Live from Göttingen: “Gen Z regulates” – youth protest on the station forecourt

LIVE TICKER · Göttingen, Saturday, October 31, 2026.Today, Generation Z is taking to the streets nationwide – including in Göttingen. From 2 p.m. the protest will gather on the station forecourt - not at the Gänseliesel as originally announced. We are on site and continually updating this report. New entries are at the top of the ticker.

Live ticker

2:09 p.m–The place is full:There are now significantly more people on the station forecourt. The loudspeaker system has been set up, stewards in high-visibility vests are on duty.

2:06 p.m–There will be more:The station forecourt continues to fill up and more and more people come to the demonstration.

2:05 p.m–The place is slowly filling up:The first participants gather on the station forecourt.

1:59 p.m–Demo gathers:LoudInformation ticker Göttingen(1:55 p.m.) the demo gathers at the station forecourt. The information ticker there counts three tubs and a “six” (group car), including a loudspeaker car. There was movement at the federal police behind the train station and dogs could be heard. Elsewhere everything seems calm. At 1:56 p.m. the information ticker also reports four Federal Police units down in the station tunnel on platform 8.

1:51 p.m–Back there:The team car that drove away is back. At the station forecourt there are again five tubs and the van.

1:49 p.m–One car less:A police van drove away. There are now four tubs and the van on the station forecourt.

1:35 p.m–Police from Hanover:According to our observations, almost all police vehicles at the station forecourt come from Hanover.

1:34 p.m–More police:There are now five police vans and a police van at the station forecourt.

1:33 p.m–Police on site:Our reporters count four personnel carriers (“tubs”) and a police van.

1:00 p.m–Legal assistance:The anarchist investigative committee (EA) is now available for the demo:+49 163 5334804or on signal@anarchistEAgoe.13. You call the EA if you observe police checks or arrests or are affected yourself. He organizes support so that no one is left alone with repression. It's better to call too often than too little. The EA also advises not to make any statements to the police. Current information from Göttingen is also available atInformation ticker Göttingen(Telegram).

1:00 p.m– According to the organizers, additional commitments were received overnight: There are now1,900. That's why the demo was moved from Gänseliesel to the station forecourt. Their call: “Let us speak out together for good education for all, affordable living conditions and against social cuts and militarization!”

11:23 a.m–Meeting point changed:The demo doesn't start at the Gänseliesel, but at theStation forecourt. Start remains at 2 p.m.

11:20 a.m– Preliminary report: 1,850 people have now agreed to come to Göttingen on genz-regelt.de. This puts the city in 20th place nationwide. On Thursday, according to StadtRadio Göttingen, there were still “around 360”. We will be on site from the start of the demo and report from there.

What is it about?

“Gen Z regulates” is a nationwide youth initiative that has called for a joint day of protest in more than 30 cities on October 31st. She sees herself as part of the youth protests that are already underway in France, Belgium and Spain. The call is a reckoning with the austerity measures: savings are being made in education, social affairs, culture and health. Addiction clinics for young people are closing, psychotherapy is no longer accessible for many, and at the same time billions are being invested in armament.

The requirements at a glance:

• Investments in education, social security, health and affordable living instead of cuts for the younger generation
• No to conscription and military service: “We should be trained for wars that we never had a say in”
• a fair distribution of the burden, instead of large corporations continuing to profit while the cuts fall “on our backs”.
• no further expansion of the surveillance apparatus
• Co-determination when decisions are made about the future of young people

The initiative describes itself as non-partisan. According to his own statement, October 31st will be “just the beginning”.

How many are coming?

According to t-online, more than 160,000 people nationwide have registered online. The largest numbers reported on Friday were Cologne (over 14,000), Frankfurt (around 13,000) and Berlin (over 10,000). In Bremen, registration with the assembly authority grew from the original 70 to 4,000 people. In Göttingen there are now 1,900 confirmations (Saturday lunchtime; in the morning there were 1,850). Online confirmations are not a number of participants: how many actually show up only becomes clear on the street.

Headwind

Not everyone supports the call. The Lower Saxony State Student Council distances itself from the protests: It is unclear who is behind the initiative and who is organizing the demonstrations. The former federal spokesman resigned after warning against political capture. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in turn, warns of “left-wing extremists” who could take advantage of the youth protests and specifically names the Interventionist Left in Bremen. The fact that authorities suspect young people's protests against cuts and conscription in advance of extremism says more about the authorities than about the youth. The police in Hanover say they see “no serious announcements” of riots.

Meeting point

Göttingen, station forecourt, Saturday, October 31st, from 2 p.m.(Originally the Gänseliesel was announced.) Come by. We'll keep you updated here.

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Sources: genz-regelt.de(Confirmations Göttingen, as of Saturday morning) ·StadtRadio Göttingen, October 29th·Call (DemocratTEAM)·t-online Cologne·buten and within·t-online Hanover