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Birgit Hogefeld | |
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| Born | (1956-07-27)27 July 1956 (age 69) |
| Organization | Red Army Faction |
Birgit Hogefeld (born 27 July 1956) is a former member of the West GermanRed Army Faction (RAF).
Born in 1956 inWiesbaden, Hogefeld joined the RAF in 1984, once she turned clandestine, long after its founding membersAndreas Baader,Gudrun Ensslin andUlrike Meinhof were dead.[1] She became the girlfriend of fellow RAF memberWolfgang Grams and moved in with him.[2]
On 27 June 1993, Hogefeld and Grams arrived at a train station inBad Kleinen where a group ofGSG 9 officers were waiting to arrest them (the officers had received a tip-off from a fellow GSG 9 officer who had infiltrated the RAF). According to the GSG 9 men, Hogefeld and Grams started firing at them on sight; Grams fatally shot an officer namedMichael Newrzella.[2] According to the police Grams committed suicide and fell on the train tracks. However, it was suspected that Grams did not commit suicide but was shot by GSG 9 officers.[2] The Staatsanwaltschaft Schwerin investigated these allegations and concluded in January 1994 that they were incorrect. Grams' parents challenged this conclusion in court, but it was upheld by five different courts, including the European Court of Human Rights in 1999. Interior MinisterRudolf Seiters took responsibility for the poor conducting and postprocessing of the operation and resigned in July of the year, as well as Chief Federal Prosecutor,Alexander von Stahl.
Several terrorist activities that Hogefeld was later found guilty of by aHigher Court in Germany were;
In November 1996, she was given alife imprisonment sentence.[4][5]
In 2008, federal presidentHorst Köhler denied her clemency request.[6]
Hogefeld was released on parole in June 2011.[7][8]
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