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  Baader-Meinhof: Timeline 1976
A second post-mortem is held at the request of Weinke Meinhof, Ulrike's sister, and at the request of the Baader-Meinhof defense lawyers.
Raspe says that even though the relationship between Meinhof and Baader was strained at times, it should be not considered evidence that she wanted to commit suicide.
Meinhof's funeral is held at Holy Trinity Protestant Cemetery in the Mariendorf section of West Berlin.
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 Baader-Meinhof: Terms - Baader-Meinhof Gang
The name Baader-Meinhof Gang certainly didn't come into usage until, of course, after Meinhof helped Baader escape from custody and the German press was looking for a suitable moniker to attach to the group.
Baader was unquestioningly the leader of the group, but his girlfriend Ensslin was more of a co-leader than Meinhof ever was.
And Baader and Meinhof were certainly never lovers.
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  Menneskerettigheder - Ensslin,Baader m.fl. v. Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Baader and Ensslin were serving terms of imprisonment, the former at Dusseldorf and subsequently Schwalmstadt prisons.
For example, Baader was temporarily deprived of the facility of Zusammenschluss, while Raspe was deprived of the right to listen to the radio and watch television Idecisions of the President of the Appeal Court of 25 February and 19 August 1976).
Meinhof's death ; whatever their reason for refusing the traditional form of judicial exchange, they were able to explain their motives and attitudes and to criticise the legitimacy of the system established to try them, these being the main lines of their own defence.
www.menneskeret.dk /menneskeretieuropa/konventionen/baggrund/domme/ensslinbaadervgermany   (8882 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On May 9, 1976, Ulrike Meinhof was found dead in her cell, hanging from a rope made from jail towels.
In the course of the night, Baader was found dead with a gunshot wound in the back of his head and Ensslin hanged in her cell; Raspe died in hospital the next day from a gunshot to the head.
Although Meinhof was not considered to be a leader of the gang at any time, her involvement in Baader's escape from jail in 1970 led to her name becoming attached to it.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Baader-Meinhof_Gang   (3771 words)

  
 Andreas Baader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Journalist Ulrike Meinhof and two other women were allowed to join him, but they opened the door for a masked man who shot at the 64 year old librarian, hitting his liver.
Horst Bubeck) in Stammheim, the defendants, especially Baader, kept their cells as dirty and disgusting as possible in order to keep the jailors from searching for items that the lawyers might have smuggled in; lawyers and defendants were not separated by panes of glass yet during unsupervised meetings (as evidenced by photos taken by inmates).
All official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader and his two accomplices committed collective suicide while Möller still insists that the deaths and her injury were extrajudicial executions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andreas_Baader   (610 words)

  
 Post World Industires-Library-Bio-Baader
We must arm ourselves!” Baader wasn’t at the protest because he was otherwise detained in a borstal (youth “apprentice” or detention center) for stealing a motorcycle.
Baader was especially loved by the kids because, while most of the students attempted to educate the kids radically with Hegel, Marx, and Kant, Baader used his practical experience to give them a radical education of a somewhat different variety.
In answer Baader declares “The anti-imperialist struggle and sexual emancipation go hand-in-hand, fucking and shooting are the same thing!” Soon, as the Germans are also too wacked out crazy for the PLO guerilla’s, their welcome is worn out and they return to cause trouble in Europe.
www.postworldindustries.com /library_text/library_bios/bio_baader.html   (1154 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Who were the Baader-Meinhof gang?
Baader was then captured with accomplices Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins in a Frankfurt shootout on 1 June, 1972.
Baader's girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin was arrested a week later, and Meinhof was caught in mid-June.
In the course of the trial, Meinhof was found hanging from a rope made of towels in her cell - her death sparking a stream of conspiracy theories from her followers.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/6314559.stm   (1169 words)

  
 The Turbulent Life of Ulrike Meinhof: What is the RAF?
The RAF was founded in 1970 with the liberation of Andreas Baader, operated from the underground, and was centered on Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof.
Meinhof claimed that the action of the urban guerilla was never directed against the people but instead against the imperialist apparatus i.e.
The suicide by Meinhof was later doubted by an International Investigatory Commission and it was postulated that the state had commissioned her execution.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~schen20m/classweb/ulrikemeinhof/RAF.htm   (807 words)

  
 Andreas Baader Summary
Baader, Meinhof, and the others were accused of murder, robbery, and the founding of a "criminal association." The Baader-Meinhof trial in a high security courthouse at Stuttgart-Stammheim began on May 21, 1975 and lasted until April 28, 1977, when all were sentenced to lifelong imprisonment.
Born in Munich, Baader was a high school dropout and petty criminal before his RAF involvement, and was one of the few members of the terrorist movement who did not attend a university.
Baader, Meinhof and other gang members were expelled from a Fedayeen training camp in Jordan in 1970.
www.bookrags.com /Andreas_Baader   (1394 words)

