Brigitte Mohnhaupt
Brigitte Mohnhaupt | |
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Born | Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt 24 June 1949 |
Organization(s) | Socialist Patients' Collective, Red Army Faction, Tupamaros West-Berlin |
Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt (born 24 June 1949) is a German convicted former
Early life
Mohnhaupt was born in Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, the daughter of an employee in a publishing house. After her parents' divorce in 1960 she stayed with her mother. She took her
Activities as a member of the RAF
Mohnhaupt was first a member of the
- 9 June 1972: Mohnhaupt was arrested in criminal organization, identity document forgery, and illegal weapon possession.
- Shortly after Ulrike Meinhof's death in prison in 1976, Mohnhaupt was, on her own request, transferred to Stammheim Prison where the majority of other RAF prisoners were held captive. In Stammheim Prison she met Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader, and Jan-Carl Raspe, and was reportedly trained by them to become a leader of the RAF.
- She was released on 8 February 1977, and immediately went underground and continued her work with the RAF.
- Mohnhaupt was a major player in the Oberursel, Taunus. She was also involved in the kidnapping and murder of employer representative Hanns Martin Schleyer.
- 11 May 1978 Mohnhaupt, Sieglinde Hofmann, Rolf Clemens Wagner, and Peter-Jürgen Boock were arrested in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
- 17 November 1978 – Mohnhaupt and three other RAF members were allowed to leave Yugoslavia for a country of their choice because West Germany turned down an offer from Yugoslavia to extradite them in exchange for eight Croatian political fugitives in West Germany.[2]
- 15 September 1981 Mohnhaupt took part in an anti-tank rocket.
Arrest and imprisonment
On 11 November 1982 Mohnhaupt, along with
Her arrest was a massive blow to the RAF (as she had become almost as important to her RAF 'generation' as Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader had been to theirs).[3]
On 12 February 2007 amidst widespread media controversy, the appellate court of Stuttgart gave Mohnhaupt parole effective of 27 March 2007. She routinely qualified for early release after serving her mandatory sentence.[4] Parole was granted since she was no longer a danger to society according to a psychological expert and the
She was released from Aichach prison on 25 March 2007.[4]
Political debate surrounding her release
Many German politicians were in favour of clemency towards Mohnhaupt. Former Justice minister
References
- ^ J. Smith, André Moncourt, Bill Dunne, "The Red Army Faction: a documentary history", Kersplebedeb, 2009, p. 171
- ^ Getler, Michael (18 November 1978). "Belgrade Frees 4 Terrorist Suspects Wanted by Bonn". Washington Post. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Germany may grant parole to terrorists, UPI on The Washington Times website — URL accessed on January 19, 2007
- ^ a b BBC News (2007-02-12). "Meinhof gang killer to be freed". Archived from the original on 2007-02-14. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
- ^ "La bande à Baader hante toujours l'Allemagne" (in French). Le Figaro. 2007-01-24. Archived from the original on 2007-06-18. Retrieved 2007-02-12.. The statement is partially incorrect: Rudolf Hess served over 40 years in prison in the post World War II Allied system, but he was not convicted by a German court and did not serve time in a German prison. Most of the Nazis judged after the war were amnestied in the mid-1950s.
- ^ On March 25, 2007 she was released from prison Une ancienne de la bande à Baader bientôt libérée Archived 2007-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, Le Figaro, February 13, 2007
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-586-04665-8
- Jon Dough and Red Army Faction, The Urban Guerilla Concept, Kersplebedeb; Pamphlet edition (April 4, 2005), ISBN 978-1-894946-16-2
- Tom Vague, Televisionaries: The Red Army Faction Story, 1963–1993, AK Press; Rev Update edition (August 1994), ISBN 978-1-873176-47-4
- ISBN 978-0-88978-045-3
- Astrid Proll, Baader Meinhof, Pictures on the Run (Hans und Grete, Bilder der RAF), Aufbau Verlag, ISBN 978-3-931141-84-4(Oct 1998)
- Mohnhaupt kommt nach 24 Jahren frei, Spiegel Online, 12 February 2007