Kommune 1

Kommune 1 or K1 was the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. It was created on January 1 1967 in Berlin and finally dissolved in November 1969.

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Kommune 1 developed as a counterreaction to the spirit of the 1960s in Germany, in which very conservative moral conceptions prevailed, in particular concerning sex roles and sexual morality.

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In a meeting in the early summer of 1966 in the Bavarian Kochel some members of the Munich branch of Subversiven Aktion (like Dieter Kunzelmann) and the Berlin-based Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (Socialist German Student Union; "SDS") (like Rudi Dutschke and Bernd Rabehl) discussed how to separate themselves from what they considered narrow-minded and bourgeois conceptions.

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