Baader, Andreas 1943-1977. West German
extreme left-wing guerrilla. A former student
activist, he formed, with Ulrike Meinhof, the
Rote Armee Fraktion/Red Army Faction, an
urban guerrilla organization that carried out
a succession of terrorist acts in West
Germany during the 1970s. Sentenced to life
imprisonment in Apr 1977, he took his own
life in Oct, following the failure of the
Faction's hostage-swap attempt at Mogadishu
airport.