The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History (67 page)

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.

Schiller, Karl:
1911-1994; 1933, member of the paramilitary Stormtroopers; 1937, joined the Nazi Party; 1946, joined the SPD; 1966-1972, minister of the economy; 1971-1972, minister of finance.

Schiller, Margrit:
b. 1948; SPK member; 1971, joined the RAF, arrested a few months later, sentenced to two years and three months; 1973, released from prison and returned underground; 1974, arrested; 1979, released from prison; 1985-1993, lived in exile in Cuba; 1993-2003, lived in exile in Uruguay; 2003, returned to Germany.

Schily, Otto:
b. 1932; lawyer for prisoners from the RAF; 1979, 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.

Schmidt, Helmut:
b. 1918; SPD politician; 1967-1969, chairman of the SPD parliamentary faction; 1969-1972, federal minister of defense; 1972-1974, federal minister of finance; 1974-1982, chancellor.

Schmitz, Sabine:
b. 1955; alleged RAF supporter; 1976, arrested and charged under §129.

Schneider, Gert:
RAF member; 1977, arrested in Amsterdam; 1978, extradited to the FRG; 1980, sentenced to fifteen years in prison; 1983, broke with the RAF; 1987, released from prison.

Schneider, Jürgen:
alleged RAF supporter, 1981, arrested and charged with supporting a terrorist organization; 1982, sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Schröder, Gerhard:
b. 1944; lawyer and SPD member; 1978-1980, represented former RAF member Horst Mahler, winning his freedom from prison; 1988, successfully represented Mahler in his effort to regain the right to practice law in the FRG; 1990-1998, president of Lower Saxony; 1998-2005, chancellor of the FRG.

Schubert, Ingrid:
1944-1977; 1970, founding member of the RAF, arrested the same year, sentenced to thirteen years in prison; 1977, killed in prison.

Schulz, Adelheid:
b. 1955; 1976, joined the RAF; 1982, arrested; 1985, received three life sentences; 1994, charged with the 1978 shooting death of a Dutch border guard on the basis of information provided by the defectors to the GDR; 1998, released from prison on grounds of ill health; 2002, pardoned.

Seckendorff-Gudent, Ekkehard von:
b. 1940; physician, RAF supporter; 1980, received asylum in the GDR; 1990, arrested and cooperated with police and prosecutors, released after one day as the only crime he was charged with was support for a terrorist organization, and the statute of limitations had expired.

Shultz, George:
b. 1920; 1969-1970, U.S. secretary of labor; 1972-1974, U.S. secretary of the Treasury; 1982-1989, U.S. secretary of state.

Siepmann, Ina:
b. 1944; nurse, alleged 2JM supporter; 1974, arrested; 1975, released from prison as part of a prisoner exchange for CDU politician Peter Lorenz, who had been kidnapped by the 2JM; 1978, following the Till Meyer breakout, she relocated permanently to the Middle East; 1982, killed in Lebanon by an Israeli airstrike during the Sabra and Shatila Massacre.