After this Mahler was virtually kicked out of the group; a group he helped establish. He was, however, offered the chance to leave prison in 1975 - a demand of the Peter Lorenz kidnappers, but he refused to go. He was released from prison in the early 1980s, was allowed to practice law again and completely reversed his politics. He became interested in neo-fascism and has recently joined the far right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands.

He introduced his sister, Astrid Proll, to the RAF. She joined Baader, Ensslin and others in forming the Red Army Faction. However, Thorwald Proll turned away from the group and in December left Paris for England. On 21 November 1970 he turned himself in to the public prosecutor's office in Berlin. In October 1971 he was released early from prison.

After Meinhof's suicide in 1976, Schubert was transferred to Stammheim to soothe and console Ensslin, and she was then transferred to Stadelheim Prison in Munich after Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe and Andreas Baader all supposedly committed suicide on 18 October 1977. Two weeks later Schubert followed suit and committed suicide in her prison cell by hanging on 13 November 1977.

Later that year, Berberich arrived at a Berlin apartment used as an RAF hideout. Hearing noises coming from the room, she listened at the door but was spotted by police who had been watching the apartment (the police had also just arrested both Ingrid Schubert and Mahler at that address a few hours beforehand). Berberich was dragged into the apartment and a few minutes later, Irene Goergens and Brigitte Asdonk (fellow terrorists) arrived at the door. Berberich screamed out and tried to warn them, but she was jumped on by the police. Both Asdonk and Goergens were arrested.

Berberich was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment in 1974 (of which she had already served four years) for bank robbery and membership in a criminal association. However in 1976 she managed to escape from a maximum security prison in Berlin (along with J2M's Inge Viett, Gabriele Rollnick and Juliane Plambeck) by overpowering a guard and going over the wall. However, she was re-arrested 14 days later on July 21.

In 1995 Berberich took part in an interview for a BBC documentary called "States of Terror." In the interview Berberich revealed that she has not changed her passion against the "fascism" of the German state.

After the arrests of Horst Mahler, Ingrid Schubert, Irene Goergens, Monica Berberich and Brigitte Asdonk in October 1970, Bäcker was suspected by the remaining members of the gang to be a double agent working with the police. He was already untrusted in the group because he didn't get on well with Andreas Baader as he couldn't accept his authority. When, at a group meeting, Bäcker was confronted about his supposed betrayal he stormed out and the rest of the group accepted this as an admission of guilt. Bäcker parted ways with the group soon after that albeit because of his supposed deceit, Astrid Proll tried to assassinate him in a driveby shooting, but she missed.

Bäcker was arrested on 2 February 1971. In 1974 he was tried and acquitted of participating in the raid that rescued Baader.

In 1971 he was charged and acquitted with assaulting a Springer journalist. Later, on March 2, 1972, Weissbecker, along with Carmen Roll, was stopped by police outside a hotel in Augsburg. Weissbecker was shot dead by the police when he reached into his pocket, supposedly to grab his gun. However, Stefan Aust claims that he was simply reaching into his pocket to produce ID.

On 12 May 1972, over two months after Weissbecker's death, RAF terrorists bombed a police station in Augsburg and a Criminal Investigations Agency in Munich. They claimed responsibility for the bombings in the name of the 'Tommy Weissbecker Kommando'.

On 2 March 1972, Grundmann and Manfred Grashof entered an RAF apartment used for forgery. Unbeknownst to them, police were hiding in the apartment, ready to capture anyone who would enter. When the police drew their weapons on Grundmann and Grashof, Grashof quickly drew his pistol and returned fire, but Grundmann surrendered and put his hands up straight away. Grashof was wounded, and then both men were arrested. Grundmann was released four years later in 1976.

Barz disappeared around this time and was never seen alive again. A decomposed body was found beside the autobahn near Munich in July 1973, believed, but not proven, to have been Barz's. It was presumed that Andreas Baader executed her after he found out that she wanted to leave the Gang. Karl-Heinz Ruhland said that the general idea was that if anyone wanted to desert the group then they would be liquidated and Gerhard Müller, a former RAF member, claimed that Baader murdered her, however his story was very inconsistent and so Barz's murder was never solved.

Ruhland was never part of the main circle of the Gang even though he was Meinhof's occasional lover. He hardly knew any of the other members of the gang by their real names (he only knew their codenames). He once punched Jansen in the face after he defaced a Volkswagen in Oberhausen.

He once escaped arrest with Astrid Proll on 10 February 1971 when they were stopped by police. Although Grashof did produce a gun, he didn't fire a shot, and he managed to run away from the police when a sympathetic passer-by bought him a U-Bahn ticket.

However, Grashof wasn't so lucky the next time. On 2 March 1972 in Hamburg, Grashof and Wolfgang Grundmann walked into a trap; the police were lying in wait in an apartment used by the RAF for forgery. Grashof started firing at the police. He fatally wounded one of them (who died three weeks later in hospital) but was shot twice and arrested. He survived the ordeal but was transferred from hospital to an isolation cell (with the lights switched on day and night) when he was well enough.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment on June 2, 1977. To avenge his imprisonment, the RAF terrorists who bombed judge Wolfgang Buddenberg's car on May 15, 1972 named their commando 'The Manfred Grashof Commando' in his honour.

