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1972 Three out of six bombs explode in the Springer Press
building in Hamburg
, Germany
- 17 are injured. The Red Army Faction claims responsibility.
1972 A RAF
bomb explodes in the Campbell Barracks of the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in Heidelberg, West Germany
. Three U.S. soldiers Clyde Bonner, Ronald Woodard and Charles Peck are killed.
1972 Andreas Baader
, Jan-Carl Raspe
, Holger Meins and some other members of Red Army Faction are arrested in Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.
1972 Ulrike Meinhof
and Gerhard Müller of Red Army Faction are arrested in a teacher's apartment in Langenhagen, West Germany.
1975 A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of the Springer Press
. The 6 March Group (connected to the Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.
1975 Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over West German embassy in Stockholm
, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish poli
1976 The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction begins in Stuttgart, West Germany
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1976 Ulrike Meinhof
of RAF
is found hanging in an apparent suicide, in her cell in Stuttgart-Stannheim prison.
1977 German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. "The Ulrike Meinhof
Commando" later claims responsibility.
1977 A Stuttgart court sentences RAF
members Andreas Baader
, Gudrun Ensslin
and Jan-Carl Raspe
to life imprisonment
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1977 German Autumn
: Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Employers Association, is kidnapped in Cologne
, West Germany
. The kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners.
1977 German Autumn
: Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia
and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction. (See Lufthansa Flight 181)
1977 German Autumn
: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader
, Jan-Carl Raspe
and Gudrun Ensslin
commit suicide in Stammheim prison; Irmgard Möller fails. Their supporters still claim they were murdered. They are buried October 27.
1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a terrorist's bomb (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder).
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