Dieter Kunzelmann

Dieter Kunzelmann (14 July 1939[1][2][3] – 14 May 2018) was a German left-wing activist. In the early 1960s he was a member of the Situationist-inspired artists' group Gruppe SPUR.[4] He was one of the founders of Kommune 1 in 1967.[5] At the end of the 1960s he was one of the leaders of the Tupamaros West-Berlin, which carried out bombings and arsons.[6] He was arrested in July 1970 and served five years in prison for those activities.[7] From 1983 to 1985 he served in the Berlin state parliament as a member of the Alternative List[3][8] (now Alliance '90/The Greens). In 1997 he was sentenced to a year in prison for throwing an egg at the mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen.[9] He went into hiding for two years, reappearing to serve his sentence in 1999.

References

  1. Politik (16 May 2018). "Dieter Kunzelmann ist tot - SPIEGEL ONLINE". Spiegel.de. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 June 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Smith, J. and André Moncourt, ed. (2009). The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History - Volume 1: Projectiles For the People. PM Press. p. 569.
  4. Klimke, Martin (2009). The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties. Princeton University Press. p. 55.
  5. Thomas, Nick (2005). Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy. Berg Publishers. p. 98.
  6. Hauser, Dorothea (2008). "Terrorism". In Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (ed.). 1968 in Europe: a history of protest and activism, 1956–1977. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 271–72.
  7. Kundnani, Hans (2009). Utopia Or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust. Columbia University Press. pp. 99, 215.
  8. Gessler, Philipp; Stefan Reinecke (25 October 2005). "The anti-Semitism of the 68ers". die tageszeitung. Retrieved 22 April 2010. Translated into English by Sign and Sight.
  9. Kundnani 215
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