Ina Siepmann

Ingrid "Ina" Siepmann (1944–1982) was a German political militant who was a member of the 2 June Movement (M2J) and later the Red Army Faction (RAF). She was freed from prison during the Peter Lorenz kidnapping and is believed to have died fighting against the Israel Defense Forces during the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Life

Ingrid Siepmann was born in Marienberg in 1944 and grew up in Schwelm. Her father was a pharmacist. She studied Greek at the University of Tübingen. In 1965, she married Eckhard Siepmann, having a son, Fritz, with him. Because of her child, she began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist. With her partner and son the family moved to West-Berlin in 1966. After the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke in 1968, Siepmann entered into left-wing political activism and the following year she began a relationship with Dieter Kunzelmann at Kommune 1. From June 1969, she and Kunzelmann were members of the Central Council of the wandering hash rebels. She travelled to Jordan in a bus owned by Technische Universität Berlin, together with Roswitha Conradt, Albert Fichter, Kunzelmann and Georg von Rauch. In September 1969, they met high-ranking Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officials such as Yasser Arafat and Faruq al-Qaddumi. Siepmann stayed for a year, working in a Palestinian medical centre.

After Jordan, Siepmann returned to Berlin and was involved with the founding of the anarchist Movement 2 June (M2J), being taught by Bommi Baumann how to make explosive devices. She was arrested in 1974 and imprisoned, before being freed and flown to South Yemen the following year after the kidnapping of Peter Lorenz.

Death

Siepmann is thought to have died in the 1982 Lebanon War, fighting with the PLO against Israel Defense Forces. She is believed to have died in the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Her death was only confirmed in 1998, when the RAF dissolved and supplied a list of its deceased members.