Jan-Carl Raspe

Jan-Carl Raspe (24 July 1944 – 18 October 1977) was a member of the German far-left terrorist group the Red Army Faction (RAF). He was involved in five bomb attacks with four fatalities, was arrested in 1972 and committed suicide in custody in 1977.

Raspe was born in Seefeld in Tirol (then Germany, now Austria). He was described as gentle but had difficulty communicating with other people. His father, a businessman, died before his birth and Raspe and his two older sisters were raised by his mother and two aunts.^[1][2] Although living in East Berlin, he went to West Berlin when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, and stayed there, living with his uncle and aunt. He co-founded Kommune II in 1967^[3] and joined the Red Army Faction, also known as the "Baader-Meinhof Group", in 1970.^[4]

Raspe had technical skills,^[5] and is believed to have made the bombs for the May 1972 offensive. In that year, Raspe was involved in five bomb attacks that killed four people^[6] and injured over 50.

On 1 June 1972, Raspe along with Andreas Baader and Holger Meins had gone to check on a garage in Frankfurt where they had been storing materials used to make incendiary devices. Raspe had gone along as the driver (they were driving a Porsche Targa). However, as soon as they arrived at the garage, police began to swarm around the scene. Meins and Baader had already entered the garage and were surrounded but Raspe, who had remained by the car, fired a shot from his gun and tried to run away when he was rushed by police, but to no avail; he was caught and arrested in a nearby garden. Meins and Baader were arrested soon after.

ラスペは1977年4月28日に有罪判決を受け、終身刑を宣告された。^{[ 7 ] [ 8 ]} 1977年10月18日、ラスペはシュトゥットガルトのシュタムハイム刑務所の独房で銃創を負って発見された。彼は病院に搬送された後まもなく死亡した。^{[ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ]}同じ日の朝、RAFの仲間で囚人のバーダーとグドル​​ン・エンスリンは独房で死亡しているのが発見された。イルムガルト・メラーは独房で胸を刺したと思われる傷を負って発見されたが、一命を取り留めた。公式調査では集団自殺と結論付けられたが、ここでも別の説が多数存在した。

赤軍派は1984年にヤン・ラスペへの連帯と追悼の意を込めて「コマンドー・ヤン・ラスペ」を創設した。コマンドーは爆発物を積んだ車をオーバーアマガウのNATO学校前に駐車した。NATO統合スタッフの幹部がそこで訓練を受けていた。車は発見され、爆弾は解除された。赤軍派は作戦の目的はそこにいる軍人を排除することだったと述べた。^{[ 12 ]}

• 英国空軍の隊員

• シュタムハイムの死者たち