Irmgard Möller

Irmgard Möller

Irmgard Möller (also spelled Irmgard Moeller) (born May 13, 1947, Bielefeld) was a West German urban guerrilla and member of the Red Army Faction. Her father was a high school teacher [ [http://www.rafinfo.de/bio/m-q/moeller.php Kurzbiografie: Irmgard Möller - Infos zur Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) ] ] and before turning to terrorism, she was a Germanistics student.

Terrorism

On 22 October 1971, Möller, alongside Margrit Schiller and Gerhard Müller were involved in a scuffle with a group of policemen in Hamburg. One policeman was shot six times and killed. Möller was suspected of the murder, however Schiller later blamed Müller.

On 12 May, 1972, Möller and Angela Luther walked into police headquarters in Augsburg carrying suitcases. They placed pipe bombs in empty offices on the 3rd and 4th floors and walked out again. The subsequent explosions (around 12:15pm) injured five policemen and collapsed the fourth floor ceiling.

On 24 May of the same year it is thought that Möller was one of two people who drove cars full of explosives into the United States Military Intelligence Headquarters (G-2), (HQ USAREUR), at Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg. Three soldiers were killed in the attack (Ronald Woodward, Charles Peck and Captain Clyde Bonner) and five were wounded.

Möller was set-up by fellow Red Army Faction member Hans-Peter Konieczny and was arrested on 9 July 1972 and was subsequently sentenced to a lengthy prison term by a Hamburg court. She was then transferred to Stammheim Prison.

Imprisonment and attempted suicide

According to prison reports, she allegedly attempted suicide by stabbing herself in the chest on the morning of October 18, 1977 together with other Red Army members such as Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe, who committed suicide by gunshot or hanging, during the height of the German Autumn. While the nature of these suicides was unusual given their location in a maximum security prison, official reports suggested that their lawyers were able to smuggle weapons into them.

Möller was the only member of the jailed leadership to survive, and later claimed that it was actually an extrajudicial killing, orchestrated by the German government, in response to Red Army demands that the prisoners be released. Möller was released from prison in 1994 for health reasons. Today she lives in anonymity, although it has been reported that she is living in Hamburg, since 2006.

ee also

*Members of the Red Army Faction
*Red Army Faction

References

Further reading

*"Hitler's Children" by Jillian Becker


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