The Resume

(August 15, 1940-October 18, 1977)
Born in Bartholoma, Germany
Founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), aka the Baader-Meinhof Gang
Arrested in a Hamburg boutique (June 8, 1972)
Convicted of four counts of murder, 34 counts of attempted murder, and forming a terrorist organization and sentenced to life in prison (April 28, 1977)
Committed suicide in her cell by hanging

Why she might be annoying:

After meeting Andreas Baader, she dumped her fiance by phone.
She abandoned her son to become an urban guerrilla.
She constantly called West Germany a fascist state, ignoring the likelihood that real fascists would not have let her and Baader out of jail while they appealed their conviction on arson charges (June, 1969).
She was involved in five bomb attacks that killed four people.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine tried to get her, Baader, and two other RAF co-defendants released by hijacking a Lufthansa jet (October 13, 1977).
After German special forces freed the hostages, she and Baader decided to commit suicide.
Conspiracy theorists claim, without any evidence, that she, Baader, Meinhof and other jailed RAF members had been murdered by the West German authorities.

Why she might not be annoying:

She had an inch-long scar over her eyebrow from a childhood tobogganing accident.
She was a Girl Scout.
She did well in school and won a scholarship from the National Academic Foundation.
She appeared topless in an experimental film, 'Das Abonnement.' (1967)
She was considered the intellectual of the RAF.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 55]
• Criminals
• I Committed Suicide
• I Died in 1977 (Ranked: 37)
• I Died in Jail
• I Died in My 30s (Ranked: 37)
• I Died Under Mysterious Circumstances
• I Mothered Children Out of Wedlock
• I Went on a Hunger Strike
• Profiles 36001-36250 (Ranked: 36150)
• Terrorist/Hate Groups
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19771018)
• Women Who Lost Full Custody of Their Kids

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 457 Votes: 69.15% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 21 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 163 Votes: 52.76% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 955 Votes: 52.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 508 Votes: 56.89% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 197 Votes: 60.41% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 96 Votes: 59.38% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 365 Votes: 61.37% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 152 Votes: 48.03% Annoying