Gaby Tiedemann Papers

Period 1975-1995
Total size   2 m.
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Biography

Born in Ziegendorf, Mecklenburg, Germany 1951, died in 1995; studied at the University of Bochum; left-radical, who committed herself to armed struggle against capitalism; one of the founders of the Bewegung 2. Juni, which later merged with the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF); participated in bank robberies from 1972; arrested in 1973 and sentenced to an eight year term for attempted murder; released in exchange for the kidnapped CDU politician P. Lorenz in 1975; suspected of participation in the raid on the OPEC meeting in Vienna in 1975, which was led by the terrorist Carlos; arrested by the Swiss police because of attempted murder of a frontier guard in 1977; served ten years in the prison of Hindelbank and after extradition to Germany another four years in the prison of Cologne; dissociated herself from terrorism in the 1980s.

Content

Correspondence with Ali 1981-1984, Barbara Augustin 1983-1986, Claudia Bislin 1985-1988, Elisabeth Brunner 1981-1988, Christiane 1978-1992, Christoph Eggli 1985-1987, Walter Jansen 1991-1994, Agnes (Agi) Klein 1981-1986, Henner Kraus 1978-1982, Christian Möller 1980-1985, Monique 1982-1985, Jan Morgenthaler 1985-1991, Klaus Passtall 1985-1987, Yvonne Ramsauer 1986-1992, Barbara Schmied 1982-1986, Sidonie 1985-1991, Peter Paul Zahl 1982-1985 and others; personal documents concerning her health, finances and her divorce from Norbert E. Kröcher and intended marriage to Jan Morgenthaler 1978-1994; files on trials in Germany and Switzerland including documents relating to the OPEC trial in Austria and the German extradition request to Switzerland 1975-1989; documents concerning her imprisonment; clippings, copies of periodicals and other printed material on urban guerillas, prisons and political prisoners in the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland 1977-1984.

Processing information

List made in 1997