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Siegfried Buback Biography and Timeline

Follow Siegfried Buback through 4 dated historical records for Germany.

Siegfried Buback, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1977–1977Years on this page

1977

Assassination of Siegfried Buback

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, his driver, and his bodyguard are shot and killed by two RAF members while waiting at a red traffic light. Assassination of the federal prosecutor-general Siegfried Buback, claimed by the Ulrike Meinhof Commando, in revenge for the suicide of Ulrike Meinhof

Death of Siegfried Buback

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, his driver, and his bodyguard are shot and killed by two RAF members while waiting at a red traffic light

Suicide

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

Assassination of the federal prosecutor-general Siegfried Buback, claimed by the Ulrike Meinhof Commando, in revenge for the suicide of Ulrike Meinhof

Death of Siegfried Buback

Chief Prosecutor · Bonn · Government / Government of Germany

Death of Siegfried Buback

Records, sources and methodology

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