Editing Andreas Baader (section)

== Life ==
Andreas Baader was born in [[Munich]] on 6 May 1943. He was the only child of historian and archivist Berndt Phillipp Baader and Anneliese Hermine "Nina" (Kröcher). Andreas was raised by his mother, aunt, and grandmother.{{sfn|Eager|2016|p=64}} Phillipp Baader served in the [[Wehrmacht]], was captured on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Russian Front]] in 1945, and never returned.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wright-Neville |first=David |title=Dictionary of Terrorism |year=2010 |publisher=Polity |location=Cambridge, UK |isbn=978-0-7456-4302-1 |pages=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgmXxoLHv8MC&dq=%22Andreas+Baader+was+born+in+Munich%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA44 |language=en}}</ref>

Baader was a high school [[Dropping out|dropout]] and a bohemian before his involvement in the Red Army Faction.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Winkler |first=Heinrich August |title=Germany : the Long Road West. |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |others=Alexander Sager |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-150061-9 |location=Oxford |pages=277 |language=en}}</ref> He was one of the few members of the RAF who did not attend university.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schmeidel |first=John C. |title=Stasi: Shield and Sword of the Party |year=2008 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=London |isbn=978-1-134-21375-7 |pages=145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dqd-AgAAQBAJ&dq=Andreas+Baader+did+not+attend+university+-wikipedia&pg=PA145 |language=en}}</ref>

At the age of 20, Baader moved from Munich to [[West Berlin]], allegedly to do an artistic education.{{sfn|Aust|2009|p=18}} He worked as a construction worker and unsuccessfully as a tabloid journalist.

Baader took part in the {{ill|Schwabing riots|de|Schwabinger Krawalle}} in 1962. According to his mother, he is said to have drawn the conclusion from the actions of the police that "something was wrong" in the state. According to journalist [[Butz Peters]], the events of the Munich city summer during 1962 were "a shocking experience for the nineteen-year-old".