Heinrich Hannover Papers
Period (1968-), 1970-1986
Total size 27 m.
Consultation Closed
Biography
Heinrich Hannover, born in Anklam (Pommern), Germany 1925; studied law at the University of Göttingen; since 1954 defence lawyer, defended communists, conscientious objectors and others imprisoned for political reasons; also defended the RAF members Ulrike Meinhof and Peter-Jürgen Boock; honorary doctor at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1986 and the University of Bremen in 1996; published books on political justice 1918-1933 and his memoirs 1998-1999; also a successful writer of children’s books.
Peter-Jürgen Boock, born in Garding (Nordfriesland), Germany 1951; as a youth he ran away from home, started taking drugs, quitted a training as a mechanic, fled to the Netherlands, but was expelled and reported himself to the police in 1968; during the following years of drug rehabilitation and living in several re-education homes and communes, he met and wanted to join Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, but was considered too young to participate in the RAF; c. 1975 he became a member of the so-called second generation of RAF; he distanced himself from the RAF 1980, was captured 1981 and sentenced to multiple life imprisonment in 1984 and in 1986 for minor involvement in the RAF; in 1992 after the capture of RAF-members in the former GDR he admitted tot have been more of a central figure; released from prison 1998; author of several books.
Content
Copies of court records concerning investigations, arrests, interrogations and convictions of RAF members Hans-Jürgen Backer, Bernard Braun, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Brigitta Mohnhaupt, Gerhard Müller and others; concerning apartments used, cars and weapons, shootings and events in Augsburg, Bad Homburg, Berlin, Frankfurt/M, Hamburg, Hannover, Heidelberg, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kiel, Köln, München, Nürnberg, Offenbach and Stuttgart 1970-1974; additional documents on Andreas Baader, Christa Eckes, Hermann Feiling, Herbert Heinz Funke, Gerhard Müller and others 1973-1985; documentation 1968-1984.
Copies, produced for Heinrich Hannover, defence lawyer, of court records of judicial inquiries in the criminal proceedings against Peter-Jürgen Boock, charged with membership of a terrorist organization and in 1977, with complicity in the attempt at abduction with violence and murder of banker Jürgen Ponto, employers’ president Hans-Martin Schleyer and companions, and with the attempt at an assault on the Federal Prosecutor’s Office with a rocket launcher 1979-1986; copy of the record of the court sittings 1983-1984; copies of records of criminal proceedings regarding RAF-activities 1970-1972.
Documents concerning the trial in 1975 against historian and writer Karl-Heinz Roth (born 1942) who together with Roland Otto was accused of being a ‘psychological accomplice’ in a police murder in Cologne; bulletins of the support committee for Otto and Roth 1975-1979.