Siegfried Hausner
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Siegfried Hausner | |
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Died | 5 May 1975 | (aged 23)
Organization(s) | Socialist Patients' Collective, Red Army Faction |
Siegfried Hausner (24 January 1952 – 5 May 1975) was a student member of the German Socialist Patients' Collective who was sentenced to three years imprisonment in 1972 for terrorist related crimes. When he was released in 1974, like many other former members of the SPK, he joined the Red Army Faction.
Stockholm Embassy siege
In 1975 Hausner was handpicked by
In the documentary film Stockholm 75, fellow Kommando Holger Meins member
While fellow Kommando Holger Meins member
His hurried relocation to Germany, the quality of treatment he received at
Legacy
After his death, Siegfried Hausner became a martyr to the cause (along with other late terrorists, such as Holger Meins and Petra Schelm).
When Siegfried Buback was assassinated in April 1977, the RAF claimed responsibility in honor of Ulrike Meinhof and Siegfried Hausner. In the final video recording of kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer made before his murder by the RAF in October 1977, Schleyer is seen holding a placard that read, “Commando Siegfried Hausner.” The terrorist group involved in Operation Leo planned to rename their unit "Commando Siegfried Hausner" in honour of the deceased extremist before their plot failed.
Some[who?] believe that the assassination of Sweden's prime minister Olof Palme on 28 February 1986 was in retaliation for his allowing Hausner to be deported.
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