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‘ The Other 68ers .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .O S O - A S U sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fxO .1 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C von, der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .O S O - A S U sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fxO .1 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C von, der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press ‘ The Other 68ers Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany ANNA VON DER GOLTZ .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .O S O - A S U sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fxO .1 2 0 2 © th giryp 1 o C von, der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press ToNicoandJasper .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .O S O - A S U sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fxO .1 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C von, der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .O S O - A S U sse rP ytisre vin U d ro fxO .1 2 0 2 © th g iryp o C von, der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press Acknowledgements This book, my second, took a lot longer to research and write than my first. IoriginallyconceptualizedtheideaforTheOther‘68ersandbegantheresearchin 2008, while still a Prize Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. I was then side- trackedbyotherprojectsandlifeevents,amongthemamovetotheUnitedStates. Alongtheway,Ireceivedsupportfromnumerousinstitutionsandindividuals.It isapleasuretofinallybeabletoexpressmygratitudehere. The Fellows of Magdalen College provided funds and an intellectual home in the project’s very early stages. While in Oxford, I benefited immeasurably from collaboratingwithmycolleaguesontheoralhistoryprojectthatbecameEurope’s 1968:VoicesofRevolt(OxfordUniversityPress, 2013).Itcertainlydistractedme fromthinkingaboutthecentre-right,butthiswouldhavebeenaverydifferent— and,I’mconvinced,amuchlessinteresting—bookifIhadnotlearnedagreatdeal about doing oral history and the 1960s in Europe from my interlocutors. In particular, I want to thank Robert Gildea, James Mark, Anette Warring, John Davis,andJulianeFürstforintellectualstimulationandtheirfriendship. In2008,IhadthegoodfortunetomeetBerndWeisbrodataconference,who then invited me to be a postdoctoral visiting fellow at the Graduate School on ‘Generations in Modern History’ at the University of Göttingen. His and the group’snuancedtakeongenerationalhistorieshasinfluencedmythinkingonthe .d evre topicinlastingways.Ihavebenefitedimmenselyfromhisspiritedandconstructive ser sthg cmrietmiqbueersanodftfhreomGrapdaurtaitceipSacthinogolinortghaeniwzeodrkosvheorptsheanyedarcso.nIfaemrenecxetsretmhaetlydgifrfaetreefnutl ir llA toallitsmembers,notleasttoUffaJensen,whohelpedtoorganizemystay. .O SO An Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust brought me to the - A History Faculty at the University of Cambridge and to Wolfson College, for the S U sse betterpartof2011.There,Iprofited,inparticular,fromtheproductiveexchanges rP ytisre isnioRnsicihnarthdeJ.MEovdaenrsn’sEwuereokpleyawnoHrkissthoorpySoenmGinearmr.an history and from the discus- vin U SincetakingupmypostatGeorgetownUniversityin2012,asemesterofJunior d rofxO Faculty Leave, several Summer Academic Grants, a grant for a manuscript .1 workshop from the Mortara Center, and continuous research support from the 2 0 2 © BMW Center for German and European Studies (CGES) and the School of thg Foreign Service (SFS) helped to facilitate steady progress on the book. Faculty irypo andstaffinCGES,SFS,andtheHistoryDepartmenthaveallprovidedawonderful C homebase.AKlugeFellowshipfromtheLibraryofCongressallowedmetostart draftingthefirstchapterswhilelookingoutovertheUSSupremeCourt. von, der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press viii IamgratefultothemanycolleaguesinGermany,Britain,andtheUnitedStates, who invited me to present my arguments in various research seminars over the years:thefellowsattheGermanHistoricalInstitutesinLondonandWashington, D.C., Alexander Sedlmaier in Bangor, Paul Betts (then) at Sussex, Dieter Gosewinkel at the WZB, Paul Nolte in Berlin, Andreas Rödder in Mainz, Frank BöschandMartinSabrowinPotsdam,NickStargardtinOxford,theorganizersof Der Kreis in Berkeley, especiallyElena Kempf,Jim Brophy in Delaware,Jennifer Allen at Yale, and, last but not least, my colleagues in Georgetown’s History FacultySeminar.Criticalfeedbackonnumerousconferencepresentationsfurther helpedmetodevelopandrefinemyarguments. Variouscolleaguesreadmyoriginalbookproposalanddraftsofthismanuscript orrelatedarticlesIpublished,andtheirfeedbackhasbeeninvaluableinbringing this book to completion: Martin Conway, Mario Daniels, Michael David-Fox, David Collins, Jim Collins, Michael Kazin, Richard Kuisel, Eric Langenbacher, JamieMartin,AvielRoshwald,JordanSand,LuSeegers,Eva-MariaSilies,Quinn Slobodian, Bernd Weisbrod, Judith Tucker, and Thomas Zimmer. Several anonymous