- Sieglinde Hofmann
Sieglinde Hofmann (born
14 March 1945 inBad Königshofen ,Lower Franconia ) was a militant and member of both theRed Army Faction and the SPK.Biography
As a child Hofmann attended a
Catholic girls' school and went on to train to become anurse and then asocial worker . She was believed to have joined the Red Army Faction (as part of their second generation) in 1976 after having first joined the SPK and was involved in the killing of bankerJürgen Ponto .Hofmann, along with
Brigitte Mohnhaupt ,Peter-Jürgen Boock andRolf Wagner was arrested on30 June 1978 inYugoslavia , but they were all freed and flown to an undisclosed country of their choice. A lot of them went immediately back underground, including Hofmann. Two years later, however, in 1980, Hofmann was rearrested inParis (alongsideIngrid Barabass ), following a raid on a RAF safehouse.Imprisonment
Although initially only charged with involvement in the murder of Ponto and condemned to serve fifteen years in prison, Hofmann was taken back into custody three days before the end of her sentence in August 1995 [http://www.germnews.de/archive/dn/1995/08/29.html#5] to be tried for other offences. The second trial was only possible after a judicial clarification in
France .On
26 September of the same year, Hofmann, then 50 years old, was found guilty of involvement in 5 cases ofmurder , and 3 cases ofattempted murder by the Higher Regional Court inStuttgart , and was sentenced tolife imprisonment . [http://www.germnews.de/archive/dn/1995/09/26.html#8] . Her crimes included her offences against Ponto, and other crimes such as a failed bomb attack onNATO Commander Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. [http://www.listserv.dfn.de/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9509&L=de-news&T=0&F=P&S=&P=2669] and the murder/kidnap of President of the German Employer's Association,Hanns Martin Schleyer . She was however released from Prison inMay 5 1999 . [http://labourhistory.net/raf/chronology.php]ee also
*
Members of the RAF
*The Baader-Meinhof Gang References
External links
* [http://www.rafinfo.de/bio/g-l/hofmann.php Hofmann bio - in German]
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