List of Assaults Attributed To The RAF
See also: Members of the Red Army Faction| Date | Place | Action | Remarks | Photo |
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| 22 October 1971 | Hamburg | Police officer killed | RAF members Irmgard Möller and Gerhard Müller attempted to rescue Margrit Schiller who was being arrested by the police by engaging in a shootout. Police sergeant Heinz Lemke was shot in the foot, while Sergeant Norbert Schmid, 33, was killed, becoming the first murder to be attributed to the RAF. | |
| 22 December 1971 | Kaiserslautern | Police officer killed | German Police officer Herbert Schoner, 32, was shot by members of the RAF in a bank robbery. The four militants escaped with 134,000 Deutsche Marks. | |
| 11 May 1972 | Frankfurt am Main | Bombing of US Army V Corps headquarters and the Terrace Club | US Army LTC Paul A. Bloomquist killed,
13 wounded |
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| 12 May 1972 | Augsburg and Munich | Bombing of a police station in Augsburg and the Bavarian State Criminal Investigations Agency in Munich | 5 police-officers wounded. Claimed by the Tommy Weissbecker Commando. | |
| 16 May 1972 | Karlsruhe | Bombing of the car of the Federal Judge Buddenberg | His wife was driving the car and was wounded. Claimed by the Manfred Grashof commando. | |
| 19 May 1972 | Hamburg | Bombing of the Axel Springer Verlag. The building was not evacuated even though warnings about the bombing were made by the RAF. | 17 wounded. Ilse Stachowiak was involved in the bombing. | |
| 24 May 1972 18:10CET | Heidelberg | Bombing outside of Officers Club followed by a second bomb moments later in front of Army Security Agency (ASA), U.S. Army in Europe (HQ USAREUR) at Campbell Barracks. Known involved RAF members: Irmgard Möller and Angela Luther, Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, Holger Meins, Jan-Carl Raspe. | 3 dead (Ronald A. Woodward, Charles L. Peck and Captain Clyde R. Bonner), 5 wounded. Claimed by 15 July Commando (in honour of Petra Schelm). Executed by Irmgard Moeller. | |
| 24 April 1975 | Stockholm | West German embassy siege, murder of Andreas von Mirbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegaart | 4 dead, of whom 2 were RAF members | |
| 7 May 1976 | Sprendlingen near Offenbach | Police officer killed | 22 year old Fritz Sippel was shot in the head when checking an RAF member's identity papers. | |
| 4 January 1977 | Giessen | Attack against US 42nd Field Artillery Brigade at Gießen. | In a failed attack against the Gießen army base, the RAF sought to capture or destroy nuclear weapons present. A diversionary bomb attack on a fuel tank failed to fully ignite the fuel, and the assault on the armory was then repulsed, with several RAF members killed in the ensuing firefight. The presence of U.S. warheads on German soil was classified and officially denied at the time, and the incident received little publicity. General William Burns, who commanded the base in 1977, detailed the attack in a 1996 interview. | |
| 7 April 1977 | Karlsruhe | Assassination of the federal prosecutor-general Siegfried Buback | The driver and another passenger were also killed. Claimed by the Ulrike Meinhof Commando. This murder case was brought up again after the 30 year commemoration in April 2007 when information from former RAF member Peter-Jürgen Boock surfaced in media reports. | |
| 30 July 1977 | Oberursel (Taunus) | The director of Dresdner Bank, Jürgen Ponto, is shot in his home during an attempted kidnapping. Ponto later dies from his injuries. | ||
| 5 September 1977
18 October 1977 |
Cologne resp.
