hanover	Arrest of Ulrike Meinhof and Gerhard Müller.
June 25, 1972	Stuttgart	The bystander Ian McLeod, a British sales representative, is accidentally shot through the closed bedroom door by the police during a house search.
July 9, 1972	Offenbach am Main	Arrest of Klaus Jünschke and Irmgard Möller.
January 17 to February 16, 1973	nationwide	First collective hunger strike by imprisoned RAF members. Demand "lifting of isolation as torture for political prisoners in the FRG", "admission of independent doctors and transfer from the dead wards to normal execution".
Late April 1973		Local "Committees against Torture of Political Prisoners in the FRG" are established in ten cities.
May 8 to June 29, 1973	nationwide	Second collective hunger strike by imprisoned RAF members. Demand "equality with all other prisoners".
June 29, 1973	Bonn	The 3rd version of the BKA Act comes into force. The BKA will u. a. Responsible for the fight against terrorism (new establishment of the departments TE and ST) and for the central office in the police area for the electronic data network.
4th February 1974	Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main	Arrest of Eberhard Becker, Wolfgang Beer , Christa Eckes, Helmut Pohl , Margrit Schiller and Ilse Stachowiak.
May 21, 1974	augsburg	The uninvolved taxi driver Günter Jendrian is accidentally shot by the police while searching his apartment as part of a terrorist manhunt.
May 31, 1974	Karlsruhe	Siegfried Buback becomes Federal Attorney General at the BGH .
September 13, 1974 to February 5, 1975	nationwide	Third collective hunger strike by imprisoned RAF members.
November 9, 1974	Wittlich correctional facility	Holger Meins dies as a result of the hunger strike.
February 27, 1975	West Berlin-Zehlendorf	Peter Lorenz is kidnapped by the "June 2nd Movement". Demand: Release of Verena Becker , Rolf Heissler , Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann , Horst Mahler, Rolf Pohle , Ingrid Siepmann . Mahler refuses his exchange. The other prisoners were flown out to Aden on March 3, 1975, accompanied by Heinrich Albertz , and Lorenz released on March 4.
April 24, 1975	Stockholm , Skarpögatan	Hostage-taking of Stockholm , RAF "Command Holger Meins". Economic attaché , Heinz Hillegaart and the military attaché Andreas von Mirbach are murdered. Ulrich Wessel and Siegfried Hausner die as a result of an explosion.
May 21, 1975	Stuttgart - Stammheim	Opening of the Stammheim trial before the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court against Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof and Jan-Carl Raspe.
January 16, 1976	Bonn	Adoption of the 14th Criminal Law Amendment Act, so that changes and new additions to § 88a StGB ( anti- constitutional advocacy of criminal offenses) and § 130a StGB ( instructions on criminal offenses ), but also § 126 StGB ( disturbance of the public peace through threats of criminal offenses ), § 140 StGB ( Rewarding and approving criminal offenses ), § 111 Abs. 2 StGB ( public invitation to criminal offenses that violate community peace) and § 86.3 StGB (social adequacy clause).
May 7, 1976	Sprendlingen , Offenbach district	Police chief Fritz Sippel is shot dead by a previously unknown RAF member.
May 9, 1976	Correctional facility Stuttgart- Stammheim	Ulrike Meinhof hangs herself in her cell.
18th August 1976	Bonn	The Criminal Code (StGB) is expanded to include Section 129a “ Membership in a terrorist organization ”. The law is referred to by critics as "Lex RAF" because it was passed with special reference to the Red Army faction.
November 30, 1976	Federal motorway 5 , km 444 near Butzbach	Arrest of Siegfried Haag and Roland Mayer at a traffic stop. The "Haag / Mayer papers", u. a. with plans for offensive 77 , are found.
January 25, 1977	Stuttgart	The presiding judge in the Stammheim trial, Theodor Prinzing , will be replaced by Eberhard Foth following a request for bias by the defense.
February 8, 1977	Buhl	Brigitte Mohnhaupt is released from prison and takes over the leadership of the RAF.
April 7, 1977	Karlsruhe	Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback, Wolfgang Göbel, driver, Georg Wurster, head of the Federal Prosecutor's Office, are shot dead by the RAF "Command Ulrike Meinhof". It is the beginning of the series of attacks " Offensive 77 " by the RAF.
