Who Is Wolfgang Lettow?
Wolfgang Lettow is a member of the Freedom for All Political Prisoners network. For more than 50 years, he has shown unwavering solidarity with political prisoners.
He has consistently stood with prisoners in Germany convicted under the so-called anti-terrorism paragraphs §129a/b, as well as with political prisoners in Turkey who resisted the fascist regime. Wolfgang Lettow has always fought against the injustice and repression directed at political prisoners.
He showed solidarity during the death fast of İlhan Yelkuvan, the massacre in 20 prisons on 19 December 2000, and throughout the death fasts from 2000 to 2007 in Turkey. Today, he continues to stand with prisoners resisting the S-, R-, and Y-type prisons.
Now Wolfgang Lettow Himself Is Targeted
Wolfgang Lettow is now a victim of state repression.
On 10 December 2025, he was summoned to a police station in Hamburg. The authorities attempted to force him to give a statement against Volker Staub.
Who Is Volker Staub?
Volker Staub is alleged by the German state to be a member of the RAF. Although the RAF dissolved decades ago, Staub remains wanted. His name has been brought back into the spotlight through the arrest and current trial of Daniela Klette.
During the interrogation, police officers showed Wolfgang Lettow numerous photographs and asked detailed questions. From the outset, it was clear to him that he would not make any statement.
The questioning focused on a shared flat in Hamburg in 1978, where Wolfgang Lettow and Volker Staub allegedly lived together. The police asked:
- What was the nature of your personal and political relationship?
- How did you meet?
These questions were based solely on denunciations made by former flatmates. Those denunciations were later used in the Munich RAF trial, where Volker Staub was sentenced to four years in prison and released in 1988.
Because Wolfgang Lettow exercised his right to remain silent, the interrogation was terminated. The entire hearing was documented in writing by the police.
What Comes Next?
Further summonses are possible, followed by fines and ultimately coercive detention for up to six months.
In the so-called democratic state of Germany, coercive detention means this:
If you exercise your right to remain silent, you can be imprisoned until you “comply.”
This should surprise no one. Germany is a country whose legal system was shaped by Bismarck and Hitler, embodied today in laws such as §129. After World War II, more than 70% of the judiciary consisted of former Nazis. Genuine denazification never took place.
To date, there have been 40 summonses against Daniela, Burkhard, and Volker. These measures serve only one purpose: intimidation.
Not only against the older fighters — but against younger generations as well. All of us are affected by repression, summonses, and imprisonment because of our anti-fascist, internationalist, anti-militarist, and class-struggle activities against the ruling system.
Another reason for these summonses is clear: the class justice system cannot comprehend why resistance — past and present — continues to rise against the state. Unable to understand it, they seek to catalogue, monitor, and criminalize it.
Wolfgang Lettow Will Not Be Intimidated
Wolfgang Lettow will visit Daniela Klette in prison in January.
He will not be silenced.
He will not be intimidated.
We stand in solidarity with Wolfgang Lettow.
Wolfgang Lettow is not alone.
We demand an immediate end to the repression against him.
Anti-Imperialist Front
International Solidarity for Political Prisoners
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