Sigrid Sternebeck (born 19 June 1949) is a German convicted

murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...

er. She was a 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), and participated in the

kidnapping and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer The kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer marked the end of the German Autumn in 1977. German industrial leader and former SS member Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped on 5 September 1977, by the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known a ...

, including the murder of his driver and three policemen, and in the murder attempt on

Alexander Haig Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (; December 2, 1924February 20, 2010) was United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to and in between these c ...

. In 1980 she fled to

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

with the help of the

Stasi The Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the (),An abbreviation of . was the Intelligence agency, state security service of the East Germany from 1950 to 1990. The Stasi's function was similar to the KGB, serving as a means of maint ...

, which provided her with a false identity. After the

fall of communism The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, was a revolutionary wave that resulted in the end of most communist states in the world. Sometimes this revolutionary wave is also called the Fall of Nations or the Autumn of Natio ...

and

German reunification German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...

she was arrested and charged with murder in relation to the kidnapping and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and his driver and police escort, and of murder attempt on Haig; she was found guilty on 22 June 1992 and sentenced to eight-and-a-half years' imprisonment. During her trial she cooperated with the police and prosecution and therefore received a reduced sentence. Following her release from prison on probation in 1997, she has worked as a photographer. She currently lives under another name in Northern Germany.Dann sind bald alle tot. Die RAF-Aussteigerin Sigrid Sternebeck über ihren Weg in den Untergrund und über die Endstation DDR
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der Spiegel ''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner ...

'', no. 33, 1990

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