Word: meinhof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...identified as Günter Sonnenberg, 22, the No. 1 fugitive on West Germany's "Most Wanted" list. His companion, Verena Becker, 24, is now in West Germany's top security prison in Stammheim. Both had been involved with the terrorist Red Army Faction founded by Ulrike Meinhof, who hanged herself in prison last year, and Andreas Baader, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last month (TIME, May 9). Responsible for a series of "anti-imperialist" bank heists, bombings of U.S. Army bases in Germany and the assassinations of public officials, the Baader-Meinhof gang has been...
...late recruit to the Baader-Meinhof revolutionary cause, Sonnenberg had previously been arrested for demonstrating in a courtroom against prison conditions for convicted terrorists. Becker was a professional revolutionary. First jailed in 1972 for helping to bomb a British boating club in West Berlin, she was one of five imprisoned terrorists released in exchange for kidnaped politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp...
They began their partnership of terror in 1970 in a quiet research library in West Berlin. By prearrangement, Ulrike Meinhof, then 35 and a leftist journalist, sat at a table pretending to read. Studying near by, under armed guard, was a notorious anarchist she had interviewed in prison and deeply admired, Andreas Baader, then 27 and serving time for the 1968 fire-bombing of two Frankfurt department stores. Baader had won permission from prison authorities to study at the library. Suddenly three people burst into the library and sprayed the room with bullets and tear gas. The escape plan worked...
From then until their capture in 1972, Baader and Meinhof led their terrorist gang, the "Red Army Faction," in a series of daring crimes across West Germany: holding up banks, stealing fast, expensive cars and shooting it out with police. Spawned amid the student protests of the 1960s, the gang went underground to carry out a string of "anti-imperialist" crimes. In the spring of 1972 they set off bombs in Frankfurt and Heidelberg that killed four U.S. servicemen. After nearly three years in prison, Baader, Meinhof and two others finally went to trial...
Overkill. Ulrike Meinhof hanged herself in her prison cell in 1976. Holger Meins, another defendant, had died before the trial began following a hunger strike. But Andreas Baader and his two remaining confederates, after a nearly two-year trial, finally heard judgment pronounced last week in Stuttgart. Baader, now 33, Gudrun Ensslin, 36, and Jan-Carl Raspe, 32, were found guilty of murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years-a judicial tactic to minimize the possibility of parole...