Editing GSG 9 (section)

===Publicly known missions===
*13–18 October 1977: [[Lufthansa Flight 181]] was hijacked by four Palestinian militants demanding the release of imprisoned [[Red Army Faction]] (RAF) members. After an odyssey through the [[Middle East]], GSG 9 officers stormed the aircraft on the ground in [[Mogadishu]], Somalia, freeing all 87 [[hostage]]s and four of the five crew members. They killed three hijackers and captured the remaining one, who was critically wounded.
*1982: Arrest of RAF militants [[Brigitte Mohnhaupt]] and [[Adelheid Schulz]].
*27 June 1993: Arrest of RAF militants [[Birgit Hogefeld]] and [[Wolfgang Grams]] in [[Bad Kleinen]]. The theory that Wolfgang Grams was executed in revenge for the death of GSG 9 operative [[Michael Newrzella]] during the mission (Grams had shot and killed Newrzella when Newrzella tried to tackle him) was discredited by the official investigation which found that Grams committed suicide.
*1993: Ending of the [[Aircraft hijacking|hijacking]] of a [[KLM]] flight from [[Tunis]] to [[Amsterdam]], redirected to [[Düsseldorf]], without firing a single shot.
*1994: Ended a hostage situation in the [[Kassel]] [[Prison|Penitentiary]].
*1994: Involved in the search for the [[Kidnapping|kidnappers]] Albert and Polak.
*1998: Arrest of a man trying to extort money from the German railway company ''[[Deutsche Bahn]]''.
*1999: Arrest of [[Metin Kaplan]] in [[Cologne]].
*1999: Arrest of two suspected members of the ''Revolutionäre Zellen'' ([[Revolutionary Cells (German group)|Revolutionary Cells]]) in [[Berlin]].
*1999: Involved in ending the hostage situation in the central bank in [[Aachen]].
*2000: Advised the [[Philippines]] in relation to a hostage situation.
*2001: Arrested two spies in [[Heidelberg]].
*2001: Assisted in the liberation of four German tourists in [[Egypt]].
*2002: Arrested a number of suspects related to the [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001 attacks]].
*2003: Protection of the four members of the German ''[[Technisches Hilfswerk]]'' (THW – the civil protection organization of [[Germany]]) in [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]]. The THW's mission was to repair the [[water distribution system]].
*2004: GSG 9 is responsible for protecting German embassy property and personnel, including the embassy in [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]]. On 7 April 2004, two members were attacked and killed near [[Fallujah]] while in a convoy traveling from [[Amman]], [[Jordan]] to Baghdad. The men, aged 25 and 38, were traveling in a car at the rear of the convoy and therefore received most of the enemy fire after passing the [[ambush]]. The men were shot after their armored [[Mitsubishi Pajero]]/Shogun was hit and stopped by [[rocket-propelled grenade|RPG]]s. In a later statement, the attackers apologized for mistaking the German convoy for an American convoy. One of the bodies is still missing.
