Rudi Dutschke, prominent figure of the left-wing students movement 23 year old Neo-Nazi Josef Bachmann tried to assassinate the prominent left-wing figure Rudi Dutschke by firing multiple shots at him. Shopping Mall Two founding fathers of the RAF, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, set fire to a shopping mall in Frankfurt as a political statement against capitalism.
List of significant terrorist incidents in Germany Germany Revolutionäre Aktionszellen (RAZ) 2009–2011 Īction Front of National Socialists/National Activists 1977–1983įeministische Autonome Zelle (FAZ) since 2019 Tupamaros West-Berlin (and Munchen) 1969-1970 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since 2015 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Known terrorist groups in Germany (both active and in-active) Some of the terrorist groups had connections to international terrorism, notably Palestinian militant groups, and were aided and abetted by the communist regime of East Germany. Terrorist incidents also took place in the 1980s and 1990s. Terrorism in (or involving) West Germany and reunified Germany ĭuring the Cold War, especially in the 1970s, West Germany experienced severe terrorism, mostly perpetrated by far-left terrorist groups and culminating in the German Autumn of 1977, the country's most serious national crisis in postwar history. Īlmost all known terrorist networks and individuals in Germany have links to Salafism, an ultra-conservative Islamic ideology. In 2016, 28 verdicts for jihadist terrorism related offences were delivered. In 2015, 11 verdicts concerning jihadist terrorism related offences were issued by German courts. There is also a number of violent incidents which are disputed to either have been conducted by Lone-wolf Islamic terrorists or by mentally ill people. Since 2010, 15 people have died in Islamic terrorist attacks in Germany and an additional 74 have been injured. Īccording to a research conducted by the Abba Eban Institute as part of an initiative called Janus Initiative, Shiite clans in Germany are involved in organized crime and are specifically supporting Hezbollah. Before 2006, the German Islamist scene was dominated by Iraqi Kurds and Palestinians, but since 2006 Kurds from Turkey and Turks are dominant. Many Islamists in Germany are ethnic Kurds (Iraqi and Turkish Kurds) or Turks. Political scientist Guido Steinberg stated that many top leaders of Islamist organizations in Turkey fled to Germany in the 2000s, and that the Turkish (Kurdish) Hezbollah has also "left an imprint on Turkish Kurds in Germany." Also many Kurds from Iraq (there are about 50,000 to 80,000 Iraqi Kurds in Germany) financially supported Kurdish-Islamist groups like Ansar al-Islam. Turkish and Kurdish Islamist groups are also active in Germany, and Turkish and Kurdish Islamists have co-operated in Germany as in the case of the Sauerland terror cell. In recent years, far-left, far-right and Islamist extremist violence have resurged, and groups have been suspected of terrorism or terrorist plans.Īftermath of the 2016 Berlin truck attack Germany has experienced significant terrorism in its history, particularly during the Weimar Republic and during the Cold War, carried out by far-left and far-right German groups as well as by foreign terrorist organisations. GSG9 team returning in 1977 after liberating the passengers of Lufthansa Flight 181 Terrorist incidents in Germany Year
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