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April 1975

Occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm

To the governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Sweden: On April24, 1975, at 1:50 pm, we occupied the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Stockholm and took 12 embassy employees prisoner, including Ambassador Dieter Stoecker, Military Attaché Andreas von Mirbach, Economic Advisor Heinz Hillegaart, and Cultural Advisor Anno Elfgen, in order to free 26 political prisoners in the Federal Republic of Germany, namely: Gudrun Ensslin, Stuttgart Andreas Baader, Stuttgart Ulrike Meinhof, Stuttgart Jan Raspe, Stuttgart Carmen Roll, Stuttgart Werner Hoppe, Hamburg Helmut Pohl, Hamburg Wolfgang Beer, Hamburg Eberhard Becker, Hamburg Manfred Grashof, Zweibrücken Klaus Jünschke, Zweibrücken Wolfgang Quante, Bremen Ronald Augustin, Bückeburg Ali Jansen, Berlin Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Berlin Bernhard Braun, Berlin Ingrid Schubert, Berlin Annerose Reiche, Berlin Ilse Stachowiak, Hamburg Irmgard Möller, Hamburg Sigurd Debus, Hamburg Christa Eckes, Hamburg Wolfgang Stahl, Hamburg Margrit Schiller, Lübeck Monika Berberich, Berlin Johannes Weinrich, Karlsruhe 1.……… Read the rest