Rudi Dutschke

Close to the marketplace, Theaterstraße intersects with Breite Straße (2). Steles depicting prominent political agitators can be seen here. Rudi Dutschke,
a figurehead of the 1968 student movement, features among them. Rudi Dutschke lived in Luckenwalde with his family from 1945. He attended the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Oberschule high school, now the Friedrich-Gymnasium, and held his first revolutionary speech here. In 1960 he began his studies in sociology in West Berlin at the age of 20. He was an active member of the Socialist German Students' Union and became a leading figure of the '68 student movement. His mother anxiously followed the news of her youngest son's activities on western TV-stations. When he was badly injured by three shots at a riot, his father and his brothers travelled from Luckenwalde to Rudi's sickbed in West Berlin. His jumper hangs as "Germany's best-known jumper" in Luckenwalde's Heimatmuseum (museum of local history). It is sought after by museums in Berlin and Bonn.