Reinhold Ruppe, 24, a New York telephone engineer, and Erich Lindner, 34, a West German salesman, were sentenced here today to two years in prison after they were convicted of plotting to restore Nazi rule to West Germany.
The Federal Supreme Court here found them guilty of planning to seek that goal by use of Hitler-style terrorism techniques. The court was told that the pair had collected a huge arsenal of weapons for use in the plot. A third alleged person in the plot, Kurt Reinheimer, 26, a German-born American, left Germany before Ruppe and Lindner were arrested.
Federal Prosecutor Ludwig Martin asked yesterday for three-year sentences after he dropped charges that the two men had conspired to kill opposition leader Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, and Fritz Bauer, director of the Ludwigsburg Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes.
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