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((short description|1977 West German murders, hostage crisis))
((about|the series of events in 1977|the film|Germany in Autumn|the 1947 book|German Autumn (book)))
((Multiple issues|
((refimprove|date=January 2023))
((Lead extra info|date=September 2022))
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((Infobox military conflict
| conflict          = German Autumn
| partof            = the [[Cold War]]
| date              = 30 July – 18 October 1977
| place             = [[West Germany]]
| combatant1        = ((flagicon image|Flag of Germany (state).svg)) [[West Germany]]
*[[File:GSG 9 badge.svg|23px]] [[GSG 9]] 
| combatant2        = [[File:RAF-Logo.svg|20px]] [[Red Army Faction]]<br/>[[File:Revolutionäre_Zellen.svg|20px]] [[Revolutionary Cells (German group)|Revolutionary Cells]]
| commander1        = ((flagicon|West Germany)) [[Helmut Schmidt]]
| commander2        = [[File:RAF-Logo.svg|20px]] [[Gudrun Ensslin]] †<br/>[[File:RAF-Logo.svg|20px]] [[Jan-Carl Raspe]] †<br/>[[File:RAF-Logo.svg|20px]] [[Andreas Baader]] †
| casualties3       = 7 dead, 4 injured
| result            = [[West Germany|West German]] victory
))

The '''German Autumn''' (((lang-de|Deutscher Herbst))) was a series of events in Germany in 1977 associated with the [[kidnapping]] and [[murder]] of industrialist, businessman, and former ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' member [[Hanns Martin Schleyer]], president of the [[Confederation of German Employers' Associations]] (BDA) and the [[Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie|Federation of German Industries]] (BDI), by the [[Red Army Faction]] (RAF), a far-left militant organisation, and the hijacking of [[Lufthansa Flight 181]] (known in Germany by the name ''Landshut'') by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP). The hijackers  demanded the release of ten RAF members detained at the [[Stammheim Prison]] plus two Palestinian compatriots held in [[Turkey]] and US$15 million in exchange for the hostages. The assassination on 7 April 1977 of [[Siegfried Buback]], the attorney-general of [[West Germany]], and the failed kidnapping and then murder of the banker [[Jürgen Ponto]] on 30 July 1977, marked the beginning of the German Autumn. It ended on 18 October, with the liberation of the ''Landshut'', the deaths of the leading figures of the first generation of the RAF in their prison cells, and Schleyer's death.

The phrase "German Autumn" is derived from the 1978 film ''((lang|de|Deutschland im Herbst))'' (''[[Germany in Autumn]]''), a [[Germany|German]] [[Anthology film|omnibus film]] whose segments covered the social atmosphere during late 1977, while offering different critical perspectives and arguments pertaining to the situation. The directors involved were [[Heinrich Böll]], Hans Peter Cloos, [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]], [[Alexander Kluge]], Maxmiliane Mainka, [[Edgar Reitz]], Katja Rupé, [[Volker Schlöndorff]], Peter Schubert and Bernhard Sinkel. Kluge and Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus edited the film.((sfn|Goldsmith|2002))

== Events ==
===Murder of Siegfried Buback===
((main|Siegfried Buback))
On 7 April 1977, Siegfried Buback, the attorney-general of [[West Germany]], was shot and killed alongside his driver Wolfgang Göbel and a passenger, judicial officer Georg Wurster, in an ambush whilst travelling from his home in [[Neureut (Karlsruhe)|Neureut]] to the [[Bundesgerichtshof]] in [[Karlsruhe]].

Four RAF members, [[Christian Klar]], [[Knut Folkerts]], [[Günter Sonnenberg]] and [[Brigitte Mohnhaupt]] were formally charged and prosecuted in connection with the Buback murder. In 2007, former RAF members [[Peter-Jürgen Boock]] and [[Verena Becker]] claimed that another former RAF member, [[Stefan Wisniewski]], had fired the gun that killed Buback.

