Margrit Schiller (born March 1948) is a German far-left activist formerly associated with the Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) and then the Red Army Faction (RAF). She was released from prison in 1979 and has written two autobiographical books.
Margrit Schiller | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 1948 (age 76) |
| Organization(s) | Socialist Patients' Collective, Red Army Faction |
Early life
editSchiller was born in 1948.[1] She joined the Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) and after it dissolved, she became a member of the Red Army Faction (RAF).[2]: 229, 230
Militant leftist career
editOn 25 September 1971, two policemen approached a wrongly parked vehicle near to the Freiburg-Basel autobahn. Schiller and Holger Meins emerged and started firing guns at them.[2]: 232 A month later Schiller left a train station in Hamburg around 10pm and realised she was being trailed by police. She met her RAF comrades Irmgard Moeller and Gerhard Müller, then a shootout occurred, with one of the policemen being shot dead. Schiller was arrested and later claimed that it was Müller that was responsible for the murder.[2]: 234, 235 She was re-arrested alongside other RAF members Kay Werner-Allnach and Wolfgang Beer on 4 February 1974 after police carried out raids in Hamburg and Frankfurt. She received a five year sentence and was released from prison in 1979.[1] Whilst in prison Schiller took part in the RAF hunger strikes.[1]
Later life
editSchiller moved to Cuba in 1985 and then Uruguay in 1993. She described her experiences abroad in the 2011 memoir So siehst du gar nicht aus!.[3][1]
Selected works
edit- Schiller, Margrit; Munro, Lindsay (2008). Remembering the armed struggle: Life in Baader-Meinhof. London: Zidane. ISBN 978-0955485046.
- Schiller, Margrit (2011). So siehst du gar nicht aus! Eine autobiografische Erzählung über Exil in Kuba und Uruguay. Berlin: Assoziation A. ISBN 978-3-86241-408-6.
References
edit- ^ a b c d Smith, J.; Moncourt, André (2009). The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People (eBook ed.). PM Press. ISBN 978-1-60486-029-0.
- ^ a b c Becker, Jillian (1977). Hitler's children: the story of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang (1st ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott. ISBN 9780397011537.
- ^ "Assoziation A – Margrit Schiller". Assoziation-a.de. Retrieved 7 November 2012.