Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann

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Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann
Born1951
Died7 October 1995
Organization(s)
Movement 2 June, Red Army Faction
SpouseNorbert Kröcher

Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann (1951–1995) was a German far-left militant, associated with the

Movement 2 June (J2M) and the Red Army Faction. She married Norbert Kröcher in 1971 and later divorced him whilst she served a prison sentence. She was freed by the kidnapping of Peter Lorenz in 1975, then participated in the OPEC siege
. In 1977, she was arrested in Switzerland after shooting two policemen. She was imprisoned until 1991 and died in 1995.

Life

Gabriele Tiedemann was born in 1951 and attended the

anarchist 2 June Movement (2JM, named after date of the killing of Benno Ohnesorg in 1967) as it formed in the early 1970s alongside Verena Becker, Georg von Rauch, Inge Viett, Ina Siepmann, Ralf Reinders and Norbert Kröcher.[1]: 46 [2] She married Kröcher in 1971, taking the name Kröcher-Tiedemann.[1]: 298  She was arrested in 1973 and was charged with bombings made by the Rote Ruhr Armee (Red Ruhr Army). She had wounded a police officer during her capture and was sentenced to eight years in prison.[1]: 214  Whilst in prison she divorced Kröcher and stopped using his name.[1]
: 214 

In 1975, 2JM kidnapped

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) was organised by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO) in order to protest against the lifting of OPEC's oil embargo against Israel.[3]
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Arrest

In November 1977, the Austrian industrialist

The following month Tiedemann was arrested in Switzerland with fellow radical
Willy Peter Stoll; after checking fingerprints, they announced they had arrested Tiedemann and Möller. In Tiedemann's luggage, the police found fake identity papers, a report on the kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer, blueprints for the Israeli embassy in Belgium, two rifles and $20,000 from the Palmers ransom.[5] Tiedemann was handed a 15 year prison sentence.[1]
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The RAF prisoners launched their eighth collective hunger strike in February 1981, demanding to associate with other prisoners and to be monitored by the International Commission for the Protection of Prisoners and Against Isolation Torture. In Switzerland, Möller, Tiedemann and Rolf Clemens Wagner joined the strike and on 11 March, reported that their conditions had improved.[3]: 152, 154  In 1987, Tiedemann was extradited to West Germany where she served the rest of her sentence received after her 1973 arrest.[1]: 214  She was charged for her part in the OPEC raid and was acquitted in May 1990.[3]: 61 

Tiedemann was released from prison in 1991 and died on 7 October 1995.[1]: 214 [3]: 61 

In popular culture

Kröcher-Tiedemann was portrayed by

Carlos.[6]

References

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  2. ^ Sontheimer, Michael (20 July 2016). "Nachruf auf Bommi Baumann: Wie alles endete". Die Tageszeitung (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
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  4. ^ a b "Swiss Say They Hold a Terrorist Who Raided Vienna OPEC Parley". The New York Times. 22 December 1977. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  5. ^ a b Weck, Hervé de (22 December 2017). "Jura-Serie: Deutsche Terroristen im Jura". Blog zur Schweizer Geschichte (in German). Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Julia Hummer im Interview: "Ich bemerke ja kaum, wie gläsern ich bin."". Planet Interview (in German). 8 November 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2024.