What is Rudi Dutschke?
[[File:Rudi.jpg|thumb|Rudi Dutschke]] [[File:Gedenkplatte für Rudi Dutschke in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.JPG|thumb|right|A commemorative plate at the place where the assassination attempt happened. It reads: ''(Assassination) attempt on Rudy Dutschke. 11th April 1968. Dutschke died in 1979 as consequence of the injuries of the shooting. The student movement lost one of their most brilliant people.'']] '''Rudi Dutschke''' born '''Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke''' (7 March 1940 – 24 December 1979, [[Århus]], [[Denmark]]) was a [[spokesperson]] of the [[left-wing]] [[German student movement]] of the 1960s. He famously split from those who went on to form the violent [[Red Army Faction]]. Instead he wanted to have 'a long march through the institutions' of power to create radical change from within government and society by becoming an important part of the machinery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baader-meinhof.com/essays/SatyaEssay.html|title=The Limits of Violence|access-date=2008-06-15|archive-date=2008-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081111192512/http://www.baader-meinhof.com/essays/SatyaEssay.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> This was an idea he took up from [[Antonio Gramsci]] and the [[Frankfurt School]] of [[Cultural]] [[Marxism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themidnightsun.org/?page_id=792|title=Gramsci: A Method to the Madness|publisher=The Midnight Sun}}</ref> In 1968, he survived an [[assassination]] attempt which seriously injured him. He had to re-learn how to speak altogether. Because of this attempt, he developed [[epilepsy]]. He [[drown]]ed in his [[bath tub]] 12 years later. This was caused by an epileptic [[seizure]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dutschke, Alfred Willi Rudi}} [[Category:Politicians from Berlin]] [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:1979 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}