biography
| name: |
Meinhof, Ulrike (Marie)
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pronunciation:
[miynhof]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1934–76)
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| biography:
| Terrorist, born in Oldenburg, NW Germany. While studying at Marburg, she campaigned for German nuclear disarmament, and became a respected left-wing journalist. After an interview with the imprisoned arsonist, Andreas Baader, she became committed to the use of violence to secure radical social change. In May 1970, she helped free Baader, and they headed an underground urban guerrilla organization which conducted brutal terrorist attacks against the post-war West German materialist order. She was arrested in 1972, and in 1974 was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. She committed suicide in Stammheim high-security prison. |
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