| Irmgard Möller | |
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 Irmgard Möller from a wanted poster in 1972. |
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| Date of birth: | May 13, 1947 |
| Place of birth: | Bielefeld, West Germany |
| Major organizations: | Red Army Faction |
Irmgard Möller (also spelled Irmgard Moeller) (born May 13, 1947, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German militant and a former member of the Red Army Faction. Her father was a high school teacher[1] and before joining the RAF, she was a student of German studies.
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According to prison reports, she attempted suicide by stabbing herself in the chest on the morning of October 18, 1977. Of the imprisoned RAF leaders, only Möller survived this day; the other Red Army members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe died by gunshot or hanging. With the successful Mogadishu raid there was no more chance to escape jail. During the height of the German Autumn the nature of these suicides was suspicious given their location in a maximum security prison. Official reports have suggested that some of the terrorists' lawyers were willing and able to smuggle weapons into the prison for their clients.[citation needed]
But Möller claims that it was actually an extrajudicial killing, orchestrated by the German government, in response to Red Army demands that the prisoners be released.[citation needed]
Möller was released from prison in 1994 for health reasons. Today she lives in anonymity.
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