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The Spiegel affair of 1962

The news magazine "Der Spiegel" publishes on 10 October 1962 an unveiling report on the German Armed Forces entitled "Conditionally Ready for Defense", thus triggering a crisis in the government of Konrad Adenauer, as a result of which Federal Minister of Defense Strauss and two state secretaries had to resign.

Spiegel affair 1962 - "Basket for the press"

30.10.1962 - On 30 October 1962, a group of students demonstrated against the arrest of "Spiegel" editors in front of the Frankfurt Hauptwache with a sit-down strike. The article "Conditionally...
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"Spiegel" demontration of Munich students

02.11.1962 - Students were demonstrating against the latest police measures in the Hamburg "Spiegel" editorial department in Munich, on 2nd November 1962. About 300 participants were marching f...
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Spiegelaffaere

31.10.1962 - 01SN_Spiegel_311062VM.jpg Die "Spiegelaffaere" um Herausgeber Rudolf Augstein (nicht im Bild) fuehrte 1962 zu Demonstrationen in der ganzen Bundesrepublik, vor allen Dingen...
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Stapelweise Zeitgeschichte: Das weltgrößte "Spiegel"-Archiv

14.01.1997 - "Spiegel"-Sammler Wolfgang Morgenroth zeigt am 14.1.1997 in seiner 300 Quadratmeter großen Lagerhalle in Grasbrunn bei München die heute teuerste (l, Exklusiv-Interview mit Arno Sc...
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Spiegelaffaere

31.10.1962 - Die "Spiegelaffaere" fuehrte 1962 zu Demonstrationen in der ganzen Bundesrepublik, vor allen Dingen aber in Hamburg. Auf unserem Bild spricht Helmut SCHMIDT, damals Innensenator v...
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Helmut Schmidt, Spiegelaffaere

31.10.1962 - Die "Spiegelaffaere" um Herausgeber Rudolf Augstein (nicht im Bild) fuehrte 1962 zu Demonstrationen in der ganzen Bundesrepublik, vor allen Dingen aber in Hamburg. Auf unserem Bi...
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"Spiegel-Affäre" -  Rudolf Augstein auf freiem Fuß

07.02.1963 - Rudolf Augstein (li.) verläßt in Begleitung seines stellvertretenden Chefredakteur Conrad Ahlers Karlsruhe in einem Auto. "Weil zur Zeit keine Verdunklungsgefahr besteht" hat der U...
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Demonstration against "Spiegel" action

01.01.2000 - A demonstration against the arrest of Spiegel editors took place in Munich in October 1962. In front right the student leader Christian Semler with a poster on which article 5/1/3...
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Spiegel affair: Bundestag debate about the extension of the "Spiegel" debate

07.11.1962 - In a division of the assembly in Bonn on 7 November 1962, members of the Bundestag vote on an extension of the "Spiegel" debate. In the aftermath of the Spiegel affair, members of...
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Spiegel affair: Rudolf Augstein released from prison

07.02.1963 - The editor of the news magazine "Der Spiegel", Rudolf Augstein (right, in the foreground), is released from prison in Karlsruhe as the last of the Spiegel responsibles, 7 February...
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Lawyer Augstein is released from prison

10.12.1962 - "The affair made me even more stable and I did not suffer under arrest", said the lawyer Josef Augstein (left) in Hannover on 10 December 1962. The brother of the "Spiegel" publish...
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Rudolf Augstein released

07.02.1963 - Three days after the publication of the "Spiegel"-report about the government, the Federal Court of Justice has released the "Spiegel"-editor Rudolf Augstein, the last one of the e...
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"Spiegel"-Chefredakteur Jacobi aus der Haft entlassen

13.11.1962 - Claus Jacobi (r) wird am 13.November 1962 von seinem Anwalt aus der Haft in Düren abgeholt. Er wurde entlassen, da laut Spiegel "kein dringender Tatverdacht gegen ihn vorliege, es...
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Studentendemonstration gegen "Spiegel" - Aktion

30.10.1962 - Gegen die Verhaftung von "Spiegel" - Redakteuren demonstriert am 30.10.1962 eine Gruppe von Studenten vor der Frankfurter Hauptwache mit einem Sitzstreik. Der am 8. 10.1962 im Spie...
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Spiegel Affair: Press conference with Spiegel press director Becker

27.10.1962 - Spiegel press director, Hans Detlev Becker (m), speaking to journalists in the printing office of Spiegel press during a press conference on 27th October 1962. Due to a critical ar...
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Spiegel affair: Bundestag debate about the extension of the "Spiegel" debate

07.11.1962 - The President of the Bundestag Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier (right) needed his bell quite often to ask for silence during a Bundestag debate about the extension of the "Spiegel"-debate i...
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Bundesverfassungsgericht - Richterbank 1966

