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

4Records
1970–1974Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1970

Ulrike Marie Meinhof1970

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

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

1971

Horst Mahler1971

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

Writes the Red Army Faction manifesto, "The Urban Guerrilla Concept"

Ulrike Marie Meinhof1971

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

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

1974

Horst Mahler1974

Politics / Baader-Meinhof Group

Mahler penned a manifesto in prison, the rest of the Baader-Meinhof Group, however, resoundingly rejected it - effectively expelling him from the group

Names involved

Horst MahlerUlrike Marie Meinhof

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