Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv

SPK was a highly dangerous terrorist group founded in 1969 by Dr. Huber. He and his patients at the Psychiatric Neurological clinic in Heidelberg, Germany organized to protest against the management of the University. In group therapy sessions he forwarded the view that the "capitalist performance of the Federal Republic was sick within itself and was thus producing mentally sick people which could only be changed by violent revolution." The group organized into the working circles listed above. SPK coherently remained organized and took part in various acts of terrorism from December of 1969 to June of 1971, when Dr. Huber was arrested. Members of the group continued acts of terrorism for years afterwards.

SPK members carried out their best known action under another name. On April 27, 1975, six people who called themselves the "Holger Meins Commando" seized the West German embassy in Stockholm. Four of the six people, Friederike Krobbe, Karl Dellwo, Lutz Taufer, Sigfried Hausner and Ulrich Wessel, were originally SPK members. By this time they were affiliated with the RAF, which is widely credited with this action. After entering the building, the six took twelve hostages: Ambassador Dietrich Stocker, several senior diplomats including military attaché Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Baron von Mirbach, embassy officials, secretaries and messengers. The "Holger Mains Commando" sent their demands to the Bonn government - within 6 hours, 26 prisoners including Esslin, Baader and Meinhoff were to be released, given $20,000 and be waiting safely in a plane at Frankfurt airport.