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.

Emergence

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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1966 - Bavarian Kochel - Subversiven Aktion - Dieter Kunzelmann - Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund - Rudi Dutschke - Bernd Rabehl

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Dieter Kunzelmann had the idea to create a commune. Kunzelmann soon went to Berlin. There there was a first commune working group, which pursued the following ideas in the SDS:

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• Fascism develops from the nuclear family. It is the smallest cell of the state, from whose underlying character all institutions are derived.
• Man and woman live in dependence to each other, so that neither can develop freely as people. This cell had to be smashed.

When it was proposed that this theory should be converted into the practice of a life as a commune, many SDS members left, among others, Rudi Dutschke and Bernd Rabehl, which did not want to give up their marriages and lifestyles. At the end of 1967 eight men and women met in the house of the writer Uwe Johnson on New Year's Day. They called themselves Kommune 1.

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1967 - Uwe Johnson

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The early communards included Dieter Kunzelmann, Fritz Teufel, Ulrich Enzensberger, Dorothea Ridder, Dagmar Seehuber and Volker Gebbert. Rainer Langhans joined in March.

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Dieter Kunzelmann - Fritz Teufel - Ulrich Enzensberger - Dorothea Ridder - Dagmar Seehuber - Volker Gebbert - Rainer Langhans

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