Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Meinhof (7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German radical left-wing militant who started out as a journalist. She was one of the founders of the Red Army Fraction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

I really don’t see the difference between the terrorism of the police that we have already experienced in Berlin and are threatened with now and the stormtrooper terror of the Thirties.

Quotes

• Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
  • Published in “Vom Protest zum Widerstand” [“From Protest to Resistance”], konkret, no. 5 (May 1968), p. 5.

• These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.
  • Published in "Minor Literature: Case Study: the Red Army Faction"

• The function of leadership in the guerrilla, the function of Andreas Baader in the RAF is orientation: not just to distinguish the main points from the minor ones in each situation but also to remain with the entire political context in all situations; to never lose sight, among technical and logistic details and problems, of the aim, which is the revolution.
  • Published in "Minor Literature: Case Study: the Red Army Faction"

• We are acting for those who are trying to free themselves from terror and violence. And if no means other than war remains for them, then we are for their war. And we are against those who escalate their terror up to the use of nuclear weapons, something currently being discussed in regard to Vietnam.
  • Stefan Aust, Terrorism in Germany: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

• In the moment when you become serious about solidarity with the Vietnamese, when you become intent on weakening the American position everywhere in the world, so that the Vietnamese people derive some benefit... then I really don’t see the difference between the terrorism of the police that we have already experienced in Berlin and are threatened with now and the stormtrooper terror of the Thirties.
  • Stefan Aust, Terrorism in Germany: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

• Dare to struggle; dare to win! Attack and smash the power of imperialism! It is the duty of every revolutionary to make the revolution!We call on all militants in the Federal Republic to make all American establishments targets of their attacks in their struggle against US imperialism! Long live the RAF!
  • The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History, Volume One: Projectiles for the People.

Quotes about

• The most important woman in German politics since Rosa Luxemburg
  • Erich Fried, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 17 1976.
• "Ulrike Mainhod is Dead - Let's Rescue the Living"
  • Slogan of the German sponti, The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History, 389

See also

• Gudrun Ensslin
• Vietnam War
• Red Army Faction