Tommy Weissbecker

Thomas Weissbecker (or Weisbecker), known as Tommy (1949–1972), was a German leftwing militant shot dead by police at the age of 23.

His father Ludwig Weisbecker [de] was a professor of medicine at Kiel University who had been interned at Buchenwald concentration camp.

[1][2] In July 1971, Weissbecker stood trial alongside Bommi Baumann and Georg von Rauch for attacking the Quick magazine journalist Horst Rieck [de].

On 2 March 1972, he left his home with Carmen Roll; the police stopped them on the street and Weissbecker was shot dead.

The RAF saw this as an execution and ten days later set two bombs which damaged police buildings in Augsburg and Munich.