Imprisonment, Escape and Death
After having beaten up a journalist together with Michael Baumann and Thomas Weissbecker, von Rauch was arrested on 2 February 1970. He was held imprisoned as a suspect until his court trial started in summer 1971. When the sentence was proclaimed on 8 Juli, 1971, von Rauch fled the court in Berlin-Moabit by changing roles with Weisbecker (who was freed of all charges) in an act that was never fully explained.
On 5 December of the same year, von Rauch was caught in Berlin-Schöneberg by plainclothes policemen. A shootout ensued, during which von Rauch was mortally hit in the head. According to the police, the fire was opened by von Rauch and his complices, which was questioned by left-wing supporters, who claimed that no gun had been found with him. In a later interview with Der Spiegel weekly news magazine, Michael Baumann (who was also on the scene) stated that both sides had started shooting simultaneously.
Von Rauch was buried in Kiel.
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