30.11.1965 - Auf der Richterbank (l-r): Gebhard Müller (Präsident), Herbert Scholtisek, Erwin Stein, Hugo Berger und Wiltraud Rupp von Brüneck. Im Vordergrund zwei Vertreter der Bundesregierung...
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"Spiegel"-Debatte im Deutschen Bundestag

09.11.1962 - Verteidigungsminister Franz Josef Strauß (l,CSU) im Gespräch mit Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer während der Debatte. Am 9. November 1962 fand die dritte "Spiegel-Debatte" im Deutsch...
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"Spiegel" demonstrations in Munich

02.11.1962 - Students demonstrate on the 2nd of November in 1962 against the latest police measures in the "Spiegel" editorial department. Around 300 participants hold up banners and march fro...
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"Spiegel-Affair" trial begins

25.01.1966 - The complainants, publishing director Detlev Becker (l) and publisher Rudolf Augstein (r), on 25th January 1966, during the beginning of the "Spiegel-Affair" trial in Karlsruhe.
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"Spiegel" demonstrations in Munich

02.11.1962 - Students were demonstrating against the latest police measures in the Hamburg "Spiegel" editorial department in Munich, on 2nd November 1962. About 300 participants were marching f...
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Spiegel Affair: Member of the Bundestag with issue of the Spiegel

07.11.1962 - A member of the Bundestag has an issue of the Spiegel in front of him on the 7th of November in 1962 in Bonn during a Bundestag debate. In the course of the Spiegel Affair, employe...
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"Spiegel-Affair" trial begins

25.01.1966 - The Federal Constitutional Court has started the "Spiegel-Affair" trial, on 25th January 1966. On the judge's table (l-r): president Gebhard Müller, Herbert Scholtisek, Erwin Stein...
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Spiegel scandal opens meeting of the Bundestag

07.11.1962 - (Front line from left to right) Minister of Defence Franz Josef Strauß, Employment Secretary Theodor Blank, Minister of Post Richard Stücklen and the German Minister of the Interio...
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Spiegel affair: Claus Jacobi released from prison

14.11.1962 - The editor-in-chief of the Spiegel, Claus Jacobi (left), beams all over his face during his arrival at the central railway station in Hamburg, 14 November 1962. Not long before, Ja...
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Third Spiegel debate in Bonn

09.11.1962 - German chancellor Konrad Adenauer comments on the Spiegel incident on the 9th of November in 1962 in the Bundestag in Bonn. During this incident, employees of the news magazine "De...
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"Spiegel Affair" trial begins

25.01.1966 - The complainants, publishing director Detlev Becker (l) and publisher Rudolf Augstein (r) at the beginning of the "Spiegel Affair" trial, on 25th January 1966, in Karlsruhe.
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Spiegel Affäre 1962 - Conrad Ahlers

23.12.1962 - Spiegel-Redakteur Conrad Ahlers nach seiner Freilassung am 23. Dezember 1962 mit seiner Frau in seiner Hamburger Wohnung. Der am 8. Oktober 1962 in der Ausgabe 41 des Nachrichtenma...
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Rudolf Augstein gestorben

27.10.1962 - Rudolf Augstein erscheint am 27.10.1962 im Zusammenhang mit der "Spiegel"-Affäre zum Verhör durch die Bundesanwaltschaft im Hamburger Polizei-Hochhaus. Der Gründer und Herausgeber...
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"Spiegel"-Chefredakteur Jacobi aus der Haft entlassen

13.11.1962 - Claus Jacobi (r) trifft nach seiner Haftentlassung am 13.November 1962 auf dem Hamburger Hauptbahnhof ein, wo er von "Spiegel"-Mitarbeitern begrüßt wird. Er wurde entlassen, da lau...
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"Der Spiegel" unter Verdacht des Landesverrates

27.10.1962 - Das Foto links zeigt einen Kriminalbeamten mit beschlagnahmten Akten des Bonner "Spiegel"-Büros im Arm und den Leiter des Bonner Büros, Dieter Jaene (rechts). Auf dem rechten Foto...
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FDP Federal ministers declare demission from office - 1962

19.11.1962 - (l-r): Wolfgang Mischnick, Wolfgang Stammberger,Erich Mende, Hans Lenz, Walter Scheel and Heinz Starke (all FDP), after the board had declared the FDP ministers' demission from off...
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Rudolf Augstein gibt Pressekonferenz nach Haftentlassung

11.02.1963 - Verlger Rudolf Augstein gibt nach seiner Entlassung aus der Untersuchungshaft am 11.02.1963 in den Verlagsräumen seines Nachrichtenmagazins "Der Spiegel" in Hamburg eine Pressekonf...
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Rudolf Augstein released

