to assassinate Rudi Dutschke
On the evening of 10 April 1968 increased the 23-year-old Munich-worker Josef Erwin Bachmann to clock 21.52 in the night express to Berlin. In his bag he had hidden an old Colt. As it rises the next morning from the train, there is bright sunshine. It is Holy Thursday. On the outskirts of Berlin is very little traffic. Rudi Dutschke, known as SDS-chief ideologue, interrupts the work on the manuscript on his trip to Prague in the past week, flies to his rusty red bicycle and fährt in die Innenstadt, um eine Apotheke zu suchen. Er will Nasentropfen für Hosea-Che, seinen 12 Wochen alten Sohn, holen. Am Kurfürstendamm 140 macht Dutschke kurz Station. Im SDS-Zentrum möchte er bei der Gelegenheit noch etwas erledigen. Es ist etwa 16 Uhr. "Rudi, da hat eben jemand nach dir gefragt", berichtet ein SDS-ler. "Ok, soll unten warten", antwortet Dutschke. Josef Bachmann hatte schon eine ganze Weile warten müssen, bis Rudi Dutschke das Haus verließ und mit dem Fahrrad zur nahegelegenen Apotheke fuhr, wo er auf dem Sattel sitzend wartete: "Die Mittagspause der Apotheke war noch nicht beendet. Nach einigen Minuten sah ich, wie ein Auto im Mittelweg des Kudamms einparkte und ein Mann sich in meine Richtung in Bewegung setzte. Ohne etwas zu ahnen, sah ich, wie er mir immer näher kam. Nachdem die letzte Autowelle zwischen uns vorübergefahren war, ging Bachmann nun über die Straße. Kaum hatte er den Gehweg erreicht, wendete er sich direkt an mich und fragte in einem Abstand von ca. zwei Metern: 'Sind Sie Rudi Dutschke?' Ich zögerte nicht und sagte 'Ja' und in einem sekundenhaften, blitzartigen Augenblick riß er seine Pistole aus der Jackentasche und schießt. Da war keine andere Frage, kein Nachdenken, kein Zögern." Insgesamt drei Schüsse feuerte Bachmann auf Dutschke ab. "Ich war so im Haß, ich hatte so eine Wut", antwortete Josef Bachmann später dem Richter auf die Frage, warum er denn geschossen habe. "Sie kannten ihn?", fragte der Richter Bachmann: "Man kennt ihn von Bildern". Richter: "Und dann?" Bachmann: "Dann sagte ich, du dreckiges Kommunistenschwein. Dutschke kam auf mich zu, und ich zog den Revolver und schoß den ersten Schuß." Bachmann floh in den Keller eines Rohbaus, verschanzte sich dort, nahm eine Überdosis Schlaftabletten und lieferte sich ein Feuergefecht mit der Polizei. Zu dieser Zeit lag Rudi Dutschke bereits Stunden auf dem Operationstisch des Westend-Krankenhauses. Die Überlebenschancen standen, nachdem der Sender Freies Berlin bereits seinen Tod gemeldet hatte, 50:50. Am Karfreitag erwacht er aus der Narkose. Es besteht keine unmittelbare Lebensgefahr mehr.
Unterdessen ist die Stadt in hellem Aufruhr. Die News of the assassination attempt goes around the world. As the six days ago: James Earl Ray was shot as Martin Luther King. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger Gretchen Dutschke sends a telegram hopes "of the heart, that her husband will recover from his injuries completely.
despair and confusion reigned in the early evening of Holy Thursday in the SDS-center, where had gathered spontaneously many people. When the news came, not Rudi Dutschke was dead, they took courage and put on a press conference at the Republican Club, where as the main culprit for the murder was called Axel Springer, whose papers the prerequisites for such an act would have created. An hour later: 2000 silent students sit on their wooden chairs in the auditorium of the Technical University. A speech by Bernd Rabehl beyond the oppressive atmosphere, "I would remind you that pogrom agitation held by Members of the Senate after June 2, 1967, I remember that a new building and a contactor (interior minister and mayor), these extra-parliamentary opposition. . beat up and I wanted to speak out clearly. the real culprits hot runner, and the killers hot Neubauer and contactor "Rabehl formulated what was in the air: the march on the Springer group in the Kreuzberg street cooking begins. Five thousand It is people that open the clock is against 23 in the direction of Koch Road. "This demonstration is with me my whole life, all expired again, you know," says one of them, Bommi Baumann. "All the shots that I got what you will experience everything which you feel was an injustice. The outcry over the assassination of Rudi in Germany now so large, and in all cities the same evening something happened, there was so an atmosphere full of sympathy for Rudi, that the cops did not intervene. You have acted differently than usual There were police officers, who said that children, we can understand you yet, but do not's too hard, have so in the confusion spoken properly with us. "Before the Springer Building waits fly a huge police force, whose operations inside Senator Neubauer observed from the roof. stones, rattling windows, and in the thick appeared on the contemporary Peter Urbach and distributes well-prepared .... Mollies, "Molotov cocktails" to interested parties to sell like hot cakes too Bommi Baumann takes He knows Urbach from the "Kommune 1" What he did not yet know: Urbach works for the protection of the Constitution, the political boss just on the roof of the Springer is building. Shortly after midnight, let "these delicious Mollies" (Bommi Baumann), the first shipment of cars 'Morning Post' and 'BZ' in flames . Rise Barely a hundred yards away standing water cannons are not allowed to delete, burn out so that about five cars. Ten more will be turned over by protesters and demolished. A group that is forming in a broad range attempts and armed with wooden poles, has to storm the main entrance of the Springer publishing house. In fact, she succeeds at the first attempt to break through the police lines. About twenty reach the staircase, then they are beaten back by stick reinforced Springer-employees. Outside, it succeeds in its one student to climb a water cannon and direct the spray gun to the police lines. The police responded with another club operations. "The night is insane much has happened that has given you really 'ne power. Here are just exceeded by the other side of the barrier, and that's just the right answer was. The general agitation has just created a climate where you can achieve with no more jokes. Where you wind up either way, no matter what you do. Before I go again transported to Auschwitz, because I prefer to shoot first. " Bommi Baumann described his impression that his 'feelings' had to do anything but the 'twist-feelings' from the early sixties. And his words describing thoughts that buzzed around that time in many minds. "Yesterday Dutschke, tomorrow we are" called The demonstrators in Berlin, Hannover, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Esslingen and Hamburg. Without that it would have needed an appointment, Springer-printers in all of West Germany and West Berlin was under siege. Over the entire Easter holiday is moved toward the blockade actions Denionstrationen and occupations. "There were street battles, such as West Germany had not known since the Weimar Republic," Der Spiegel wrote in its edition of the "Easter riots".
Source: Daniel Cohn-Bendit / Reinhard Mohr, in: 1968 - The last revolution that still knew nothing of the ozone hole, Wagenbach Verlag
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