BennoOhnesorg (October 15, 1940 - June 2, 1967) was a German university student killed by a police officer on June 2, 1967, during a demonstration in Berlin against the visit of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to Germany.
The left-wing student's movement of the late 1960s that swelled after BennoOhnesorg's death influenced a large number of German politicians who were in their teens and twenties at the time.
A monument in Berlin memorializes BennoOhnesorg's death, and in his hometown of Hanover a bridge over the Ihme river is named after him.
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BennoOhnesorg promised that he would join them.
At this demonstration was a lot of violence and dozens of injured people were lying in the streets.
Benno decided to go back and help them, but because of his clothes police chief Karl-Heinz Kuras mistook him for the leader of the radical students, chased him and shot him without asking him any questions.
At one protest, a pacifist student named BennoOhnesorg was killed, giving the student movement their first contemporary martyred hero.
2 June, 1967 - A young pacifist student, BennoOhnesorg, lies bleeding to death in a Berlin street, the victim of a gunshot from an overzealous police office.
Young BennoOhnesorg, attending his first protest, is dead.
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In the course of events after the show, the German student Benno Ohnesorg—who was attending his first protest—was shot in the head and killed by West German police.
During the chaos young BennoOhnesorg is grabbed by police and a gun is pointed at his head.
Ohnesorg, who was attending his first protest, is killed.
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said a german court for administrational law to a flyer of a students union (its called AStA in Germany) about the death of the student BennoOhnesorg on a demonstration against the visit of the shah of iran (persia) in Berlin in 1967.
This was one of the first court orders against ASten (this is the plural of AStA), which said that the ASten are only allowed to publish opinions refering to problems of universities and of students.
So this statement to the death of Benno was not allowed, because he was not demonstrating to a problem refering to universities or students although he was a student.
By the end of the night, a young pacifist lay dead in an alley, shot by an accidental discharge from a cop who had trained his gun at the student’s head.
BennoOhnesorg’s death would be the unfortunate catalyst for a distressing movement that offers powerful relevance for young Americans today who are considering violent means to effect social change.
After the rally, thousands of angry, frustrated students converged at the Berlin offices of the Socialist German Student Union, which was the leading student organization at the time.
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Unter ihnen auch der 26-jährige Romanistikstudent BennoOhnesorg, der an diesem Tag zum ersten Mal an einer Demonstration teilgenommen hatte.
Einer der Polizisten ist der 39-jährige Kriminalobermeister in zivil Karl-Heinz Kurras, aus dessen Pistole sich während des Gerangels ein Schuss löste und dem inzwischen halb bewusstlos geschlagenen Ohnesorg die Schädeldecke zertrümmerte.
Der Tod BennoOhnesorgs war ein Schock für viele und trug erheblich zur Radikalisierung von Teilen der Studentenbewegung bei.
Finally in April of 1998, the few remaining RAF members issued a communiqué officially disbanding the RAF.
June 1997 - Hosea Ché Dutschke, son of the late Rudi Dutschke, the sixties firebrand known as "Red" Rudi, and Lukas Ohnesorg, son of the slain leftist martyr BennoOhnesorg, join Mai Horlemann, daughter of sixties Marxist theorist Jürgen Horlemann, on the 30th anniversary of the shooting of Ohnesorg.
The gathering was arranged by Der Spiegel for an interview in the 5 June 1997 issue.
1967 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which young BennoOhnesorg[?] is killed by a police officer.
His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June
1967 - BennoOhnesorg[?], student of Roman languages and literature
United by their disdain for the fascistic and imperialistic facets of capitalism, symbolized by the United States and NATO's advance of Cold War politics in southeast Asia, these students staged teach-ins, sit-ins and non-violent demonstrations as pressure tactics to gain political leverage.
Organized by the SDS (Sozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund), the SPD's mouthpiece at the university level, these peaceful demonstrations quickly escalated to more aggressive counter attacks in response to the shooting death of student BennoOhnesorg by police in June 1967, and the murder attempt on Rudi Dutschke in April 1968.
Just one month before an assassination attempt on his life, Rudi Dutschke, a highly visible student leader, asserted in an interview that "the extent of our counter-violence is determined by the amount of repressive violence employed by the ruling powers" (SDS 6).
Near the Deutsche Opera House in central Berlin they visited the memorial to the movement's first martyr.
BennoOhnesorg, a student, was shot dead by police during a 1967 demonstration against a visit by the Shah of Iran.
Wolfgang Schoenenberg, a musician, says the Shah and his repressive regime were a symbol to young West Germans of "the evils of capitalism and of American power".
In West Germany by 1977, what had been repressed surfaced in ways that no one, on the right or the left, from the most "subjectivist" to the most orthodox, regardless of age, could afford to ignore.
The year 1977 marked the ten-year anniversary of the murder of BennoOhnesorg, one of the most dramatic mobilizing influences on the student movement.
In the aftermath of the Ohnesorg killing, she called the West German state not only "fascist" but determined to kill all the student protesters (at that time mostly nonviolent).
Commentary Magazine - Hitler's Children, by Jillian Becker; Carlos: Portrait of a Terrorist, by Colin Smith(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
...A student, BennoOhnesorg, had been shot and killed by the Berlin police in the course of this demonstration...
...Though not himself a radical, the dead Ohnesorg became a hero of the German Left, and it was in his name that Gudrun Ensslin shortly thereafter abandoned her husband and infant and went off with Baader to Frankfurt...
...Miss Meinhof, the ideologue of the band, who spent hours preparing its manifestoes, ultimately committed suicide in prison after the failure of an attempt to secure the prisoners' release by a group calling itself "The Movement of the Second of June" (Ohnesorg had been shot on that date...
It was put together systematically over a 10 year period and has been continually modified in order to provide detailed and representative documentation of the following subjects:
The murder of student BennoOhnesorg at a anti-Shah demonstration in Berlin.
This spectacular event triggered the anti-authoritarian protest movement, documented here in flyers, magazines, journals and newspapers.
