Biography

Rudi Dutschke was born on March 7, 1940 in Schönefeld, Jüterbog-Luckenwalde, Germany. He was married to Gretchen Dutschke. He died on December 24, 1979 in Århus, Denmark.

Father of Hosea-Che Dutschke, Polly-Nicole and Marek Dutschke.

Icon of the 1960s left-wing student movement and founding member of the Green Party in Germany.

In 1968, he survived an assassination attempt, when he was shot in his head by a young unskilled worker. After emigrating with his family to England, he was expelled as an "undesirable" alien in 1971.

Died in the bathtub after an epileptic seizure, caused by a brain damage following the assassination attempt (1979).