Departures of note

The day after the Oktoberfest attack on 26 September 1980, members of the Deutsche Aktionsgruppe around Raymund Hörnle and Sibylle Vorderbrügge provided information that Heinz Lembke had offered them weapons, explosives and ammunition and had told them about his extensive arsenal.

Heinz Lembke admitted in the remand centre the location of his 33 illegal weapon and ammunition arsenals, which were discovered in 1981 in Uelzen near Lüneburg Heath and contained automatic weapons, 13,520 shots of munition, 50 bazookas, 156 kg explosives and 258 hand grenades; he was found hanged in his prison cell on 1 November 1981.