Birgit Hogefeld (born 1956 in Wiesbaden) was a member of the West German terrorist group The Baader-Meinhof Gang also known as the Red Army Faction. Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ... West Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include East Germany. ... RAF Logo The Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion; RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, was postwar Germanys most active radical leftist paramilitary group, which is widely regarded as a terrorist organization. ...

As a terrorist

Hogefeld joined the Red Army Faction late in the eighties (around 1984) long after its founding members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof were dead. She became the girlfriend of fellow terrorist Wolfgang Grams and moved in with him. Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Computers, technology Bulletin board system popularity Popularization of personal computers, Walkmans, VHS videocassette recorders, and compact disc (CD) players Home video games become enormously popular, most notably Atari until the market crashes in 1983; the rise of Nintendo brings about... 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. ... Gudrun Ensslin Gudrun Ensslin (August 15, 1940 - October 18, 1977) was a founder of the German terrorist group Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), better known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang. ... Ulrike Marie Meinhof (October 7, 1934 – May 9, 1976) was a German radical left-wing militant who started out as a journalist. ... Wolfgang Grams (March 6, 1953 - June 27, 1993) was a member of the terrorist group Red Army Faction. ...

In 1993 Hogefeld and Grams arrived at a train station in Bad Kleinen where a group of GSG 9 officers were waiting to arrest them (they had got a tip-off from a fellow GSG 9 officer who had infiltrated the RAF). According to the GSG 9 men, Hogefeld and Grams immediately started firing at them as soon as they saw them, and that Grams shot dead an officer named Michael Newrzella and then committed suicide and fell on the train tracks. However it was later revealed that Grams did not commit suicide but was shot dead by GSG 9 officers even after he had surrendered. The controversy surrounding his death and its cover-up cost a lot of German politicians their jobs. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ... 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. ... Michael Nerwzella (September 1967 - June 27, 1993) was a german police officer and member of the famous GSG 9. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In any case Hogefeld was arrested. She described the arrest in a letter;

I saw a pistol pointed at me and laid on the ground. Three men then covered me with their weapons, and it was clear to me that I better not make any false moves if I wanted to remain alive (...) For example, one of them ran up to me, yanked my head up and hit me in the face.[1]

She has been convicted of the attempted assassination of Hans Tietmeyer, former President of the Deutsche Bundesbank as well as other terrorist activities. In November 1996 she was given three life imprisonment sentences and is currently (2006) incarcerated in a Frankfurt detention centre. Assassin and Targeted killing redirect here. ... Dr Hans Tietmeyer is a German European economist and regarded as one of the foremost experts on international financial matters. ... Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) The majority of this article is about heads of states. ... The Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank) is the central bank of Germany and a part of the European System of Central Banks. ... Life ; many countries have a maximum possible period of time a prisoner may be incarcerated, or require the possibility of parole after a set amount of time. ... Main Station Frankfurt Frankfurt International Airport For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ...