Ingeborg Barz

On February 21, 1972, the day upon which the RAF carried out a robbery at another branch of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank in Ludwigshafen, Barz called her mother and said that she wanted to leave the group. Barz was never seen again and there are various theories concerning her death.^[2] Gerhard Müller, a militant turned police informer, alleged that Barz had been murdered, but when he took police officers to look for her body, no remains were found.^[1] The author Jillian Becker writes that Barz was shot dead by Andreas Baader after being summoned to a meeting to explain why she wanted to leave the RAF.^[2] Other RAF members such as Brigitte Mohnhaupt denied that Barz had been eliminated and Gudrun Ensslin maintained that she could prove otherwise if she wanted to do so.^[2][1] Bommi Baumann suggested to the Stasi that Barz had been an undercover agent.^[5]

In March 1972, Grundmann and Manfred Grashof were arrested by the police after a shootout in the Hamburg flat Barz had rented.^[2] In July 1973, a walking group discovered a skeleton in woods near to Munich which the police claimed could have been Barz, although this person had been killed by blunt force trauma to the head, not by a bullet.^[6] During the 1973 Christmas period, fingerprints belonging to Barz were found on a box of birth control tablets in a hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland.^[7][8]

• Becker, Jillian (1978). Hitler's children: The story of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang (3 ed.). London: Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-1582-1.

• Kraushaar, Wolfgang (2010). Verena Becker und der Verfassungsschutz (1 ed.). Hamburg: Hamburger Edition. ISBN 978-3-86854-227-1.

• Moncourt, André; Smith, J. (2009). The Red Army Faction. Volume 1: Projectiles for the people. Montreal, Quebec: Kersplebedeb. ISBN 978-1-60486-029-0.