RAF - Rote Armee Fraktion was founded in West Berlin by Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader. Later Ulrike Meinhof joined the two along with many other left wing revolutionaries from all over West Germany. Originally they were called the Baader Meinhof Gang. Andreas Baader was eager to make a name change. The RAF was Marxist-Leninist in ideology. They had no major foreign sponsors.
