Günter Sonnenberg (Karlsruhe, July 21, 1954) is a former member of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF).
In the early 1970s, Sonnenberg drew Adelheid Schulz, Christian Klar and Knut Folkerts - who were later sentenced as RAF terrorists - in a residential community in Karlsruhe.
He was suspected of involvement in the assassination of Attorney General Siegfried Buback and two of his assistants on April 7, 1977. On May 3, 1977, Sonnenberg was noted in a café with Verena Becker in a passport check in Singen. That afternoon, the two terrorists traveled by train from Bonn to Singen to flee across the border with Switzerland. When they could not identify, they were escorted to their car. In the pedestrian zone of Singen there was a firefight between the terrorists and two police officers. The police officers were injured, and even severe, after Sonnenberg shot them nine times shortly. By hijacking a passing Opel Ascona, both terrorists initially managed to escape. After a pursuit of the pursuit of police by Singen, they left the car on a country road and tried to continue their escape on foot.
After the next shot, in which Sonnenberg was hit in his lower leg and his Becker, both were arrested. At the time of the arrest, weapons were used which were used in the appeal against Attorney General Buback. Sonnenberg had a coma in the next four weeks.
On April 26, 1978, Sonnenberg in Stuttgart was sentenced to life twice for two years and was conditionally released on May 15, 1992. The lawsuit against Sonnenberg in the case of Buback was terminated for health reasons. He was one of the prisoners whom the RAF demanded in the autumn of 1977 by the abduction of the chairman of the German employers' organization, Hanns-Martin Schleyer.
On December 14, 2007, it became known that the German justice wanted to host Sonnenberg to force him to name the shooter in the murder of Buback. This request was rejected by the court on 3 January 2008 because Sonnenberg might otherwise tax itself.
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