Sieglinde Hofmann (born 14 March 1945) was a German militant and member of both the Socialist Patients' Collective[1] and the Red Army Faction.
As a child Hofmann attended a Catholic girls' school and went on to train to become a nurse and then a social worker.
[2] Hofmann, along with Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Peter-Jürgen Boock and Rolf Wagner was arrested on 11 May 1978 in Yugoslavia, but they were all freed and flown to an undisclosed country of their choice.
Two years later, however, on 5 May 1980, Hofmann was rearrested in Paris (alongside Ingrid Barabass), following a raid on a RAF safehouse.
Although initially only charged with involvement in the murder of Ponto and condemned to serve fifteen years in prison, Hofmann was taken back into custody three days before the end of her sentence in August 1995 [4] to be tried for other offences.