Margrit Schiller
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Margrit Schiller (born 1948) was a West German terrorist associated with the second generation Red Army Faction and the SPK.
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[edit] Early life
Schiller was born in Bonn in March, 1948. She studied psychology in Bonn and Heidelberg and became a student member of the SPK and was one of the members who turned militant in 1970. After the SPK dissolved Schiller joined the Red Army Faction.[1]
[edit] Terrorist career
On September 25th 1971, two policemen approached a wrongly parked vehicle on the Freiburg-Basel autobahn. However before they reached the vehicle, two people jumped out and started firing guns at them. Both policemen were shot albeit only one was seriously injured. The policemen later identified Schiller and Holger Meins as their assailants.
On October 22 of the same year, Schiller left a Hamburg train station around 10pm and realising she was being trailed by police she hid in a car park but the police were still tracking her. She ran into fellow terrorists Irmgard Moeller and Gerhard Muller and when the police tried to approach her she ran, followed by the police, Moeller and Muller. One of the police men caught Schiller but there was a scuffle and he was shot six times and killed, the other police man was shot in the foot.
Schiller later claimed that it was Muller that was responsible for the murder. Later that night around 2am, police approached a female suspect in a telephone booth who turned out to be Schiller. When she came out the police drew their weapons; “Oh, and I thought you wanted to fuck me!” Schiller exclaimed. When they searched her they found a 9 mm pistol in her handbag. She was arrested and sentenced to 27 months in prison.
Schiller was released in 1973 and went underground straight away. However in January/February of 1974 she was re-arrested after police carried out raids in Hamburg and Frankfurt. Whilst in prison Schiller took part, unsuccessfully, in some hunger strikes.
[edit] Later life
In 1979 Schiller was released from prison. In 1985 she moved to Cuba and has lived in Uruguay since 1993. [2]
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- Book: Hitler's Children by Jillian Becker
