Ohnesorg

His dying moments captured in a famous news photograph, Ohnesorg galvanized a generation of left-wing students and activists who rose up in the iconic year of 1968.

Ghosts of the '60s in Germany 2009

The ensuing movement drew its legitimacy and fervor from the Ohnesorg killing.

Ghosts of the '60s in Germany 2009

Ohnesorg had not been a militant, and this had been one of his first demonstrations.

1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

The new leaked report even suggests he deliberately fired at Ohnesorg, though he was twice cleared of deliberate homicide.

The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011

After the death of Ohnesorg, Mahler called for 'resistance' against the Federal Republic, which they saw as a fascist state.

The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011

According to Bild am Sonntag, which claims to have seen the report into the death of Benno Ohnesorg, Mahler was a so-called inoffizielle Mitarbeiter informal collaborator for the East German secret service up until 1970.

The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011

If the leaked investigation into Ohnesorg's death is right, Mahler only stopped being a Stasi informant when he founded the Red Army Faction with Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin in 1970.

The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011

Mahler represented the widow of 26-year-old Ohnesorg in a civil case she brought over her husband's death.

The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011

The true circumstances of Ohnesorg's death are important because the killing is widely credited as the catalyst for the radicalisation of the West German left, including those who went on to form the Red Army Faction.

The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011

Ohnesorg was protesting the Shah of Iran's visit to Berlin.

In These Times 2009