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German Par­lia­ment passes the emergency laws (30.05.968)

On May 30, 1968, the German Bundestag passed the Emergency Constitution and incorporated it into the Basic Law, despite fierce protests from the trade unions and, above all, the student movement. It was promulgated in the Federal Law Gazette on June 27, 1968. 384 of the full number of members of parliament who were entitled to vote were in favor of the emergency constitution in the roll call vote. 100 members of the Bundestag (53 SPD, 46 FDP, 1 CSU) voted against, and one abstained. In the event of an internal or external state of emergency, the creation of an emergency parliament and the restriction of fundamental rights are now possible.

Students on hunger strike against emergency laws

19.05.1968 - Students are on hunger strike to demonstrate against the German Emergency Acts in Marburg on the 19th of May in 1968.
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German Emergency Acts - Seminar in Cologne 1968

08.05.1968 - The vice-president of the VDS, Jürgen Kegler, was speaking at the lectern during the German Emergency Acts Seminar at the University of Cologne on 8th May 1968.1.000 students atte...
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Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet

30.05.1968 - Blick in den Plenarsaal. Der Deutsche Bundestag in Bonn hat am 30. Mai 1968 in dritter Lesung die Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit gegen die Stimmen der oppositionellen FDP...
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Demonstration against emergency laws - Heinrich Böll

11.05.1968 - Writer Heirnich Böll speaks to the participants of a rally against the German Emergency Acts on the 11th of May in 1968 in Bonn.
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Demonstration against Emergency Laws in Munich 1968

29.05.1968 - Demonstrators block the tram lines at Stachus in Munich. Thousands of students, workers and employees demonstrated on 29 May 1968 against the third reading of the German Emergency...
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Protest against Emergency Law 1968

27.05.1968 - Students of the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin have occupied the building of the academy on 27 May 1968 to protest against the Emergency Law.
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"Sit in" against emergency law in Frankfurt University

24.05.1968 - Students push through a group of fellow students, who block the main entrance of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt with a "Sit In" on the 24th of May in 1968.
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Demonstration against emergency laws in Munich 1968

29.05.1968 - Policemen are drawn into - partly cheerful - conversations with demonstrating students on 29 May 1968.
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Herbert Wehner

17.03.1968 - The vice-chairman of the SPD, Herbert Wehner (center with pipe) was wedged in on the way to the party congress in the Nuremberg Meistersingerhalle on March 17,1968. Several thousan...
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Hans-Dietrich Genscher 1968

30.05.1968 - German politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) on 30 May 1968 speaking at the Bundestag (Parliament of the FRG) in Bonn. On this day the parliament decided on the German Emergency...
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German Bundestag 1965

24.06.1965 - Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (r) in conversation with Rainer Barzel, next to Barzel Will Rasner and Heinrich Krone, during the session of the German Bundestag in Bonn on the Ge...
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Maidemonstrations 1963-1971

01.05.1968 - Germany, Bremen, Hannover, Dortmund, Duisburg, Cologne: The traditional Maiumzuege the unions, workers, employees and their families always reflected the zeitgeist. Foto: Klaus Ros...
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Special train from East Berlin to a rally in Bonn

10.05.1968 - The special train at the border checkpoint Helmstedt. Demonstrators hold two red flags and a banner with the inscription "Capitalism in Misery - Fascism Threatens" from the compart...
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State of emergency constitution passed by large majority

30.05.1968 - Chairman of the FDP Walter Scheel gives a speech shortly before the vote regarding the state of emergency constitution in the German Bundestag on the 30th of May in 1968.
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Special train from East Berlin arrives in Bonn for a rally

11.05.1968 - Demonstrators with red flags after the arrival of the special train at the station in Bonn on 11 May 1968. A special train of the German Reichsbahn (GDR) left the East Berlin stati...
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Wolfgang Abendroth

21.05.1968 - Political scientist and co-founder of the "School of Marburg" Wolfgang Abendroth (r) talks to students in the Auditorium Maximum in the University of Marburg, after students had en...
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Blick in die voll besetzte Westfalenhalle in Dortmund am 11.05...