April 25, 1977	Goettingen	In the newspaper of the AStA of the University of Göttingen, the Göttinger Nachrichten , the text Buback appears - an obituary by the Göttingen Mescalero .
April 28, 1977	Stuttgart-Stammheim	In the Stammheim trial, the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart sentenced Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment for four murders and 34 attempted murders from 1972. The defense is under revision.
May 3, 1977	To sing	Verena Becker and Günter Sonnenberg are arrested. Sonnenberg and a policeman are seriously injured, Becker and another policeman are shot.
July 1, 1977	Frankfurt am Main	Assault on a gun shop. Loot: 15 revolvers and three pistols.
July 1, 1977	Karlsruhe	Kurt Rebmann becomes Federal Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice.
July 30, 1977	Oberursel (Taunus)	The board spokesman of Dresdner Bank , Jürgen Ponto , is shot in his house by Christian Klar and Brigitte Mohnhaupt.
August 25, 1977	Karlsruhe	A rocket launcher attack on the Federal Prosecutor's Office building fails because the detonator does not work.
5th September 1977	Cologne	Schleyer kidnapping : Employer President Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped by the RAF "Siegfried Hausner Command" and taken to a conspiratorial apartment 3 km away. Schleyer's companion Heinz Marcisz, Reinhold Brändle, Helmut Ulmer and Roland Pieler are shot. The kidnappers are calling for the release of Andreas Baader, Verena Becker, Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Gudrun Ensslin, Werner Hoppe, Hanna Krabbe, Irmgard Möller, Jan-Carl Raspe, Bernhard Rössner, Ingrid Schubert and Günter Sonnenberg. Beginning of the German autumn .
September 6, 1977	Bonn	Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt convenes a " large crisis team ", which decides not to respond to the kidnappers' demands under any circumstances. The start of the most extensive manhunt in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany is coordinated centrally by the BKA. With reference to the justifying state of emergency (§ 34 StGB), more than 100 prisoners are subjected to a complete ban on contact in order to prevent information from the media, communication with one another and visits by defense lawyers.
September 6, 1977	Karlsruhe	The investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice Horst Kuhn decides in a temporary order that visits and mails of the defense attorney are to be excluded from the contact ban. GBA Kurt Rebmann files a complaint against this (see decision of the BGH on September 23, 1977). Some of the state justice administrations and prisons do not comply with the order.
September 8, 1977	nationwide	The German press voluntarily and almost completely submits to a news blackout imposed by the Great Crisis Team .
September 10, 1977	Karlsruhe	Some lawyers apply to the BVerfG for interim injunctions for clients concerned and for themselves against the ban on contact due to unconstitutionality (cf. decision of the BVerfG on October 4, 1977).
September 12, 1977	Bonn	The "small crisis team" (small situation) decides to introduce a law on blocking contacts .
23rd September 1977	Karlsruhe	The 3rd (political) Senate of the BGH granted GBA Kurt Rebmann's complaint against the interim order of the judge at the BGH on September 6, 1977, thus rejecting the complaint of seven prisoners affected by the ban on contact.
September 22, 1977	Utrecht	Knut Folkerts shoots the Dutch police officer Arie Kranenburg when he is arrested.
September 28, 1977	Bonn	The draft law for the Contact Blocking Act (Sections 31 to 38 of the Act amending the Introductory Act to the Courts Constitution Act EGGVZ of September 30, 1977) is introduced in the Bundestag . After the first reading and forwarding to the Legal Committee, the draft will be discussed there and in the Legal Committee of the Federal Council on the same day.
29th September 1977	Bonn	Second and third reading of the Contact Blocking Act in the German Bundestag. The law is passed.
September 30, 1977	Bonn	The Federal Council approves the law on blocking contacts.
September 30, 1977	Paris	Arrest of lawyer Klaus Croissant .
September 30, 1977	Stuttgart	Arrest of lawyer Arndt Müller.
1st October 1977	Bonn	The Contact Blocking Act is countersigned by Federal President Walter Scheel and announced in the Federal Law Gazette.
2nd October 1977	Bonn	At midnight, the Contact Blocking Act comes into force. Two minutes later, Federal Justice Minister Hans-Jochen Vogel found that 72 prisoners had been blocked from contact.
