Wolfgang Kraushaar (born 2 September 1948) is a

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. After a residency at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung from the 1980s until 2015. In 2015 he continued his research at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture also in Hamburg, Germany. Kraushaar grew up in the German village of Niederruf in Germany. After finishing the König-Heinrich-Schule in Fritzlar, Germany, in 1968 he studied political sciences, philosophy and German studies in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

. From 1974 to 1975 he was the chairman of

AStA The General Students' Committee (German: Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss) or AStA, is the acting executive board and the external representing agency of the (constituted) student body at universities in most German states. It is therefore consid ...

and took a residency at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung since 1987. In 2015 he continued his work at the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture in Hamburg, Germany. He focuses on the analysis of

protest A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration or remonstrance) is a public expression of objection, disapproval or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one. Protests can be thought of as acts of coopera ...

and

political opposition In politics, the opposition comprises one or more political parties or other organized groups that are opposed, primarily ideologically, to the government (or, in American English, the administration), party or group in political control of ...

in the

Federal Republic of Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between ...

and the

German Democratic Republic German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

during the period from 1949 to 1990, especially the protests of 1968, the

Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970. The ...

and

K-Gruppen K-Gruppen (''Kommunistische Gruppen'', "Communist Groups") is a term referring to various Marxist (often Maoist) organizations that sprang up in West Germany at the end of the 1960s, following the collapse of the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studente ...

. He furthermore maintains a focus on national and international

protest movements A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration or remonstrance) is a public expression of objection, disapproval or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one. Protests can be thought of as acts of coopera ...

totalitarianism Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and reg ...

and

extremism Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied share ...

pop-culture Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a ...

and modern media.

Publications (extract)

* ''Die Revolution der 68er – was war links?'', in:

Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (born 22 February 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish sociologist and cultural scientist, working in Germany. Biography and career After the unexpected death of her father Robertson-von Trotha left Oba ...

(ed.): Herausforderung Demokratie. Demokratisch, parlamentarisch, gut? (= Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär/Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 6), Baden-Baden 2011. * ''Die RAF und der linke Terrorismus''. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2006. * ''Die Bombe im Jüdischen Gemeindehaus''. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2005. * ''Fischer in Frankfurt. Karriere eines Außenseiters''. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2001. * ''Linke Geisterfahrer - Denkanstöße für eine antitotalitäre Linke''. Verlag Neue Kritik, Frankfurt 2001. * ''1968 als Mythos, Chiffre und Zäsur''. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2000. * ''1968 - Das Jahr, das alles verändert hat''. Piper, München 1998. * ''Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung - Von der Flaschenpost zum Molotowcocktail''. Bd. I-III. Rogner & Bernhard, Hamburg 1998. * ''Die Protest-Chronik 1949-1959 - Eine illustrierte Geschichte von Bewegung, Widerstand und Utopie''. Bd. I-IV. Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins, Hamburg 1996. * (als Hrsg.): ''Frankfurter Schule und Studentenbewegung. Von der Flaschenpost zum Molotowcocktail.'' 3 Bände. Rogner & Bernhard, Hamburg 1998, . * ''1968 – Das Jahr, das alles verändert hat.'' Piper, München 1998, . * ''1968 als Mythos, Chiffre und Zäsur.'' Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2000, . * ''Linke Geisterfahrer. Denkanstöße für eine antitotalitäre Linke.'' Neue Kritik, Frankfurt 2001, . * ''Fischer in Frankfurt. Karriere eines Außenseiters.'' Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2001, . * (zusammen mit Karin Wieland und Jan Philipp Reemtsma): ''Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader und die RAF''. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2005, . * ''Die Bombe im Jüdischen Gemeindehaus.'' Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2005. . (Über den versuchten Anschlag auf das Jüdische Gemeindehaus in Berlin am 9. November 1969 durch die Gruppe

Tupamaros West-Berlin The Tupamaros West-Berlin (TW) were a small German Marxist organization which carried out a series of bombings and arsons at the end of the 1960s. In 1969 Dieter Kunzelmann, Georg von Rauch, and a few others traveled to Jordan to train at a Fata ...

Dieter Kunzelmann Dieter Kunzelmann (14 July 1939 – 14 May 2018) was a German left-wing terrorist. In the early 1960s he was a member of the Situationist-inspired artists' group Gruppe SPUR. He was one of the founders of Kommune 1 in 1967. At the end of th ...

.) * (als Hrsg.): ''Die RAF und der linke Terrorismus.'' 2 Bände. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2006, . * ''Achtundsechzig. Eine Bilanz.'' Propyläen, Berlin 2008, . * ''Verena Becker und der Verfassungsschutz.'' Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2010, . * ''Der Aufruhr der Ausgebildeten: Vom Arabischen Frühling zu den weltweiten Anti-Banken-Protesten: Vom Arabischen Frühling zur Occupy-Bewegung.'' Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2012, . * ''Der Griff nach der Notbremse – Nahaufnahmen des Protests.'' Wagenbach, Berlin 2012, . * ''„Wann endlich beginnt bei Euch der Kampf gegen die heilige Kuh Israel?“ München 1970: über die antisemitischen Wurzeln des deutschen Terrorismus.'' Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013, .''Antisemitische Geschwister.'' Rezension. In: ''Israelreport.'' Nr. 2, 2013, Seite 14 . * ''Die blinden Flecken der RAF.'' Stuttgart 2017, . * ''Die Blinden Flecken der RAF'', Sonderausgabe, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn, 2018 * ''1968. Hundert Seiten'', Ditzingen 2018, * ''Die blinden Flecken der 68er-Bewegung, Stuttgart 2018, * ''Die 68er-Bewegung international - Eine illustrierte Chronik 1960-1969'',Bd I-IV, Stuttgart 2018, .

References

External links

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