Showdown Against RAF Terror
Showdown Against RAF Terror: Helmut Schmidt’s Crisis Management in the German Autumn
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031762495 | 280 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031762495 | 280 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
The year of terror in 1977, which included the kidnapping of German industrial leader Hanns Martin Schleyer and later the hijacking of the Lufthansa plane "Landshut" with 86 passengers and five crew members on board, presented the Federal Republic of Germany with its greatest test to date. Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had to engage in crisis management like no other incumbent before him. Hanns Martin Schleyer was ultimately murdered by his abductors, also the Captain of the “Landshut” Jürgen Schumann. The other "Landshut" hostages were freed by members of Border Guard Force 9 under Commander Ulrich Wegener.