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Helbing, Monika: b. 1953; 1977, joined the RAF; 1980, left the RAF and received asylum in the GDR; 1990, arrested and cooperated with police and prosecutors; 1992, sentenced to seven years in prison; 1995, released from prison, living under a new name.
Herold, Horst: b. 1923; 1967-1971, president of the Nuremberg police; 1971-1981, president of the BKA.
Hofmann, Sieglinde: b. 1945; SPK member; 1975, joined the RAF; 1980, arrested in Paris and extradited to the FRG, sentenced to fifteen years in prison; 1995, several days before her release date, brought up on new charges based on the testimony provided by the defectors to the GDR, sentenced to life in prison; 1999, released from prison.
Hogefeld, Birgit: b. 1956; 1984, joined the RAF; 1993, arrested following a shootout with police in Bad Kleinen, during which Wolfgang Grams was killed; 1996, received three life sentences; 2011, released from prison.
Hoppe, Werner: b. 1949; 1970, joined the RAF; 1971, arrested; 1972, sentenced to ten years in prison; 1979, released from prison on grounds of ill health.
Jakobsmeier, Ingrid: b. 1953; 1978, participated in the dpa occupation and sentenced to one year in prison; 1980, joined the RAF; 1984, arrested; 1993, sentenced to an additional fifteen years in prison on the basis of information provided by the defectors to the GDR.
Jünschke, Klaus: b. 1947; SPK member; 1972, joined the RAF, arrested a few months later following the May Offensive; 1977, sentenced to life in prison; 1977, distanced himself from the RAF; 1988, pardoned.
Kamp-Münnichow, Karin: b. 1955; alleged guerilla supporter; 1980, arrested in Paris with women from the 2JM and the RAF.
Karry, Heinz Herbert: 1920-1981; FDP politician; 1970, minister of the economy in the Land of Hessen; 1981, shot in the legs by the RZ for his role in Startbahn West, died as a result of a severed artery.
Keplinger, Othmar: Austrian supporter of West German political prisoners; 1977, participated in the 2JM kidnapping of businessman Walter Palmers in Vienna, arrested in possession of weapons and ransom money at the Italian border; 1979, sentenced to five years in prison, later reduced to four years.
Khaddafi, Muammar: 1942-2011; 1969, seized control of Libya in a bloodless coup; regularly accused of masterminding or supporting terrorist attacks in the West; 2011, killed during a civil war that erupted in Libya following the events of the Arab Spring.
Klar, Christian: b. 1952; 1976, joined the RAF; 1982, arrested; 1985, received five life sentences plus fifteen years in prison; 2007, denied clemency; 2008, released from prison.
Klein, Hans-Joachim: b. 1947; 1974, joined the RZ; 1975, seriously injured participating in the Vienna OPEC action; 1977, left the guerilla, issuing a critical assessment and mailing it with his gun to Spiegel; 1979, released a book critically assessing the guerilla struggle; 1998, arrested in France and extradited to the FRG, acted as a crown witness to avoid a life sentence and was sentenced to nine years in prison; 2003, pardoned.
Kletzhändler, Edith: 1923-1979; 1979, killed by a ricocheting bullet during a shootout between police and RAF members in a shopping mall in Zurich, Switzerland.
Klöckner, Michael: b. 1955; suspected editor of radikal; 1983, arrested for promoting terrorism; 1984, sentenced to two and a half years in prison, elected to the European Parliament on the Green ticket providing him with immunity from imprisonment; 1990, the sentence was overturned by the BGH, returned to Germany.
Klöpper, Gerald: b. 1954; 2JM member; 1975, arrested; 1980, sentenced to eleven years and two months in prison.
Klump, Andrea: b. 1957; 1978, worked on the Russell Tribunal; 1984, went underground to avoid arrest; 1987, sought refuge in Syria, then Lebanon, with Horst Meyer, Barbara Meyer, and Simon Thomas, all of whom were being sought by the West German police in connection with RAF activities; 1988, involved in an attempt to bomb a disco popular with U.S. military personnel in Rota, Spain; 1989, incorrectly identified as one of the people involved in the RAF assassination of Alfred Herrhausen; 1991, involved in a bombing in Budapest of a busload of Russian Jewish immigrants transiting Hungary to Israel, claimed by the Movement to Free Jerusalem; 1995, began living with Horst Meyer under an assumed name in Vienna, Austria; 1999, arrested following a shootout with police in Vienna, in which Horst Meyer was killed; 2001, sentenced to nine years in prison in connection with the attempted bombing in Rota, Spain; 2004, sentenced to an additional twelve years in connection with the Budapest, Hungary bombing.
Knoll, Michael: 1949-1978; 1977, joined the RAF; 1978, killed in an exchange of fire with the police.
