Brigitte Kuhlmann (1947-4 July 1976) was a Revolutionary Cells member and one of the hijackers during Operation Entebbe.
Biography[]
Brigitte Kuhlmann was born in 1947 and studied pedagogy in Hanover, West Germany, writing poetry and caring for handicapped patients. Kuhlmann was the romantic and domestic partner of Wilfried Bose, and they socialized in left-wing circles before joining the Red Army Faction and forming their own splintergroup, the Revolutionary Cells. Kuhlmann and Bose both moved to Aden in South Yemen, where many other communist revolutionary groups such as PFLP-EO had moved, and they were in contact with Wadie Haddad as well as Carlos the Jackal. Haddad considered bringing Kuhlmann on board for the OPEC siege, but she was too easily-recognizable, so she was not one of the terrorists who took hostages in Vienna in December 1975. Later, Kuhlmann and Bose were given an important operation against their enemies, an aircraft hijacking.
On 27 June 1976, Bose, Kuhlmann, and some other PFLP and Revolutionary Cells terrorists hijacked Air France Flight 139, which was taken to the Entebbe Airport in Uganda; El Al planes had too much security, so they were forced to instead hijack an Air France plane. The hijackers separated the Jews from the rest of the passengers, and they were killed when Israel Defense Forces commandos stormed the Entebbe terminal and killed the terrorists.