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unusual facts about Baader-Meinhof



Andreas Baader

All official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader and his two accomplices committed collective suicide, and Baader-Meinhof biographer Stefan Aust argued in the original edition of his book, The Baader-Meinhof Group (1985), that they almost assuredly did kill themselves.

Bavarian Ludwig Railway

Bavarian interest was also stimulated by Friedrich List’s advocacy of an all-German railway system and the reports of Joseph von Baader, whom King Ludwig had sent to England to study railways.

Bernhard Baader

Bernhard Baader (ca. 1801 – 1859) was a collector of German folklore in the former Baden, now part of Baden-Württemberg.

Frederick Kroesen

Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the "Kommando Gudrun Ensslin" of the Red Army Faction (aka Baader-Meinhof Gang).

Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang is a 1977 book about the West German militant left-wing group, the Red Army Faction (also known as The Baader-Meinhof Gang), by the British author Jillian Becker.

Klaus Rainer Röhl

Ulrike later co-founded the Red Army Faction, also known as the RAF or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, together with Andreas Baader.

Meinhof

Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, professor and Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Bradford

Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976), West German left-wing militant, co-founder of the Red Army Faction, daughter of Werner Meinhof

Werner Meinhof (1901–1940), German historian, brother of Carl Meinhof

Mykhaylo Maksymovych

With his emphasis upon history, Maksymovych approached the views of Baader and Hegel as well as Schelling.

Nubian languages

Several well-known Africanists have occupied themselves with Nubian, most notably Lepsius (1880), Reinisch (1879), and Meinhof (1918); other early Nubian scholars include Almkvist and Schäfer.

OPEC siege

Ex-Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot Neville Atkinson, at that time the personal pilot for Libya's leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, flew them, including Hans-Joachim Klein, a supporter of the imprisoned Baader-Meinhof group and a member of the Revolutionary Cells, and Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, from Algiers to Tripoli, where some hostages were freed.

Perfect English

Pickering was for a while under siege in the Nicaraguan town of Bluefields, where he helped former Baader-Meinhof printer, novelist and playwright, Peter-Paul Zahl, build a Bertolt Brecht youth theatre after his first was destroyed in the invasion of Grenada.

Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert

In 1973, he was made deputy head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch, where he became an expert on European terrorist groups such as Baader-Meinhof, and gave lectures on hostage negotiation and counter-terrorism tactics.


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