Mulhouse |
Hanns-Martin Schleyer, chairman of the German Employers' Association, is kidnapped and later shot | 3 police-officers and the driver are killed during the kidnapping | |
| 22 September 1977 | Utrecht, Netherlands | Shooting outside a bar | Arie Kranenburg (46), Dutch policeman, shot and killed by RAF Knut Folkerts | |
| 24 September 1978 | A forest near Dortmund | Murder of a police officer | Three RAF members (Angelika Speitel, Werner Lotze, Michael Knoll) were engaged in target-practice when they were confronted by police. A shoot-out followed where one police-man (Hans-Wilhelm Hans, 26) was shot dead, and one of the RAF terrorists (Knoll) was wounded so badly that he would later die from his injuries. | |
| 1 November 1978 | Kerkrade | Gun-battle with four custom officials | Dionysius de Jong (19) was shot to death, and Johannes Goemanns (24) later died of his wounds, when they were involved in a gun-fight with RAF members (Adelheid Schulz and Rolf Heissler) who were trying to cross the Dutch border illegally. | |
| 25 June 1979 | Mons, Belgium | Alexander Haig, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO escapes an assassination attempt | A land mine blew up under the bridge on which Haig's car was traveling, narrowly missing Haig's car and wounding three of his bodyguards in a following car. In 1993 a German Court sentenced Rolf Clemens Wagner, a former RAF member, to life imprisonment for the assassination attempt. | |
| 7 August 1981 | Kaiserslautern, Germany | USAF Security Police Officer Sgt. John Toffton was attacked in Kaiserslautern by Christian Klar and Brigitte Mohnhaupt and unknown third party. Security Police Officer USAF on his way to work from his residence on Stadion Strasse near Eisenbahn Strasse and Mozart Strasse riding a yellow Ross Grand Tour bicycle when he was attacked. Security Police Officer survived the attack with little injury. Mohnhaupt the driver and Klar fled the scene in a green VW Fast Back with German Plates. Unknown third party swinging a club was injured or killed. A large amount of blood and broken eye glasses was found at the scene, none of the blood was from the victim. | ||
| 31 August 1981 | Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany | Large car-bomb exploded in the parking lot of Ramstein Air Base | ||
| 15 September 1981 | Heidelberg | Unsuccessful rocket propelled grenade attack against the car carrying the US Army's West German Commander Frederick J. Kroesen. Known involved RAF members: Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar. | ||
| 2 July 1982 | Nurnberg | Unsuccessful sniper attack against US Army Nuclear Storage Site NATO-23. Four civilians (two adults and two children) were killed the next day in an accidental shooting by American troops who had been placed on high alert after the attack. Known involved RAF members: Christian Klar. | A family of 4 hunting mushrooms came through a fence downed by storms the day after the sniper incident and were killed by members of the 3/17th Field Artillery Battalion after being shot at just hours before. The 3/17 FA Battalion were guarding the NATO 2-3 Nuclear storage site at the time. The unit was fired upon several times the night before by Christian Klar. Two US soldiers were slightly wounded and one was killed. | |
| 18 December 1984 | Oberammergau, West Germany | Unsuccessful attempt to bomb a school for NATO officers. The car bomb was discovered and defused. | A total of ten incidents followed over the next month, against US, British, and French targets. | |
| 1 February 1985 | Gauting | Shooting | Ernst Zimmerman, head of the MTU is shot in the head in his home. Zimmermann died twelve hours later. The assassination was claimed by the Patsy O'Hara Commando. | |
| 8 August 1985 | Rhein-Main Air Base (near Frankfurt) | A Volkswagen Passat exploded in the parking lot across from the base commander's building. | Two people killed: Airman First Class Frank Scarton and Becky Bristol, a U.S. civilian employee who also was the spouse of a U.S. Air Force enlisted man. A granite monument marks the spot where they died. Twenty people were also injured. Army Spec. Edward Pimental was kidnapped and killed the night before for his military ID card which was used to gain access to the base. The French terrorist organization Action Directe is suspected to have collaborated with the RAF on this attack. Birgit Hogefeld and Eva Haule have been convicted for their involvement in this event. | |
| 9 July 1986 | Straßlach (near Munich) | Shooting of Siemens manager Karl Heinz Beckurts and driver Eckhard Groppler | ||
| 30 November 1989 | Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe | Bombing of the car carrying the chairman of Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen | The case remained open for a long time, as the delicate method employed baffled the German prosecutors, as it could not come from guerillas like the RAF. Also, all suspects of the RAF were not charged due to alibis. However, The case is receiving new light in late 2007 by the German authorities that Stasi, the East German secret police, played a role in the assassination of Mr. Herrhausen, as the bombing method was the exactly the same one that had been developed by the StaSi. | |
| 13 February 1991 | Bonn | Sniper attack on U.S. embassy | Three Red Army Faction members fired automatic rifles from across the Rhine River at the U.S. Embassy Chancery. No one was hurt. | |
| 1 April 1991 | Düsseldorf | Assassination of Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, at his house in Düsseldorf | As the chief of the Treuhandanstalt, a powerful trust that controlled most state-owned assets in the former East Germany, Mr. Rohwedder was in charge of privatizing the assets of the former German Democratic Republic. | |
| 27 March 1993 | Weiterstadt | Attacks with explosives at the construction site of a new prison. | Led to the capture of two RAF members three months later at a train station, and a shoot-out between RAF member Wolfgang Grams and a GSG 9 squad; GSG9 officer Michael Newrzella was killed before Grams allegedly was shot, while Birgit Hogefeld was arrested. Damage 123 million DM (over 50 million euro). The attack caused a four year delay in the completion of the site, that had been short before commissioning in 1993. |
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