- Adelheid Schulz
Adelheid Schulz (born
31 March 1955 inLörrach ) was a member of theWest German terrorist Red Army Faction .Early Life
Schulz moved to
Karlsruhe [ http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/02/12/687389.html] in the early1970s and took up residence in a flat withGünter Sonnenberg ,Knut Folkerts and her boyfriend [Becker, Jillian.Hitler's Children : Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang, DIANE Publishing Company 1998, ISBN 0788154729 or Panther edition 1978, ISBN 0586046658, "Page. 387"]Christian Klar – who would all at a later time be convicted of terrorist crimes. It was around this time that Schulz was exposed toradicalism , and it was in the seventies that Schulz decided to embark on a life of terrorism.Terrorism
Schulz became an important member of the second generation of the Red Army Faction.
*In
1977 she rented an apartment overlooking thevilla ofJürgen Ponto , from which he was observed (he was later killed by RAF terrorists).
*Later in 1977, Schulz was involved in planning thekidnap -murder ofHanns Martin Schleyer .*In
1978 she was involved in a gun-battle with four Dutchcustoms men in the border town ofKerkrade , which resulted in the deaths of two of the Dutchmen.*On
11 November 1982 , Schulz (along withBrigitte Mohnhaupt ) was arrested when entering a hidden arms cache which had been staked out by police, in a forest in theOffenbach district. [http://labourhistory.net/raf/chronology.php]Imprisonment and Release
Schulz was charged in connection with nearly all Red Army Faction actions between 1977 and
1981 [ http://www.germanguerilla.com/red-army-faction/raf_timeline.html] , including the murders of Ponto,Siegfried Buback and Schleyer. She was sentenced to three timeslife imprisonment . [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE1DE1F39F937A25750C0A963948260]In prison she took part in
hunger strikes , for which she was force-fed. She described the force-feeding as follows [ http://www.germanguerilla.com/red-army-faction/raf_timeline.html] [ http://sketchythoughts.blogspot.com/2007/10/red-army-faction-summer-of-77-prisoners.html] ;"hours of nausea, a racing heartbeat, pain, and effects similar to fever. At times one experiences hot flashes; then one is freezing cold."
The hunger-strikes left Schulz weakened, and on account of her poor health she was released from prison in
1998 and eventually pardoned byPresident Johannes Rau in2002 . [ http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,184425,00.html]Schulz now lives in
Frankfurt , but is disabled as a result of her continued poor health, stemming from her hunger strikes. [http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,473903,00.html]ee Also
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Members of the Red Army Faction References
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