Overview

• Labor youth leaders organizing commemoration say official accounting still leaves major gaps and that victim recognition remains inadequate.
• On 26 September 1980 a bomb at the main Oktoberfest entrance killed 12 visitors plus the attacker and injured more than 200 people.
• The Federal Prosecutor concluded in 2020 that Gundolf Köhler acted from a right‑wing extremist mindset to influence the Bundestag election.
• Critics dispute the lone‑actor narrative and point to Köhler’s connections to the right‑wing scene, including references to the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann.
• The Bundesarchiv has published selected documents online about the case, noting that full files remain viewable only by approved request in reading rooms.