A coincidence. Suddenly the Wall Strasse was renamed in the Rudi Dutschke Strasse. Somebody must have hang up this renaming overnight.
I never forget the day he was shot at in 1968. I was working in a town in the South of Germany and engaged in the left-wing political movement of that time. It was a very interesting area.
Rudi Dutschke, was the most prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s.
He famously split from those who went on to form the violent Red Army Faction and advocated instead 'a long march through the institutions' of power to create radical change from within government and society by becoming an integral part of the machinery.
This was an idea he took up from Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt school of Cultural Marxism.

In 1968, he survived an assassination attempt, living for another 12 years until related health problems caused his death.
Radical students blamed an anti-student campaign in the papers of the Axel Springer publishing empire for the assassination attempt.