Jan-Carl Raspe
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Jan-Carl Raspe (July 24, 1944 - October 18, 1977) was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction.
Raspe was born in Berlin. Although living in East Berlin, he was in West Berlin when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, and stayed there, living with his uncle and aunt. He co-founded Kommune II in 1967 and joined the Red Army Faction, also known as the "Baader-Meinhof Gang", in 1970.
He was arrested with Andreas Baader on 1 July 1972 and was convicted on 28 April 1977 and sentenced to life imprisonment. On 18 October 1977, Raspe was found wounded in his cell in Stammheim prison, Stuttgart. He died shortly after being admitted to a hospital. Fellow RAF members and inmates, Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, were found dead in their cells the same morning. Irmgard Möller was found in her cell, wounded after supposedly stabbing herself in the chest, but survived. Though all official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader and his two accomplices committed suicide, sympathizers and Irmgard Möller persist that the deaths had been extrajudicial executions.da:Jan-Carl Raspe de:Jan-Carl Raspe fi:Jan-Carl Raspe sv:Jan Carl Raspe