Terrorists and Urban Guerrillas

 

The Baader-Meinhof Gang Andreas Baader Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin Jan-Carl Raspe Astrid Proll Kay-Werner Allnach Brigitte Asdonk Dierk Hoff Häns-Jürgen Backer Holger Meins Horst Mahler Horst Söhnlein Thorwald Proll Ilse Stachowiak Ingrid Schubert Irene Goergens Irmgard Möller Ingeborg Barz Karl-Heinz Ruhland Monika Berberich Werner Hoppe Beate Sturm Eric Grusdat Heinrich Jansen Katharina Hammerschmidt Manfred Grashof Marianne Herzog Peter Homann Petra Schelm Ulrich Scholze Wolfgang Grundmann Thomas Weissbecker

The Socialist Patients Collective (SPK) Bern Rössner Hanne-Elise Krabbe Karl-Heinz Dellwo Klaus Jünschke Lutz Taufer Brigitte Mohnhaupt Gerhard Müller Elisabeth von Dyck Knut Folkners Ralf Baptist Friedrich Sieglinde Hoffmann Carmen Roll Margrit Schiller Siegfried Hausner Friedrike Krabbe Alfred Mahrländer Bernhard Braun Ursula Huber Wolfgang Huber The Red Army Faction Angelike Speitel Christa Eckes Peter-Jürgen Boock Stefan Wisniewski Silke-Maier-Witt Monika Helbing Christian Klar Adelheid Schulz Willy Peter Stoll Rolf Clemens Wagner Sigrid Sternebeck Christopher Wackernagel Roland Mayer Jörg Lang Karl-Heinz Roth Hans-Peter Konieczny Sabine Schmitz Siegfried Haag Angela Luther Johannes Thimme Susanne Albrecht Ulrich Wessel Volker Speitel Waltraud Boock Werner Sauber

Movement 2 June Fritz Teufel Gabi Kröcher-Tiedemann Gabrielle Rollnick Inge Viett Ingrid Barabass Ingrid Siepmann Juliane Plambeck Ralf Reinders Rolf Heissler Rolf Pohle Till Meyer Georg von Rauch Gerald Klopper Ulrich Schmücker Verena Becker Willi Rather Wolfgang Knupe Bommi Baumann Ronald Fritzch Revolutionary Cells Brigitte Kuhlmann Hans-Joachim Klein Wilfred Böse West Berlin Tupamaros/Blues Dieter Kunzelmann Rainer Langhans Other Terrorists Carlos (the Jackal) Nabil Harb Souhalia Andrawes Nadia Shehadah Duaibes Zohair Akache

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is a terrorist?

During the years of terror in West Germany, 1968-1977, close to one hundred Germans became active left-wing terrorists, joining one of three terrorist groups: the Red Army Faction (RAF), Movement 2 June, and the Revolutionary Cells (RZ).

Of the three, the Red Army Faction was the most well-known (often called "The Baader-Meinhof Gang"), though the Movement 2 June as well as the Revolutionary Cells probably committed as many terrorist acts. A precursor group, Tupamaros West Berlin, existed for only a year or so, before many of it's members formed the Movement 2 June. Other groups, such as the Ruhr Red Army, and Tupamaros Munich, predated the Baader-Meinhof Gang, but their activities were quite limited and don't warrant inclusion in this discussion.

Many former members of a group of psychiatric patients called the Socialist Patient's Collective (SPK) joined up with the Red Army Faction in the mid-1970s, revitalizing that group. All of the groups were in contact with each other in one form or another, with members often switching groups.

I have elected to differentiate the core members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang (the people who were in the group before around 1972) from the successive generations of the RAF, but technically they were the same group, and there was much overlay between what we treat as distinct groups. The Socialist Patient's Collective joined the RAF after most of the RAF's original members were jailed, thus creating the so-called "second generation of the RAF." The terrorists listed at the left have been placed in the group that it seemed most appropriate to place them in -- if they were members of another group, we have tried to note it on their page.

For some of the terrorists there is a great deal of conflicting information available -- such as the case with Wilfred Böse, the West German terrorist killed in the Entebbe Raid of 1976, who has alternately been identified as a member of the RAF and the leader of the Revolutionary Cells. Some of the groups, particularly the Revolutionary Cells, did not seek the spotlight as much as others; therefore there is less information about them.

In the 20 years following 1977, the size of the groups shrank, and some of the groups disappeared, but their actions proved deadlier and more destructive. The final terrorist action attributed to the last of the groups, The RAF, occurred in 1993. The remaining members of the Red Army Faction announced their disbanding in late April 1998. All of the terrorists listed were members of a terrorist group between 1968 and 1977. Those that began their activities later than 1977 are not included.