Lecture 12: Old Conservatives and New Radicals-Tides of the 1970s

1. Preliminary
   • Prof. Dubiel's guest lecture postponed until March 7; L13-L17 will be moved back one day
   • Q3 next Tuesday, on R20-21: What lessons does each president draw from the events of WW2?
2. Politics in a new key
   • Grand Coalition 1966
     • FDP abandoned CDU because of solution to economic slump
     • consequences:
       • Economic
       • International
       • ruling Elite
       • Ideology
       • Opposition (both sides!)
   • 1969 elections
     • March: election of president Gustav Heinemann (not "SA-Schröder")
     • Sept. parliamentary: CDU 242, SPD 224, FDP 30
       • Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD): "risk more democracy" ("mehr Demokratie wagen")
       • "social-liberal coalition," 1969-1982
3. Opposition movements in the West
   • Roots in the 1950s
     • KPD referendum against rearmament in 1953 (prohibition 1956)
     • "Kampf dem Atomtod," Mar. 1957 ("Göttingen 18," Apr. 1957)["7" in 1837]
   • Growth in the 1960s
     • Easter Marches / Peace Movement
     • Spiegel Affair
     • Shah of Iran, June 1967: Benno Ohnesorg, "Bild" newspaper, "Springer" press
   • The 1968 conjuncture
     • Department store arson, 3 April 1968
     • Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, 11 April 1968
     • Emergency Laws, 30 May 1968 (compare Weimar constitution art. 48)
     • other issues: Greece, Vietnam, China, Prague
     • bifurcation: "Long March through the Institutions" vs. Red Army Fraction