1. summer 1967: the traveling of the Shah as a time base for protests

In summer 1967 the world is at a cultural departure; in the USA a strong civil rights movement is active, the vietnam war is being criticized more and more; with Kissinger a former NSDAP member is German chancellor; the extraparliamentary opposition (APO) is forming itself against the Great Coalition; and the protest against the emergency legislation is articulated louder and louder.
In this situation the Shah, head of state of Iran, visited the federal capital Bonn. Since May 27th 1967 he had been there as a guest of state. Where he appeared a kind of state of emergency ruled and protests happened.

• His visitor program was time base for the protests accompanying
• State programs were picked up in protests, caricatured and thus turned against the Shah and his hosts
  

2. Death of Benno Ohnesorg

The Shah had travelled on to Berlin. Also there demonstrations happened against the dictator. Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead by a police man on June 2nd in Berlin at an anti-Shah-demonstration . His death caused consternation in the whole Federal Republic of Germany. Relation to the emergency legislation were drawn ("Notstandsuebung" - emergency exercise) .

• Because of the violent death of the demonstrator the protests were synchronized federal wide in time and subject.

Numerous large events were held in university cities.  By the impression caused by Benno Ohnesorg's death the then left politcal very important persons met in Hannover for the congress "Hochschule und Demokratie" (university and democracy). A visitor of a discussion event with Rudi Dutschke does not remember one sentence of Rudi Dutschke. "Aber es war bedeutend" (but it was important)¹. In Bonn the leader of the university denied to offer rooms for a discussion with Rudi Dutschke. The meeting was held in the stair case. In Freiburg the FDP party leaders refused at the occasion of their federal party day to discuss with guest Dutschke who was invited by their student organization. They had discussions in front of the hall.

• The attendance of prominent guests (often Rudi Dutschke) produced perceivable relations between 'Provinz' (rural areas) and "Zentrum der Proteste" (centre of protests).
  
• The named meetings had in common that they became 'Ereignis' (event) themselves. 
• With this alone the being part of a meeting became a political act.

4. Protests against increase in public transport fares

An increase in sales tax for the 1st of January 1968 lead to increases in public transport fares in many locales at the beginning of the year. First mainly students protested against this.