Verena Becker (born 31 July 1952) is a former West German member of the Movement 2 June and later the Red Army Faction.
While a student, Becker initially joined Movement 2 June (J2M) and was involved in bank robberies[1] and the bombing of a British yacht club in West Berlin on 2 February 1972.
On 7 April 1977, Siegfried Buback, then the chief federal prosecutor for the Bundesgerichtshof, was shot and killed alongside his driver Wolfgang Göbel and a passenger, judicial officer Georg Wurster, by members of the RAF while travelling from his home in Neureut to the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe; while Buback's Mercedes was stopped at a traffic light a motorcycle pulled alongside and the passenger on the rear of the motorcycle opened fire with an semiautomatic weapon at the vehicle.
There is some evidence[5] suggesting that Becker took part in the assassination of Buback, though she herself claims Stefan Wisniewski was the one who killed him.
[10] Some observers, chiefly former fellow member of the Movement 2 June Bommi Baumann contend that Becker had been an informant of the West German intelligence since at least 1972.