Kohl, Helmut: b. 1930; CDU politician; 1969-1976, president of Rhineland-Palatinate; 1976-1982, head of CDU/CSU parliamentary faction; 1982-1998, chancellor.
Krabbe, Hanna: b. 1945; SPK member; 1975, joined the RAF and participated in the Holger Meins Commando’s hostage taking at the West German embassy in Stockholm, where she was captured; 1977, received two life sentences; 1996, pardoned and released from prison.
Kreisky, Bruno: 1911-1990; Socialist Party of Austria member; 1959-1966, minister of foreign affairs; 1970-1983, chancellor.
Kröcher-Tiedemann, Gabriele: 1951-1995; 1972, joined 2JM; 1973, arrested; 1975, released from prison as part of a prisoner exchange for CDU politician Peter Lorenz who had been kidnapped by the 2JM; 1975, participated in the Vienna OPEC action; 1977, arrested in Switzerland following a shootout in which she shot two Swiss border guards; 1987, extradited to the FRG; 1990, acquitted on charges related to the 1975 Vienna OPEC action; 1991, released from prison; 1995, died of cancer.
Kroesen, Frederick: b. 1923; 1979-1983, commander of the NATO Central Army Group; 1981, survived RAF assassination attempt.
Kuby, Christine: b. 1956; 1978, joined the RAF, arrested a few months later; 1979, sentenced to life in prison; 1995 released from prison.
Kunzelmann, Dieter: b. 1939; 1967, founding member of Kommune 1; 1969, founding member of the Tupamaros-West Berlin; 1970, arrested; 1975, released from prison; 1983-1985, Alternative Liste member of the West Berlin Senate.
Lapeyre, Michel: member of the Noyaux armés pour l’autonomie populaire, precursor organization to Action Directe; 1980, arrested for bombing the Paris offices of the Bundesbahn; 1981, received amnesty.
Liewald, Waltraud: b. 1950; 1974, went underground to form a guerilla group with Peter-Jürgen Boock and Klaus Dorff; was married to Peter-Jürgen Boock; 1976, joined the RAF, arrested a few months later in Vienna following a bank robbery; 1977, sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison.
Lochte, Christian: 1935-1991; 1981-1991, head of the Hamburg Verfassungsschutz.
Lorenz, Peter: 1922-1987; 1969-1981, chairman of the West Berlin CDU; 1975, kidnapped by the 2JM and exchanged for five political prisoners.
Lotze, Werner: b. 1952; 1978, joined the RAF; 1980, left the RAF and received asylum in the GDR, where he lived with his partner Christine Dümlein; 1990, arrested and cooperated with police and prosecutors; 1991, sentenced to twelve years in prison, reduced on appeal.
Loudil, Klaus Dieter: career criminal who cooperated with the Verfassungsschutz in what became known as the Celle Hole, a police action meant to free guerilla prisoner Sigurd Debus in the hope he would lead police to underground members of the RAF.
Ludwig, Karl-Heinz: b. 1943; taxi driver, arrested with Sigurd Debus in connection with an underground group.
Lummer, Heinrich: b. 1932; CDU politician; 1981-1986, mayor and minister of the interior in West Berlin.
Magg, Karola: b. 1949; alleged guerilla supporter; 1980, arrested in Paris with women from the 2JM and the RAF.
Mahler, Horst: b. 1936; 1964, began acting as lawyer for the SDS and the APO; 1969, cofounded the Socialist Lawyers Collective; 1970, founding member of the RAF, arrested the same year; 1974, formally expelled from the RAF, affiliated himself with the KPD/AO; 1975, refused to leave prison as part of the Lorenz exchange; 1980, released from prison; 1997, publicly acknowledged his support for the neo-nazi Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands; 2000, joined the NPD; 2003, founded the Holocaust denial organization, the Verein zur Rehabilitierung der wegen Bestreitens des Holocaust Verfolgten.
Maier-Witt, Silke: b. 1950; 1977, joined the RAF; 1980, left the RAF and received asylum in the GDR; 1990, arrested and cooperated with police and prosecutors; 1991, sentenced to ten years in prison; 1995, released from prison.
Maihofer, Werner: 1918-2009; FDP politician; 1972-1974, federal minister for special affairs; 1974-1978, federal minister of the interior.
Mayer, Roland: b. 1954; 1976, joined the RAF, arrested a few months later; 1979, sentenced to fourteen years in prison; 1988, released from prison.
Meinhof, Ulrike: 1934-1976; 1959, joined the illegal KPD; 1959-1969, konkret journalist; 1960-1964, editor-in-chief of konkret; 1964, left the KPD; 1970, founding member of the RAF; 1972, arrested following the May Offensive; 1974, sentenced to eight years in prison; 1976, killed in prison.
Meins, Holger: 1941-1974; 1968, produced the film Wie baue ich einen Molotow-Cocktail (How Do I Make a Molotov Cocktail?); 1970, worked on the West Berlin left-wing magazine 883, arrested and held for one month as the suspected bomber of a police radio vehicle, joined the RAF; 1972, arrested following the May Offensive; 1974, died on hunger strike in prison.
Meyer, Till: b. 1944; 1972, founding member of the 2JM, arrested the same year; 1973, escaped from prison; 1975, arrested; 1978, broken out of prison, arrested by West German police in Bulgaria shortly thereafter; 1986, released from prison; 1992, exposed as having been an informant for the MfS.
Mohnhaupt, Brigitte: b. 1949; 1971, joined the RAF; 1972, arrested following the May Offensive; 1977, released from prison, returned underground; 1982, arrested; 1985, sentenced to five life sentences plus fifteen years in prison; 2007, released from prison.
Möller, Christian: alleged member of the RZ and the Carlos group; 1977, arrested with Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann after a shootout with border guards at the Swiss border, in possession of phony ID papers, weapons, and money from the Palmers ransom; sentenced to eleven years in prison.
Möller, Irmgard: b. 1947; 1971, joined the RAF; 1972, arrested following the May Offensive; 1976, sentenced to four and a half years in prison for membership in a terrorist organization; 1977, the only survivor of the Stammheim killings; 1979, sentenced to life in prison for two bombings during the May Offensive and for shooting at police at the time of her capture; 1994, released from prison.
Müller, Arndt: b. 1942; lawyer for prisoners from the RAF; 1977, arrested and charged with supporting a terrorist organization; 1980, sentenced to four years and eight months in prison.
Müller, Gerhard: b. 1948; SPK member; 1971, joined the RAF; 1972, arrested following the May Offensive; 1974, served as a crown witness against prisoners from the RAF; served a six-and-a-half year sentence, upon his release was relocated to the U.S.A.
Newerla, Armin: lawyer for prisoners from the RAF; 1977, arrested and charged with supporting a terrorist organization; 1980, sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Nicolai, Regina: b. 1954; 2JM member; 1980, arrested in Paris.
O’Hara, Patsy: 1957-1981; Irish Republican; 1971, shot and injured manning a Republican barricade; 1974, interned in Long Kesh; 1975, joined the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the Irish National Liberation Army, arrested and held in remand for six months; 1976, arrested and held in remand for four months; 1979, arrested for possession of a hand grenade; 1980, sentenced to eight years in prison; 1981, died on hunger strike in prison.
Ohnesorg, Benno: 1940-1967; shot dead by undercover police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras at an anti-Shah demonstration in West Berlin on June 2, 1967.
Oriach, Frédéric: b. 1953; member of the Noyaux armés pour l’autonomie populaire, precursor organization to Action Directe; 1980, arrested for bombing the Paris offices of the Bundesbahn; amnestied in 1981; 1983, sentenced to six years in prison for a series of actions carried out in 1982, reduced to five years on appeal; 1986, released from prison; 1987, sentenced to six months in prison after voicing support for the 1985 Action Directe assassination of General René Audran.
Otto, Roland: b. 1950; 2JM supporter; 1975, arrested following the shootout during which Werner Sauber was killed and Karl-Heinz Roth was seriously injured; 1977, charges dropped.
Oxfort, Hermann: 1928-2003; FDP politician; 1975, West Berlin mayor and minister of the interior; 1976, resigned his post following the prison breakout of Inge Viett, Juliane Plambeck, Gabriele Rollnik, and Monika Berberich; 1983-1985, West Berlin minister of justice.
Palmers, Walter: 1903-1983; Austrian businessman; 1977, kidnapped by the 2JM, released for ransom payment.
Pauli, Walter: 1953-1975; police officer; 1975, killed in a shootout in Cologne with 2JM associates Werner Sauber (also killed), Karl-Heinz Roth (seriously injured), and Roland Otto.
Pitsch, Reinhard: b. 1953; Austrian supporter of West German political prisoners; 1977, participated in the 2JM kidnapping of businessman Walter Palmers in Vienna, arrested and sentenced to three years and eight months in prison.
Plambeck, Juliane: 1952-1980; 1972, founding member of the 2JM; 1975, arrested; 1976, broke out of prison; 1980, joined the RAF, died in a car accident the same year.
Pohl, Gisela: 1945-2012; wife of RAF member Helmut Pohl; active in prisoner support work; 2012, died of cancer.
Pohl, Helmut: b. 1943; 1970, joined the RAF; 1971, arrested; 1973, released from prison and returned underground; 1974, arrested; 1979, released from prison and returned underground; 1984, arrested; 1998, pardoned and released from prison on grounds of ill health.
