Meinhof, Ulrike Marie (1934–1976)

West German urban guerrilla, member of the Baader–Meinhof gang in the 1970s.

A left-wing journalist, Meinhof was converted to the use of violence to achieve political change by the imprisoned Andreas Baader. She helped free Baader and they became joint leaders of the urban guerrilla organization the Red Army Faction. As the faction's chief ideologist, Meinhof was arrested in 1972 and, in 1974, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. She committed suicide 1976 in the Stammheim high-security prison.