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. After becoming romantically involved with co-founder Andreas Baader, Ensslin was influential in the radicalization of Baader's left-wing beliefs and the intellectual head of the RAF. Gudrun Ensslin File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Gudrun Ensslin File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 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). ... Look up terrorist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Terrorist may refer to: Terrorism, violence (especially against civilians) that is militarily insignificant but aimed at undermining morale it also tends to reduce peoples love life dramatically by causing erectile disfunction The Terrorist, a 1998 film based on the life of a... 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... 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. ... 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. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word...

Ensslin was born in the village of Bartholomä in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the fourth of seven children. Her father, Helmut Ensslin, was a pastor of the Evangelical Church in Germany, also known as EKD. Ensslin was a stereotypical good girl, who did well at school and enjoyed reading the Bible. In her family, the social injustices of the world were often discussed and Gudrun is said to have been sensitized to social problems in West-Germany and the world as a whole. With an area of 35,742 km² and 10. ... The Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD) is a federation of 23 Lutheran, Reformed and United churches in their respective regions. ... The Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD) is a federation of 24 Lutheran, Reformed and United churches in their respective regions. ... Parts of this article contradict each other. ... West Germany was the informal name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include East Germany. ...

At the age of eighteen, Gudrun got the chance to spend a year in the United States of America, where she attended a high school in Pennsylvania. After high school, she got a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, like Ulrike Meinhof and Horst Mahler, two other members of the Red Army Faction, due to her excellent exams. Gudrun went to study philosophy, Anglistics and Germanistics, where she met Bernward Vesper, a left-wing German. Together with two other students, Ensslin and Vesper started a small business, a publishing house called Studio neue Literatur. At this time, Ensslin also tried to become a teacher. State nickname: The Keystone State Other U.S. States Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell (D) Official languages None Area 119,283 km² (33rd)  - Land 116,074 km²  - Water 3,208 km² (2. ... Ulrike Meinhof (October 7, 1934, Oldenburg - May 9, 1976, Stuttgart) was a German radical leftist militant who started out as a journalist. ... Horst Mahler (born January 23, 1936), is a German lawyer and active member within both the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) and Deutsches Kolleg, a right-wing think-tank calling for a nationalist revolution in Germany. ... 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... The term philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom. ... Germanistics is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present form. ...

In 1965 Gudrun and Bernward married and went to West-Berlin, where Gudrun worked on a doctorate at the Free University. In West-Berlin, they demonstrated against the Bomb and the presence of American military bases. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ...

In May of 1967, Ensslin gave birth to a son, Felix Robert. The marriage between Ensslin and Vesper was doing badly however, and Ensslin became engrossed in the prevailing left-wing culture. 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In June of 1967 Ensslin participated in political protests against the Shah of Iran, who was visiting Germany at the time. Though the Shah was viewed by governments in the West as a reformer, his regime was known to be brutal against political opponents, and the state police force (SAVAK) was believed to routinely torture prisoners. 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 GMO USDA protest Protest expresses relatively overt reaction to events or situations: sometimes in favour, more often opposed. ... SAVAK (Persian: ساواک, short for سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت کشور Sazeman-i Ettelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar, National Organization for Intelligence and Security) was the domestic security and intelligence service of Iran from 1957–1979. ...

Fights broke out between pro-Shah and anti-Shah factions on the Shah's arrival. A young man by the name of Benno Ohnesorg was shot in the back of the head by a police officer. (The organisation known as the Movement 2 June, which would become allied to the RAF, was named after this event.) The next night, Gudrun Ensslin angrily denounced West Germany as a fascist state at a political meeting. Benno Ohnesorg (October 15, 1940 _ June 2, 1967) was a German university student killed by a police officer on June 2, 1967, during a demonstration in Berlin against the visit of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to Germany. ... The Movement 2 June was a well known West German terrorist group. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...

The police officer, Karl-Heinz Kurras, was charged with manslaughter and acquitted of the charge on November 23, 1967 causing a public outrage. Things cooled down however, and this enraged Ensslin. She left her husband and her child in January 1968 and with Andreas Baader, whom she had met in the Summer of '67, she decided to actively fight "the system". On the night of April 2 1968 two fires broke out in two department stores in Frankfurt. Baader, Ensslin, Thorwald Proll and Horst Söhnlein were arrested three days later, and in October 1968 were sentences to three years in prison. They were released pending a revison in June 1969, but fled when the revision was dismissed. Baader was arrested on April 3, 1970. Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, who was at that time a well-known leftist polemicist, and two other women freed him on May 14, 1970. One person was shot. This was the beginning of the gang's violent crimes, and the RAF. Ensslin became, with the others, the most wanted person in Germany. She was arrested in a boutique June 8th, 1972 in Hamburg. November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 2 April is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... Ulrike Meinhof (October 7, 1934, Oldenburg - May 9, 1976, Stuttgart) was a German radical leftist militant who started out as a journalist. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Position of Hamburg in Germany Hamburgs central broadway Jungfernstieg at the Alster lake, between 1900 and 1914 This article is about the city in Germany. ...

Several attempts to free her from prison, through hostage-taking from symphatizers and so-called members of the 2nd generation of the RAF, failed. The last was the abduction of Hanns-Martin Schleyer on September 5, 1977, and when this failed to work, the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane "Landshut" on October 17. When the airplane was stormed by a German anti-terror commando, Schleyer was killed, and Ensslin was found hanging in her cell early in the morning of October 18. Officially, her death was ruled a suicide. However, sympathizers and Irmgard Möller, the only surviving RAF member imprisoned in Stammheim, persist that the deaths had been extrajudicial executions. 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. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 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. ...

For the events around the abduction of Schleyer and the Landshut, see also German Autumn. 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. ...