Pohrt, Wolfgang: b. 1945; left-wing intellectual; 1982, supported amnesty campaign for prisoners from the RAF; currently associated with the Antideutsche movement.
Ponto, Jürgen: 1923-1977; 1960-1977, chairman of the Dresdner Bank; 1977, shot dead by the RAF during a bungled kidnapping attempt.
Prieß, Rosemarie: b. 1951; 1977, arrested as an alleged RAF supporter, released soon after; 1978, participated in the dpa occupation, arrested and sentenced to one year in prison.
Proll, Astrid: b. 1947; 1970, founding member of the RAF; 1971, arrested; 1973, released to a prison hospital due to ill health caused by sensory deprivation and isolation while in prison; 1974, escaped and fled to England where she lived under the name Anna Puttick; 1978, arrested in London and extradited to the FRG; 1980, sentenced to five and a half years in prison, but immediately released on the basis of time served.
Proll, Thorwald: b. 1941; brother of Astrid Proll; 1968, participated in the Frankfurt department store arsons, went underground when released awaiting the outcome of an appeal, but later turned himself in and served his sentence.
Raspe, Jan-Carl: 1944-1977; 1967, founding member of Kommune 2; 1970, joined the RAF; 1972, arrested following the May Offensive; 1977, sentenced to life in prison, killed in prison during the events of the German Autumn.
Rattay, Klaus-Jürgen: 1962-1981; 1980, joined the West Berlin squatting scene; 1981, run over and killed by a city bus during a demonstration to protect squatted houses.
Reagan, Ronald: 1911-2004; 1941, elected president of the Screen Actors Guild; cooperated with the FBI in the late 1940s, providing them access to SAG’s books and identifying suspected communists in Hollywood; 1967-1975, Republican governor of California; 1969, turned police loose on students occupying People’s Park in Berkeley, resulting in one death; 1981-1989, president of the United States; 1983, ordered the invasion of Grenada to overthrow a Marxist-Leninist government, introduced Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”); 1986, launched the War on Drugs, bombed Libya in retaliation for a bombing at a discotheque in West Berlin that was popular with U.S. military personnel; supported the Contras in Nicaragua throughout the 1980s; 1994, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
Rebmann, Kurt: 1924-2005; 1977-1990, attorney general.
Reinders, Ralf: b. 1948; 1972, founding member of the 2JM; 1975, arrested; 1978, sentenced to fifteen years in prison; 1990, released from prison.
Roll, Carmen: b. 1947; SPK member; 1972, joined the RAF, arrested the same year prior to the May Offensive; 1976, released from prison, moved to Italy.
Rollnik, Gabriele: b. 1950; 1974, joined the 2JM; 1975, arrested; 1976, broke out of prison; 1978, arrested in Bulgaria; 1981, sentenced to fifteen years in prison; 1992, released from prison.
Roos, Helga: b. 1954; alleged RAF supporter; 1978, participated in the dpa occupation, arrested and sentenced to one year in prison; 1981, arrested following the RAF’s attempted assassination of U.S. General Frederick Kroesen and charged with being an aboveground RAF member; 1983, sentenced to four years and nine months in prison.
Rössner, Bernd: b. 1946; 1975, joined the RAF and participated in the Holger Meins Commando’s hostage taking at the West German embassy in Stockholm, where he was captured; 1977, received two life sentences; 1992, released from prison on grounds of ill health; 1994, pardoned.
Roth, Karl-Heinz: b. 1942; SDS member in the 1960s; 1975, cofounder of the theoretical journal Autonomie, seriously injured and arrested in a shootout with police in Cologne during which Werner Sauber was killed; 1977, acquitted and released from prison; remains active as a left communist intellectual.
Ruhland, Karl-Heinz: b. 1938; 1970, RAF supporter, arrested the same year, soon became the first RAF associate to serve as a crown witness.
Salameh, Ali Hassan (Abu Hassan): 1940-1979; chief of Al Fatah’s security organization, a leading figure in the Black September organization; 1975, becomes PLO’s liaison to the CIA; 1979, assassinated by the Mossad.
Sauber, Werner: 1947-1975; 2JM member; 1974, moved to Cologne to work as a factory organizer under a false name; 1975, died in a shootout with police in Cologne.
Scheel, Walter: b. 1919; 1968-1974, chairman of the FDP; 1969-1974, vice-chancellor and minister of foreign affairs during Willy Brandt’s Social-Liberal Coalition; 1974-1979, president during the first five years of Helmut Schmidt’s administration.
Schelm, Petra: 1951-1971; 1970, founding member of the RAF; 1971, killed in an exchange of fire with the police.
