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Dellwo, Hans-Joachim: brother of Karl-Heinz Dellwo; arrested 1977 on charges of supporting a criminal organization; cooperated with police and prosecutors; moved to Canada upon his release from prison.
Dellwo, Karl-Heinz: b. 1952; 1974, joined RAF; part of the Holger Meins Commando that carried out the failed Stockholm embassy hostage taking in 1975; received two life sentences in 1977; 1996, released from prison.
Drenkmann, Günter von: 1910-1974; social democratic president of West Berlin Supreme Court; killed during an attempted kidnapping by the 2JM, meant to avenge the death of Holger Meins.
Dyck, Elisabeth von: 1951-1979; member of the SPK, assistant to RAF lawyer Klaus Croissant and subsequently suspected RAF member; 1975, went underground; 1979, shot dead by police.
Dregger, Alfred: 1920-2002; CDU member; 1956-1970, Mayor of Fulda; 1982-1991, Chairman of the CDU/CSU Federal Parliamentary Faction.
Dümlein, Christine: b. 1949; 1975, joined the RAF; 1980, left the RAF and received asylum in the GDR; 1990, arrested and cooperated with police and prosecutors, released after one day as the only crime she was guilty of was membership in a terrorist organization, and the statute of limitations had expired.
Dutschke, Rudi: 1940-1979; leading theorist for the SDS and the APO; 1968, victim of an assassination attempt; 1979, founding member of the Green Party, drowned the same year when he had a seizure while taking a bath.
Eckes, Christa: b. 1950; RAF member; arrested February 4, 1974; 1984, arrested.
Eckhardt, Hans: 1922-1972; police officer; 1972, killed in an exchange of fire with RAF members.
Ensslin, Gudrun: 1940-1977; participated in the 1968 Frankfurt department store arsons; founding member of the RAF; 1972, arrested following May Offensive; 1977, killed in prison during the events of the German Autumn.
Epple, Richard: 1954-1972; 1972, killed by police who believed he was a RAF member when he ran a police checkpoint.
Filbinger, Hans: 1913-2007; former hardline Nazi judge; 1966-1978, CDU President of Baden-Württemberg.
Fischer, Joschka: b. 1948; leading figure in the sponti movement in the seventies; 1983-1985, Green Party member of parliament; 1991-1994, Minister of the Environment in Hessen; 1998-2005, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Folkerts, Knut: b. 1952; RAF member; 1977, arrested; 1995, released from prison.
Folkerts, Uwe: b. 1948; brother of Knut Folkerts, arrested May 4, 1977, found guilty of supporting a criminal organization and released after eighteen months.
Fried, Erich: 1921-1988; Austrian poet, Gruppe 47 member.
Friedrich, Ralf Baptist: b. 1946; 1977, joined the RAF; 1980, left the RAF and received asylum in the GDR; 1990, arrested and cooperated with police and prosecutors.
Genscher, Hans-Dietrich: b. 1927; FDP politician; 1969-1974, Federal Minister of the Interior; 1974-1992, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Gnädinger, Fritz-Joachim: b. 1938; Federal Prosecutor; 1969-1975, SPD member of parliament.
Göbel, Wolfgang: 1947-1977; Buback’s chauffeur; 1977, killed by the RAF.
Goemans, Johannes: 1954-1978; Dutch customs officer; 1978, killed in exchange of fire with RAF members.
Goergens, Irene: b. 1951; founding member of the RAF; 1970, arrested; 1977, released from prison.
Grashof, Manfred: b. 1946; 1970, joined RAF; 1972, arrested prior to the May Offensive, broke with the RAF in prison; 1988, pardoned.
Groenewold, Kurt: b. 1937; lawyer for RAF prisoners; 1975, subjected to the Berufsverbot.
Grundmann, Wolfgang: b. 1948; founding member of the RAF; 1972, arrested prior to the May Offensive; 1976, released from prison.
Grustadt, Eric: b. 1936; 1970, joined the RAF, arrested the same year.
Haag, Siegfried: b. 1944; 1972, served as lawyer for Andreas Baader; 1975, went underground; 1976, arrested, alleged to have organized both the 1975 Stockholm action and the 1977 offensive; broke with the RAF in prison; 1987, released from prison.
Haddad, Waddi: 1927-1978; 1967-1970, leading figure in the PFLP’s military wing; expelled from the PFLP at some point in the 1970s; at some point between 1970 and 1972 established the PFLP (EO) as a body separate from the PFLP; 1977, poisoned by the Mossad, succumbs in 1978.
Hammerschmidt, Katharina: 1943-1975; 1970, joined RAF; 1972, turned herself in following May Offensive; 1974, released from prison for health reasons; 1975, died of cancer.
