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= 2 June Movement =

Chronology


June 2, 1967 Benno Ohnesorg,a student demonstrating against the Shah of Iran in West Berlin, is fatally wounded by a policeman, Karl Heinz Kurras.

July 8, 1971 During the trial of Thomas Weisbecker, Michael Baumann, and Georg von Rauch for the assault on Horst Rieck, Baumann Weisbecker are released on bail. When the release is announced, von Rauch, who is facing a probable ten year sentence on other charges, pretends to be Weisbecker, leaves the courtroom with Baumann, and immediately goes underground. Weisbecker then reveals his identity and is also released. Following the escape, the June 2nd Movement is formed.

December 4, 1971 During a massive search throughout the city of West Berlin following the discovery of R.A.F. safehouse, three members of the June 2nd Movement get into a shootout with a plainclothes policeman. George von Rauch is killed; Michael Baumann and another guerrilla manage to escpae, after several hours of pursuit through the city.

February 2, 1972 The June 2nd Movement bombs the British Yacht Club in Kladow. Irwin Beelitz, a 66-year-old German Boatbuilder, is accidentally killed in the blast.

March 2, 1972 Thomas Weisbecker killed in Augsberg in a shootout with two Munich policeman who have just received special training in combat shooting. Carmen Roll is arrested while trying to flee.

April 19, 1972 Four hundred police raid the "Georg von Rauch House", a commune in the Kreuzberg occupied since December, 1971, by working -class youths. Evidence related to recent bombings is discovered, but members of the June 2nd Movement who had been living there under false identities are else where at the time of the raid. Twenty-seven people are taken in for questioning.

Late 1972 Michael Baumann drops out of the June 2nd Movement, but remains underground.

June 4, 1974 Ulrich Schmuecker, a former member of the June 2nd Movement, is assassinated, The assassination is alleged to have been carried out by the June 2nd Movement after Schmuecker informed on the group.

November 10, 1974 Guenter von Drenkman, president of West Berlin's highest court, is assassinated by several members of the June 2nd Movement. In the wake of this action and the demonstration following the death of Holger Meins, a nationwide sweep is carried out by the Security Police. An R.A.F. safehouse containing explosives, submachine guns, and floor plans of U.S. military installations is found, and at least 20 people are arrested.

February 27, 1975 Peter Lorenz, C.D.U. candidate for Mayor of West Berlin, is kidnapped by the June 2nd Movement three days before the elections. The June 2nd Movement demands the release of 6 imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for Lorenz: Rolf Pohl, Rolf Heissler, Gabriel Kroecher-Tiedman, Horst Mahler, Ina Siepman, and Verena Becher.

March 3, 1975 Four of the imprisoned guerrillas are flown to Frankfurt with Heinrich Albertz, former Mayor of West Berlin, as hostage. The fifth, Gabriel Kroecher-Tiedman, joins them after deciding to accept the release. Horst Mahler refuses to be exchanged

March 4, 1975 Lorenz released unharmed by the June 2nd Movement. He received 43% of the vote in the mayoral election, but lost the election, which was held while he was captive.

June 2, 1980  In a letter to the Frankfurter Rundschau the 2nd of June Movement declared that they had disbanded and merged with the RAF

III.         Fritz Teufel
Fritz Teufel spent five years in prison awaiting trial, only to present a watertight alibi in court: when the kidnapping took place he was working under a false name in an Essen factory that made toilet seats. He said that he had kept silent to expose the arbitrary nature of West German justice. Nonetheless, he was convicted of robbery, firearms offenses and membership in a criminal organization and sentenced to five years in prison, moot at that point. After his release, Teufel stopped his pursuit of radical politics, however he remained proactive after using a squirt gun to spray the West German finance minister.

IV.         Bombings, kidnappings, and other violent acts
The 2 June Movement predominately used firearms when carrying out attacks, however, they have also used explosive devices.

V.         Kidnapping of Peter Lorenz
Three days before the election in West Berlin in 1975, candidate Peter Lorenz of the Christian Democratic Union party was kidnapped by 2 June Members. Lorenz was cornered while on the road, and was thrown into another vehicle after his driver was brutally struck. In an effort to free several imprisoned Red Army Faction and 2 June Movement affiliates, the extremists publicized a photo which showed Lorenz with a sign around his neck that read "Peter Lorenz, prisoner of the 2nd June Movement". The photo also contained a message that demanded the release of Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, Horst Mahler, Ingrid Siepmann, Rolf Heissler, Rolf Pohle, and Verena Becker from prison. Along with the release of these members, 2 June Movement also demanded that a jet be provided to fly the radicals out to Aden, and 9,000 German marks should be given to the 2 June Movement. The West German government met their demands, releasing all but Horst Mahler, who did not want to be set free. On March 5th, Peter Lorenz was released at midnight, six hours after the West German Government had fulfilled the demands made by his leftist abductors.He was dropped off in Wilmersdorf district, walked to a telephone booth, and called his wife, Marianne, to tell her that their six‐day ordeal was over.

VII.         Disbandment
On June 2nd 1980, the 2 June Movement declared that they have disbanded and merged with the RAF through a letter to the German daily newspaper, Frankfurter Rundschau.

The statement made by the 2 June Movement explains their rationale behind they decided to combine with the RAF. In the statement the 2 June Movement recognizes how their founding was a contradiction to the RAF with the vague purpose of carrying out "spontaneous proletarian politics ." However, the fight against anti-imperialism was a common cause that brought the June Movement to join forces with the RAF. The Movement wrote that "We carried out our actions following a populist line, without providing political direction and without managing to mobilize people against the pigs’ strategy" and also saying, "It is never the responsibility of the guerrilla to please the people and win their praise, but rather—in a country where social democracy is tied to Nazi fascism and U.S. imperialism, depriving the working class of any proletarian organizations—it is the guerrilla's responsibility to be the cutting edge, deepening the central political contradictions through armed attacks, so as to drive the state into political crisis." The remainder of the statement expresses their anti-imperialist sentiment  ending with Unity in the Anti-Imperialist Armed Struggle showing their solidarity with the RAF.

X.         References
a.    Global Terrorism Database, www.start.umd.edu/gtd/.

'''b. Whitney, Craig R. “West Berlin Political Leader Released After Bonn Meets Kidnappers' Demands.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 Mar. 1975, www.nytimes.com/1975/03/05/archives/west-berlin-political-leader-released-after-bonn-meets-kidnappers.html.'''                     XI. Further reading

XII. External links

a.    GTD Search Results, www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?chart=overtime&casualties_type=&casualties_max=&perpetrator=3519.

b.     https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/05/archives/west-berlin-political-leader-released-after-bonn-meets-kidnappers.html 

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