Ingrid Schubert

Ingrid Schubert (7 November 1944 – 12 November 1977) was a West German left-wing militant and founding member of the terrorist organisation Red Army Faction (RAF). She participated in the freeing of Andreas Baader from prison in May 1970 as well as several bank robberies before her arrest in October 1970. She was found dead in her cell in 1977.

Life

Schubert participated with Ulrike Meinhof and Irene Goergens in the freeing of Andreas Baader from prison in May 1970. In the summer of 1970, she travelled with roughly twenty other RAF members to Jordan to undergo military training with the Palestinian militant group Fatah. Within the RAF she went by the codenames Irene and Nina. On 29 September 1970, Schubert drove the getaway car during an RAF robbery of a savings bank in West Berlin. In the summer and autumn of 1970 Schubert took part in at least 2 further bank robberies. On 8 October 1970, she was arrested at an apartment in West Berlin along with RAF members Horst Mahler, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens.

Schubert was tried along with Horst Mahler and Goergens; the trial began on 1 March 1971, and in April Schubert was sentenced to 13 years in prison. In 1975, she was one of the prisoners whose freedom was demanded during the West German Embassy siege in Stockholm. During the German Autumn of late 1977, the RAF kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer and demanded that Schubert and other RAF members were released from prison.