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RAF terror: These acts of the “Red Army Faction” kept the Federal Republic in suspense

2024-03-28T12:05:10.712Z

Highlights: RAF terror: These acts of the “Red Army Faction” kept the Federal Republic in suspense. The actions of the Red Army Faction were present in Germany until the 1990s. The RAF commando “Holger Meins’ tried unsuccessfully to free 26 like-minded people from German prisons by occupying the embassy. Three US soldiers were killed and five others were injured by bombs from the RAF command “15 July” in 1972. The CEO of Deutsche Bank AG, Alfred Herrhausen, was killed in the bomb attack.



As of: March 28, 2024, 12:57 p.m

By: Jakob Koch

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The Herrhausen assassination attempt, the occupation of the German embassy in Stockholm or the murder of Detlev Rohwedder. The actions of the Red Army Faction were present in Germany until the 1990s.

1 / 10The aerial photo from March 28, 1993 shows parts of the devastated prison building in Weiterstadt near Darmstadt, which was reduced to rubble and ashes with five explosive devices by the “Red Army Faction” four days before the planned test operation. © Jürgen Mahnke/dpa

2 / 10Bullet holes in a window through which the chairman of the Berliner Treuhandanstalt, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, was shot in his home in Düsseldorf on April 1, 1991. The Red Army Faction (RAF) claimed responsibility for the attack. © dpa

3 / 10Police officers stand at the wreckage of a Mercedes limousine in Bad Homburg in 1989. The CEO of Deutsche Bank AG, Alfred Herrhausen, was killed in the bomb attack. © Kai-Uwe Wärner/dpa

4 / 10Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan Carl Raspe, leading figures in the RAF, committed suicide in prison in Stuttgart-Stammheim on October 18, 1977. They were buried under the strictest security precautions in the Dornhalden cemetery in Stuttgart. © dpa

5 / 10Silent march through downtown Frankfurt. The CEO of Dresdner Bank, Jürgen Ponto, was shot by RAF terrorists on July 30, 1977 in his home in Oberursel near Frankfurt. © Manfred Rehm/dpa

6 / 10View of the crime scene of the kidnapping of the then employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer by the Red Army Faction (RAF) in Cologne in 1977. Schleyer was later found murdered in the trunk of a car. © Wilhelm Bertram/dpa

7 / 10The crime scene with the covered bodies of Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback (front left) and his driver in Karlsruhe. The act is seen as the start of the year of terror in 1977, which culminated in the “German Autumn”. © Heinz Wieseler/dpa

8 / 10Hans-Dietrich Genscher in the rubble of the German embassy in Stockholm. In 1975, six members of the RAF commando “Holger Meins” tried unsuccessfully to free 26 like-minded people from German prisons by occupying the embassy. © dpa

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9 / 10On May 24, 1972, bombs from the RAF command “15. July". Three US soldiers were killed and five others were injured. © dpa

10 / 10Police chief Norbert Schmid was killed in a shootout in the Poppenbüttel district of Hamburg in 1971. A short time later, the police in the neighboring district of Sasel arrested 23-year-old Margrit Schiller, who was part of the Bader-Meinhof group at the time. © dpa/Georg Spring

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