#RedArmyFaction

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• Andreas Baader Andreas Baader was the co-founder and operational leader of the Red Army Faction who organized the RAF's bombing campaign of 1972, was imprisoned at Stammheim, and was found dead in his cell on October 18, 1977 following the West German government's successful rescue of Lufthansa Flight 181 hostages in Mogadishu - a death officially ruled suicide but disputed by the RAF.
• Gudrun Ensslin Gudrun Ensslin was a co-founder of the Red Army Faction and the romantic partner of Andreas Baader who provided much of the ideological seriousness of the group's founding generation, was convicted at Stammheim, and was found dead by hanging in her cell on October 18, 1977 on the same night as Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe.
• Ulrike Meinhof Ulrike Meinhof was a West German journalist who co-founded the Red Army Faction in 1970 by participating in Andreas Baader's prison break, authored the group's foundational political documents, was arrested in 1972, and was found dead by hanging in her Stammheim Prison cell on May 9, 1976 in a ruling of suicide that the RAF and supporters disputed.