Gudrun Ensslin
Organization founder
1940 – 1977
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Who was Gudrun Ensslin?
Gudrun Ensslin was a founder of the German urban guerilla group Red Army Faction. After becoming involved with co-founder Andreas Baader, Ensslin was influential in the politicization of Baader's anarchistic beliefs. Ensslin was perhaps the intellectual head of the RAF. She was involved in five bomb attacks, with four deaths, was arrested in 1972 and died on 18 October 1977 in what has been called Stammheim Prison's Death Night.
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- Born
- Aug 15, 1940
Bartholomä - Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Free University of Berlin
- Lived in
- Baden-Württemberg
- Died
- Oct 18, 1977
Stuttgart
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on July 23, 2013
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