ABSTRACT
Berlin, 2 July 1967, 8.20 p.m. The life of Benno Ohnesorg is ended by a bullet fired from a police pistol. Ohnesorg was 26 years old, married, a student of Germanic and Romance languages and literature at the Free University of Berlin. He did not have a reputation for being radical or even particularly political. His only active affiliation was with the Evangelical Congregation at the university.
