- German journalist and writer, who published the left-wing magazine "konkret" in the 1950s and 1960s, but later made a swing to the right.
- From 1981 to 1984, he published the left-wing magazine Spontan. However, from the mid-1980s, his political views gradually changed towards liberal conservatism.
- Röhl and his daughters lived under constant police protection for some time, fearing a supposed attack or abduction by RAF members. Röhl was also supporting BKA's investigation providing information about Meinhof's past, places where she could be hiding, etc.
- He was married to Ulrike Meinhof from 1961 until the spring of 1968, before her descent into left-wing terrorism. Their marriage produced two daughters, Regine and Bettina Röhl, who became an author critical of communism and far-left extremism.
- For some years, he published the moderate leftist magazine das da.
- As a consequence of the radicalization in the late 1960s, and subsequent leftist terrorism, Röhl turned away from Marxism and gave his magazine a more moderate tone. This led to a power struggle between Röhl and those who supported the use of violence against the government (particularly his former wife), and his home in Hamburg was attacked in 1969 by Ulrike Meinhof and some konkret staff members.
- He was best known as founder, owner, publisher and editor-in-chief of Konkret, the most influential magazine on the German political left from the 1960s to the early 1970s.
- He earned a doctorate in history at the Free University of Berlin under the supervision of Ernst Nolte in 1993, with a dissertation on cooperation between Communists and National Socialists against the Social Democratic Party (Nähe zum Gegner, published as a book in 1994).
- He has also been a regular columnist for the newspaper Junge Freiheit.
- His magazine Studentenkurier was renamed Konkret in 1957 and rose to prominence in the 1960s as the primary magazine of the Außerparlamentarische Opposition and the German student movement. He had previously founded a weekly newspaper about and for the Hamburg sex trade, St Pauli Nachrichten.
- After the Communist Party of Germany was banned as unconstitutional in West Germany in 1956, he became a clandestine member of the then illegal party as an act of support.
- His ex-wife Ulrike Meinhof later co-founded the Red Army Faction, also known as the RAF or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, together with Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader, and Jan-Carl Raspe.
- He has written several books critical of communism and the far-left.
- In June 1970, after Ulrike's command, Monica Berberich and Marianne X took Röhl and Ulrike's daughters from a house where Ulrike's sister, Wienke had hidden the children, in order to transfer them to Gibellina, a commune in Sicily where other left-wing families and communists lived. According to Jutta Ditfurth, Ulrike's biographer, Ulrike believed she would win the custody case over the children from Röhl which meant that Wienke would take custody of the kids. Finally, journalist Stefan Aust, a long-time friend of Röhl abducted the children after Peter Homan misinformed him that Ulrike was about to send the children to a Jordanian boarding house where other children of refugees used to live.
- Röhl's marriage with Ulrike was his second marriage.
- From the early 1970s, his partner was Danae Coulmas, a Greek diplomat and author.
- He later became critical of communism and leftist tendencies.
- He has been a member of the German liberal party, the Free Democratic Party of Germany, since 1995. He has been active in Liberale Offensive, the right-wing faction of the party that tried to revive the national liberal tradition represented by Gustav Stresemann, Thomas Dehler, and Erich Mende, among others.
- The magazine konkret was dissolved in 1973. The year before, Röhl had joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- Articles in his magazine 'konkret' openly advocated sex with minors.
- Known as "K2R", Röhl founded the left-wing monthly magazine Studentenkurier in 1955. Röhl had been a secret Communist since 1951, and the magazine survived due to funding from the Communist East German regime.
- From his first marriage he also had a daughter - Anja Röhl - who in May 2010 accused him of sexual harassment against her.
- Röhl was portrayed by Hans Werner Meyer in the 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex.
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