Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann

Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann (18 May 1951 – 7 October 1995) was a German far-left militant, associated with the Movement 2 June (J2M) and the Red Army Faction. She married Norbert Kröcher in 1971 and later divorced him whilst she served a prison sentence. She was freed by the kidnapping of Peter Lorenz in 1975, then participated in the OPEC siege. In 1977, she was arrested in Switzerland after shooting two policemen. She was imprisoned until 1991 and died in 1995.

Life

Gabriele Tiedemann was born in 1951 and attended the Free University of Berlin, where she became a political activist. She married Kröcher in 1971, taking the name Kröcher-Tiedemann. The following month Tiedemann was arrested in Switzerland with fellow radical Christian Möller in the Canton of Jura. They had driven across the border with France at Fahy; when they were challenged by two border guards, Tiedemann shot both of them with a pistol. The fugitives drove to Porrentruy then took a taxi to Delémont and were arrested at a police roadblock. At first the authorities thought they had captured Juliane Plambeck and Willy Peter Stoll; after checking fingerprints, they announced they had arrested Tiedemann and Möller. In Tiedemann's luggage, the police found fake identity papers, a report on the kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer, blueprints for the Israeli embassy in Belgium, two rifles and $20,000 from the Palmers ransom.