List of Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof) assassinations
This is a list of people assassinated by the West German left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction or the Baader-Meinhof group.
| Target | Title | Date | Place | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norbert Schmid[1] | German police officer | 22 October 1971 | Hamburg |  West Germany
|
| Herbert Schoner[2] | German police officer | 22 December 1971 | Kaiserslautern | |
Paul A. Bloomquist[3]
|
US Army soldier | 11 May 1972 | Frankfurt am Main
| |
| Gerta Buddenberg[4] (survived) | spouse of Federal Judge | 16 May 1972 | Karlsruhe | |
| Ronald A. Woodward[5] | US Army soldier | 24 May 1972 | Heidelberg | |
| Charles L. Peck[5] | US Army soldier | 24 May 1972 | ||
| Clyde R. Bonner[5] | US Army soldier | 24 May 1972 | ||
| Andreas von Mirbach[6] | German military attaché | 24 April 1975 | Stockholm |  Sweden
|
| Heinz Hillegaart[6] | German trade attaché | 24 April 1975 | ||
| Fritz Sippe | German police officer | 7 May 1976 | Sprendlingen | West Germany
|
| Siegfried Buback[7] | Federal prosecutor | 7 April 1977 | Karlsruhe | |
| Jürgen Ponto[7] | CEO of Dresdner Bank | 30 July 1977 | Oberursel
| |
| Heinz Marcisz[8] | Schleyer's driver | 5 September 1977 | Cologne | |
| Roland Pieler[8] | German police officer | 5 September 1977 | ||
| Reinhold Brändle[9] | German police officer | 5 September 1977 | ||
| Helmut Ulmer[9] | German police officer | 5 September 1977 | ||
| Hanns Martin Schleyer[10] | Chairman of the German Employers' Association | 18 October 1977 | Mulhouse |  France
|
| Arie Kranenburg[11] | Dutch policeman | 22 September 1977 | Utrecht |  Netherlands
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| Hans-Wilhelm Hansen [12] | German police officer | 24 September 1978 | Dortmund | West Germany
|
| Dionysius de Jong | Dutch custom official | 1 November 1978 | Kerkrade | Netherlands
|
| Johannes Goemanns | Dutch custom official | 1 November 1978 | ||
| Ernst Zimmerman[13] | CEO of MTU Aero Engines | 1 February 1985 | Gauting | West Germany
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| Frank Scarton[14] | US Airman | 8 August 1985 | Rhein-Main Air Base | |
| Edward Pimental[15] | U.S. Army soldier | 8 August 1985 | Wiesbaden | |
| Becky Bristol[14] | U.S. Army civilian employee | 8 August 1985 | Rhein-Main Air Base | |
| Karl Heinz Beckurts[16] | Siemens manager | 9 July 1986 | Straßlach
| |
| Eckhard Groppler[16] | Beckurts's driver | 9 July 1986 | ||
| Gerold Braunmühl[17] | German senior diplomat | 10 October 1986 | Bonn | |
| Alfred Herrhausen[18] | Chairman of Deutsche Bank | 30 November 1989 | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
| |
| Detlev Karsten Rohwedder[19] | Chief of the Treuhandanstalt | 1 April 1991 | Düsseldorf | Germany
|
| Michael Newrzella[20] | German Federal Police officer
|
27 June 1993 | Bad Kleinen |
References
- ^ "In Hamburg wurde der Polizist Norbert Schmid erschossen -- von Angehörigen der Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe?". Der Spiegel. 24 October 1971.(In German)
- ^ "RAF-Terror in Kaiserslautern 40 Jahre nach Buback-Attentat". Der SWR.(In German)
- ^ "Baader and 2 in West German Gang Sentenced to Life". The New York Times. 29 April 1977.
- ^ "ATTENTATEFruchtbare Zeit". Der Spiegel. 21 May 1972.
- ^ a b c "Als der RAF-Terror Heidelberg erreichte". Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung.
- ^ a b "1975: Baader-Meinhof blow up embassy". BBC On this day 1950-2005. 24 April 1975.
- ^ a b "Who were the Baader-Meinhof gang?". BBC News. 12 February 2007.
- ^ a b "Andreas Geyr war neun, als vor seiner Haustür Hanns-Martin Schleyer entführt wurde. Er sah Dinge, die er nicht hätte sehen dürfen Der Junge und die Mörder". Berliner Zeitung. 3 September 2007.
- ^ a b "Der Tag, an dem Schleyer entführt wurde". WeltN24. 10 August 2012.
- ^ "1977: Kidnapped German found dead". BBC On this day 1950-2005. 19 October 1977.
- ^ "Ex-RAF-terrorist heeft berouw om dood agent". Trouw. 27 August 2006.
- ^ "TERRORISTENEtwas läuft". DER SPIEGEL. 9 September 1979.
- ^ "TOP WEST GERMAN ARMS EXECUTIVE IS ASSASSINATED". The New York Times. 2 February 1985.
- ^ a b "CAR BOMB KILLS 2 ON A U.S. AIR BASE IN WEST GERMANY". The New York Times. 9 August 1985.
- ^ "Red Army Murderer Is Paroled". The New York Sun.
- ^ a b ""Sollen die doch im Knast vergammeln"". Merkur.de. 9 May 2009.
- ^ "Gerold von Braunmühl erschossen". Der Spiegel. 9 October 2007.(In German)
- ^ "Deutsche Bank: From bombs and bravado to risks of a bailout". BBC News. 29 September 2016.
- ^ "Red Army Faction Is Suspected in German Killing". The New York Times. 3 April 1991.
- ^ Schrep, Bruno (10 October 1993). "Bad Kleinen Die verlorenen Söhne". Der Spiegel. (In German)