Members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) can be split up into three generations. The first (founding) generation existed from 1970 onwards. The second generation...
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The Red Army Faction (RAF, German: [ɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoː.tə aʁˈmeː fʁakˌt͡si̯oːn] ), also known as the Baader–Meinhof...
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successor groups, the Japanese Red Army and the United Red Army. The Red Army Faction originated as a schismatic militant sub-faction of a larger New Left...
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Stammheim Prison (category Red Army Faction)
leading members of the Red Army Faction urban guerrilla (RAF) group during their trials, as well as the courthouse in which they were tried. The section...
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activist and the founder and leader of Red Army Faction (Sekigunha), a schismatic militant subfaction of the Japan Communist League. He was the mastermind...
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Japan Air Lines Flight 351 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 727)
hijacked by members of the Red Army Faction of the Japan Communist League on March 31, 1970, in an incident usually referred to in Japanese as the Yodogo Hijacking...
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Daniela Klette (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
former German terrorist associated with the third generation Red Army Faction (RAF). She went underground in the 1990s and was arrested in February 2024...
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Irmgard Möller (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in 1971. After participating in two bombings she was arrested the following year. During the German Autumn of 1977, she...
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Gudrun Ensslin (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
terrorist and founder of the West German far-left militant group Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang)...
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had been a leading member in the Red Army Faction (赤軍派, Sekigun-ha) in Japan, whose roots lay in the Communist League, part of the militant New Left in...
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Andreas Baader (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
before his involvement in the Red Army Faction. He was one of the few members of the RAF who did not attend university. At the age of twenty, Baader moved...
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Ernst-Volker Staub (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
German fugitive associated with the third generation Red Army Faction (RAF). Arrested in 1984, Staub was convicted of membership in a terrorist organization...
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schismatic militant subfaction of the Japan Communist League. After many members of the Red Army Faction were arrested by the Japanese police with Mori remaining...
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Red Faction: Guerrilla is a third-person shooter video game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox...
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Ulrike Meinhof (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
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...
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Birgit Hogefeld (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
27 July 1956) is a former member of the West German Red Army Faction (RAF). Born in 1956 in Wiesbaden, Hogefeld joined the RAF in 1984, once she turned...
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Susanne Albrecht (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
former member of the Red Army Faction. Albrecht was the daughter of a successful maritime lawyer, and spent her childhood living in a wealthy suburb of Hamburg...
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Brigitte Mohnhaupt (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
former terrorist associated with the second generation of the Red Army Faction (RAF) members. She was also part of the Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK)...
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Silke Maier-Witt (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
Silke Maier-Witt is a German former member of the Red Army Faction who later became a trauma psychologist and welfare organiser. During 2000 she was recruited...
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Jan-Carl Raspe (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
Raspe (24 July 1944 – 18 October 1977) was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction (RAF). Raspe was born in Seefeld in Tirol (then...
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Holger Meins (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s and died on hunger strike in prison. Meins became an important member of the RAF and was seen...
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Horst Mahler (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
founding member of the Red Army Faction who later became a Maoist, before switching to neo-Nazism. Between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the far-right...
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Petra Schelm (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
German founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF). She trained as an urban guerilla in Jordan and was killed in a shootout with the police in Hamburg...
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Astrid Proll (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
an early member of the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang). She is a photo editor and published a book. Proll was the younger sister of Thorwald Proll...
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Ina Siepmann (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
militant who was a member of the Movement 2 June (M2J) and later the Red Army Faction (RAF). She was freed from prison during the Peter Lorenz kidnapping...
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Ingrid Schubert (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
was a West German militant and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF). She participated in the freeing of Andreas Baader from prison in May 1970...
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Jürgen Ponto (category Victims of the Red Army Faction)
chairman of the Dresdner Bank board of directors. Previously, he had worked as a lawyer. He was murdered by members of the Red Army Faction in events...
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Wolfgang Grams (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
Wolfgang Grams (March 6, 1953 – June 27, 1993) was a member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German far-left terrorist organisation from 1970 to 1998....
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Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
(1951–1995) was a German far-left militant, associated with the Movement 2 June (J2M) and the Red Army Faction. She married Norbert Kröcher in 1971 and later divorced...
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Stefan Wisniewski (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF). Wisniewski was born in 1953 in Klosterreichenbach, a part of Baiersbronn, Baden-Württemberg, in the Black...
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