Irmgard Möller
Irmgard Möller | |
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Born | 1947 |
Organization | Red Army Faction |
Irmgard Möller (born 1947) is a German former militant. She joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in 1971. After participating in two bombings she was arrested the following year. During the German Autumn of 1977, she was one of the prisoners demanded by the RAF to be freed and was part of an alleged suicide pact in Stammheim Prison with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe. The other three died and she survived, claiming it was an assassination attempt. She was released from prison in 1994.
Early life
Irmgard Möller was born in 1947.
RAF activity
In October 1971, Möller and fellow RAF members
Recent RAF recruit
German Autumn
During the
When she had recovered, Möller stated it was an assassination attempt and there was no suicide pact. She had been awakened around 04:30 on the morning of 17 October by loud bangs and she had not stabbed herself four times in her chest. Baader and Raspe had allegedly shot themselves, so questions were raised about how they had obtained guns in a supermax prison; Baader had powder burns on his right hand, but he was left-handed.[4]
Release
Möller was released from prison on 1 December 1994. She published a book in which the journalist Oliver Tolmein interviewed her about her time in the RAF.[5]
Selected works
- Tolmein, Oliver; Möller, Irmgard (2013). "RAF - das war für uns Befreiung": Ein Gespräch mit Irmgard Möller über bewaffneten Kampf, Knast und die Linke ["RAF - That was liberation for us": A conversation with Irmgard Möller about armed struggle, prison and the left] (5 ed.). Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verl. ISBN 978-3894582173.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-60486-030-6.: 356
- ^ a b Diewald-Kerkmann, Gisela (2007). "Bewaffnete Frauen im Untergrund [Armed women in the underground]". Zeitgeschichte Online. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ^ ISBN 0-7181-1582-1.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-60486-029-0.
- ^ Schrep, Bruno (21 April 1997). "Die Legende hat überlebt [The legend has survived]". Spiegel Online. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2018.