Ulrike Marie Meinhof Biography

Birth of Ulrike Marie Meinhof

Joins the Socialist German Student Union, participating in the protests against the rearmament of the Bundeswehr and its involvement with nuclear weapons

Joins the Socialist German Student Union, participating in the protests against the rearmament of the Bundeswehr and its involvement with nuclear weapons

Joins the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), the banned German Communist Party & begins work at the magazine konkret, serving as chief editor from 1962 until 1964

Joins the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), the banned German Communist Party & begins work at the magazine konkret, serving as chief editor from 1962 until 1964

The attempted assassination Dutschke provokes Meinhof to write an article in konkret demonstrating her militant attitude, "Protest is when I say this does not please me, Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more"

Leaves her job at Konkret in the early part of 1969 (later returning to vandalise the offices in May) and begins her life as a guerilla

Ulrike Meinhof, having grown increasingly disillusioned with her life, divorces her husband

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. 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

A manifesto authored by Meinhof uses the name "RAF" and the red-star logo with a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun for the first time

Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof go to Jordan where they train for guerrilla warfare with the PLO

A manifesto authored by Meinhof uses the name "RAF" and the red-star logo with a Heckler and Koch MP5 submachine gun for the first time.

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

This marked the beginning 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.

In the conservative Springer Press a name is born: "the Baader-Meinhof Gang". 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

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

In the conservative Springer Press a name is born: "the Baader-Meinhof Gang"

The German Press Agency receive a communique claiming credit for securing Baaders release from prison written by Ulrike Meinhof, the communique is the first time that the group uses the term "Red Army," which becomes "Red Army Faction"

Half of the group sneaks into East Berlin, and then heads to the Jordan desert to a Palestinian training camp, to be followed by the rest of the group a week later.

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.

Ulrike Meinhof bolts at a police check point, leaving an ID card with a very recent picture of her newly-peroxided hair style

Ulrike Meinhof is put in charge of writing a manifesto of the group,"The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla," circulated by May. On its cover is a logo: a rifle over a star, with the letters RAF on top of them, the rifle is a Kalashnikov Rifle, the Soviet-Bloc machine gun that they had grown to love in their Jordan training

Ulrike Meinhof is put in charge of writing a manifesto of the group,"The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla," circulated by May. 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

Ulrike Meinhof is put in charge of writing a manifesto of the group,"The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla," circulated by May

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

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

Meinhof, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe are charged with four counts of murder, fifty-four of attempted murder, and a single count of forming a criminal association

An enquiry finds suicide the cause, extremists claim otherwise & make her a martyr

An enquiry finds suicide the cause, extremists claim otherwise & make her a martyr

Death of Ulrike Meinhof, found dead in her cell, hanging from a rope made from jail towels, an investigation concludes that she had hanged herself, a result hotly contested at the time, spurring conspiracy theories

Death of Ulrike Meinhof, found dead in her cell, hanging from a rope made from jail towels, an investigation concludes that she had hanged herself, a result hotly contested at the time, spurring conspiracy theories

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

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

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

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