  
 CNN.com - German terrorist's brain buried - Dec. 21, 2002
Meinhof hanged herself in prison in 1976 and while her body was buried, her brain was removed for research.
But the university that carried out the study on the organ was forced to return it after Meinhof's twin daughters requested that their mother's brain be cremated and placed in an urn.
Meinhof was considered the intellectual head of the Red Army Faction, a left-wing revolutionary group which waged a campaign of killings, bombings and kidnappings against the establishment in the 1970s and into the 1980s after her death.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/12/21/germany.brain   (326 words)

  
 Baader Meinhof - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Baader Meinhof's 1971 album Orange-Mango was a double album which featured one record of somewhat incoherent repetitive noise, while the second record featured completely incoherrent, but less repetitive noise.
Baader Meinhof disbanded in 1980 when each member decided they would not show up at the studio to record the next album rather than actually break up the band.
Baader Meinhof has been said to have infuenced such bands as Can, Public Image Limited, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Blur as well as Radiohead.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Baader_Meinhof   (856 words)

  
 Sandbaggers--From Mogadishu to Baader-Meinheoff
Baader was finally captured after a 1972 shoot-out.
The day after the Mogadishu raid, Baader and two other RAF members were found dead in their cells by gunshot.
Whether or not the core founders had any further involvement, people calling themselves RAF and Baader Meinhoff lingered on causing no end of deviltry even after the unification of Germany in 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
www.opsroom.org /pages/intelligence/Mogadishu.html   (1135 words)

  
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Meinhof is moved into the “Dead Section” of Cologne’s Ossendorf prison.
Ulrike Hanna Meinhof is Professor of German and Cultural Studies and a specialist in discourse analysis.
After Carlos was arrested by the DST, German journalist Bettina Roehl (daughter of the late Ulrike Meinhof, co-leader of the terrorist Baader-Meinhof organization) revealed that Fischer did indeed belong to a Frankfurt/Main terrorist group during the 1970s.
www.lycos.com /info/ulrike-meinhof.html   (460 words)

  
 Bildrecherche: baader - Infos zur Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Schreibmaschine von Andreas Baader Auf der Schreibmaschine werden nachweislich Bekennerschreiben der RAF verfaßt.
Stichwörter: achterath, augustin, baader, barz, braun, brockmann, ensslin, fahndung, fichler, hammerschmidt, hausner, jünschke, keser, meinhof, meins, mohnhaupt, möller, plakat, raspe, reinders, stachowisk
Stichwörter: baader, becker, ensslin, meinhof, plottnitz, prozess, raspe, schily, stammheim
www.rafinfo.de /bildsuche.php?t=baader   (309 words)

  
 The Turbulent Life of Ulrike Meinhof and the RAF
On the 21st of June 1970, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin (the two most influential members of the RAF fulfilling leadership roles), and Ulrike Meinhof traveled to Jordan along with other members of the RAF where they were educated in guerilla tactics including shooting with Kalaschnikovs, throwing of hand grenades, robbing of banks.
Baader believed that the training the RAF received in Jordan was irrelevant for the task awaiting them in Germany.
Ulrike Meinhof has rewritten the letter from the point of a slave mother, Renate Riemeck, asking her daughter to deny freedom, turn around and be content with being an obedient, exemplary slave who could become an overseer if she accepted the authorities and her life as a slave.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~schen20m/classweb/ulrikemeinhof/UMRAF.htm   (3477 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Germany's 'Baader-Meinhof' Sanitized by Stephen Brown
Last year, a film was released about one of the RAF's founders, Andreas Baader, in which, one critic says, the petty criminal turned communist revolutionary is portrayed like a Jesse James-type figure, a dashing, social rebel, rather than the murderer that he really was.
This vile terrorist committed suicide in Stammheim Prison with a shot to the head from a smuggled pistol right after the passengers of a German airliner, hijacked in 1977 by Palestinian terrorists to force German authorities to free him, were rescued in Mogadishu.
Hanns-Martin Schleyer was a prominent German industrialist who was kidnapped on September 5 and executed October 18 of that year after the ruling socialist government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to meet the terrorists' demands and release from prison 11 RAF members.
frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10490   (948 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Germany's 'Baader-Meinhof' Sanitized by Stephen Brown
Last year, a film was released about one of the RAF's founders, Andreas Baader, in which, one critic says, the petty criminal turned communist revolutionary is portrayed like a Jesse James-type figure, a dashing, social rebel, rather than the murderer that he really was.
This vile terrorist committed suicide in Stammheim Prison with a shot to the head from a smuggled pistol right after the passengers of a German airliner, hijacked in 1977 by Palestinian terrorists to force German authorities to free him, were rescued in Mogadishu.
Hanns-Martin Schleyer was a prominent German industrialist who was kidnapped on September 5 and executed October 18 of that year after the ruling socialist government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to meet the terrorists' demands and release from prison 11 RAF members.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10490   (945 words)

