Editing Gudrun Ensslin (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Grabstätte Baader, Raspe, Ensslin.jpg|thumb|Burial site of Baader, [[Jan-Carl Raspe|Raspe]], and Ensslin]]
The Red Army Faction's second generation made several attempts to free Ensslin and her comrades from prison. One attempt involved the [[kidnapping]] of [[Hanns-Martin Schleyer]] on 5 September 1977, and a proposed [[prisoner exchange]]. When this failed to work, the RAF orchestrated the hijacking of [[Lufthansa Flight 181]] on 17 October. After the airplane was stormed by a German [[anti-terrorist]] unit, Schleyer was killed and put inside the trunk of a car in France.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=States |first1=United |title=Report on domestic and international terrorism |last2=Congress |last3=House |last4=Committee on the Judiciary |last5=Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights |publisher=U.S. G.P.O. |year=1981 |location=Washington |pages=10 |language=English}}</ref>

Hours after the storming, in a night that became known as "Death Night of Stammheim", Ensslin, Baader, and [[Jan-Carl Raspe]] were found dead in the high security block of [[Stammheim Prison]] in [[Stuttgart]]. Like Meinhof, Ensslin was found dead by [[hanging]] in her cell. Baader and Raspe were found shot. A fourth member, [[Irmgard Möller]], allegedly stabbed herself four times in the chest with a stolen knife. She recovered from her wounds and has since stated that the deaths were not suicides but [[extrajudicial killing]]s undertaken by the government of the time, a claim strongly denied by the governments former and present.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_ensslin.html|title= Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977)|last=Dugdale-Pointon|first=T.|date=29 August 2007|access-date=4 April 2009}}</ref> One exhaustive study of the RAF by [[Stefan Aust]] (revised in 2009 as "Baader-Meinhof: the inside story of the RAF") ultimately accepts the state's official ruling that the deaths were suicides, while highlighting serious shortcomings in the investigations.

On 27 October 1977, Ensslin was buried in a common grave with Baader and Raspe in the [[Dornhalden Cemetery]] in [[Stuttgart]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Germany|first=Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart|title=Deutscher Herbst 1977: Endstation Dornhaldenfriedhof|url=https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.deutscher-herbst-1977-endstation-dornhaldenfriedhof.81fada0e-072e-473a-b8a1-edfd4345c65f.html|access-date=12 November 2020|website=stuttgarter-zeitung.de|language=de}}</ref>