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Baader–Meinhof gang

Popular name for the West German left‐wing guerrilla group the Rote Armee Fraktion/Red Army Faction, active from 1968 against what it perceived as US imperialism. The three main founding members were Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof.

The group carried out a succession of terrorist attacks in West Germany during the 1970s and claimed responsibility 1990 for the murder of Detlev Rohwedder, the government agent responsible for selling off state‐owned companies of the former East German regime.

A former student activist, Baader was sentenced to life imprisonment April 1977; he took his own life in October, following the failure of the Faction's hostage swap attempt at Mogadishu airport.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
 
 

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