He was nearly arrested once on 20 December 1970, when he was driving through Oberhausen with Ruhland and Beate Sturm and their car was stopped by police. He managed to escape with Sturm, but Ruhland was arrested. However, a day later on 21 December, Jansen was arrested when trying to steal a Mercedes-Benz with Ulrike Meinhof, Astrid Proll and Uli Scholze. The car back-fired and woke its owner, who called the police. Proll and Meinhof escaped when the police arrived, but Scholze and Jansen weren't so lucky. Jansen whipped out his handgun and started firing crazily at the police. No one was hurt, however, and both Jansen and Scholze were arrested.

Jansen was charged with attempted murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

On July 15, 1971, Schelm was driving through Hamburg with Werner Hoppe when she sped her BMW through a police roadblock. The police gave chase and forced her BMW off the road. Schelm and Hoppe ran off in different directions. Hoppe was followed by a police helicopter and was caught and arrested, but Schelm did not surrender. She threw away a jacket she was holding to reveal a handgun and fired at the police, but the police returned fire. Jillian Becker states that Schelm was killed by a burst of gunfire from a submachine gun, but Stefan Aust states that it was a single bullet wound to the head that killed Schelm. Additionally, a closeup photograph of Schelm taken at the scene immediately after her death (probably by a police photographer) clearly shows a single gunshot wound through the eye. Regardless, Schelm died, aged 20.

Some RAF members called for "retribution" for Schelm's death. She was buried at a cemetery in Spandau. At her funeral, fifty or so youths laid a red flag on her grave, though policemen later came and removed it.

Irmgard Moeller bombed the Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg on 24 May 1972. She claimed responsibility in the name of the Commando 15 July (the date of Petra Schelm's death) in honour of Schelm.

Homann travelled to Jordan later in 1970 alongside the Baader-Meinhof Gang to train in urban guerrilla warfare with the PLO. However, in Jordan Homann fell out with Andreas Baader and distanced himself from the group. He associated himself more with the fedayeen in the camp, and this led his fellow Gang members to suspect him of being a traitor. He eventually had to be removed from the camp and given a minder for his own safety. When he returned to West Germany, he left the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

He soon travelled to a hippie colony near Mount Etna in Sicily where Meinhof's twin children were staying. He took the children and returned them to their father, Klaus Rainer Rohl. He did this because Meinhof wanted to send her children to an orphan camp in Jordan, even though she would never see them again.

Homann was involved in a controversy in 1997 when he gave an interview to Der Spiegel in which he suggested that Horst Mahler had "sentenced" Homann to death in Jordan in 1970 (and Homann only thwarted the plan by leaving the training camp early). Mahler took severe umbrage at the suggestion that he called for Homann's death.

She was given a short sentence. Uon her release she immediately returned underground. In 1972 she was involved in the 19 May bombing of the Springer Headquarters in Hamburg in which 17 people were injured. A month later in June, she was staying in Angela Luther's apartment when it was wrecked by explosions. She survived and managed to escape, however she was rearrested on 1 February 1974 and imprisoned.

She was involved in the freeing of Andreas Baader in 1970 (along with Ingrid Schubert, Gudrun Ensslin, Peter Homann and Meinhof) and she also took part in some Berlin bank raids. She was arrested in October 1970 with Brigitte Asdonk when she walked into an apartment in which police were hiding. She was released from prison with remission on 13 May 1977 and did not rejoin the Gang.

A month later in January 1971, Sturm was scouting out banks in Kassel when she decided she no longer wanted to live a life of crime. She called home and subsequently left the Gang without ever having technically committed any crimes. She later provided detailed information about the workings and structure of the gang. Her codename was Jutta.

After Horst Mahler was arrested, Grusdat suggested building a small helicopter in order to get him out. Nothing came of the idea.

He was arrested and imprisoned on 4 December 1970.

Hoff parted with the RAF after the core members of the first generation were arrested in 1972.

After her release, she was arrested again on 2 July 1984 in Frankfurt, after several RAF members accidentally discharged a gun into the apartment below their safehouse. The other arrested were Helmut Pohl, Stefan Frey, Ingrid Jakobsmeier, Barbara Ernst and Ernst-Volker Staub.^[9]

On 12 May 1972, she participated in the bombing of a police station in Augsburg together with Irmgard Möller, and on 24 May 1972 she was involved in the bombing of the officers club and the Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg.

She was involved with the SPK and after its dissolution, the RAF. She is believed to have been one of the terrorists who kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer.^{[11 ]} According to Monika Helbing, after Schleyer was executed in 1977, Krabbe fled to Baghdad along with Elisabeth von Dyck. Around this time Krabbe disappeared, and her whereabouts are still unknown today.

In February 1971, Roll, along with Hausner, planned to bomb the President of the Federal Republic’s special train in Heidelberg station, but she arrived too late with the explosives, and the plot failed.

On March 2, 1972, Roll was spotted with Tommy Weissbecker outside a hotel in Augsburg. Weissbecker was shot dead and Roll was eventually arrested. Two weeks later she was given a near-fatal dose of ether by prison doctors.

