The kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer was one of the left-wing terrorist attacks called German Autumn in Later, Lufthansa Flight was kidnapped and abducted to Somalia to support the terrorist demands.
Hanns Martin Schleyer was killed after being a hostage for 43 days. Schleyer's abduction was planned by Siegfried Haag , but he was arrested in , so his replacement, Brigitte Mohnhaupt , carried out the abduction. His driver, Heinz Marcisz, 41, was forced to brake when a baby carriage suddenly appeared in the street in front of them. The police escort vehicle behind them was unable to stop in time, and crashed into Schleyer's car.
Four or possibly five masked RAF members then jumped out and sprayed machine gun and machine pistol bullets into the two vehicles, killing Marcisz and a police officer, Roland Pieler, 20, who was seated in the backseat of Marcisz's car.
Schleyer was then pulled out of the car and forced into the RAF assailants' own getaway van. Schleyer was hidden in a highrise in Erftstadt Liblar near Cologne. The police came very close to finding him, but due to lack of internal communication could not rescue him. The RAF demanded that the government release imprisoned members of their group.
On 13 October, the passenger-plane "Landshut" was kidnapped in order to support the demands to release imprisoned members of the RAF. Schleyer's widow, Waltrude Schleyer , campaigned against clemency for his kidnappers and other members of the RAF. She died on 21 March , in Stuttgart. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.
