Ingrid Schubert (7 November 1944 – 12 November 1977) was a

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terrorist and founding member of the

Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970. The ...

(RAF). She participated in the freeing of

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from prison in May 1970 as well as multiple bank robberies before her arrest in October 1970. She committed suicide in late 1977 whilst serving a 13-year prison sentence.

Life

Schubert was the daughter of

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politician Frank Schubert. She grew up in Maroldsweisach and Koblenz and graduated with a degree in medicine from the

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in March 1970. Two months after her graduation, she took part in the escape of Andreas Baader from police custody. In the summer of 1970, Schubert, as well as roughly twenty other RAF members, travelled to

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to undergo military training with the Palestinian militant group Fatah. Within the RAF she went by the codenames Irene and Nina. On 29 September 1970, Schubert drove the getaway car during an RAF robbery of a savings bank in Berlin. In the summer and autumn of 1970 Schubert took part in at least 2 further bank robberies. On 8 October 1970, Schubert was arrested at an apartment in Berlin along with RAF members

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, Brigitte Asdonk and

Irene Goergens Irene Goergens (born 29 April 1951) is a former member of the West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction (RAF). In March 1971 she was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for her role in the prison escape of Andreas Baader in May 1 ...

. Schubert was tried along with Mahler and Goergens; the trial began on 1 March 1971, and in April Schubert was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Between 1976 and 1977 she was imprisoned in JVA Stuttgart along with Baader,

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Jan-Carl Raspe Jan-Carl Raspe (24 July 1944 – 18 October 1977) was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction (RAF). Early life Raspe was born in Seefeld in Tirol (then Germany, now Austria). He was described as gentle but had difficulty co ...

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and

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, where she took part in several hunger strikes. During the

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of late 1977, second-generation members of the RAF tried in vain to break Schubert and other RAF members out of prison. After the suicide of top RAF members, including Baader and Esslin, on the night of 18 October 1977, Schubert hanged herself in her cell on 12 November 1977. Schubert was cremated on 25 November 1977, and buried in the family plot in the Koblenz main cemetery. The murderers of Gerold von Braunmühls, members of the so-called "third generation" of the RAF, called themselves "Kommando Ingrid Schubert".

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