Magdalena Kopp

Magdalena Cäcilia Kopp (1948 – 15 June 2015) was a photographer and member of the Frankfurt Revolutionary Cells (RZ). She was known for being the wife and accomplice of political militant Ilich Ramírez Sánchez also known as "Carlos the Jackal".

Early life

Magdalena Kopp grew up in Neu-Ulm and after leaving school trained as a photographer. In 1967 she went to Frankfurt, where she frequented in the early 1970s in the leftist student circles and lived with friends in a shared flat. She worked for the publication Red Star and was one of the founders of the Frankfurt Revolutionary Cells (RZ). Members of this group, in addition to her new friend Johannes Weinrich were Hans-Joachim Klein, Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann. They were involved in the attack on the OPEC conference in 1975 and in the hijacking of an Air France plane to Entebbe in 1976.

With Weinrich she met with the internationally wanted political militant/terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos who was his friend. Later she moved to France and joined the command "Boudia" led by Carlos, who also became her lover. Soon she worked as a part of his inner circle.