Overview
- Students occupied and blockaded the Otto‑Suhr‑Institut at Freie Universität Berlin on Wednesday, barricading some entrances with construction fences and bins and hanging protest banners.
- The university said it respects the right to peaceful protest, is monitoring the situation, has its leadership on site, and asked lecturers to move teaching online while the blockade remains active.
- The action was organized by the Gen Z regelt FU Berlin initiative, whose spokespeople held a press conference and announced an action conference and a nationwide protest day for October 31.
- Similar, smaller blockades occurred at other campuses including a building at HAW Hamburg, where police reported about 50 participants and officials said access and teaching were not broadly disrupted.
- Protesters link their demands to youth uprisings in France and Europe and blame shifts in public money toward rearmament for cuts to education, a stance that could drive broader campus mobilization and sustained disruption to courses.