===Kidnapping and murder of Jürgen Ponto===
((main|Jürgen Ponto))
On 30 July 1977, [[Jürgen Ponto]], the head of [[Dresdner Bank]], was shot and killed in his house in [[Oberursel]] in a kidnapping that went wrong. Those involved were Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar and [[Susanne Albrecht]], the last being the sister of Ponto's goddaughter.((sfn|''Time'', 15 August 1977))

===Kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer===
((main|Kidnapping and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer))
[[File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F041440-0014,_Hamburg,_CDU-Bundesparteitag,_Schleyer.jpg|thumb|150px|Hanns Martin Schleyer]]
On 5 September 1977, an RAF 'commando unit' attacked the chauffeured car carrying [[Hanns Martin Schleyer]], then-president of the German employers' association, in [[Cologne]]. His driver, Heinz Marcisz, 41, was forced to brake when a baby carriage suddenly appeared in the street in front of them. The police escort vehicle behind them was unable to stop in time, and crashed into Schleyer's car. Four (or possibly five) masked RAF members sprayed machine gun and machine pistol bullets into the two vehicles, killing Marcisz and a police officer, Roland Pieler, 20, who was seated in the backseat of Marcisz's car. The driver of the police escort vehicle, Reinhold Brändle, 41, and a third police officer, Helmut Ulmer, 24, who was in the second vehicle, were also killed. The hail of bullets riddled over twenty bullet wounds into the bodies of Brändle and Pieler.((sfn|Herf|2008|p=13)) Schleyer was abducted and held prisoner in a rented apartment in an anonymous residential neighborhood near Cologne. He was forced to appeal to the center-left West German government under [[Helmut Schmidt]] for the 'first generation' of RAF members (then imprisoned) to be exchanged for him. Police attempts to locate Schleyer proved unsuccessful. On 18 October 1977, three of the imprisoned RAF members were found dead in their cells. In response, Schleyer was taken from [[Brussels]] and shot dead en route to Mulhouse, France, where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy. After the kidnappers phoned the location of the Audi to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur office in Stuttgart, Schleyer's body was recovered on 19 October.

===''Landshut'' hijacking===
((main|Lufthansa Flight 181|Red Army Faction#"Stammheim Death Night"))
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F051866-0010, "Landshut"-Entführung, Rückkehr GSG 9.jpg|thumb|''Stuttgart'' landed at [[Cologne Bonn Airport]] on 18 October 1977 with [[GSG 9]] team (seen) and hostages, photograph by Ludwig Wegmann]]

When it became clear that the government was unwilling to entertain a further prisoner exchange given the experience of the kidnapping of [[Peter Lorenz]] two years earlier, the RAF tried to exert additional pressure by hijacking [[Lufthansa Flight 181]] on 13 October 1977 with the help of the allied [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP). After a long odyssey through the [[Arabian Peninsula]] and the killing of Captain Jürgen Schumann, the hijackers and their hostages landed in [[Mogadishu]], the capital of [[Somalia]].

After political negotiations with Somali leader [[Siad Barre]], the West German government was granted permission to assault Lufthansa 181. This was carried out on 18 October by the special task force [[GSG 9]], which had been formed after the [[Munich Massacre|1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis]]. Only one GSG 9 member and one flight attendant were injured; of the hijackers, only [[Souhaila Andrawes]] survived.((sfn|Smith|Moncourt|2008|pp=22–24))

On the same night, three of the imprisoned RAF members – [[Gudrun Ensslin]], [[Jan-Carl Raspe]] and [[Andreas Baader]] – were found dead in their cells.

<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:RAF funeral.jpg|thumb|150px|The funeral of Baader, Ensslin and Raspe]] -->
The official investigation into the deaths of the imprisoned RAF members concluded that they had committed suicide: Baader and Raspe using handguns allegedly smuggled into the Stammheim maximum security prison by their lawyer Arndt Müller, Ensslin by hanging herself. [[Irmgard Möller]], who was imprisoned with them, survived with four knife wounds in her chest. She later claimed that the "suicides" were actually [[Extrajudicial execution|extrajudicial killings]]. On 12 November 1977, [[Ingrid Schubert]] was found hanged in her cell.((sfn|Eager|2008|p=66))

==Reactions==
===Political divides===
Germany's political parties clashed fiercely during the German Autumn. The coalition accused the opposition of hysterical overreactions and seizing the opportunity to transform the Federal Republic a little way into a [[police state]].((sfn|Kielmansegg|2000|p=342))

