Members Of The Red Army Faction
The Red Army Faction (RAF) operated in Germany from the late 1960s to 1998, committing numerous crimes, especially in the autumn of 1977, which led to a national crisis that became known as "German Autumn". The RAF was founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Horst Mahler, and others, and the first generation of the organisation was commonly known as the "Baader-Meinhof Gang".
The RAF was responsible for 34 deaths, including many secondary targets such as chauffeurs and bodyguards and many injuries in its almost 30 years of activity. Below is a list of most members of the group.
Eileen MacDonald claimed in Shoot the Women First (1991), that females made up about fifty percent of the membership of the Red Army Faction and about eighty percent of the RAF's supporters. This was higher than other similar groups in West Germany, in which females made up about thirty percent of the membership.
Read more about Members Of The Red Army Faction: Second Generation Red Army Faction (1975-1982), Third Generation Red Army Faction (1982-1993)
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