Christian Klar (born 20 May 1952) is a former leading member of the second generation Red Army Faction (RAF), active between the 1970s and 1980s.
[3] Around 1973 he moved to a Karlsruhe flat with his girlfriend[4] Adelheid Schulz, Günter Sonnenberg and Knut Folkerts (who would all subsequently become RAF members) and in 1974 he took part in the occupation of the Hamburg Amnesty International offices protesting against the detention of RAF prisoners.
[6] He received Stasi training in explosives and handling an RPG-7, and with three other RAF members shot an RPG-7 at the Mercedes limousine of U.S. General Frederick J. Kroesen in Heidelberg on 15 September 1981.
He may have damaged his chance at a pardon by making anti-capitalist comments in January 2007,[9] but he was released on 19 December 2008 after serving over 26 years of his life sentence.
Jürgen Vietor, co-pilot of Lufthansa Flight 181, sent a letter of protest to the President of Germany and returned his Federal Cross of Merit.