Susanne Albrecht

Susanne Albrecht (born 1 March 1951) is a former member of the Red Army Faction.

Early life Albrecht was the daughter of a successful maritime lawyer, and spent her childhood living in a wealthy suburb of Hamburg. She did not fit in well in public school, and was later sent to a private school in Holzminden. In 1971 she attended the University of Hamburg where she studied sociology, and it was around this time that she became interested in Marxism. She joined several political groups and a squatters group before moving into an apartment with Karl-Heinz Dellwo. She also began to mingle with some Red Army Faction (RAF) members, such as Ilse Stachowiak, to whom she sometimes gave her ID papers. became very important to the left-wing scene and Albrecht began to further strengthen her connection to the RAF.

Terrorism In this apartment at the Rosenbecker Straße Nr. 3 in Marzahn Susanne Albrecht was arrested in 1990. She had lived there since 1989 under the name Ingrid Jäger with husband and child. In July 1977, Albrecht visited her sister's godfather Jürgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank, with whom her family was on such close terms that she called him "Uncle Jürgen". She was accompanied by Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar. Together they attempted to kidnap Ponto, but once he resisted he was shot by Mohnhaupt and Klar and murdered.

Between 1978 and 1979, Albrecht travelled to Yemen, where she trained in guerilla warfare in a Palestinian training camp. In June 1979, Albrecht, alongside Werner Lotze and Rolf Clemens Wagner, attempted to assassinate NATO commander-in-chief Alexander Haig in Mons, Belgium by detonating explosives near his car. The attempt failed, however, and Haig was not injured as the bomb exploded too late. In 1980, Albrecht fled to the German Democratic Republic where she was protected by the Stasi and given a new identity.

Arrest and imprisonment In East Germany, Albrecht worked as an English translator under the name Ingrid Jäger, She was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment by the upper state court in Stuttgart. However, she had served only half her term when she was paroled in 1996.

Albrecht has been working as a German language teacher to immigrant children in a Bremen primary school under an assumed name.