Sieglinde Hofmann
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Sieglinde Hofmann | |
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| Born | 14 March 1945 |
| Organization(s) | Socialist Patients' Collective, Red Army Faction |
Sieglinde Hofmann (born 14 March 1945) was a German militant and member of both the Socialist Patients' Collective[1] and the Red Army Faction.
Biography
As a child Hofmann attended a
social worker. She was believed to have joined the Red Army Faction (as part of their second generation) in 1976 after having first joined the SPK and was suspected of involvement in the killing of banker Jürgen Ponto. It is now known that it was actually the terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar who took part in the Ponto assassination.[2]
Hofmann was among the group of terrorists who took part in the kidnapping of
Hanns-Martin Schleyer. She walked along the road that Schleyer's convoy was passing pushing a pram laden with guns. She pushed the pram out into the middle of the street to stop the convoy from driving past, and as the cars slowed to a stop, she, along with a group of RAF terrorists, ambushed the cars, murdering Schleyer's driver, his bodyguard and two police officers.[2]
Hofmann, along with
Ingrid Barabass), following a raid on a RAF
safehouse.
Imprisonment
Although initially only charged with involvement in the murder of Ponto and condemned to serve fifteen years in prison, Hofmann was taken back into custody three days before the end of her sentence in August 1995 [4] to be tried for other offences. The second trial was only possible after a judicial clarification in France.
On 26 September of the same year, Hofmann, then 50 years old, was found guilty of involvement in five cases of
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.[6] and the murder/kidnapping of the President of the German Employer's Association, Hanns Martin Schleyer. She was, however, released from prison on 5 May 1999.[7]
See also
- Members of the RAF
- The Baader-Meinhof Gang
References
- ^ Wolfgang Kraushaar, "Die RAF und der linke Terrorismus", Hamburger Edition, 2006, Volume 1, p. 473
- ^ ISBN 978-0-370-31031-2
- ^ Getler, Michael (18 November 1978). "Belgrade Frees 4 Terrorist Suspects Wanted by Bonn". Washington Post. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ "German News - English Edition Tu, 29.08.1995". www.germnews.de. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
- ^ "German News - English Edition Tu, 26.09.1995". www.germnews.de. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
- ^ http://www.listserv.dfn.de/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9509&L=de-news&T=0&F=P&S=&P=2669[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) Documents". Archived from the original on 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
