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Arrest of Andreas Baader

Germany · Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

6Records
1968–1970Date range
3Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1968

Andraes Baader4 April 1968

Frankfurt · Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

Police arrest Baader and his comrades for the arson

1970

Andraes Baader14 May 1970

Berlin · Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

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"

Gudrun Ensslin14 May 1970

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

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

Ulrike Marie Meinhof14 May 1970

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

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

Gudrun Ensslin1970

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

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

Ulrike Marie Meinhof1970

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

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

Names involved

Andraes BaaderGudrun EnsslinUlrike Marie Meinhof

Provenance

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