11.05.1968 - Blick in die voll besetzte Westfalenhalle in Dortmund am 11.05.1968, am Rednerpult spricht der stellvertretende DGB-Vorsitzende Bernhard Tacke. Mit einer Großkundgebung in der Dort...
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Demonstration against emergency laws

30.04.1968 - Students protest against German Emergency Acts in May 1968 in Bonn.
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Menschen und  Ereignisse 1965-1971

01.01.1967 - Demonstration gegen Notstandsgesetze .
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Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet

30.05.1968 - Blick in den Bundestag während der namentlichen Abstimmung. Der Deutsche Bundestag in Bonn hat am 30. Mai 1968 in dritter Lesung die Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit gegen...
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Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet

30.05.1968 - Während der Lesung (l-r): Justizminister Gustav Heinemann, Innenminister Ernst Benda, Außenminister Willy Brandt und Bundeskanzler Kurt Georg Kiesinger. Der Deutsche Bundestag in B...
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Protest against Emergency Law 1968

27.05.1968 - A student pulls down a banner. Students of the FU Berlin occuped the German Seminar to protest against the German Emergency Acts on 27 May 1968.
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SDS Federal board in Frankfurt - 1968

13.05.1968 - A member of the SDS (Socialist German Student Union) prepares a banner in Frankfurt on 13 May 1968 for the demonstrations against the German Emergency Acts.
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Protest against Emergency Law 1968

27.05.1968 - A panel discussion about the Emergency Law took place in the concert hall of the college of music on 27 May 1968. (l-r) Leader of the discussion Hump, member of the senate Helmut S...
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Actions against Emergency Law

27.05.1968 - Students of Goethe-University in Frankfurt discussed about actions to be taken against the new Emergency Law on 27 May 1968.
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Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet

30.05.1968 - Blick in den Bundestag während der namentlichen Abstimmung. Der Deutsche Bundestag in Bonn hat am 30. Mai 1968 in dritter Lesung die Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit gegen...
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Easter March 1968 in Hamburg

15.04.1968 - Easter March in Hamburg on 15 April 1968.
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Actions against Emergency Law

27.05.1968 - Voting for occupying the main building of Goethe-University in Frankfurt on 27 May 1968. Students discussed about actions to be taken against the new German Emergency Acts.
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Demonstration against Emergency Laws in Munich 1968

29.05.1968 - Demonstrators block the tram lines at Stachus in Munich. Thousands of students, workers and employees demonstrated on 29 May 1968 against the third reading of the German Emergency...
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Rudolf Augstein

28.05.1968 - The "Spiegel"editor Rudolf Augstein gives a lecture at an anti-emergency rally on 28.5.1968 in Frankfurt am Main.
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Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet

30.05.1968 - Die Auszählung der Stimmen im Plenum des Bundestages. Der Deutsche Bundestag in Bonn hat am 30. Mai 1968 in dritter Lesung die Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit gegen die St...
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Demonstration against emergency laws 1968

27.05.1968 - Students decorate the monument of Ludwig I. in the university of Munich with the Iron Corss during a demonstration against the German Emergency Acts on the 27th of May in 1968.
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Protest against German Emergency Acts 1968

15.05.1968 - Pupils and students at a protest march against the German Emergency Acts on May 15,1968 in Düsseldorf, the day of the second reading of the laws in the German Bundestag. On 30 May...
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Protest against German Emergency Act in 1965

01.01.1965 - Protest against the German Emergency Act and the Vietnam War in 1965 in Bretten, Germany.
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Demonstration against emergency laws 1968

22.05.1968 - Young democratcs have been on hunger strike since the 22nd of May in 1968 to protest against the German Emergency Acts.
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Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet

30.05.1968 - Der FDP-Vorsitzende Walter Scheel während seiner Rede vor der Abstimmung. Der Deutsche Bundestag in Bonn hat am 30. Mai 1968 in dritter Lesung die Notstandsverfassung mit grosser M...
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Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet

30.05.1968 - Bundestagspräsident Eugen Gerstenmaier (M, CDU) bei der Verkündung des Abstimmungsergebnisses. Als Beisitzer Erwin Lange (l, SPD) und Irma Blum (r, CDU). Der Deutsche Bundestag in...
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Protest against German Emergency Acts 1968

11.05.1968 - Students holding red flags protest on 20 May 1968 against the German Emergency Acts. On left a poster of students spokesperson Rudi Dutschke. The writing says " The revolution wil...
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Protest against German Emergency Acts

01.05.2000 - Participants of a 1 May demonstration in Munich at the end of the 1960s protested with banners against emergency laws, among other things.
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Sit-in against crisis constitution 1968

24.05.1968 - Master of Johann Wolfang Goethe university in Frankfurt on the Main, professor Walter Rüegg, leaving the university through the entrance, blocked by a sit-in. Frankfurt students co...
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Protest against the German Emergency Acts 1968

15.05.1968 - Pupils and students at a protest march against the emergency laws on May 15,1968 in Düsseldorf, the day of the second reading of the laws in the German Bundestag. On 30 May 1968, t...
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Helmut Schmidt

11.05.1968 - SPD Bundestag faction leader Helmut Schmidt jumps off the stage on 11 May 1968 at the federal congress of the Young Socialists in Frankfurt on the Main.
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Protest at the SPD Party Congress in Nuremberg - 1968

17.03.1968 - Demonstrators with banners on Sunday (17 March1968) in front of the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, where the SPD party conference takes place. Major incidents occurred on 17 Marc...
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Maidemonstrations 1963-1971

01.05.1968 - Germany, Bremen, Hannover, Dortmund, Duisburg, Cologne: The traditional Maiumzuege the unions, workers, employees and their families always reflected the zeitgeist.
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Students discuss emergency laws at FU Berlin 1968

15.05.1968 - The new AStA chairwoman of the Free University Berlin, Sigrid Fronius, speaks during the Teach-In on the occasion of the German Emergency Acts in the overcrowded Auditorium Maxium...
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Menschen und  Ereignisse  1962-1971

15.06.1967 - Man (und Frau) demonstrierte noch im Sonntagsstaat, meist mit Schlips und weissem Hemd wie hier gegen Notstandsgesetze und Vietnamkrieg. Vietnamkogress mit prominenten Teilnehmern...
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Strike against Emergency Laws

15.05.1968 - Students of the Technical University Berlin boycott their lectures because of the planned German Emergency Acts on 15 May 1968. On that day, the second reading in the Bundestag too...
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Bundestag 1967 - Lesung Notstandsgesetze

29.06.1967 - Der SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzende Helmut Schmidt (M) während der ersten Lesung der Notstandsverfassung am 29.06.1967 im Deutschen Bundestag in Bonn im Gespräch mit Parteifreunden. Foto:...
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Protest against Emergency Law 1968

27.05.1968 - A pedestrian in front of the college of music in Berlin on 27 May 1968. A panel discussion about the German Emergency Acts took place in the concert hall of the college of music.
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Actions against Emergency Law

27.05.1968 - Students of Goethe-University discussed about actions to be taken against the new German Emergency Acts on 27 May 1968.
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Students on hunger strike against emergency laws
Demonstration against emergency laws in Munich 1968
Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet
German Emergency Acts - Seminar in Cologne 1968
Demonstration against emergency laws
Protest against German Emergency Acts 1968
Demonstration against Emergency Laws in Munich 1968
Menschen und  Ereignisse 1965-1971
Notstandsverfassung mit grosser Mehrheit verabschiedet

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