Siegfried Hausner
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Siegfried Hausner (January 1952 – 24 April 1975) was a student member of the German SPK (Socialist Patients' Collective) and later the terrorist Red Army Faction.
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[edit] As a Terrorist
As a member of the SPK, Hausner was especially involved in the "working circle explosives." Hausner had some knowledge about explosives and, along with Carmen Roll managed to manufacture small amounts of TNT.
In February 1971, Hausner, along with Roll, planned to bomb the President of the Federal Republic’s special train in Heidelberg station, but Roll arrived to late with the explosives and the plot fell through.
Hausner went on to forge links with the RAF when the SPK dissolved even though for a time he was distrusted by Gudrun Ensslin (who at one point thought to liquidate him), however he proved his worth by helping Ulrike Meinhof and Ilse Stachowiak bomb the Axel Springer Verlag in Hamburg on 19 May 1972.
In 1975 Hausner was involved in the Occupation of the West German embassy in Stockholm. He supposedly supervised the whole operation and was in charge of the wiring of the TNT. He hadn’t done quite a good job with the TNT as it exploded accidentally 12 hours into the occupation. Hausner was fatally wounded in the explosion and was immediately flown back to West Germany but died two hours later.
[edit] Legacy
When Siegfried Buback was assassinated in April 1977, the RAF claimed responsibility in honour of Ulrike Meinhof and Siegfried Hausner and the last video clip of kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer before he was murdered by the RAF in October 1977, showed Schleyer holding a placard that read; “Commando Siegfried Hausner,” in Hausner's honour. Also, although Operation Leo fell through, if it was successful, the terrorists who executed it would've named their Commando; Commando Siegfried Hausner.
[edit] Sources
Book: Hitler's Children by Jillian Becker
