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Profile of Holger Meins
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26th October 1941 |
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Hamburg, Germany |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Holger Meins was a German film student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s. He became a primary member of the RAF, but was arrested together with Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe in a shootout with the police in Frankfurt on June 1, 1972.
In prison the RAF-convicts launched several hunger strikes against the prison authorities. Meins died on hunger strike November 11, 1974. Over six feet tall, Meins weighed less than 100 pounds (45 kg) at his death.
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