Andreas Baader

Andreas Baader (May 6, 1943 - October 18, 1977) was the first leader of the German revolutionary organization Red Army Faction, commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. A high school dropout and petty criminal before his RAF involvement, he was one of the few members of the movement who did not attend a university. Andreas Baader, head of the Red Army Faction File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Andreas Baader, head of the Red Army Faction File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... A revolutionary is a person who either advocates or actively engages in some kind of revolution. ... RAF Logo with red star and MP5 The Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion; RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, which was one of the core groups within the RAF, was postwar Germanys most active leftist revolutionary group, which is... // Education The term dropout means a student who quits school before graduation. ...

In 1968, Baader and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin were convicted of the arson bombing of a department store in Frankfurt, Germany. Two years later he escaped from custody, aided by journalist Ulrike Meinhof, giving rise to the term Baader-Meinhof Group. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Gudrun Ensslin Gudrun Ensslin (August 15, 1940 - October 18, 1977) was a founder of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), the most famous German terrorist group. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ... Ulrike Meinhof (October 7, 1934, Oldenburg - May 9, 1976, Stuttgart) was a German radical leftist militant who started out as a journalist. ...

From 1970 to 1972, Baader robbed banks and bombed buildings. His lifestyle and that of other members of the gang involved opulence, glamorous apartments, sports cars, and weekends in Paris in 5-star hotels. Characteristics of the lifestyle led Baader, Meinhof and other gang members to be expelled from a Fedayeen training camp in Jordan in 1970. 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Fedayeen (from the Arabic fidai, one who is ready to sacrifice his life for the cause) describes several distinct, primarily Arab groups at different times in history. ...

On June 1, 1972, he and fellow RAF members Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins were apprehended in a lengthy shootout in Frankfurt. June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Jan-Carl Raspe (July 24, 1944 - October 18, 1977) member of the German militant group Red Army Faction. ... Holger Meins joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s. ...

Baader was then convicted in what was the longest and most expensive trial in German history.

To pressure German authorities into releasing Baader and other imprisoned members, on September 5, 1977, the RAF abducted then German employers' association president and former SS officer Hanns Martin Schleyer. When the authorities refused to comply with their demands, the RAF tried to exert additional pressure by hijacking the Lufthansa plane Landshut. On October 18 1977, the day after the GSG 9 raided Landshut in Mogadishu, Somalia, and ended the hijacking, Andreas Baader died in his prison cell from a gunshot wound. The same day, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe was also found dead in their prison cells at Stammheim. RAF member Irmgard Möller was found wounded in her cell after supposedly stabbing herself in the chest, but survived. Though all official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader and his two accomplices committed suicide, sympathizers and Irmgard Möller persist that the deaths had been extrajudicial executions. September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... Hanns Martin Schleyer (May 1, 1915 (Offenburg) - October 19, 1977 (assassinated by the Red Army Faction near Mulhouse, France)) was a German manager and employer representative. ... Lufthansa Boeing 737-300 Lufthansa Airbus A300-B4 Lufthansa Avro RJ85 Lufthansa (Deutsche Lufthansa AG) is the largest German airline company, headquartered in Cologne. ... The German Autumn (German: Deutscher Herbst) is a set of events revolving around the abduction of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane Landshut by the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the PFLP respectively in autumn 1977. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9 - Border protection group 9) is a German counter-terrorism unit, and is considered to be among the best of such units in the world. ... Mogadishu A Mogadishu boy straddles the remains of a US Black Hawk helicopter during the 1992-1995 UN peacekeeping operation Mogadishu (Somali: Muqdisho) is a city in eastern Africa, on the Indian Ocean. ... Jan-Carl Raspe (July 24, 1944 - October 18, 1977) member of the German militant group Red Army Faction. ... Irmgard Möller (born 1947) German member of the the Red Army Faction. ... Extrajudicial execution and extrajudicial punishment are terms to describe death sentences and other types of punishment, respectively, executed without prior proper judicial procedure. ...

In 2002, director Christopher Roth released a film about Baader titled Baader. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Bonnie and Clyde
• Klaus Rainer Röhl
• Wolfgang Grams

Bonnie Parker Bonnie and Clyde clowning. ... Klaus Rainer Röhl (born 1928) is a German journalist and writer. ... Wolfgang Grams (March 6, 1953 - June 27, 1993) was a member of the terrorist group Red Army Faction. ...

External links

• http://www.baader-meinhof.com/
• Breaking Comrade Baader Out