The Ausserparlamentarische Opposition (German for Extraparliamentary Opposition, commonly known as the APO), was a politicalprotest movement active in West Germany during the latter half of the 60's and early 70's, forming a central part of the German student movement. Its membership consisted mostly of young people disillusioned with the Grand Coalition (Große Koalition) of the SPD and the CDU. Since the Coalition controlled 95% of the Bundestag, the APO provided a more effective outlet for student dissent. Its most prominent member and unofficial leader was Rudi Dutschke. Politics of Germany takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Federal Chancellor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ... Demonstrators march in the street while protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2005. ... Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 10s - 20s - 30s - 40s - 50s - 60s - 70s - 80s - 90s - 100s - 110s 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 Note: Sometimes the 60s is used as shorthand for the 1960s, the 1860s, or other such decades in various centuries... Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 20s - 30s - 40s - 50s - 60s - 70s - 80s - 90s - 100s - 110s - 120s 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 Note: Sometimes the 70s is used as shorthand for the 1970s, the 1870s, or other such decades in other centuries... The German student movement was a protest movement that took place during the late 1960s in Germany. ... A grand coalition is a coalition government in a parliamentary system where political parties representing a vast majority of the parliament unite in a coalition. ... SPD redirects here. ... The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU - Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) is the largest conservative political party in Germany. ... The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ... Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke, commonly called Rudi Dutschke (March 7, 1940 â December 24, 1979, Ã rhus, Denmark) was the most prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. ...