The resulting tower blockades have been an integral part of periodic protests at the Goethe University for many years.

He also spent a formative year in Germany in 1952-1953 as the University's first exchange student at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.

Since 2001 it serves as the new campus for the Goethe University.

In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from Goethe University, Germany.

Since October 2001 it is part of the Westend Campus of the Goethe University.

From 2008 to 2011 he served as the dean of Goethe Business School, the center for high-quality management education at Goethe University.

The Otto Stern School was founded in 2006 as a scientific centre of the Goethe University.

To support the doctoral education in natural sciences at the Goethe University and thus current and future research.

From 1982 he was a research assistant at the department of social sciences at Goethe University.

Gäfgen has a modest family background, but went on to study law at the Goethe University in 1996.