| Birgit Hogefeld | |
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| Date of birth: | July 27, 1956 |
| Place of birth: | Wiesbaden, West Germany |
| Major organizations: | Red Army Faction |
Birgit Hogefeld (born 27 July 1956 in Wiesbaden, Hesse) was a member of the West German Red Army Faction (RAF).
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Born in Wiesbaden, Hogefeld joined the RAF in the eighties (around 1984) long after its founding members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof were dead. She became the girlfriend of fellow terrorist Wolfgang Grams and moved in with him.
In 1993 Hogefeld and Grams arrived at a train station in Bad Kleinen where a group of GSG 9 officers were waiting to arrest them (the officers had received a tip-off from a fellow GSG 9 officer who had infiltrated the RAF). According to the GSG 9 men, Hogefeld and Grams started firing at them on sight; Grams fatally shot an officer named Michael Newrzella. According to the police Grams committed suicide and fell on the train tracks. However, it was suspected that Grams did not commit suicide but was shot by GSG 9 officers. Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters took responsibility and resigned in July of the year, as did Chief Federal Prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl [1].
Several terrorist activities that Hogefeld was later found guilty of by a Higher Court in Germany were;
In November 1996 she was given three life imprisonment sentences and is currently incarcerated in a Frankfurt detention centre. The sentence will not automatically be reviewed after 15 years.[4]
In Berlin, on August 17, 2007 a German court ruled that she will not be released on parole[5]. In 2008 federal president Köhler denied her clemency request[6].
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