page_title: West German student movement
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: West German student movement / Events
caption_attribution_description: 2001_03_0275.0008 Ludwig Binder: Studentenrevolte 1967/68, West-Berlin; veröffentlicht vom Haus der Geschichte
context_page_description: The West German student movement or sometimes called the 1968 movement in West Germany was a social movement that consisted of mass student protests in West Germany in 1968, participants in the movement would later come to be known as 68ers. The movement was characterized by protesting students' rejection of traditionalism and of German political authority which included many former Nazi officials. Student unrest had started in 1967 when student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by a policeman during a protest against the visit of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. The movement is considered to have formally started after the attempted assassination of student activist leader Rudi Dutschke, which sparked various protests across West Germany. The movement would create lasting changes in German culture.
caption: 1968 student protest
exif: {"Image SubfileType": "Full-resolution Image", "Image ImageWidth": "4516", "Image ImageLength": "2955", "Image BitsPerSample": "8", "Image Compression": "Uncompressed", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "1", "Image StripOffsets": "25942", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "1", "Image RowsPerStrip": "2955", "Image StripByteCounts": "13344780", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Macintosh)", "Image DateTime": "2015:03:23 10:37:01", "Image IPTC/NAA": "[28, 1, 90, 0, 3, 27, 37, 71, 28, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0]", "Image Tag 0x8649": "[]", "Image ExifOffset": "13370724", "Image InterColorProfile": "[0, 0, 3, 144, 65, 68, 66, 69, 2, 16, 0, 0, 112, 114, 116, 114, 71, 82, 65, 89, ... ]"}