New Normality? - Abstract #7

Hanno Balz: Head of State of Exception. Federal German chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the supralegal crisis management during the 1970s During the escalation of the “German Autumn” in 1977 the Federal German government resorted to a specific form of crisis management that had been described as an undeclared state of exception. It was Federal chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the first place who oversaw the anti-terrorist measures in the situation room where the executive branch ruled for six weeks ..