07.02.1963 - Three days after the publication of the "Spiegel"-report about the government, the Federal Court of Justice has released the "Spiegel"-editor Rudolf Augstein, the last one of the e...
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Five demonstrators in Remscheid

03.11.1962 - Five men, members of the association of conscientious objectors, wander through the city centre of Remscheid to speak up for freedom of the press and against the measures which wer...
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Students from Bonn demonstrate

20.11.1962 - More than 600 students of the liberal and socialist student groups from Bonn hold up banners and march silently past the Federal Defence Ministry in Bonn on the 20th of November in...
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"Spiegel" debate in the German Bundestag 1962

09.11.1962 - (Lr): Defence Minister Franz Josef Strauss (CSU), Interior Minister Hermann Höcherl (CSU) and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (CDU) during the debate. The third "Spiegel-debate" took pl...
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"Spiegel" staff working in provisory offices

30.10.1962 - The rooms of the editors have not been approved yet, on 30th October 1962. The "Spiegel" editors have to work in provisory offices.
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The temporary editorial office of the "Spiegel"

30.10.1962 - View into the emergency archive of the news magazine "Der Spiegel" in the premises of the magazine "Stern" in Hamburg on 30 October 1962. In the context of the "Spiegel" scandal, e...
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Trial on "Spiegel" affair begins

25.01.1966 - (left-right) Managing editor Detlev Becker, publisher Rudolf Augstein, and three legal representatives of the "Spiegel". Prof. Dr. Schneider, Curt Ferdinand Freiherr von Stackelber...
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Spiegel Affair: lawyers von Stackelberg and Sellheim

08.11.1962 - Lawyers Curt Freiherr von Stackelberg (l-r), Armin Sellheim and a pressman enter the Federal Constitutional Court in the course of Spiegel Affair, on 8th November 1962. Due to a cr...
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Spiegel Affair: works meeting at Spiegel press

29.10.1962 - Director of Spiegel press, Hans Detlev Becker (r, at the speaker's desk), and Spiegel executive editor Johannes K. Engel (to the left of Becker), speaking to the members of the pre...
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"Spiegel Affair" trial begins

25.01.1966 - The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has started the "Spiegel-Affair" trial on 25th January 1966.
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Arrested "Spiegel" editor Ahlers

28.10.1962 - "Spiegel" editor Conrad Ahlers (hands in front of his face), who was arrested in Spain, and his wife (left to Ahlers, with lifted handbag) have arrived at Frankfurt airport on 28th...
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Spiegel scandal opens meeting of the Bundestag

07.11.1962 - The German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer during his statement about the Spiegel debate in the Bundestag in Bonn on 7 November 1962, in which he protests against the assertion that the...
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"Spiegel"-Debatte im Deutschen Bundestag

09.11.1962 - (l-r): Verteidigungsminister Franz Josef Strauß, Theodor Blank, Richard Stücklen (nach hinten gelehnt) und Hermann Höcherl. Am 9. November 1962 fand die dritte "Spiegel-Debatte" im...
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Rudolf Augstein bei Prozess zur "Spiegel-Affäre"

25.01.1966 - Rudolf Augstein (l), Rechtsanwalt Freiherr von Stackelberg (M) und Ministerialrat Maasen unterhalten sich vor der Verhandlung zur "Spiegel-Affäre" am 25.1.1966 im Bundesverfassungs...
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Bundestag 1962 - Devise Brille ab?

07.11.1962 - Viele Abgeordnete hatten während der lebhaften Debatte zur Spiegel-Affäre am 07.11.1962 im Deutschen Bundestag in Bonn ihre Brille abgesetzt. Foto: Kurt Rohwedder +++(c) dpa - Repo...
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Rudolf Augstein bleibt in Haft

08.01.1963 - Der Herausgeber des Nachrichtenmagazins "Der Spiegel", Rudolf Augstein (M), wird von zwei Polizeibeamten aus dem Gebäude des Bundesgerichtshofes in Karlsruhe geleitet. Der Dritte S...
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"Spiegel"-Debatte im Deutschen Bundestag

09.11.1962 - Verteidigungsminister Franz Josef Strauß (3.v.l., CSU) während einer Sitzungspause auf der Regierungstribüne. Am 9. November 1962 fand die dritte "Spiegel-Debatte" im Deutschen Bun...
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Spiegel affair 1962 - "Basket for the press"
Stapelweise Zeitgeschichte: Das weltgrößte "Spiegel"-Archiv
"Spiegel"-Chefredakteur Jacobi aus der Haft entlassen
"Spiegel" demontration of Munich students
"Spiegel-Affäre" -  Rudolf Augstein auf freiem Fuß
"Der Spiegel" unter Verdacht des Landesverrates
Spiegelaffaere
"Spiegel"-Chefredakteur Jacobi aus der Haft entlassen
Spiegel scandal opens meeting of the Bundestag

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