{"slug": "red-army-faction", "label": "Red Army Faction", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102734", "qid": "Q102734", "description": "West German far-left militant organisation (1970–1998)", "entries": 12, "years": 7, "span": [1970, 1998], "span_label": ["1970 CE", "1998 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 6}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "cologne", "label": "Cologne", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nato", "label": "NATO", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berlin", "label": "Berlin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "deutsche-mark", "label": "Deutsche Mark", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "west-germany", "label": "West Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "somalia", "label": "Somalia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestinian-people", "label": "Palestinian people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "stuttgart", "label": "Stuttgart", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape and create the Red Army Faction in West Germany which exists until 1998.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#May", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 29", "text": "September 29 – In Berlin, Red Army Faction members rob three banks, with loot totaling over DM 200,000.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#September", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of Springer publishers. The March 6 Group (connected to the Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369955775#March", "title": "1975", "revid": 1369955775, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#May", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. The \"Ulrike Meinhof Commando\" later claims responsibility.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#April", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 28", "text": "April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart, West Germany, sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#April", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – German Autumn: Employers Association President Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#September", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 13", "text": "October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#October", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1977, "year_label": "1977 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 18", "text": "October 18 – German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison; Irmgard Möller fails (their supporters still claim they were murdered). They are buried on October 27.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371657539#October", "title": "1977", "revid": 1371657539, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 25", "text": "June 25 – NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt in Belgium by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#June", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 30", "text": "November 30 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a bomb in Bad Homburg (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#November", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1998, "year_label": "1998 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "April 20", "text": "April 20 – The alleged date the German Red Army Faction (created 1970) is dissolved.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373236679#April", "title": "1998", "revid": 1373236679, "section": "Events › April"}}]}