Andraes Baader Biography

Birth of Andreas Baader

The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested & forcibly released by a Meinhof campaign

One of the founders of the Red Army Faction in protest against the consumer society

One of the founders of the Red Army Faction in protest against the consumer society

Jumps bail & goes underground & takes part in a 1969 bombing campaign

Bombs placed by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin explode at midnight in 2 department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; they are later arrested and sentenced for arson

Bombs placed by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin explode at midnight in 2 department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; they are later arrested and sentenced for arson

A group of terrorists set fire to a Frankfurt store in protest against consumerism

Police arrest Baader and his comrades for the arson

Baader, Ensslin, Sohnlein, and Proll are convicted of Arson, they each get three years. Baader and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin are convicted of the arson bombing of a department store in Frankfurt am Main

The four convicted arsonists Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst S”hnlein, and Thorwald Proll are released from prison pending review of their cases

The Baader-Meinhog bomb Berlin

Baader is arrested and Ensslin convinces her friend Ulrike Meinhof to be part of a plan to break him out of jail in May of 1970.

Journalist Ulrike Meinhof and two other women were allowed to join Andaes Baader, and aided in his escape by opening a door to admit a masked man who fired shots that wounded a 64-year-old librarian, hitting his liver.

Three women and a masked man escape through a window, and the group soon became known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

The RAF learn how to shoot guns, throw grenades, and thoroughly annoy their Palestinian hosts, after two months the Palestinians are sick of their disrespectful German guests and send them on a plane out of Jordan, they return to Berlin. Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof go to Jordan where they train for guerrilla warfare with the PLO

The Red Army Faction is founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others

The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested

Baader was arrested on 3 April 1970, Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, who was at that time a well-known leftist polemicist, and two other women freed him on 14 May 1970

Meinhof & Mahler shoot their way into the Social Affairs Institute & release Baader. In the conservative Springer Press a name is born: "the Baader-Meinhof Gang"

The RAF is formally founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others. Foundation of the Baader-Meinhof Group

The RAF learn how to shoot guns, throw grenades, and thoroughly annoy their Palestinian hosts, after two months the Palestinians are sick of their disrespectful German guests and send them on a plane out of Jordan, they return to Berlin

The RAF learn how to shoot guns, throw grenades, and thoroughly annoy their Palestinian hosts, after two months the Palestinians are sick of their disrespectful German guests and send them on a plane out of Jordan, they return to Berlin

The surviving groups members meet up, and with Mahler under arrest, there is little doubt that Baader is in control

Begin what they called "anti-imperialistic fight", with bank robberies to raise money and bomb attacks against U.S. military facilities, German police stations, and buildings of the Axel Springer press empire

Former members of Kommune I, and former members of the now-disbanded West Berlin Tupamaros, form "Movement 2 June", Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin encourage the group, which includes Bommi Baumann and Fritz Teufel, to join the RAF

The Baader-Meinhof bomb a US Army base in Frankfurt killing 1 & injuring 14

After an intense manhunt, Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, Holger Meins, and Jan-Carl Raspe are arrested

The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart

The leaders are arrested, after 6 murders, 50 attempted murders & numerous bank raids. Baader and fellow RAF members Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins are apprehended after a lengthy shootout in Frankfurt

Opening day of the Stammheim trial of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and Jan-Carl Raspe began, named after a city district of Stuttgart where it takes place

Baader is arrested

An attempt to free Baader fails when commandoes free hostages at Mogadishu

On the trials 192nd day, the three remaining defendants are convicted of several murders, more attempted murders, and of forming a terrorist organisation; they are sentenced to life imprisonment

Terrorists try to force the release of Baader and ten other imprisoned RAF members by kidnapping Hanns Martin as part of the sequence of events known as the "German Autumn"

Deprives the Baader-Meinhof prisoners of all contact with each other as well as with the outside, all visits, including those of lawyers and family members, being forbidden. Deprives the Baader-Meinhof prisoners are deprived of their access to post, newspapers, magazines, television, and radio

An official statement is released in which the state declared that the prisoners would not be released under any circumstances, and on the same day a Kontaktsperre ("communication ban") was enacted against all political pris

Deprives the Baader-Meinhof prisoners of all contact with each other as well as with the outside, all visits, including those of lawyers and family members, being forbidden. An official statement is released in which the state declared that the prisoners would not be released under any circumstances, and on the same day a Kontaktsperre ("communication ban") was enacted against all political pris

Four terrorists hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 on a flight from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, their leader demanding the release of the eleven RAF prisoners detained at Stammheim

Four terrorists hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 on a flight from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, their leader demanding the release of the eleven RAF prisoners detained at Stammheim

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

The passengers of the Boeing 737 are freed in an assault carried out by German GSG 9 special forces in the early hours of 18 October 1977 which saw the death of three of the terrorists. Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

The passengers of the Boeing 737 are freed in an assault carried out by German GSG 9 special forces in the early hours of 18 October 1977 which saw the death of three of the terrorists

Raspe learns of GSG 9s success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Muller, who agreed to a suicide pact

Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe are found dead in their cells, having died from gunshot wounds, while Gudrun Ensslin is found hanging from a noose made from speaker wire

Death of Andreas Baader, suicide in gaol

Suicide, after failure of the Schleyer kidnapping & Mogadisu rescue attempt. Death of Andreas Baader, suicide in gaol