Gudrun Ensslin Biography

The organisation known as the Movement 2 June, which would become allied to the RAF, is named after the anti-Shah protest in Berlin. Participates in the seminal Berlin protest where a young pacifist named Benno Ohnesorg is killed. After the protest goes to the local SDS office and screams hysterically, "this fascist state means to kill us all! Violence is the only way to answer violence!"

The organisation known as the Movement 2 June, which would become allied to the RAF, is named after the anti-Shah protest in Berlin

The organisation known as the Movement 2 June, which would become allied to the RAF, is named after the anti-Shah protest in Berlin

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

Baader, Ensslin, Sohnlein, and Proll are convicted of Arson, they each get three years

After serving a year in jail, Ensslin and Baader, and their two co-defendants Horst Sohnlein and Thorwald Proll are released temporarily pending an appeal, when the appeal fails, Ensslin, Baader and Proll escape to France as fugitives

After serving a year in jail, Ensslin and Baader, and their two co-defendants Horst S”hnlein and Thorwald Proll are released temporarily pending an appeal, when the appeal fails, Ensslin, Baader and Proll escape to France as fugitives

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

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

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. Ensslin spends the next two years helping lead the Red Army Faction wage war on the state, culminating in a May 1970 campaign of terror that left many dead and wounded, and many buildings destroyed

Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof go to Jordan for their brief guerrilla warfare training with the PFLP/Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)

Begining of the "anti-imperialistic fight", with bank robberies to raise money and explosives, and arson attacks against U. S. military facilities, German police stations, and buildings of the Axel Springer press empire.

Ensslin spends the next two years helping lead the Red Army Faction wage war on the state, culminating in a May 1970 campaign of terror that left many dead and wounded, and many buildings destroyed.

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

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

One person was shot is shot during baaders release, this is the beginning of the gangs violent crimes, and the RAF, Ensslin becomes one of the most wanted people in Germany

The RAF is formally founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others

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

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

Ensslin is captured

The Stammheim trial of Baader, Ensslin, Meinhof, and Jan-Carl Raspe begins, named after a city district of Stuttgart where it takes place

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

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

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