WI Benno Ohnesorg is never shot?

Therefore, the militant left in West Germany do not have him as a martyr figure, nor will the subsequent trial of Kurras serve as a rallying point. With less popular support, will the radical leftists in Germany die out (thus preventing such groups as the RAF and the June 2 Movement), or will they simply find another cause celibre?

They were angry enough, and there were enough near misses, but without Ohnesorg, chances are the violent fringe of the movement would develop in other directions. The entire RAF started out as a personal project, and the motivation for that would be gone. Of course, chances are there would still be people who fancied themselves urban guerillas, but they might not go as far as fast. Germany is not likely to escape left-wing terrorism simply because it happened in other parts of europe, but it might, say, reach the country in the mid-70s and be regarded as a doubtful Italian idea, rather than an organic outgrowth of domestic rage.

We'd probably see more of Fritz Teufel's brand of protest/ antics and less of the Andreas Baader stuff, for sure. There will always be that fringe, though.