2nd October 1977	German-Danish border	Arrest of Volker Speitel on a train coming from Denmark .
October 2, 1977 to October 7, 1977	Stuttgart	Search and sealing of the law firm of Klaus Croissant, Arndt Müller and Armin Newerla.
4th October 1977	Bonn, Karlsruhe	According to the Contact Blocking Act (Section 35 EGGVG), the Federal Minister of Justice, Hans-Jochen Vogel, applies to the Federal Court of Justice to confirm his finding of October 2, 1977 (cf. decision of the Federal Court of Justice on October 13, 1977).
4th October 1977	Stuttgart	Another search of the already sealed law firm of Klaus Croissant, Arndt Müller and Armin Newerla.
October 13, 1977	Karlsruhe	The 3rd Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice essentially confirms the contact ban ordered by the Federal Minister of Justice on October 2, 1977. In 4 of the 72 prisoners affected, including Werner Schlegel and Peter Paul Zahl , the contact ban was illegally applied after this decision.
October 13, 1977 to October 18, 1977	Mallorca , Rome , Larnaka , Bahrain , Dubai , Aden, Mogadishu	Landshut aircraft hijacking ("Command Martyr Halimeh").
October 18, 1977	Penitentiary Stuttgart	The night of Stammheim's death , Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe commit suicide. Irmgard Möller survived.
19th October 1977	Mulhouse in Alsace, France, Rue Charles Péguy	The body of Hanns Martin Schleyer is found after a report from the RAF. The perpetrators have not yet been identified.
20th October 1977	Bonn	The Federal Minister of Justice withdraws the determination of the contact block made in accordance with § 31 EGGVG.
October 27, 1977	Stuttgart, Dornhaldenfriedhof	The dead on the night of death in Stammheim, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are buried with a large public presence.
November 2nd, 4th and 7th, 1977	Karlsruhe	The prisoners Siegfried Haag, Klaus Jünschke and Sabine Schmitz, together with their lawyers, lodge a constitutional complaint against the Contact Blocking Act at the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) .
November 12, 1977	Prison in Munich , Stadelheimer Strasse	Ingrid Schubert hangs herself in her cell with a sheet on the window cross.
May 11, 1978	Paris	Arrest of Stefan Wisniewski.
May 11, 1978	Yugoslavia	Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Peter-Jürgen Boock, Sieglinde Hofmann and Rolf Clemens Wagner are arrested, but are allowed to travel to a country of their choice in November.
July 25, 1978	Celle correctional facility	The Celler Loch is blown up by the Lower Saxony constitutional protection agency. With the fake rescue attempt by Sigurd Debus attempts V people infiltrate into the RAF.
August 1, 1978	Karlsruhe	The constitutional complaint by Siegfried Haag, Klaus Jünschke and Sabine Schmitz against the Contact Blocking Act on November 2nd, 4th and 7th, 1977 is rejected by the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court. The law is compatible with the Basic Law. The court does not examine the legality of the ban on contact before the law was introduced on October 2, 1977.
September 6, 1978	Düsseldorf , Oststrasse 156	Willi-Peter Stoll is shot by the police during an arrest attempt after he took up a gun.
September 24, 1978	Dortmund - Löttringhausen	Arrest of Michael Knoll and Angelika Speitel in a target practice . The police officer Hans-Wilhelm Hansen is killed. Werner Lotze can escape. Knoll dies two weeks later from his injuries.
November 1, 1978	Kerkrade	RAF members Rolf Heissler and Adelheid Schulz shoot the Dutch customs officers Dionysius de Jong and Johannes Goemans while crossing the border illegally .
March 19, 1979	Darmstadt	Bank robbery, loot 49,000 DM.
April 17th 1979	Nuremberg	Bank robbery on the Schmidtbank branch at the St. Lorenz Church , loot 200,000 DM.
4th May 1979	Nuremberg	Elisabeth von Dyck is shot by the police while trying to arrest her
June 9, 1979	Frankfurt	Arrest of Rolf Heissler
June 25, 1979	Casteau (Belgium) near Obourg	Attack attempt by the RAF "Command Andreas Baader" with a bomb on the NATO commander in chief in Europe, US General Alexander Haig , two injured.
