Ohnesorg’s shooting triggered nationwide student protest in West Germany

Evidence

Indignation over Benno Ohnesorg’s death spread to every university in the Federal Republic. Student protests flared up in every university city in the country, and students became a factor in West German domestic politics. University reform and social reform became firmly established as demands of equal significance among the powerful student minority that was setting the tone. Indignation over the shooting of Ohnesorg was the stimulus that released what had been building up in the younger generation for a long time: a complex form of discontent over the twenty-year-long postponement of social reforms in favour of economic prosperity, a postponement that the installation of the Grand Coalition at the end of 1966 seemed to have made indefinitely long. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2611

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2611
• XREF: connects to: West German plans to arm forces with atomic weapons triggered mass protests — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345; Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2676; A single lecture ban launched the Free University’s radicalization into West Germany’s Berkeley — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2608 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2676
• A single lecture ban launched the Free University’s radicalization into West Germany’s Berkeley #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2608