In West Germany, the Burschenschaften were re-established in the 1950s, but they faced a renewed crisis in the 1960s and 1970s, as the mainstream political outlook of the German student movement of that period swerved to the radical left.
Di Jerman Barat, Burschenschaften didirikan kembali pada 1950an, namun mereka menghadapi krisis baru pada 1960an dan 1970an, karena pengeluaran politik umum pada gerakan pelajar Jerman pada masa pembersihan sayap kiri radikal.