First sit-in at a German university. Plans were being discussed that would lead to new regulations requiring the expulsion of students who failed to complete their medical or law degrees in the standard period of time. On June 22, 1966, 3,000 students held a sit-in in the Henry Ford Building to protest the new measures.
 

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“Students filled the entire lobby of the Henry Ford Building. They summoned Rector Hans-Joachim Lieber, who showed up a bit later. Speeches were held until one o’clock in the morning. There were never-ending discussions about student interests and university politics,” remembers the then AStA chairman and later State Secretary for Science in Berlin, Knut Nevermann, in an interview.

• Interview in campus.leben with Knut Nevermann about the German student movement, posted April 11, 2017 (in German)
• Audio file about the first “sit-in” in Germany, radio program on Deutschlandfunk on June 6, 2016 (in German)