Horst Söhnlein, Date of Birth
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German terrorist, former member of the Red Army Faction
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About Horst Söhnlein
- Horst Söhnlein (born 13 October 1943) is a German activist and former member of the Baader-Meinhof Group who was convicted of arson in 1968.On 2 April 1968, along with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Thorwald Proll, he set fire to two department stores in Frankfurt as a protest against "the genocide in Vietnam".
- All four were arrested two days later.All four of the defendants were convicted of arson and endangering human life and were sentenced to three years in prison.
- In June 1969 they were temporarily paroled under an amnesty for political prisoners, but in November of that year, the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) ordered that they return to custody.
- Unlike his three accomplices, who fled to Paris, Horst Söhnlein complied with the order.
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