Hansen, Hans-Wilhelm: police officer killed in 1978 in a firefight with RAF members.
Harb, Nabil: 1954-1977; member of the PFLP (EO); killed during the Mogadishu action.
Hausner, Siegfried: 1952-1975; SPK member, joined RAF; 1972, arrested following May Offensive and sentenced to three years; 1974, released from prison; 1975, led the Holger Meins Commando’s hostage taking at the FRG embassy in Stockholm; died as a result of injuries sustained during this action.
Heinemann, Gustav: 1899-1976; 1949-1950, Federal Minister of the Interior for the CDU; 1952, left the CDU to co-found the GVP; 1957, joined the SPD; 1966-1969, Federal Minister of Justice; 1969-1974, President.
Heissler, Rolf: b. 1948; 1971, left the Tupamaros-Munich to join the RAF, arrested the same year; 1975, released from prison as part of a prisoner exchange for CDU politician Peter Lorenz who had been kidnapped by the 2JM; 1979, arrested; 2001, released from prison.
Helbing, Monika: b. 1953; 1976, joined the RAF; 1980, left the RAF and received asylum in the GDR; 1990, arrested and cooperated with police and prosecutors; 1995, released from prison, living under a new name.
Heldmann, Hans-Heinz: Lawyer for RAF prisoners.
Herold, Horst: b. 1923; 1967-1971, President of the Nuremberg Police; 1971-1981, President of the BKA.
Hillegaart, Heinz: 1911-1975; Foreign Service Diplomat; 1975, killed during the Stockholm action.
Hoff, Dierk: b. 1948; 1971-1972, built items the RAF used in bombings, claimed to believe they were movie props; 1975, arrested and turned state evidence in exchange for the charges against him being dropped.
Hofmann, Sieglinde: b. 1945; 1976, joined the RAF; 1980, arrested in Paris and extradited to West Germany; 1999, released from prison.
Homann, Peter: b. 1936; founding member of the RAF; 1970, broke with the RAF.
Hoppe, Werner: b. 1949; 1970, joined the RAF; 1971, arrested, c. 1978, broke with the RAF; 1979, released from prison.
Jansen, Ali: b. 1948; 1970, joined RAF, arrested the same year and sentenced to ten years in prison.
Jendrian, Günter: Taxi driver; 1974, killed by police who believed he was a RAF member.
Jong, Dirk “Dionysius” de: 1959-1978; Dutch customs officer; 1978, killed in exchange of fire with RAF members.
Jünschke, Klaus: b. 1947; member of the SPK; 1971, joined RAF; 1972, arrested following May Offensive, broke with the RAF in prison; 1988, pardoned.
Kiesinger, Kurt Georg: 1904-1988; CDU politician; 1958-1966, President of Baden-Württemberg; 1966-1969, Chancellor; 1967-1971, Federal Chairman of the CDU.
Klar, Christian: b. 1952; 1976, joined the RAF; 1982, arrested; 2007, denied clemency; due for release in 2009.
Klein, Hans-Joachim: b. 1947; 1974, joined the RZ; 1975, seriously injured participating in the Vienna OPEC action, left the guerilla, issuing a critical assessment and mailing it with his weapon to Spiegel; 1979, released a book critically assessing the guerilla struggle; 2000, arrested in France and extradited to Germany, acted as a crown witness to avoid a life sentence and was sentenced to nine years; 2003, pardoned.
Knoll, Michael: 1949-1978; Member of the RAF; 1978, killed in an exchange of fire with the police.
Krabbe, Friederike: b. 1950; younger sister of Hanna Krabbe; SPK member; allegedly joined RAF prior to 1977 and participated in Schleyer kidnapping; never captured.
Krabbe, Hanna: b. 1945; sister of Friederike Krabbe; SPK member; 1974, joined RAF; part of the Holger Meins Commando that carried out the failed Stockholm embassy hostage taking in 1975; received two life sentences in 1977; 1996, pardoned and released from prison.
Krahl, Hans-Jürgen: 1943-1970; leading theorist in the SDS and the APO; 1970, died in a car accident.
Kranenburg, Arie: 1931-1977; Dutch customs officer; 1977, killed in an exchange of fire with RAF members.
Kröcher-Tiedemann, Gabriele: 1951-1995; 2JM member; 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, participating in the Vienna OPEC action; 1977, arrested in Switzerland for the shooting of two Swiss customs agents; 1987, extradited to West Germany; 1990, acquitted on charges related to the 1975 Vienna OPEC action; 1991, released from prison; 1995, died of cancer.
