Brigitte Mohnhaupt
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Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt (born 24 June 1949) was a member of the SPK and from 1971 until 1982 she was an activist with the militant Red Army Faction.
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[edit] Early life
After her parents divorce in 1960 she stayed with her mother. She took her abitur in 1967 in Bruchsal, and later that year enrolled with the philosophy department at the University of Munich. In 1968 she married Rolf Heissler, although things fell apart after two years.
[edit] Terrorist Overview
Originally a member of the SPK, Mohnhaupt joined the Red Army Faction around 1971 after the SPK dissolved, and helped with organization, logistics, and weapon procurement. Below is a timeline of Mohnhaupt's major acts as a member of the RAF.
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- 9 June 1972: Mohnhaupt was arrested in Berlin in connection with the RAF and sentenced to a lengthy prison term for involvement with a criminal organisation. During her incarceration, shortly after Ulrike Meinhof's killing in prison, she was transferred to Stammheim prison where the majority of other RAF prisoners were being kept. She was released from prison on 8 February 1977, and immediately went back underground and continued her work with the RAF.
- Mohnhaupt was a major player in the German Autumn, she was involved in the 30 July 1977 killing of banker Jürgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank board of directors in Oberursel, Taunus, during a botched kidnapping attempt along with Susanne Albrecht and Christian Klar and was also involved in the kidnap and murder of employer representative Hanns Martin Schleyer.
- 11 May 1978 Mohnhaupt was rearrested in Yugoslavia, along with Sieglinde Hofmann, Rolf Clemens Wagner, and Peter-Jürgen Boock. However, in November 1978 she was allowed to leave to a country of her choice.
- 15 September 1981 Mohnhaupt took part in an assassination attempt on US General Frederik Kroesen using an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket. Kroesen only barely survived.
[edit] Arrest and Imprisonment
On the 11 November 1982 Mohnhaupt, along with Adelheid Schulz, was caught entering an RAF arms cache in woods near Frankfurt which had been staked out by GSG9 men. Mohnhaupt was detained and sentenced to five times life in prison. She was given such a sentence because of the large role she played during the German Autumn and also due to the attempted assassination of NATO General Kroesen. Her arrest was a massive blow to the RAF (as she had almost become as important to her RAF 'generation' as Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader had been to theirs).
Mohnhaupt is currently in custody, residing in Aichach, Bavaria.
[edit] Sources
Book: Hitler's Children by Jillian Becker
