Gabriele Kroecher-Tiedemann (18 May 1951-7 October 1995) was a Red Army Faction and Movement 2 June member whose nom de guerre was Nada. She is most famous for her role in the December 1975 OPEC siege.
Biography[]
Gabriele Kroecher-Tiedemann was born on 18 May 1951 in Ziegendorf, East Germany, and she became a member of the Red Army Faction and other communist militant groups in Germany with the nom de guerre of "Nada". In 1973 she shot a policeman after he tried to arrest her for stealing license plates, and she spent eight years in prison for it. However, in 1975 she was freed after Christian Democratic Union politician Peter Lorenz was kidnapped by Movement 2 June, and she flew to Aden in South Yemen, where she joined other German revolutionaries. In 1975, Nada, Carlos the Jackal, Anis Naccache, and Hans-Joachim Klein took part in the OPEC siege in Vienna, Austria, and they kidnapped 42 people from OPEC. However, they were forced to free them in Algeria in order to get asylum, as Carlos' killing of a Libyan delegate prevented them from getting asylum there. In December 1977, Nada was arrested after shooting two Swiss customs police at the border town of Porrentruy while trying to cross the border, and in 1987 she was extradited to Germany. In May 1990, she was acquitted due to lack of evidence, and she died of cancer at the age of 44 in 1995.