Ingrid Schubert

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Ingrid Schubert
Died12 November 1977(1977-11-12) (aged 33)
Years active1970–77
OrganizationRed Army Faction

Ingrid Schubert (7 November 1944 – 12 November 1977) was a West German militant and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF). She participated in the freeing of Andreas Baader from prison in May 1970 as well as several bank robberies before her arrest in October 1970. She was found dead in her cell in 1977.

Life

Schubert participated with

Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens.[3][4]

Schubert was tried along with Horst Mahler and Goergens;[5] the trial began on 1 March 1971,[6] and in April Schubert was sentenced to 13 years in prison.[citation needed] In 1975, she was one of the prisoners whose freedom was demanded during the West German Embassy siege in Stockholm.[7]

Between 1976 and 1977 she was imprisoned in JVA Stuttgart along with Baader,

death by hanging and the autopsy did not find evidence of suicide. Schubert had recently told her lawyer that she had no plans to kill herself.[7]

Legacy

When Gerold Braunmühl was killed by the RAF in 1986, the responsibility claim came from the "Kommando Ingrid Schubert".[7]

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