“I heard of the death of Martin Luther King. And since I cannot stand Communists, I felt I must kill Dutschke.”
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Rudi Dutschke
Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke was a German sociologist and political activist who, until severely injured by an assassin in 1968, was a leading charismatic figure within both the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund in West Germany and that country's broader Außerparlamentarische Opposition.
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culture · German student activist (1940–1979) · sociologist · politician · writer · journalist · activist shareholder · industrial management assistant · also Rudi Dutschke, Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke, Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke, Dutschke
Born 7 March 1940 · Died 24 December 1979 · Q57218
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2026· 3 entries
“would destroy the achievements the”
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“is a long complicated process in which people have to change”
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2025· 1 entry
wiesbadener-kurier: Autor entlarvt falsche Bomben-Geschichte um Rudi Dutschke
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2024· 1 entry
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Was man von Rudi Dutschke über die heutigen Parteien lernen kann
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2021· 1 entry
Fr: Politische Reden von Rudi Dutschke: Seine Zuversicht
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2019· 1 entry
Fr: Rudi Dutschke und Frankfurt
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2018· 2 entries
RHEINPFALZ: Politik Rudi Dutschke - Luckenwaldes unbekannter Sohn
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It emerged that Rudolf Augstein, publisher of Der Spiegel, provided financial support to Dutschke so he could continue to work on his dissertations
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2017· 1 entry
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Rudi Dutschke
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2008· 3 entries
welt.de: Gerichtsentscheidung: Kreuzberg bekommt die Rudi-Dutschke-Straße
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Die Tageszeitung: 40 Jahre Attentat auf Rudi-Dutschke: Dreifache Aggression der Westberliner
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The square in front of the former railway station at Schönefeld, the Ortsteil where Dutschke’s was born, was renamed Rudi-Dutschke-Platz
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2007· 1 entry
welt.de: Umbenennung: Rudi-Dutschke-Straße, Ecke Axel-Springer-Straße
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2005· 1 entry
Berliner Zeitung: Ein neuer Blick auf Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader und die RAF aus dem Hause Reemtsma: Die Fantasien der Verständnisvollen
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2004· 1 entry
Die Tageszeitung: Rudi Dutschke soll die Askanier ersetzen
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1979· 2 entries
Died 1979-12-24.
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From complications arising from his injuries in 1968, Dutschke was elected as a delegate to the founding congress of the environmentalist and social-justice Greens
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1975· 2 entries
“In the context of a German socialist transition program, the social question cannot be separated from the national question – and this Dialectic has not stopped at the Elbe.”
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Dutschke wrote: “In the context of a German socialist transition program, the social question cannot be separated from the national question – and this Dialectic has not stopped at the Elbe
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1973· 1 entry
Finally received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin
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1972· 1 entry
The Red Army Faction launched their "May offensive", a series of bombings directed at the police and judiciary, the U
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1968· 2 entries
The young parents had transported explosives (provided by the Milan publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli) through Berlin in a pram under their newborn son
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Was a leading charismatic figure within both the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (Socialist Students Union) in West Germany and that country's broader Außerparlamentarische Opposition ("extra-parliamentary opposi
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1967· 1 entry
Our workers worked a measly four or five hours less a week
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1966· 3 entries
At the SDS delegates' conference, he called for “the organization of the permanent counter-university as a basis for the politicization of universities”
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Dutschke and the SDS had staged the "Vietnam – Analysis of an Example" congress at the University of Frankfurt, with Herbert Marcuse as the main speaker and around 2,200 students and trade unionists attending
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And by their two children Hosea Che Dutschke (named after the Old Testament minor prophet Hosea and Che Guevara), and sister Polly Nicole Dutschke, both born in 1968
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1965· 1 entry
To the political council of the West Berlin SDS in the face of some considerable resistance, argued for confrontations in the university and on the streets
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1964· 1 entry
Dutschke's group entered the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (German Socialist Students Union), the former collegiate wing of the Social Democrats (SPD)
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1963· 1 entry
Dutschke joined the group Subversive Action (Subversive Aktion), conceived as the German branch of the Situationist International
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1961· 1 entry
Aged 17, he made contact with a Neo-Nazi cell in Peine with whom he handled weapons
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1958· 2 entries
Springer had gone to Moscow to personally press the case for an "Austrian solution": national unity in return for permanent neutrality
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And apprenticed as an industrial salesman
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1956· 1 entry
Aiming at a sporting career as a decathlete
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1948· 1 entry
By students abandoning the Communist Party-controlled Humboldt University in East Berlin, the constitution of the new school incorporated a degree of student representation unknown elsewhere in Germany
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-03-07.
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