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Ulrike Meinhof

1934 - 1976

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Ulrike Marie Meinhof (7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German left-wing militant, journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971). The manifesto acknowledges the RAF's "roots in the history of the student movement"; condemns "reformism" as "a brake on the anti-capitalist struggle"; and invokes Mao Zedong to define "armed struggle" as "the highest form of Marxism-Leninism". Meinhof, who took part in the RAF's "May Offensive" in 1972, was arrested that June and spent the rest of her life in custody, largely isolated from outside contact. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ulrike Meinhof is the 31st most popular extremist (down from 20th in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from Germany (down from 351st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Extremist.

Ulrike Meinhof was a German militant left-wing activist and journalist. She was a co-founder of the Red Army Faction, a communist terrorist group. She was captured in 1972, and she died in 1976 from self-inflicted injuries in prison.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ulrike Meinhof ranks 31 out of 283. Before her are John Wayne Gacy, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Ed Gein, Albert Fish, Carlos the Jackal, and Machine Gun Kelly. After her are Frank Sheeran, Cleon, Charles Ponzi, Anders Behring Breivik, John Hinckley Jr., and H. H. Holmes.

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Among people born in 1934, Ulrike Meinhof ranks 33. Before her are Sydney Pollack, Vavá, Roman Herzog, Tom Baker, Paul Ekman, and Pierre Richard. After her are Paco Rabanne, Kenny Baker, Jacques Anquetil, Larisa Latynina, Paul Cohen, and Empress Michiko. Among people deceased in 1976, Ulrike Meinhof ranks 25. Before her are Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Henrik Dam, Jacques Monod, Benjamin Britten, Lars Onsager, and Joachim Peiper. After her are J. Paul Getty, Gustav Heinemann, Raymond Queneau, Alexander Calder, Anneliese Michel, and Zhu De.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ulrike Meinhof ranks 538 out of 7,253. Before her are Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (1546), Felix Klein (1849), Walter Scheel (1919), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667), and Hans Baldung (1484). After her are Theodor Morell (1886), Hans Fritzsche (1900), Henning von Tresckow (1901), Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774), and Kurt Meyer (1910).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Ulrike Meinhof ranks 2. Before her are Frederick Trump (1869). After her are Otto Ohlendorf (1907), Andreas Baader (1943), Peter Kürten (1883), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Fritz Honka (1935), Willi Herold (1925), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), and Monika Ertl (1937).

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