Their marriage produced two daughters, Regine and Bettina Röhl, who became an author critical of communism and far-left extremism.
Ulrike later co-founded the Red Army Faction, also known as the RAF or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, together with Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader, and Jan-Carl Raspe.
[3][4][circular reference][5] As a consequence of the radicalization in the late 1960s, and subsequent leftist terrorism, Röhl turned away from Marxism and gave his magazine a more moderate tone.
This led to a power struggle between Röhl and those who supported the use of violence against the government (particularly his former wife), and his home in Hamburg was attacked in 1969 by Ulrike Meinhof and some konkret staff members.
Röhl and his daughters lived under constant police protection for some time, fearing a supposed attack or abduction by RAF members.
He was also a regular columnist for the newspaper Junge Freiheit, and earned a doctorate in history at the Free University of Berlin under the supervision of Ernst Nolte in 1993, with a dissertation on cooperation between Communists and National Socialists against the Social Democratic Party (Nähe zum Gegner, published as a book in 1994).