Holger Meins

Holger Klaus Meins (26 October 1941 – 9 November 1974) was a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s and died on hunger strike in prison.

[1] On 1 June 1972, Meins and Andreas Baader, along with Jan-Carl Raspe, went to check on a storage garage in Frankfurt where they were storing explosives.

As the hunger strike entered its seventh week, 32 activists from "anti-torture committees" from across the country occupied the Amnesty International headquarters in Hamburg to protest against prison conditions.

[6] After the death of Holger Meins, around 5,000 people marched through the city in West Berlin despite a ban on demonstrations; there was a violent street battle with the police.

"[3] The RAF members who carried out the West German Embassy siege in Stockholm in 1975 named their group the "Holger Meins Commando" in his honor.