===Policy agreements===
The Schmidt administration convened the ''Großer Krisenstab'' (''Great Crisis Committee''), an informal council formed at the beginning of the Schleyer kidnapping, which involved members of all parties in the [[Bundestag]] and several Minister Presidents of German states. Historian [[Wolfgang Kraushaar]] likened its 45-day rule to an "undeclared state of emergency". One result of the cross-party collaboration was the ''Kontaktsperre'', a law which mandated that RAF prisoners could have no access to newspapers, TV, or radio, and could not be visited by family or lawyers.((sfn|Geronimo|2012|p=69))

==References==
===Citations===
((reflist))

===Sources===
* ((cite book |last=Eager |first=Paige Whaley |year=2008 |title= From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence |url=((GBurl|SULaAAAAMAAJ)) |location=Aldershot, England & Burlington, VT |publisher=Ashgate |doi=10.4324/9781315583358 |isbn=9780754672258))
* ((cite book |author=Geronimo |translator-last1=Kuhn |translator-first1=Gabriel |translator-link1=Gabriel Kuhn |year=2012 |title=Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement |url=https://archive.org/details/Fire_and_Flames_9781604867299/ |url-access=registration |location=Oakland, CA |publisher=PM Press |isbn=9781604860979)) Originally published as ((cite book |author=Geronimo |display-authors=0 |year=1990 |title=Feuer und Flamme. Zur Geschichte der Autonomen |language=de |location=Berlin & Amsterdam |publisher=Edition ID-Archiv |isbn=9783894080044))
* ((cite journal |last=Goldsmith |first=Melissa Ursula Dawn |date=16 December 2002 |title=Montage, Music and Memory: Remembering ''Deutschland im Herbst'' (''Germany in Autumn'', 1978) |url=https://www.kinoeye.org/02/20/goldsmith20.php |journal=Kinoeye |volume=2 |issue=20 |no-pp=yes |issn=1475-2441 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030826212458/https://www.kinoeye.org/02/20/goldsmith20.php |archive-date=2003-08-26))
* ((cite journal |last=Herf |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Herf |date=Fall 2008 |title=An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany |url=http://www.telospress.com/from-telos-144-fall-2008jeffrey-herf-an-age-of-murder-ideology-and-terror-in-germany/ |journal=Telos |issue=144 |pages=8–37 |issn=0090-6514 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005215823/http://www.telospress.com/from-telos-144-fall-2008jeffrey-herf-an-age-of-murder-ideology-and-terror-in-germany/ |archive-date=2021-10-05))
* ((cite book |last=Kielmansegg |first=Peter Graf |year=2000 |title=Nach der Katastrophe. Eine Geschichte des geteilten Deutschlands |url=((GBurl|0-PEAAAAIAAJ)) |location=Berlin |publisher=Siedler |isbn=9783886803293))
* ((cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=15 August 1977 |title=Red Roses from Roter Morgen |url=http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,915254,00.html |url-status=live |magazine=Time |volume=110 |issue=7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005204201/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,915254,00.html |archive-date=2021-10-05 |ref=((SfnRef|''Time'', 15 August 1977))))
* ((cite book |last1=Smith |first1=J. |last2=Moncourt |first2=André |year=2008 |title=Daring to Struggle, Failing to Win: The Red Army Faction's 1977 Campaign of Desperation |url=https://archive.org/details/Daring_to_struggle_9781604860283/ |url-access=registration |location=Oakland, CA |publisher=PM Press |isbn=9781604860283))
* ((cite journal |last=Usselmann |first=Rainer |date=Spring 2002 |title=18. Oktober 1977: Gerhard Richter's Work of Mourning and Its New Audience |url=http://www.photographsdonotbend.co.uk/18.%20Oktober%201977-%20Gerhard%20Richter's%20Work%20of%20Mourning%20and%20Its%20New%20Audience%20Author(s)-%20Rainer%20Usselmann.pdf |journal=Art Journal |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=4–25 |doi=10.1080/00043249.2002.10792104 |jstor=778164 |s2cid=191489383 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005222312/http://www.photographsdonotbend.co.uk/18.%20Oktober%201977-%20Gerhard%20Richter%27s%20Work%20of%20Mourning%20and%20Its%20New%20Audience%20Author%28s%29-%20Rainer%20Usselmann.pdf |archive-date=2021-10-05))

==External links== 
*[http://lesmaterialistes.com/fichiers/pdf/revues/Communism-006-German%20autumn.pdf 1977: the German Autumn] Chronology of the main events, statements by the RAF
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