19th November 1979	Zurich , Shopville shopping arcade	Bank robbery, loot 473,000 SFr . In an exchange of fire with the police, the uninvolved passer-by Edith Kletz Händler is killed. Two policemen and another passerby are injured.
March 1980	West Berlin	Some of the members of the "June 2nd Movement" join the RAF.
May 5th 1980	Paris	Arrest of Sieglinde Hofmann and four other women of the "June 2nd Movement"
July 25, 1980	Bietigheim-Bissingen , K1684 before Unterriexingen	Wolfgang Beer and Juliane Plambeck die in a traffic accident.
August 18, 1980	Briesen (GDR) , forester's house "Objekt 74"	The acceptance of RAF dropouts in the GDR begins. Ralf Baptist Friedrich and Sigrid Sternebeck go into hiding in the GDR and are naturalized under a false name. A few weeks later, Susanne Albrecht, Monika Helbing, Silke Maier-Witt and Werner Lotze follow, two years later Inge Viett and Henning Beer. In “Object 74” of the Stasi, the Briesen forester's house, they are prepared for life in the GDR.
February 2 to April 18, 1981	nationwide	Eighth collective hunger strike by RAF prisoners. Demand: amalgamation.
April 16, 1981	Hamburg	Sigurd Debus dies as a result of the hunger strike.
August 31, 1981	Ramstein	Bomb attack by the RAF "Sigurd Debus Command" on the headquarters of the US air force in Europe, 14 injured.
September 15, 1981	Heidelberg	Attack by the RAF “Command Gudrun Ensslin” on the Commander in Chief of the US Land Forces in Europe, General Frederick James Kroesen , four injured.
June 1982		The RAF policy paper, “May paper” guerrilla, resistance and anti-imperialist front is discovered.
September 15, 1982	Bochum	Bank robbery on a branch of the Bochumer Sparkasse.
October 26, 1982	Heusenstamm	Depot I , the central depot of the RAF, is accidentally discovered by two mushroom pickers.
November 11, 1982	Heusenstamm	Arrest of Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Adelheid Schulz than the depot I seek.
November 16, 1982	Aumühle , district of Friedrichsruh in the Sachsenwald	Christian Klar is arrested at the Daphne depot near Hamburg . The police had removed it from all information about RAF depots given for publication and unobtrusively guarded it with a motion detector .
March 1, 1983	Darmstadt	Arrest of Gisela Dutzi.
March 15, 1984	Wurzburg	Bank robbery, loot 171,000 DM.
2nd July 1984	Frankfurt am Main	Helmut Pohl , Christa Eckes, Stefan Frey, Ingrid Jakobsmeier, Barbara Ernst and Ernst-Volker Staub arrested.
5th November 1984	Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Assault on arms shop in Maxdorf near Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Loot: 22 small arms, two rifles and 2,800 rounds of ammunition.
December 4, 1984 to February 5, 1985	nationwide	Ninth collective hunger strike by RAF prisoners. Demand amalgamation .
18th December 1984	Oberammergau	The bomb attack by the RAF “Jan Raspe Command” on the NATO school fails due to a technical defect.
January 15, 1985		Joint communique by RAF and Action Directe ( For the unity of revolutionaries in Western Europe ).
January 25, 1985	Paris	The French General Rene Audran is shot dead by Action Directe, "Command Elizabeth von Dyck".
February 1, 1985	Gauting , Wessobrunner Strasse 3	MTU boss Ernst Zimmermann is shot dead by the RAF "Patsy O'Hara commando".
3rd June 1985	Kirchentellinsfurt	Assault on money messengers, loot 157,700 DM. The messenger is seriously injured.
June 13, 1985	Möglingen (FRG), Erfurt (GDR)	A first indication that RAF dropouts are in the GDR is reported to the police. A GDR emigrant reported Silke Maier-Witt's place of residence in Erfurt, who, when the MfS found out, was being relocated within the GDR and again given a different identity.
August 8, 1985	Wiesbaden	US soldier Edward Pimental is shot to get his ID.
