His transformation into a conservative is somewhat mysterious, although I understand that he was terrified when a mob of students overran his classroom during the days of the Red Army Faction in the 1970's. (Joe Offer)

That's what we read about him and these days. He was a very shy professor with a high pitched voice. To be shouted down and to be ridiculed by a bully-party of students was his personal Damascus event. Amidst the student rebellion he turned -disappointed by those he originally felt close with- into a conservative and went back from liberal Tübingen into his native, unflexible, conservative Bavaria.

Wolfgang