Georg von Rauch (12 May 1947 – 4 December 1971) was a member of the 1960s-70s

German student movement The West German student movement (), sometimes called the 1968 movement in West Germany (), was a left-wing social movement that consisted of mass student protests in West Germany in 1968. Participants in the movement later came to be known as ...

. He was part of the Movement 2 June and a leader of the

Tupamaros West-Berlin The Tupamaros West-Berlin (TW) were a small German Marxist organization which carried out a series of bombings and arsons at the end of the 1960s. In 1969 Dieter Kunzelmann, Georg von Rauch, and a few others traveled to Jordan to train at a Fatah ...

. In 1970 he was arrested for assaulting a journalist. He was convicted but succeeded in fleeing the courtroom after the verdict was announced. In December 1971, von Rauch and

Bommi Baumann Michael "Bommi" Baumann (August 25, 1947 – July 19, 2016) was a German author and former militant. After growing up in Berlin, he was radicalised by the police shooting of Benno Ohnesorg and founded the Movement 2 June with his best friend Ge ...

were pulled over by a West Berlin police officer. Von Rauch opened fire and was killed in the ensuing shootout. The squat Georg-von-Rauch-Haus was founded shortly after his death and named in his honor.

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1947 births 1971 deaths People from Marburg People of Baltic German descent Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund members Members of the 2 June Movement {{Anarchist-stub People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Germany

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