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His parents, Werner and Ruth Grams, were refugees from the east. Werner volunteered for service in the Waffen-SS. Wolfgang was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and also had a brother, Rainer.
In his younger years, his family lived near the Wiesbaden/Erbenheim Air Base, and he demonstrtated against the Vietnam War.
While living in a commune, he was given the nickname Gaks. After the arrest of Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, he started visiting political prioner s in jail. He found the conditions of solitary confinement inhumane. His then girlfriend was Roswitha Beith .
Wolfgang was jailed for 152 days without wrongdoing, but was given remuneration in 1980.
He then met Birgit Hogefeld , and they began dating and moved in together.
On February 15, 1987 the Tagesschau on ARDThe Arbeitsgemeinschaft der offentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ("Cooperative association of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany"), or simply ARD was founded in West Germany in 1950 t ran a bulletin for Grams and Hogefeld. He was described as 180 cm tall and with blue green eyes and a striking dark skin discoloration on his face. From that point on, he lived underground. Only in the Autumn of 1990Events January January 3 Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. January 7 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. January 9 Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello The man who led the coup aginst Dr Apo did he come home to meet with his parents in TaunusTaunus seen from Frankfurt/Main The Taunus is a mountain chain in Hesse, Germany. It is bounded by the river valleys of Rhine, Main and Lahn. On the opposite side of the Rhine the mountains are continued by the Hunsruck. The highest peak is the Grosser Fe.
On June 27, 1993, members of the GSG 9 were to arrest Grams and Hogefeld at the train station in Bad Kleinen . During the process of the arrest, he managed to pull a gun and shoot two officers, succeeding in killing one, Michael Newrzella . According to the official story, he then proceeded to commit suicide. Officers were quoted as saying they saw Grams "suddenly fall backward" off of the station platform and onto the track. As Grams lay dying on the ties, medical personnel attempted to save him, but he died from a headwound while on the train tracks.
There are a number of discrepancies in the official version of the story which are explained by recreating the occurrence as an execution style murder by the police. Two people from the train station witnessed the execution.
The autopsy supported this statement in that the gunshot wound to his head was fired at point blank range.
Interior Minister Rudolph Seiters took responsibility and resigned in July of the year, as well as Chief Federal Prosecuter, Alexander Von Stahl . Helmut KohlHelmut Kohl (full name Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998. Born on April 3, 1930 in Ludwigshafen, Germany, to a Catholic family, Kohl participated in the late stage of the WWII as a teen age soldier. He joined the Christ paid a visit to the unit, praising Newrzella and discouraged "attempts to make a martyr of his murderer."