RIP Fritz Teufel

[Otto]

Fritz Teufel (17. Juni 1943 in Ludwigsburg - 6. Juli 2010  in Berlin)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Teufel

the guy who threw pudding-bags at Hubert H. Humphrey....

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The "Pudding Assassination"

As the domestic commune life was too boring, the communards decided to
turn their internal experience into actions.

The first of these was the "pudding assassination" of US
Vice-President Hubert Humphrey who was scheduled to visit Berlin. On
the evening of April 2, 1967, the communards met in Johnson's
apartment with about 20 other people whom they knew from
demonstrations. Kunzelmann presented his plan of throwing smoke bombs
in the direction of the Vice President on the occasion of the state
visit. None of the others besides Langhans wanted to participate.[3]

Police files indicate that the planned attack was revealed by a secret
service agent, since eleven students were arrested by officials of
Division I (Political Police) on April 5, 1967. They were supposed to
have met under conspiratorial conditions and planned attacks against
the life or health of the American Vice President, Hubert Horatio
Humphrey, by means of bombs, plastic bags filled with unknown
chemicals or with other dangerous tools, such as stones.

Those arrested were Ulrich Enzensberger, Volker Gebbert, Klaus
Gilgenmann, Hans-Joachim Hameister, Wulf Krause, Dieter Kunzelmann,
Rainer Langhans and Fritz Teufel.[4] The tabloid Bild's headline was
"Humphrey to be assassinated", the weekly Zeit spoke of "Eleven little
Oswalds". Even the New York Times featured a report on the dangerous
plan of eight communards to attack the Vice-President with pudding,
yoghurt, and flour. Because of this negative publicity, Uwe Johnson
hastily asked his friend and neighbor Günter Grass to evict the
students from his apartment. The next day, the communards were
released and gave their first press conference – they had become
celebrities, while the press and police officials had lost face in the
public eye. The publisher Axel Springer henceforth called the members
of Kommune 1 "communards of horror".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommune_1


http://taz.de/1/leben/koepfe/artikel/1/der-humorist-der-68er-ist-tot/