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1934-1976. West German urban guerrilla,
member of the Baader-Meinhof gang in the
1970s. A left-wing journalist, Meinhof was
converted to the use of violence to achieve
political change by the imprisoned Andreas
Baader. She helped free Baader and they
became joint leaders of the urban guerrilla
organization the Red Army Faction. As the
faction's chief ideologist, Meinhof was
arrested in 1972 and, in 1974, sentenced to
eight years' imprisonment. She committed
suicide in 1976 in the Stammheim
high-security prison.