Kuby, Christine: RAF member, arrested in 1978; released 1995.
Kuhlmann, Brigitte: 1949-1976; founding member of the RZ; 1976, killed during the Entebbe action.
Kunzelmann, Dieter: b. 1939; Kommune 1 member, 1969, founding member of the Tupamaros-West Berlin; 1970, arrested; 1975, released from prison; 1983-1985, Alternative List member of parliament in West Berlin.
Kurras, Karl-Heinz: The undercover police officer who shot Benno Ohnesorg on June 2, 1967.
Lang, Jörg: b. 1950; lawyer who was arrested in 1972 on charges that he had helped recruit for the RAF; went underground in 1974; at one time accused, perhaps spuriously, of helping to organize the events of 1977; to the best of our knowledge, never captured.
Langhans, Rainer: b. 1940; Kommune 1 member.
Langner, Klaus Jürgen: lawyer for Margrit Schiller; his offices were firebombed in 1976.
Linke, Georg: Librarian; shot and seriously injured during the Baader breakout.
Lorenz, Peter: 1922-1987; 1969-1981, Berlin Chairman of the CDU; 1975, kidnapped by the 2JM and exchanged for five political prisoners.
Luther, Angela: b. 1940; 2JM member; worked with the RAF during 1972 May Offensive; participated in successful kidnapping of Peter Lorenz and prisoner exchange in 1975; never captured.
Mahler, Horst: b. 1936; founding member of the RAF; 1964, began acting as lawyer for the SDS and the APO; 1969, co-founded the Socialist Lawyers Collective; 1970, arrested; 1974, acrimoniously parted ways with the RAF in prison, affiliating himself with the KPD/AO; 1975, refused to leave prison as part of the Lorenz exchange; 1980, released from prison; 1997, publicly acknowledged his ties to the neo-nazi NPD; 2000, joined the NPD; 2003, founded the Holocaust denial organization, the VRBHV.
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; 1995, released from prison.
Maihofer, Werner: b. 1918; FDP politician; 1972-1974, Federal Minister for Special Affairs; 1974-1978, Federal Minister of the Interior.
Marcisz, Heinz: 1936-1977; Schleyer’s chauffeur; 1977, killed by the RAF.
Martin, Ludwig: b. 1909; 1963-1974, Attorney General.
Mayer, Roland: RAF member; 1976, arrested.
McLeod, Ian: Scottish businessman, suspected of working as British intelligence agent; 1972, shot dead by police who believed he was a RAF member.
Meinhof, Ulrike: 1934-1976; founding member of the RAF; 1959, joined the illegal KPD; 1959-1969, konkret journalist, 1960-1964, Editor-in-Chief of konkret; 1964, left the KPD; 1972, arrested following May Offensive; 1976, killed in prison.
Meins, Holger: 1941-1974; 1969, joined Kommune 1, worked on 883; 1970, joined RAF; 1972, arrested following May Offensive; 1974, died on hunger strike in prison.
Meyer, Till: b. 1944; founding member of the 2JM; 1972, arrested; 1973, escaped from prison; 1975, arrested; 1978, broken out of prison, arrested by West German police in Bulgaria the same year; 1986, released from prison; 1992, exposed as a Stasi agent.
Mirbach, Andreas von: 1931-1975; Military Attaché at the West German Embassy in Stockholm; 1975, killed during the Stockholm action.
Mohnhaupt, Brigitte: b. 1949; 1971, joined the RAF; 1972, arrested following May Offensive; 1977, released from prison, went back underground; 1982, arrested; 2007, released from prison.
Möller, Irmgard: b. 1947; 1971, joined the RAF; 1972, arrested following May Offensive; 1977, the only survivor of the Stammheim killings; 2006, released from prison.
Müller, Arndt: Lawyer for RAF prisoners, 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 May Offensive; 1974, served as a crown witness against RAF prisoners; served a six and a half year sentence, upon his release was relocated to the U.S.A.
Negt, Oskar: b. 1934; Frankfurt School philosopher and social theorist; 1972, as a representative of the New Left and the APO developed a bitter critique of the RAF.
Newerla, Armin: Lawyer for RAF prisoners; 1977, arrested and charged with supporting a terrorist organization; 1980, sentenced to three years and six months in prison.
Oberwinder, Michael: Lawyer for RAF prisoners.
Ohnesorg, Benno: 1940-1967; shot dead by an undercover police officer at an anti-Shah demonstration in West Berlin on June 2, 1967.
Payot, Denis: Swiss lawyer; 1977, acted as the intermediary between the RAF and the West German government during the German Autumn.
Pieler, Roland: 1957-1977; Schleyer’s bodyguard; 1977, killed by the RAF.