August 8, 1985	Frankfurt am Main	Explosives attack on the Rhein-Main Air Base . Frank Scarton, US soldier, and Becky Bristol, civilian employees, killed, eleven wounded. ("Command George Jackson")
July 9, 1986	Straßlach	The Siemens manager Karl Heinz Beckurts and his driver Eckhard Groppler are murdered in a bomb attack. ("Command Mara Cagol")
July 25, 1986	Immenstaad on Lake Constance	Explosives attack on the Dornier factory
2nd August 1986	Ruesselsheim	Arrest of Eva Haule-Frimpong, Luitgard Hornstein and Christian Kluth .
October 10, 1986	Bonn- Ippendorf	Gerold von Braunmühl , Ministerial Director in the Foreign Office, is shot by the "Ingrid Schubert Command".
20th September 1988	Bonn	An assassination attempt on Hans Tietmeyer , State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, in the context of the protests against the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank in West Berlin in 1988 by the RAF "Khaled Aker Command" fails.
February 1 to May 12, 1989	nationwide	Tenth collective hunger strike by RAF prisoners.
June 9, 1989 to December 31, 1999	Bonn	Introduction of the temporary leniency program (KronzG) in the Criminal Code.
November 30, 1989	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	Alfred Herrhausen is murdered by a bomb attack, his driver is injured. A "command from Wolfgang Beer" is committed to action.
June 6, 1990	GDR, Berlin-Marzahn , Rosenbecker Strasse 3	RAF dropout Susanne Albrecht was the first to be arrested, within the next two weeks all other RAF members who had gone into hiding in the GDR.
July 27, 1990	Bonn	Attack on Hans Neusel , State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, he is easily injured. ("Command Jose Manuel Sevillano")
February 13, 1991	Bonn- Bad Godesberg , Deichmannsaue Castle , US Embassy	The US embassy was bombarded with 250 rifle shots from the other side of the Rhine by the RAF "Vincenzo Spano Command", no injuries. Corrected on February 24th by the RAF in "Ciro Rizatto Command".
April 1, 1991	Düsseldorf- Niederkassel	The head of the Treuhandanstalt Detlev Karsten Rohwedder was shot in his house by the RAF "Kommando Ulrich Wessel".
April 10, 1992		The RAF declares that it is “taking back the escalation” and “attacks on representatives from business and the state” will not take place for the time being because it wants to lead a political discussion.
May 16, 1992	Bruchsal correctional facility	Günter Sonnenberg, who has suffered from epileptic seizures since his injury when he was arrested, is released on parole.
July 15, 1992	Bonn	The automated search , which has been practiced since the 1970s, is enshrined in Section 98a of the Code of Criminal Procedure .
March 27, 1993	Weiterstadt correctional facility	Explosives attack against the Weiterstadt prison , caused by the "Katharina Hammerschmidt command" did not cause any injuries. Property damage of more than 80 million DM occurs to the prison under construction.
June 27, 1993	Bad little ones , train station	During the GSG-9 mission in Bad Kleinen , the police officer Michael Newrzella is shot and Wolfgang Grams commits suicide. Birgit Hogefeld is arrested.
April 20, 1998	Cologne	The Reuters news agency receives an eight-page letter, classified as authentic, in which the RAF announces its self-dissolution.
March 1, 1999	Euskirchen	Stefan Wisniewski is released on parole.
September 15, 1999	Vienna	Horst Ludwig Meyer is shot dead by the Austrian police. Andrea Klump is arrested.
December 31, 1999	Berlin	The temporary Leniency Notice (KronzG) expires after several extensions.
March 25, 2007	Aichach correctional facility	Brigitte Mohnhaupt is released on parole.
17th August 2007		Eva Haule is released.
December 19, 2008	Bruchsal correctional facility	Christian Klar is released from the Bruchsal correctional facility after 26 years after his minimum imprisonment period has expired .
June 20, 2011	Frankfurt am Main	Birgit Hogefeld is released from prison after 18 years in prison.
July 6, 2012	Stuttgart	Verena Becker is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for complicity in the murder of Siegfried Buback.
12th of February 2014	Stuttgart	Verena Becker's prison sentence is suspended for one year and two months on probation, taking into account 4 months of pre-trial detention and a previous prison sentence.
November 2014	Karlsruhe	The Federal Prosecutor's Office is re-investigating the murder of Siegfried Buback.