  
 The Baader Meinhof Gang
She was there because it was the morning that Andreas Baader was being brought to their library and she was working on the book with him.
It was close to three weeks later, on the significant date of June 2, the anniversary of the death of a young man at a leftist demonstration, that the German Press Agency received a brief epistle explaining the action.
This nickname was misleading for while the leader of the group was undoubtedly Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof was not second-in-command nor was she Baader’s lover.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/meinhof/1.html   (975 words)

  
 Germany Baader Meinhof Red Army 1970-1992
In the middle of her trial in 1976, Ulrike Meinhof, one of the RAF ringleaders, committed suicide in prison.
Another member, Andreas Baader, was sentenced to life imprisonment, but in 1977 he too took his own life in prison.
By the early 1980s, the original leaders of the RAF had been succeeded by a new and equally violent group that was Marxist-Leninist in orientation and saw itself as part of an international movement to topple the power structures of the capitalist world.
www.onwar.com /aced/data/bravo/bmgraf1970.htm   (438 words)

  
 Cao’s Blog » » “Baader-Meinhof Gang” again in the news with release order
A GERMAN court ordered the release of Brigitte Mohnhaupt, a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) aka the Baader Meinhof Gang, who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in multiple kidnappings and murders in the 1970s.
Baader Meinhof is the German predecessor to the terrorist green organizations like Green Peace and the Ruckus Society, here in the United States.
The Baader Meinhoff gang was fueled by student anxiety that ranged from the war in Vietnam to university policies, and later morphed into kidnapping and murder, and then later, those who were released, pardoned, or excaped prosecution were Green Party advocates in the German government.
caosblog.com /4628   (1017 words)

  
 The Slow Death of Andreas Baader by Jean-Paul Sartre
Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof were the leaders of the Red Army Faction, an urban terrorist group which carried out kidnappings and assassinations in the 1970s.
Baader, who is a victim of this torture, speaks quite appropriately, but from time to time he stops, as if he has lost his train of thought.
His body has grown thin from his hunger strike; he is force fed by prison doctors, but he is very thin and has lost 15 kilos; he floats in his clothes, which have become too big.
www.marxists.org /reference/archive/sartre/1974/baader.htm   (731 words)

  
 Baader Meinhof : Baader Meinhof - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
With Baader Meinhof, Luke Haines, frontman of The Auteurs, experimented with a more aggressive, political style of music.
As a side project of The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof seems to work as a minimal, pop ode to free will, whether the socialist views are simply affections or truly felt.
Though Haines is sometimes criticized as being a lightweight because of his pop leanings, these ten appealing songs clearly promote the artist as an accomplished, underrated songwriter.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,241246,00.html   (340 words)

  
 nthposition online magazine: America in autumn
When Meinhof was first arrested in Hanover on June 15, 1974, the police were uncertain of her identity, as there were no recorded fingerprints to confirm.
They did, however, possess an X-ray of Meinhof's brain taken at the time of her surgery, distinguished by the presence of a tiny metallic capillary clamp.
Catalyzed by the media heat released during the Meinhof affair, the Institute for Brain Research at the University of Tübingen divulged that three other brains had mysteriously disappeared from its archive, brains that had been removed at autopsy from the bodies of Baader, Ensslin and Raspe and sent to Tübingen for pathological evaluation.
www.nthposition.com /americainautumn.php   (1236 words)

  
 The Stammheim Deaths — Kate Sharpley Library
She stabbed herself many times with a bread knife … Baader and Raspe shot themselves in their cells with two pistols, one a 7.65mm calibre and the other a 9mm calibre … The suicides were discovered as two prison guards entered Raspe's cell at 7.41 a.m.
Of course, a left-handed Baader could have shot himself in the back of his own head with his right hand, or his right hand could have been guided onto the trigger of a firing pistol aimed at the back of his head.
Baader had hard shoes on, practically new shoes, which he never wore, (Baader was well-known for his tennis shoes).
www.katesharpleylibrary.net /stammheim.htm   (7041 words)

  
 Baader-Meinhof: Store
Shooting script for Ulrike Meinhof's television movie that was set to air on May 24, 1970.
Inexplicably has Baader killed in a shootout for a denouement.
A fantastic audio collage featuring different friends and family members discussing Ulrike Meinhof; including her friend and biographer Stefan Aust, her daughter Bettina Röhl, and her sister Wienke.
www.baader-meinhof.com /special/store.htm   (1958 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Red Army Faction brains 'disappeared'
The ghoulish revelation comes just days after the daughters of Ulrike Meinhof, another of the revolutionaries, finally won permission to have her brain returned for burial.
The three, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe, killed themselves in jail in 1977, after first a kidnapping, then a jet hijacking failed to secure their release.
It emerged last week that tests on Ulrike Meinhof's brain soon after her death cast doubt on her fitness to stand trial.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2484745.stm   (327 words)

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