*2007: Three suspected terrorists were seized on Tuesday, 4 September 2007 for planning huge bomb attacks on targets in Germany. The bombs they were planning to make would have had more explosive power than those used in the [[2004 Madrid train bombings|Madrid]] and [[Timeline of the 2005 London bombings|London]] terror attacks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/more-deadly-than-london-or-madrid-islamist-terrorists-planned-massive-attacks-in-germany-a-504037.html|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602165053/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,504037,00.html|title=More Deadly than London or Madrid: Islamist Terrorists Planned Massive Attacks in Germany|first1=Matthias|last1=Gebauer|first2=Yassin|last2=Musharbash|date=5 September 2007|archivedate=2 June 2012|via=www.spiegel.de}}</ref> They wanted to build a bomb in southern Germany capable of killing as many as possible. [[Fritz Gelowicz]], 29, Adem Yilmaz, 29, and Daniel Schneider, 22, were charged with membership in a terrorist organization, making preparations for a crime involving explosives, and, in Schneider's case, attempted murder.<ref>{{Cite web|first1=Marcel|last1=Rosenbach|first2=Holger|last2=Stark |date=4 September 2008|url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-bomb-plot-terror-from-the-german-heartland-a-576332.html|url-status=dead |title=The Bomb Plot: Terror from the German Heartland |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105212006/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,576332,00.html|archivedate=5 November 2011 |via=www.spiegel.de}}</ref>
*2009: The GSG 9 were on the verge of boarding a German freighter, the [[MV Hansa Stavanger|MV ''Hansa Stavanger'']], which had been hijacked by [[Piracy in Somalia|Somali pirates]]. The case of the ''Hansa Stavanger'', at this time off the Somali coast seemed sufficiently symbolic to justify another potentially successful rescue operation, though on a much larger scale. More than 200 GSG 9, equipped with helicopters, speedboats, and advanced weapons, had been secretly brought, via [[Kenya]], to a location {{convert|80|km|mi}} from the German freighter. The [[United States Navy]] [[helicopter carrier]] {{USS|Boxer|LHD-4|6}} was lent to the Germans to act as their flagship, and a screen of [[German Navy]] warships flanked the ''Boxer''. The ships had been patrolling near the ''Hansa Stavanger'' for days, waiting at a distance to evade detection on the pirates' radar screens. But the operation was called off before the rescue effort could begin. US National Security Advisor [[James L. Jones]] had called the [[German Chancellery|Chancellery]] to cancel the operation. The US government, worried that the operation could turn into a suicide mission, was sending the USS ''Boxer'' back to the Kenyan port of [[Mombasa]], where the German forces were to disembark. Officials at the German Federal Police headquarters in Potsdam, outside Berlin, concerned about the potential for a bloodbath, had also spoken out against the operation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,622766,00.html|title=Mission Impossible: German Elite Troop Abandons Plan to Free Pirate Hostages|author=((SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany))|date=4 May 2009|work=SPIEGEL ONLINE|access-date=20 January 2016}}</ref>
*2012: GSG 9 was involved in a raid on the [[Hanover]] [[Hells Angels]] chapter leader [[Frank Hanebuth]]'s house, as part of a crackdown on the group. During the raid, they knocked down the wooden gate and rappelled from a helicopter onto his residence. They are also reported to have shot a dog on the premises belonging to Hanebuth.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18195006|title=German police target Hells Angels in large-scale raids|work=BBC News|date=24 May 2012|access-date=20 January 2016}}</ref>
*2016: GSG 9 was deployed to assist with the [[2016 Munich shooting]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/live/xatezzbcvxxy/updates/2783ab54-503b-11e6-ac11-0e81bf422d7b|title=[live] Shooting in Munich shopping center|date=22 July 2016 |access-date=2016-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/aktuelle_stunde/status/756555622972260352|title=WDR Aktuelle Stunde on Twitter|access-date=2016-07-22}}</ref>
*2021: GSG 9 was participating in the [[Manhunt for Jürgen Conings|search for Jürgen Conings]], Belgium.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hbvl.be/cnt/dmf20210521_94065626|title=Veel aanzien en een aura van onoverwinnelijkheid: dit zijn de Duitse speciale eenheden|date=21 May 2021 |access-date=2021-05-21}}</ref>
*2022: GSG 9 units were involved in raids to arrest members of the [[Reichsbürger movement]] suspected of [[2022 German coup d'état plot|plotting to overthrow]] the German government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/razzia-reichsbuerger-staatsstreich-101.html|title=Razzia wegen geplanten Staatsstreichs|access-date=2022-12-07}}</ref>

The majority of GSG 9's missions are [[Classified information|classified]], with limited public information available. Since its inception, GSG 9 has participated in over 1,500 missions, yet reportedly fired shots on only five occasions (official count before the 2003 [[Iraq War]]). These occasions include Mogadishu in 1977, [[Bad Kleinen]] in 1993, [[Aachen]] in 1999, and two more missions where firearms were discharged to neutralize dogs of the persons being arrested.