Marie

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Marie
Born: 1945
Death: TBC
Birth Location: Finland
Father: German Navy Officer MIA
Mother: Finnish
Children: Jouni
Grandchildren:
Education: Medecine, Medical academy of Lübeck (Dropped out)
Position: RAF member, Homemaker
Employer: Self
Home: Alameda, CA
Ties: Yasser, Florence

As the Daughter of an MIA German Navy officer based in Finland during WWII, Marie moved to Lübeck with her Finnish mother at the end of the war. At age 19, she was accepted at the Medical academy of Lübeck where she excelled as a student.

In 1967, at the beginning of her fourth year of medical school, she surprised her peers by dropping out. Following Che Guevara's death which affected her deaply, she participated in demonstrations against the Shah of Iran in West Berlin and she eventually co-founded a militant group (RAF) along with several other students. Intrigued by Middle Eastern issues, she was amongst the first European left wing militants to initiate ties with Palestinian and anti-Shah groups.

After years on the run and unable to return to Germany she settled in Spain under a new name and eventually married a US Naval Officer based in Rota, Andalucía.