This is a list of people assassinated by the West German left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction or the Baader-Meinhof group.
Target | Title | Date | Place | Country |
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Norbert Schmid [1] | German police officer | 22 October 1971 | Hamburg | West Germany |
Herbert Schoner [2] | German police officer | 22 December 1971 | Kaiserslautern | |
Paul A. Bloomquist [3] | US Army soldier | 11 May 1972 | Frankfurt am Main | |
Gerta Buddenberg [4] (survived) | spouse of Federal Judge | 16 May 1972 | Karlsruhe | |
Ronald A. Woodward [5] | US Army soldier | 24 May 1972 | Heidelberg | |
Charles L. Peck [5] | US Army soldier | 24 May 1972 | ||
Clyde R. Bonner [5] | US Army soldier | 24 May 1972 | ||
Andreas von Mirbach [6] | German military attaché | 24 April 1975 | Stockholm | Sweden |
Heinz Hillegaart [6] | German trade attaché | 24 April 1975 | ||
Fritz Sippe | German police officer | 7 May 1976 | Sprendlingen | West Germany |
Siegfried Buback [7] | Federal prosecutor | 7 April 1977 | Karlsruhe | |
Jürgen Ponto [7] | CEO of Dresdner Bank | 30 July 1977 | Oberursel | |
Heinz Marcisz [8] | Schleyer's driver | 5 September 1977 | Cologne | |
Roland Pieler [8] | German police officer | 5 September 1977 | ||
Reinhold Brändle [9] | German police officer | 5 September 1977 | ||
Helmut Ulmer [9] | German police officer | 5 September 1977 | ||
Hanns Martin Schleyer [10] | Chairman of the German Employers' Association | 18 October 1977 | Mulhouse | France |
Arie Kranenburg [11] | Dutch policeman | 22 September 1977 | Utrecht | Netherlands |
Hans-Wilhelm Hansen [12] | German police officer | 24 September 1978 | Dortmund | West Germany |
Dionysius de Jong | Dutch custom official | 1 November 1978 | Kerkrade | Netherlands |
Johannes Goemanns | Dutch custom official | 1 November 1978 | ||
Ernst Zimmerman [13] | CEO of MTU Aero Engines | 1 February 1985 | Gauting | West Germany |
Frank Scarton [14] | US Airman | 8 August 1985 | Rhein-Main Air Base | |
Edward Pimental [15] | U.S. Army soldier | 8 August 1985 | Wiesbaden | |
Becky Bristol [14] | U.S. Army civilian employee | 8 August 1985 | Rhein-Main Air Base | |
Karl Heinz Beckurts [16] | Siemens manager | 9 July 1986 | Straßlach | |
Eckhard Groppler [16] | Beckurts's driver | 9 July 1986 | ||
Gerold Braunmühl [17] | German senior diplomat | 10 October 1986 | Bonn | |
Alfred Herrhausen [18] | Chairman of Deutsche Bank | 30 November 1989 | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe | |
Detlev Karsten Rohwedder [19] | Chief of the Treuhandanstalt | 1 April 1991 | Düsseldorf | Germany |
Michael Newrzella [20] | German Federal Police officer | 27 June 1993 | Bad Kleinen |
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