Andreas Baader - Life

Life

Andreas Baader was born in Munich on 6 May 1943. He was the only child of historian and archivist Dr. Berndt Phillipp Baader. Berndt Baader served in the German Wehrmacht, was captured on the Russian Front in 1945, and never returned. Andreas was raised by his doting mother, aunt, and grandmother.

Baader was a high school dropout and criminal before his Red Army Faction (RAF) involvement. He was one of the few members of the RAF movement who did not attend a university.

Read more about this topic:  Andreas Baader

Famous quotes containing the word life:

    ‘So passeth, in the passing of a day,
    Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre,
    Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
    Henri Lefebvre (b. 1901)

    But poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he has to ride a rocking horse to find a winner.
    —Anthony PĂ©lissier. Anthony PĂ©lissier. Oscar (Ronald Squire)