List of Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof) assassinations explained

This is a list of people assassinated by the West German left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction or the Baader-Meinhof group.

Target	Title	Date	Place	Country
Norbert Schmid[1]	German police officer	22 October 1971	Hamburg
Herbert Schoner[2]	German police officer	22 December 1971	Kaiserslautern
Paul A. Bloomquist[3]	US Army soldier	11 May 1972	Frankfurt am Main
Gerta Buddenberg[4] (survived)	spouse of Federal Judge	16 May 1972	Karlsruhe
Ronald A. Woodward[5]	US Army soldier	24 May 1972	Heidelberg
Charles L. Peck	US Army soldier	24 May 1972
Clyde R. Bonner	US Army soldier	24 May 1972
Andreas von Mirbach[6]	German military attaché	24 April 1975	Stockholm	Sweden
Heinz Hillegaart	German trade attaché	24 April 1975
Fritz Sippe	German police officer	7 May 1976	Sprendlingen
Siegfried Buback[7]	Federal prosecutor	7 April 1977	Karlsruhe
Jürgen Ponto	CEO of Dresdner Bank	30 July 1977	Oberursel
Heinz Marcisz[8]	Schleyer's driver	5 September 1977	Cologne
Roland Pieler	German police officer	5 September 1977
Reinhold Brändle[9]	German police officer	5 September 1977
Helmut Ulmer	German police officer	5 September 1977
Hanns Martin Schleyer[10]	Chairman of the German Employers' Association	18 October 1977	Mulhouse	France
Arie Kranenburg[11]	Dutch policeman	22 September 1977	Utrecht	Netherlands
Hans-Wilhelm Hansen [12]	German police officer	24 September 1978	Dortmund
Dionysius de Jong	Dutch custom official	1 November 1978	Kerkrade	Netherlands
Johannes Goemanns	Dutch custom official	1 November 1978
Ernst Zimmerman[13]	CEO of MTU Aero Engines	1 February 1985	Gauting
Frank Scarton[14]	US Airman	8 August 1985	Rhein-Main Air Base
Edward Pimental[15]	U.S. Army soldier	8 August 1985	Wiesbaden
Becky Bristol	U.S. Army civilian employee	8 August 1985	Rhein-Main Air Base
Karl Heinz Beckurts[16]	Siemens manager	9 July 1986	Straßlach
Eckhard Groppler	Beckurts's driver	9 July 1986
Gerold Braunmühl[17]	German senior diplomat	10 October 1986	Bonn
Alfred Herrhausen[18]	Chairman of Deutsche Bank	30 November 1989	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder[19]	Chief of the Treuhandanstalt	1 April 1991	Düsseldorf	Germany
Michael Newrzella[20]	German Federal Police officer	27 June 1993	Bad Kleinen

Notes and References

1. News: In Hamburg wurde der Polizist Norbert Schmid erschossen -- von Angehörigen der Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe? . 24 October 1971. Der Spiegel. (In German)
2. Web site: RAF-Terror in Kaiserslautern 40 Jahre nach Buback-Attentat. Der SWR . (In German)
3. News: Baader and 2 in West German Gang Sentenced to Life. 29 April 1977. The New York Times.
4. News: ATTENTATEFruchtbare Zeit . 21 May 1972. Der Spiegel.
5. Web site: Als der RAF-Terror Heidelberg erreichte. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung.
6. News: 1975: Baader-Meinhof blow up embassy. 24 April 1975. BBC On this day 1950-2005.
7. News: Who were the Baader-Meinhof gang?. 12 February 2007. BBC News.
8. Web site: Andreas Geyr war neun, als vor seiner Haustür Hanns-Martin Schleyer entführt wurde. Er sah Dinge, die er nicht hätte sehen dürfen Der Junge und die Mörder . 3 September 2007. Berliner Zeitung .
9. Web site: Der Tag, an dem Schleyer entführt wurde. 10 August 2012. WeltN24 .
10. News: 1977: Kidnapped German found dead. 19 October 1977. BBC On this day 1950-2005.
11. Web site: Ex-RAF-terrorist heeft berouw om dood agent. 27 August 2006. Trouw.
12. News: TERRORISTENEtwas läuft . 9 September 1979. DER SPIEGEL.
13. News: TOP WEST GERMAN ARMS EXECUTIVE IS ASSASSINATED. 2 February 1985. The New York Times.
14. News: CAR BOMB KILLS 2 ON A U.S. AIR BASE IN WEST GERMANY. 9 August 1985. The New York Times.
15. Web site: Red Army Murderer Is Paroled. The New York Sun.
16. Web site: "Sollen die doch im Knast vergammeln". 9 May 2009. Merkur.de.
17. News: Gerold von Braunmühl erschossen . 9 October 2007. Der Spiegel. (In German)
18. News: Deutsche Bank: From bombs and bravado to risks of a bailout. BBC News . 29 September 2016.
19. News: Red Army Faction Is Suspected in German Killing. 3 April 1991. The New York Times.
20. News: Bad Kleinen Die verlorenen Söhne. 10 October 1993. Der Spiegel. Schrep . Bruno . (In German)