Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Meinhof

ActorWriterDirector Oct 7 (died age 41) Oldenburg, Germany 1965–2015 (50 year career)
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Biography

Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant. She co-founded the Red Army Faction in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly left-wing magazine konkret. She was arrested in 1972, and eventually charged with numerous murders and the formation of a criminal association. Before the trial concluded, Meinhof was found hanged in her prison cell in 1976.