In 1976 Roll was freed from prison. She moved to Italy and became a nurse.

Taufer has been living in Brazil with his sister since 1999.

In 1975 Von Dyck, along with Siegfried Haag, was arrested on suspicion of smuggling weapons out of Switzerland and served six months in a detention centre in Cologne before being released. However, a warrant went out for her arrest in 1977 stating that she supported a terrorist organisation. Von Dyck went underground, and Monika Helbing stated that around this time she fled to Baghdad for a while with Friederike Krabbe.

Von Dyck returned to West Germany sometime between 1977 and 1979, and on 4 May 1979, Von Dyck entered a Nuremberg house, thought to have been an RAF hideout, which was under police surveillance. The police shot Von Dyck through the back, killing her. A gun was found on her body. Von Dyck was shot even though she was only suspected of being involved with the RAF, and was not a high-priority on the wanted list. However, it was alleged that the police shot her after she first drew a pistol and aimed it at them.

Recently the wife of Kranenburg has requested that Folkerts should serve the full sentence from the trial in Utrecht, but this is still undecided.

In 1980 he fled to the DDR. There he married Sigrid Sternebeck, who also lived there as a retired RAF member. On 15 June 1990, he was arrested in Schwedt together with Sternebeck. In 1992 he was sentenced to several years in prison but prematurely released and today lives under a different name in Northern Germany.

He was one of the 26 terrorist who was supposed to be released as a result of the West German embassy siege in Stockholm.^[13]

On 1 April 1982 she fled to the DDR together with Henning Beer and was given new a identity and lived under the name Eva-Maria Sommer in Dresden, where she trained as a repro photographer. She later moved to Magdeburg. After German reunification, she was arrested on 12 June 1990. She was sentenced to 13 years in prison because of a shoot out in Paris in August, 1981, where she attempted to kill a police officer. In January, 1997 she was released from prison and is now a writer.

She was then again arrested in Frankfurt on 4 July 1985. She had been spotted in Paris shortly before René Audran's assassination by the Action directe, a French ally to the RAF.^[16]

She then lived in a training camp for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) and should have been part of the abduction of the Austrian textile industrial Walter Palmers in November, 1977 but was not involved when it was put into action. She is believed to have been killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1982 in Lebanon.^[18]

On 7 July 1976, she along with RAF member Monika Berberich and J2M members Gabriele Rollnick and Inge Viett overpowered a guard and scaled the wall, escaping from the Lehrter Women's Prison in West Berlin.^[19]

On 2 June 1980, Plambeck, then a RAF member, and Wolfgang Beer were killed in a traffic accident outside of Bietigheim-Bissingen. In the car several weapons, one of which had been used in the abduction of Hanns Martin Schleyer, are found next to fake identification documents and vehicle registration.^[20]

On 3 March 1975, he was released as part of the Peter Lorenz kidnapping and exchange together with Rolf Pohle, Verena Becker, Ingrid Siepmann and Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann and ended up in South Yemen.^[22]

In October 1976 he returned undetected to Germany and on 1 November 1978 he and Adelheid Schulz shot two Dutch customs officers, Dionysius de Jong and Johannes Goemans, at a passport control in Kerkrade and seriously injured two more. de Jong died instantly, and Goemans died on 14 November 1978. When he was arrested on 9 June 1979 in Frankfurt am Main, Heissler was seriously injured by a shot in the head but survived.^[23]

On 10 November 1982, he was sentenced to two life terms plus 15 years for murders and membership in a terrorist organisation.^[24] On 25 October 2001, he was released on probation.^[25]

On 3 March 1975, he was released as part of the Peter Lorenz kidnapping and exchange together with Rolf Heissler, Verena Becker, Ingrid Siepmann and Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann and ended up in South Yemen.^[27]

On 21 July 1976, he was arrested again in Athens but first extradited to Germany on 1 October after a lengthly negotiation with the Greeks. On top of his original conviction he was given a further three years and three months.^[28] He was released in 1982 and returned to Greece two years later.^[29]

Until the outbreak of cancer, he worked as a teacher and translator. Pohle himself continued to deny any profound relations with the RAF. He died on 7 February 2004.

On 19 December 1979 he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.^[31] In detention, he distanced himself from the RAF. In February, 1987 the rest of his punishment to the probation was suspended because he was seriously ill.

In 1980 she left the RAF and received asylum and a new identity in East Germany. She was arrested on 14 June 1990 in Frankfurt an der Oder and later on 24 February 1992 she was sentenced to seven years in prison. After her arrest she cooperated with the police and prosecutors and testified extensively. She was released in 1995 and today lives under a different name.^[41]

On June 27, 1993, members of the GSG 9 were to arrest Grams and Hogefeld at the train station in Bad Kleinen. During the arrest, Grams managed to pull a gun and shoot two officers, succeeding in killing one, Michael Newrzella. Officers were quoted as saying they saw Grams "suddenly fall backward" off of the station platform and onto track. Either before or after he fell, he shot himself in the head. He was taken to the hospital by helicopter, where he died from his wounds a few hours later.