Lecture notes (week nine): Anti-Authoritarianism
PowerPoint Anti-Authoritarianism lecture 2005/6 (PM)
PowerPoint Anti-Authoritarianism lecture 2006/7 (BP)
Protest and Terrorism (1966-91)
1 Dec. 1966 Grand Coalition formed between CDU/CSU-SPD
Dec. 1966 APO founded ; `Vietnam Week' in Berlin
2 June 1967 Benno Ohnesorg shot dead at anti-Shah demo in Berlin
30 Jan. 1968 Vietcong's Tet offensive against USA begins in Vietnam
Feb. 1968 Vietnam Congress at Technical University, Berlin
2-3 Apr 1968 Baader and Meinhof firebomb Frankfurt department store
11 Apr. 1968 Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke
30 May 1968 Emergency Laws passed in Bundestag
14 May 1970 Red Army Faction born out of Baader-Meinhof gang
May 1970 SDS dissolves itself
1972 Bundesverband Bürgerinitiativen Umweltschutz founded
June 1972 Baader and others arrested
1974 von Drenkmann, Pres. of Berlin Superior Court, shot dead
1975 Peter Lorenz (Berlin CDU leader) kidnapped but released
Apr. 1975 RAF enters West German embassy in Stockholm, killing one
Dec. 1975 RAF occupies OPEC hotel in Geneva
5 Sept 1977 Hanns Martin Schleyer, Employers' leader, kidnapped
13 Oct. 1977 RAF & PLO hijack Lufthansa jet - lands in Mogadishu
17 Oct. 1977 Plane stormed by GSG 9 and passengers freed
18 Oct. 1977 Baader, Ensslin & Raspe commit suicide in Stammheim
Schleyer is murdered in retaliation
1979 Greens stand in first European elections
1983 Greens enter Bundestag - protests over Pershing IIs
30 Nov. 1989 Alfred Herrhausen, head of Deutsche Bank, blown up
Dec. 1990 Decisive defeat for Greens in first all-German elections
1 Apr. 1991 Detlev Rohwedder, head of Treuhand, shot dead