reviewers also offered criticism that was always helpful and deeply appreciated. At Georgetown, I have taught various courses on the 1960s and learned a lot fromthemanylivelyconversationswithmyterrificstudents.Specialthankstothe undergraduate freshmen in my proseminar on ‘1968 in Europe’ and to the graduates in ‘The 1960s in Transnational Perspective’, a seminar I happily co- taughtwithMichaelKazin. Several Georgetown graduate students in the MA program in German and European Studies and in the History PhD program helped with bits of research, .d evre translations, and copy editing. My sincere thanks to Robert Mevissen, Rebecca ser sthg PSoamyneer,viHllea,nTnhaohmMLooryrdis,,JuRliicektyKeBlsoor,daenlodn,BrAenletxMancdDeronFnienlnlfoMraacllartthneeiry,wAorliks.tair ir llA Oralhistoryinterviewsareonemajorgroupofsourcesforthisstudy,andIam .O SO extremelygratefultotheformercentre-rightactivistswhotooktimeoutoftheir - A often busy schedules to talk to me about their political lives. Many of them also S U sse kindlyshareddocumentsintheirpossession.Eveniftheydonotagreewithallof rP ytisre itsIatnhaalyssibse,eIncoaulgdrenaottehxapveeriwenrcitetetnothwiosrbkoowkithwiOthxofuotrdthUeirnihveelrps.ity Press again. vin U ThankstoCathrynSteele,StephanieIreland,KatieBishop,andThomasDevafor d rofxO shepherdingthemanuscriptthroughpeerreviewandproduction. .1 Family and friends on both sides of the Atlantic have provided much needed 2 0 2 © emotional and logistical support, not least by housing, feeding, and entertaining thg me while doing archival work and interviews. A special shout-out to Henrike irypo Heick, Sandra Jasper, Sarah Jastram, Kim Klehmet, and Birgitta Ashoff. My C adopted ‘DC family’ has helped me to feel at home in a city that I hardly knew before moving to the United States and reminds me almost daily that there are von, der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press ix evenmoreenjoyablethingsinlifethanwritingbooks.Iamparticularlygratefulto BenMahlerforhishelpwithsomeoftheillustrations. Thisstudyowessomeofitsinspirationtomyactualfamily,probablyinmore waysthantheyareaware.Ihaveoftenthoughtthatmyinterestinthesubjectof The Other ‘68ers must have been piqued early on, when observing some of the familydynamicsondisplayinmygrandparents’houseinEssen,abuildingerected onthevisibleremnantsofaNazi-eraanti-aircraftpositionongroundsownedby the Krupp dynasty. My mother, Heide, always seemed to stand out in these surroundings. At the age of eighteen, she had left the Catholic Church that meant so much to her father, who had consistently voted for the Christian Democrats since the war. The first one in her family to attend university, she moved to Freiburg to study English and Geography in the late 1960s, eventually becomingapublicschoolteacherinBremen.Lateron,sheworkedineducationin alocalmuseumofethnologyandnaturalhistory.Shenevermarriedandraisedme byherselfinaculturallyleft-wing,urbanmilieuwhereeverybodyrodetheirbike, evenwhenitrained.AtourannualChristmasDaygatheringinEssen,Inotonly noticedhowdifferentshewasfromherparentsinalmosteveryrespectbutwould oftenalsoseehersparwithherbrother-in-law.Likemymother,hehadbeenborn in1948,andhelatermarriedheryoungersister.Likemymother,hehadbeena first-generation student, and they both often shared stories about growing up in fairlychaoticconditionsinpostwarWestGermany.However,inmostotherways, theywerequitedifferent,includingintheirpolitics—althoughneitheroneofthem wasovertlypoliticalandbothhadanargumentativestreak.Hehadstudiedlawin Marburg,joinedafraternity,pursuedathrivingcareerintheinsuranceindustry, madehishomeinaColognesuburbwithmyauntandmytwocousins,andplayed .d evre golfinhissparetime.Ialwaysfounditintriguingthatheandmymotherhadbeen ser sthg bdoifrfenrienntthpeesrasomneasyeaanrdanlidvebso.tThhbeeeannsntuuadlensctesninesthine1E9s6se0nsannoddyoetufbatshspioanrkededsumchy ir llA interest in postwar generational dynamics, but they also must have made me .O SO intuitivelyscepticalofoverlydeterministichistoriesofgeneration. - A Afterherretirement,mymothertranscribedmanyoftheinterviewsonwhich S U sse parts of this book are based. In the process, we had numerous enlightening rP ytisre coofnmvyergsraetaiotnrsegarbeotsutthhatowIdsidhenohtadcoemxppelertieenthceisdbtohoekydeuarrisnagrhouernldife1t9im68e..ISthiesdoinede vinU in2017—fartooearlyatmerelysixty-eight.Imisshereveryday. d rofxO Luckily,Istillhavewonderfulfamilymembersinmylife:amongthemmyaunt .1 Gaby,mymother-in-lawGisi,andChristophandSofia,mybrother-andsister-in- 2 0 2 © law.Theyhaveallbeentremendouslysupportive,especiallyinthepastfewyears. thg Thisbookisdedicatedtothetwopeopleclosesttome:myhusband,Nico,and irypo myson,Jasper,whowasbornin2015.Nicohasbeenanenthusiasticandpatient C supporter of this work from the very beginning. Jasper remains unimpressed, becausethebookisshorterthanthefirstvolumeofHarryPotter.Bothfillmylife von, der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers : Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, Oxford University Press
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