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The RAF was founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Horst Mahler, and others. [1] The first generation of the organization was commonly referred to by the press and the government as the "Baader-Meinhof Gang", a name the group did not use to refer to itself. [2]
The name refers to all incarnations of the organization: the "first generation" RAF, which consisted of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and others; the "second generation" RAF; and the "third generation" RAF, which existed in the 1980s and 90s. The terms "Baader–Meinhof Gang" and "Baader–Meinhof Group" were first used by the media and the government.
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
The Baader-Meinhof Group officially disbanded in 1998, sending an anonymous letter to Reuters’ office in Cologne in which the remaining members declared that “the urban guerrilla group in the ...
The following people were members of, or associated with, the German Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a militant revolutionary left-wing organization. Pages in category "Members of the Red Army Faction"
Ulrike Marie Meinhof (7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German left-wing journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971).
BERLIN (Reuters) -Daniela Klette, a member of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction militant group, was arrested in Berlin on Monday after decades on the run from armed robbery and attempted murder ...
Baader was arrested on 4 April 1970 in Berlin. [22] Ensslin, Meinhof, who was at that time a well-known leftist journalist, and two other women freed him on 14 May 1970. One person was wounded. This was the beginning of the gang's violent actions, and the Red Army Faction. [23] Ensslin became one of the most wanted people in Germany. [24] [25]