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Assassination of Siegfried Buback

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

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1977Date range
2Named people
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Chronological records

1977

Siegfried Buback7 April 1977

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

Ulrike Marie Meinhof7 April 1977

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

Names involved

Siegfried BubackUlrike Marie Meinhof

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