Plambeck, Juliane: 1952-1980; 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, Helmut: b. 1943; 1970, associated with the RAF; 1973, joined the RAF; 1974, arrested; 1979, released from prison and went back underground; 1984, arrested; 1998, pardoned after he suffered a stroke in prison.
Pohle, Rolf: 1942-2004; associated with both the RAF and the 2JM; 1971, arrested; 1975, released from prison as part of an prisoner exchange for CDU politician Peter Lorenz who had been kidnapped by the 2JM; 1976, arrested in Greece and extradited to West Germany; 1982, released from prison; 1984, returned to Greece.
Ponto, Jürgen: 1923-1977; 1977, shot dead by the RAF during a bungled kidnapping attempt.
Prinzing, Theodor: b. 1923; 1974-1977, main judge in the Stammheim trial of RAF prisoners; 1977, forced to recuse himself when it was discovered he had been leaking classified trial documents.
Proll, Astrid: b. 1947; founding member of the RAF; 1971, arrested, released to a prison hospital the same year for health reasons, escaped and fled to England where she lived under the name Anna Puttick; 1978, arrested in London and extradited to West Germany; 1979, sentenced to five and a half years, 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 out his sentence.
Rabehl, Bernd: b. 1938; leading theorist for the SDS and the APO; 2005, began a public association with the neo-nazi NPD.
Raspe, Jan-Carl: 1944-1977; 1967, founding member of Kommune 2; 1970, joined the RAF; 1972, arrested following May Offensive; 1977, killed in prison during the events of the German Autumn.
Rauch, Georg von: 1947-1971; 1968, founding member of the Roaming Hash Rebels; 1970, arrested; 1971, killed in an exchange of fire with the police.
Rebmann, Kurt: 1924-2005; 1977-1990, Attorney General.
Reinders, Ralf: b. 1948; founding member of the 2JM; 1975, arrested; 1990, released from prison.
Röhl, Klaus Rainer: b. 1928; 1953, joined KPD; 1957, founded konkret; 1961, married Ulrike Meinhof; 1964, left the KPD; 1974, left konkret; 1981, took over Spontan; 1995, joined the FDP.
Roll, Carmen: SPK member, 1972, joined the RAF, arrested the same year prior to the May Offensive; 1976, released from prison, moved to Italy.
Rössner, Bernd: b. 1946; 1974, joined the RAF; part of the Holger Meins Commando that carried out the failed Stockholm embassy hostage taking in 1975; received two life sentences in 1977; 1992, released from prison on health grounds; 1994, pardoned.
Ruhland, Karl-Heinz: b. 1938; 1970, became close to the RAF, arrested the same year, becoming the first RAF associate to serve as a crown witness.
Scheel Walter: b. 1919; Chairman of the DP, 1968-1974; Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister during Willy Brandt’s Social-Liberal Coalition (1969-1974); President during the first five years of Helmut Schmidt’s administration (1974-1979).
Schelm, Petra: 1951-1971; 1970, joined RAF; 1971, killed in an exchange of fire with the police.
Schiller, Karl: 1911-1994; SPD politician; 1966-1972, Minister of the Economy; 1971-1972, Minister of Finance.
Schiller, Margrit: b. 1948; SPK member; 1970, joined the RAF; 1971, arrested; 1973, released from prison and went back underground; 1974, arrested; 1979, released from prison; 1985, went into voluntary exile in Cuba; 1993, moved to Uruguay.
Schily, Otto: b. 1932; lawyer for RAF prisoners; 1980, founding member of the Green Party; 1989, left the Green party to join the SPD; 1994-1998, Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Faction; 1998-2005, Federal Minister of the Interior, 2005, joined the boards of two biometric security firms.
Schleyer; Hanns Martin: 1915-1977; former SS member and leading West German industrialist; 1977, kidnapped and executed by the RAF during the German Autumn.
Schmid, Norbert: 1938-1971; police officer; 1971, killed in an exchange of fire with RAF members.
Schmidt, Helmut: b. 1918; SPD politician; 1967-1969, Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Faction; 1969-1972, Federal Minister of Defense; 1972, Federal Minister of Economics; 1972-1974, Federal Minister of Finance; 1974-1982, Chancellor.
Schmitz, Sabine: b. 1956; joined RAF sometime in 1976, arrested that same year and charged under §129.
Schneider, Gerd: Member of the RAF, 1977, arrested in Amsterdam and extradited to West Germany, sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Scholze, Uli: b. 1947; 1970, joined the RAF, but left shortly thereafter.
Schoner, Herbert: 1939-1971; police officer; 1971, shot dead by RAF members robbing a bank.
